It certainly wasn't unexpected that Rick Pollitt would file to keep his County Executive seat, and today he did. But in a case which Yogi Berra would call "deja vu all over again" his Democratic challenger from 2006 also filed today.

T. Anthony "Tom" Taylor, who only won 23% of the vote in that challenge four years ago, is back to face Pollitt in the September 14th primary. But this time Pollitt has a record for Taylor to criticize, and Tom is going to make this campaign one about, "...financial responsibility and ending the expansive intrusiveness of government."

He continued, "My core belief is that government must protect the rights of the individual and that the free enterprise system is the most fair and equitable system for the constituents of Wicomico County."

It's obvious that Taylor will depend on voters to look at Pollitt's spendthrift ways (at least when times were good, as Pollitt had to make the last couple budgets significantly more austere) and compare them to his blueprint of fiscal conservatism. While the race may present itself as a referendum among Democrats on Pollitt's performance, Taylor can also learn from his last run and make a race of it.