Simms? selection as Duncan?s running mate draws praise

From the invocation to the introductions, the choice of former city prosecutor and state public safety chief Stuart Simms as Doug Duncan?s running mate in the Democratic primary, announced Wednesday at a Baltimore Baptist church, was presented as being “about substance, not style.”

In as many ways as the Duncan backers could phrase it, they drew the contrast between the issue-oriented, underdog campaign of the 12-year Montgomery County executive and the staid Simms and that of the more charismatic Baltimore Mayor Martin O?Malley and Del. Anthony Brown, his lieutenant governor nominee.