Article: Republicans split in Carroll County: Democrat Beard gains GOP backing.

Byline: Laura McCandlish and Mary Gail Hare

Oct. 28--A rebellion among Republicans in conservative Carroll County has some GOP faithful doing the unthinkable in the commissioner election this year: supporting a Democrat who aims to be the first of his party on the three-member board in more than a dozen years. Prominent Republicans throughout the county are lending support to a ticket with Republican incumbents Julia Walsh Gouge and Dean L. Minnich and Democrat Dennis E. Beard, a retired firefighter from Sykesville. That's unusual in a county where registered Republican voters outnumber Democrats by nearly 2 to 1. The effort could mean defeat for Michael D. ...

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