Politics & Government

Potomac Independent Challenges Cardin for Senate

Businessman Rob Sobhani ran for Senate as a Republican in 1992 and 2000

Ben Cardin faces another challenge to his U.S. Senate seat — in the form of a Potomac businessman and former professor of political economy at Georgetown University.

The Maryland State Board of Elections has accepted 77,000 signatures submitted by Rob Sobhani, certifying him for the November ballot, according to a WBAL report. He will run as an independent against Cardin, the incumbent Democrat, Republican challenger Dan Bongino and four other candidates.

“Our politics is broken,” Sobhani says in a television ad that began airing Thursday, according to Marylandjuice.com. “Career politicians, Democrats and Republicans just blame each other, and cater to special interests. The system’s corrupt, it’s failing us.”

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Sobhani told WBAL that he plans to secure funding for affordable housing in Baltimore, promote Maryland exports, expand medical research at Johns Hopkins and other Maryland schools and upgrade Maryland transportation infrastructure. In total he’s proposing to secure more than $5.5 billion for these projects, which he says can be completely largely with private funding. 

Sobhani ran for Senate as a Republican in 1992 and 2000.

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