Left: Senate President Bill Ferguson talks to a constituent during a door knocking campaign on May 21 in the Locust Point neighborhood in Baltimore, Md. Right: Bobby LaPin stands on top of his charter boat, the SAEDA, docked on April 30 in the Baltimore Peninsula in Baltimore, Maryland. Photo credit: Sarah Petrowich / WYPR.
Left: Senate President Bill Ferguson talks to a constituent during a door knocking campaign on May 21 in the Locust Point neighborhood in Baltimore, Md. Right: Bobby LaPin stands on top of his charter boat, the SAEDA, docked on April 30 in the Baltimore Peninsula in Baltimore, Maryland. Photo credit: Sarah Petrowich / WYPR.

After 16 years representing South Baltimore and the Inner Harbor, Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) is facing his toughest primary race since his first election win.

He took over the 46th District State Senate seat in 2010 positioned as a more progressive Democrat than the incumbent, but now Ferguson has an opponent who is making the same argument against him.

Bobby LaPin, social media personality and sail boat charter owner better known as โ€œCaptain Bobby,โ€ is campaigning to end what he calls โ€œthe era of the old guard.โ€

Read more (and listen) at WYPR.

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