Did Angela Alsobrooks really get illegal tax breaks like the commercials say?

[Anonymous]

If so, that’s an automatic vote for Hogan from me. Sick and tired of grifting politicians.

[Anonymous]

Pretty sure you're just looking for a reason to support Hogan. Or you always did. Why don't you just do you own research on what actually happened. What occurs with homestead breaks, etc.

If commercials are how you make up your mind - you probably shouldn't even get to vote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure you're just looking for a reason to support Hogan. Or you always did. Why don't you just do you own research on what actually happened. What occurs with homestead breaks, etc.

If commercials are how you make up your mind - you probably shouldn't even get to vote.

She got dubious tax breaks.

[Anonymous]

Of course she did.

[Anonymous]

Tonight’s top story: Politicians are corrupt. More at 10

[Anonymous]

Vote for who you want to vote for. Telling me who you are voting for has no impact on me.

[Anonymous]

It’s is not automatic in DC to remove the homestead exemption, it’s a pain and something you have to know to do. I can see it being an oversight not to get it removed when she moved and not a deliberate evasion of taxes.

[Anonymous]

To answer OP, sort of but it appears to be unintentional.

She took over the mortgage on her grandmother's home after her grandmother moved out, and the property still received the homestead credit even though the primary occupant was no longer living there. This seems like a normal oversight.

Separately, she moved from a townhome in PG County to a SFH, but never transfered the homestead credit. This is a little sloppier, but it resulted in her paying more taxes, not less.

Basically, this feels like a dumb mistake but not corruption.

[Anonymous]

Isn’t Hogan the ultimate grifter? Didn’t he direct funds to highway projects that would directly benefit his investments and his properties? Didn’t he reject funding for Baltimore and the red line at the same time?

And all the while he’s been pretending to be a “reasonable” Republican when he is nothing of the sort?

Source: https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/01/12/who-does-marylands-governor-really-work-for/

Hogan has advanced a number of major state transportation projects that are near properties his company owns, a development that can boost the value of those properties. Before canceling the Red Line, he approved construction of an interchange down the road from a parcel of land his company controlled. Later, he approved millions of dollars in road and sidewalk improvements near property he had bought approximately two years earlier and was turning into a housing development.

Maryland law says that an official may not partake in a decision if the official or a qualifying relative—defined as a parent, spouse, child, or sibling—has an economic interest in the matter and the official or employee knows of the interest. These decisions “certainly seem to implicate the statute,” said Virginia Canter, the chief ethics counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and a former ethics adviser for the International Monetary Fund. “It looks like there’s credible evidence of a violation.”

This article describes, in painful detail, how Hogan manipulated the legislative process to direct transportation funding to land near his investments, including a $58 million interchange near his investments that was fast-tracked.

But Angela Alsobrooks got 750 a year in tax breaks… ok 🙄🙄🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To answer OP, sort of but it appears to be unintentional.

She took over the mortgage on her grandmother's home after her grandmother moved out, and the property still received the homestead credit even though the primary occupant was no longer living there. This seems like a normal oversight.

Separately, she moved from a townhome in PG County to a SFH, but never transfered the homestead credit. This is a little sloppier, but it resulted in her paying more taxes, not less.

Basically, this feels like a dumb mistake but not corruption.

This explains it well. Here's the WaPo story also explaining it:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/09/22/alsobrooks-senate-taxes-error/

The fact that she had the credit claimed on the townhome, but not the SFH (and so she ended up worse off) shows that she was just sloppy. But once this was all brought to her attention, she paid what was owed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s is not automatic in DC to remove the homestead exemption, it’s a pain and something you have to know to do. I can see it being an oversight not to get it removed when she moved and not a deliberate evasion of taxes.

Alsobrooks also had tax issues in PG. And, as a DC homeowner, I know that it’s no exclude to fail to notify DC when homestead eligibility ends.

[Anonymous]

No excuse, not no exclude.

[Anonymous]

As a member of the teacher union and sitting in on various meetings, I was appalled when Hogan went out of his way to send a basket of complete rotten apples to us. Every single apple rotten not bruised but completely rotten. Disgusting individual.

[Anonymous]

I have to look beyond Alsobrooks issues to think about the balance in the Senate. Hogan would be one more R. The senate approves judges. Of course I would rather vote for someone without those issues but I think the whole amount was < 15K. I will vote for her..

[Anonymous]

I’m a Harris/Hogan voter.

She really did take those tax breaks. I think it’s a pretty big deal and they know it. That’s why they’re bringing in the big guns to endorse her (Obama) so that people will forget about it.

Personally, I don’t dislike her, but I don’t think she is best for Maryland and I don’t think she’s ready for the Senate.