We are taking a break from screaming at you about the school board race, to make sure that y’all know all about former Governor Larry Hogan! There’s been two times we’ve been on this man’s side.First of all, whenever he and Dan Cox went at it, no matter what the issue because Dan is always on the wrong side of everything forever, amen.
And secondly, at the beginning of the Covid-19 panic, when unlike other Republican governors, he was trying really hard to be a reasonable person.
But then it ended. Remember that first Fall back after the Covid closings when he said he guessed it was easier for local school boards to just stay closed? He created a culture in this state in which teachers and other school employees went from being the heroes of the pandemic to being viewed as selfish. In other words, he villainized them! What a way to just throw everyone under the bus instead of finding a way to work together! Such courage!
Speaking of education, don’t forget this!
If you haven’t read the Time Magazine article this week about all the big bucks he made for himself and his cronies while serving as governor, then you really need to take a few moments out of your day to do so!
Here’s a sneak peek into that reporting:
Oversight of the competitive housing awards wasn’t Hogan’s only involvement in running housing policy. The governor personally voted on grants or loans to several of the same HOGAN-listed developers from his seat on the three-member Board of Public Works. From 2016 to 2017, he approved between $600,000 and $1.8 million in loans and grants to four different companies that were listed as clients of HOGAN: Pennrose Properties, Homes for America, Osprey Property Company and PIRHL. The votes authorized or funded improvements or new construction for scores of affordable housing units across the state. Says former Democratic Maryland Governor Parris Glendening: “This is clearly something that should be explained to the public.”
The only explanation he’s given so far has been just to deny it all!
If you missed this week’s debate against our preferred candidate, Angela Alsobrooks, then you really need to make the time to do so! We’ve never, ever seen someone get quite so eviscerated in such a short period of time!
If you would rather just watch some clips, the Wonkette also has a great breakdown!
Some of our favorite bits are when he very poorly tries to defend his refusal to fund the Maryland abortion bill. (He was doing it for you ladies!) His refusal to answer the question over whether or not he would have voted for Trump’s Supreme Court nominees, instead choosing to launch into some fantasy world in which he lamented the politicalization of the court. But our absolute favorite part of the whole debate (and you can see this clip in the above mentioned Wonkette article), is when she took him to task for voting for a dead guy in the last three presidential elections. Alsobrooks said it was very instructive to see that he can’t make a tough decision when the chips are down! And you know what? She is 100% correct!
Let us also address that figurative and literal elephant in the room.
If Larry Hogan gets into the Senate he has the potential to tilt the numbers in favor of the Republicans. Couple that with the very real possibility that Donald Trump could become President and that equals big trouble for this country. If Hogan cannot vote for a living person in a Presidential election, what makes you think he won’t go along with the other Republicans in the Senate? He can tout his so called “maverick” style from here to kingdom come, but being a U.S. Senator is a whole different animal from being the Governor of Maryland. Do you trust him to do the right thing? We sure don’t!
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