His reelection in 2018 was a cake, but Hogan unexpectedly defeated the lieutenant governor of the state for governor in 2014. Pretty sure the LG was more impressive than the owner of a wine store who bought a congressional seat. |
You're kidding right? Hogan defeated an extremely flawed LG candidate for governor. His signature effort was the roll-out of the MD state health care enrollment that cost the state $125M and was a completely debacle. There were so many probelms with the web-site the processes and procedures for enrollment that only 66K state residents actually were able to enroll. The state had to lost $30M in Medicare entitlement payments and then the state had to invest many millions more to fix the terrible system. He was a major proponent of the PPP that approved the Purple Line. Most of the tasks that Hogan assigned to Brown went from great ideas to lackluster or mediocre implementations. Brown as a terrible candidate and selecting him essentially handed the election to Hogan. The only way Brown would have been elected was if the Republicans selected one of their normal completely questionable candidates (which they had done several times). When the Republicans selected a reasonable, intelligent homo sapiens instead of their usual candidates, Hogan was easily able to beat Brown. |
on paper Anthony Brown looks formidable. In person not so much. |
Never forget that Frosh would have won but in order to promote Brown the Democrats leaked a photo of Frosh at beachweek and made a big deal about it like he sold public school buildings to private companies that are political donors. |
That was Doug Gansler not Brian Frosh. |
LOL that was Doug Gansler. |
This is so results based - in your mind, Hogan's opponent was "terrible" because Hogan won. Maybe Hogan was just a good candidate? Said another way, you could have made a LOT of money betting that Hogan would win in 2014 - other than one Republican-commissioned poll, no public poll had Hogan winning. It was a significant upset! https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2014/governor/maryland_governor_race.html |
I guess you didn't live in Maryland in 2014. I did. |
Dem here - i will vote for Hogan 100%
Selfishly, I want to try and reduce the probability that Biden's ridiculous capital gain/step up in basis changes to occur. A sane Republican in the Senate will help. I will also vote for Biden.. |
Imagine explaining this rationale to your children and grandchildren. |
What..that I am trying to maximize their financial security versus giving to an inept government run by 80 year olds? Quite easy! I would never vote for Trump but I can in good conscience vote against my livelihood and that of my children. |
I can agree with this. We definitely don't need Trump in office but we do need more people serving in Congress that are as capable as Hogan and it doesn't matter which party they are in. |
On the one hand, it's bad for the country and the planet. On the other hand, your children may inherit more money from you when you die. So who's to say, really? |
As capable at what as Hogan? What did he accomplish in his 8 years as governor? |
What’s his view on the proposed Baltimore Red Line Subway Link if Maryland applies for federal funding? |