During a recent pro-O'Malley rally in Annapolis, union boss "Josh" Williams, president of the Metropolitan Washington Council of AFL-CIO, said of the Maryland State House: "Are we going to let our piece of property be taken over?"

The last time I checked, the unions didn't own the State House. The citizens of Maryland do.

Through these words, Williams articulated the need for fundamental political change in Maryland more eloquently than any Republican ever could.

Richard Cross, Baltimore