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Comptroller Peter Franchot is refuting attacks from pro-slots organization For Maryland For Our Future, claiming the charges against him are "outright lies."

Franchot was referencing two new television ads launched last week by For Maryland For Our Future. The organization said the ads were intended to correct Comptroller Peter Franchot's "misleading" and "false public statements" about November's slots referendum.

Maryland Republican Party executive director Justin Ready had only one thing to say on the eve of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention:

"You've got your hands full now boys."

But David Paulson, the Maryland Democratic Party's communications director, said the comment "tells you something about where their heads are at."

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Rep. Chris Van Hollen: Appearing on Fox News Sunday.Democratic Congressional Campaign Chairman and Eight District Rep. Chris Van Hollen will take on his Republican counterpart, Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma on this week's Fox News Sunday.

The two will debate the direction of the campaign committees after the recent special elections in Mississippi, Lousiana and Illinois.

Van Hollen last appeared on the program opposite former Bush strategist Karl Rove.

Rove and Van Hollen: Locating Rove's "off" button.Chris Van Hollen got away with touching Karl Rove yesterday in an unfriendly place – Fox News Sunday.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen: Appearing on Fox News Sunday.As chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Rep. Chris Van Hollen spends much of his time these days recruiting candidates, raising money and serving as a mouthpiece for the Democratic Congress.

It was in this capacity Sunday morning that he took on Karl Rove, former chief political adviser to President Bush, on Fox News Sunday.

Mike Wallace moderated this debate between what he described as "two of the sharpest minds" in American politics - or at least he tried to.

Because a vigorous Van Hollen showed no compunction in getting physical - metaphorically and literally - with a heavier-looking Rove, who may be out of the West Wing but remains a boogeyman in the minds of Democrats.