The Baltimore Examiner reported on the Unity Convention.  Some highlights:

“You’re going to see the Kevin Zeese campaign take off in the next three weeks,” Nader predicted at the University of Baltimore. If Zeese can get some ads on TV and “the press takes more notice … you may seem rapid momentum.”

“The stars are aligned,” Zeese said. For the first time in a Maryland Senate election, there may be three-way debates with the Republican and Democratic nominees. “I believe you’re going to see that,” he said, and they may start as early as next week.

After criticizing "skin color politics" and warning Maryland African Americans not to fall for the establishment candidate, Michael Steele, just because he is Black, noted African American author, R.B. Jones, writes in the Baltimore Times:

"This column is in no way an endorsement of Democrat Ben Cardin. He is part of the political establishment and his support of Israeli's war crimes against Lebanon disqualifies him for my support. I personally am voting for Green Party candidate Kevin Zeese. My intention in this article is to warn African-American voters about skin color voting. I vote for black candidates who have a commitment to the African-American community and a set of consensus issues such as affirmative action, prevention of police abuse and misconduct, fair distribution of government services and resources, adequate funding for all schools, changing the war on drugs from a war on minorities, reform of incarceration policies, and economic justice and corporate accountability."

The Washington Post
Matthew Mosk and John Wagner
September 17, 2006

It is unclear when Maryland's leading Senate candidates might face off in a debate. But something that's become a prerequisite these days -- a debate over debates -- got underway last week.