If it came down to Hogan vs Jealous in General Election who would you vote for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently "pro-business" is now a slur for certain members of the Democratic Party. As a lifelong Democrat, I fear that this sort of rhetoric will lead to a permanent minority party status: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-for-hogan-are-the-tip-of-a-rotten-iceberg/2018/07/27/afa6295e-8f67-11e8-b769-e3fff17f0689_story.html?utm_term=.bfe93914cdb3

It's not a slur, and Jealous is pro-business. Just pro-business in a different way.

And Hogan hasn't done much at all to deal with the structural deficit that the State has. If he's so awesome at business and stuff, why hasn't he tackled that?

Jealous is pro-business, just in a different way? What way would that be?

His policies would add a significant additional layer of cost for a business v what exists currently, which is already more costly than some surrounding areas, never mind other cheaper parts of the country. How would that make a business thinking of moving more likely to choose MD? Or, how wouldn't that make it more likely businesses currently in MD decide to move? And this is only at the corporate level - his policies would discourage high earners (who pay lots of taxes and also sometimes have a say in where a business will be located) from living in MD because their tax burdens would significantly increase and there would be an even starker divide between MD and VA, and to a degree DC.

I know it is vary fashionable to bash businesses these days, but we need to have jobs (and high earners) in the area to flourish, particularly with all the increased spending Jealous would like to enact. Without jobs none of that can happen.

Economies thrive when regular people make more. Not just high earners. Don’t focus on the 5%. Focus on the 95%. From the ground up not the top down. When many people earn just a little more, a lot more money gets spent — boosting and creating new business.

[Anonymous]

Hogan just picked up his third union endorsement. They didn't support him last time and say they haven't supported other Rs, but are backing him this time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/hogan-lands-endorsement-of-another-labor-group-that-normally-backs-democrats/2018/07/30/b4a5e450-943d-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html?utm_term=.0fbd9c5c69bb

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sure. Keep hiding behind that.... anything to avoid having to vote for the first African American governor in Maryland, right?

It's becoming very clear the Maryland does indeed lay below the Mason-Dixon Line.

You're crazy. I highly doubt Dems voting for Hogan care that Jealous is AA. In fact, I'd bet the vast majority of them happily voted for Obama and other candidates of color. People have mentioned perfectly reasonable reasons they would vote for Hogan over Jealous. Just because you don't share that opinion does not make them rascist. To the contrary, announcing that anyone who won't vote for Jealous is rascist seriously undermines your position, because it makes it easy to dismiss you as a loon without a viewpoint worth considering.

It's also a little insulting to political candidates of color to suggest that votes for them should be granted based on their race, rather than their merit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure. Keep hiding behind that.... anything to avoid having to vote for the first African American governor in Maryland, right?

It's becoming very clear the Maryland does indeed lay below the Mason-Dixon Line.

You're crazy. I highly doubt Dems voting for Hogan care that Jealous is AA. In fact, I'd bet the vast majority of them happily voted for Obama and other candidates of color. People have mentioned perfectly reasonable reasons they would vote for Hogan over Jealous. Just because you don't share that opinion does not make them rascist. To the contrary, announcing that anyone who won't vote for Jealous is rascist seriously undermines your position, because it makes it easy to dismiss you as a loon without a viewpoint worth considering.

It's also a little insulting to political candidates of color to suggest that votes for them should be granted based on their race, rather than their merit.

Your English is excellent, Comrade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure. Keep hiding behind that.... anything to avoid having to vote for the first African American governor in Maryland, right?

It's becoming very clear the Maryland does indeed lay below the Mason-Dixon Line.

You're crazy. I highly doubt Dems voting for Hogan care that Jealous is AA. In fact, I'd bet the vast majority of them happily voted for Obama and other candidates of color. People have mentioned perfectly reasonable reasons they would vote for Hogan over Jealous. Just because you don't share that opinion does not make them rascist. To the contrary, announcing that anyone who won't vote for Jealous is rascist seriously undermines your position, because it makes it easy to dismiss you as a loon without a viewpoint worth considering.

It's also a little insulting to political candidates of color to suggest that votes for them should be granted based on their race, rather than their merit.

Your English is excellent, Comrade.

Resorting to claims of Russian bots over a very reasoned post only shows how childish and immature you are. And, no, I'm not the previous poster.

[Anonymous]

Hogan. I’m liberal, not nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would have voted for Hogan again if the Republicans in Congress did not appear to be colluding with the Russians to keep on winning elections. There is no way I can vote for anyone who supports any candidates who support Trump and his policies.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-hogan-pennsylvania-20170724-story.html

Hogan has made wuitr clear he doesn’t support Trump,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.dbknews.com/2018/01/24/larry-hogan-fundraising-governor-election-gubernatorial-fundraising-republican-progress-trump-injustice-bipartisanship-education-economy-centrism/

Nope, Hogan is not a moderate. He's a run of the mill far right Republican who attempts to wear the mask of a moderate.

He takes money from Koch Bros, is endorsed by the NRA and would further expand access to firearms, opposed Syrian refugees coming to MD, cut hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from the education department, was willing to give billions of dollars in corporate welfare tax breaks to mega corporations to attract Amazon coming to Moco, etc.

Hogan has all the hallmarks of a corporate tool. Jealous it is. People need to stop getting hung up on labels and actually examine these candidate's policies in practice.

Pot meet kettle. I have not voted for a republican in two decades (voted for Brown last go around). Hogan is a center right moderate and Jealous is far to the left. I am voting for Hogan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would have voted for Hogan again if the Republicans in Congress did not appear to be colluding with the Russians to keep on winning elections. There is no way I can vote for anyone who supports any candidates who support Trump and his policies.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-hogan-pennsylvania-20170724-story.html

Hogan has made wuitr clear he doesn’t support Trump,

He’s anti Muslim. Not cool when your state has a significant Muslim population.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would have voted for Hogan again if the Republicans in Congress did not appear to be colluding with the Russians to keep on winning elections. There is no way I can vote for anyone who supports any candidates who support Trump and his policies.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-hogan-pennsylvania-20170724-story.html

Hogan has made wuitr clear he doesn’t support Trump,

He’s anti Muslim. Not cool when your state has a significant Muslim population.

In what way is Hogan anti-Muslim?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would have voted for Hogan again if the Republicans in Congress did not appear to be colluding with the Russians to keep on winning elections. There is no way I can vote for anyone who supports any candidates who support Trump and his policies.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-hogan-pennsylvania-20170724-story.html

Hogan has made wuitr clear he doesn’t support Trump,

He’s anti Muslim. Not cool when your state has a significant Muslim population.

In what way is Hogan anti-Muslim?

Wouldn’t give Frosh permission to sue the feds for the Muslim ban.

Deleted posts on his Facebook page calling for him to denounce the Muslim ban. He was sued for free speech violations on that one and settled out of court.

Refused to allow Syrian refugees to settle in Maryland.

He recently issued an executive order that bans the state from contracting with entities that boycott Israel over illegal settlements in the West Bank.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would have voted for Hogan again if the Republicans in Congress did not appear to be colluding with the Russians to keep on winning elections. There is no way I can vote for anyone who supports any candidates who support Trump and his policies.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-hogan-pennsylvania-20170724-story.html

Hogan has made wuitr clear he doesn’t support Trump,

He’s anti Muslim. Not cool when your state has a significant Muslim population.

In what way is Hogan anti-Muslim?

Wouldn’t give Frosh permission to sue the feds for the Muslim ban.

Deleted posts on his Facebook page calling for him to denounce the Muslim ban. He was sued for free speech violations on that one and settled out of court.

Refused to allow Syrian refugees to settle in Maryland.

He recently issued an executive order that bans the state from contracting with entities that boycott Israel over illegal settlements in the West Bank.

None are anti Muslim. The Muslim ban wasn’t a Muslim but a ban on visitors from certain countries. Muslims in Saudi or Malaysia or Indonesia (which is the most populous Muslim country in the world) weren’t banned.

These were terror related measures. The “Muslim” ban had its origins in the Obama administration as they were the ones who originally designated the affected countries as high risk countries.

As the US is not boycotting Israel why should Maryland government support a boycott of Israel? By the way, where are the businesses boycotting Russia for their illegal occupation of parts of Ukraine? But as it’s not a fashionable issue no one seems to care. Ok. Got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure. Keep hiding behind that.... anything to avoid having to vote for the first African American governor in Maryland, right?

It's becoming very clear the Maryland does indeed lay below the Mason-Dixon Line.

You're crazy. I highly doubt Dems voting for Hogan care that Jealous is AA. In fact, I'd bet the vast majority of them happily voted for Obama and other candidates of color. People have mentioned perfectly reasonable reasons they would vote for Hogan over Jealous. Just because you don't share that opinion does not make them rascist. To the contrary, announcing that anyone who won't vote for Jealous is rascist seriously undermines your position, because it makes it easy to dismiss you as a loon without a viewpoint worth considering.

It's also a little insulting to political candidates of color to suggest that votes for them should be granted based on their race, rather than their merit.

Your English is excellent, Comrade.

Resorting to claims of Russian bots over a very reasoned post only shows how childish and immature you are. And, no, I'm not the previous poster.

Your English is also very good!

But you're not fooling anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hogan just picked up his third union endorsement. They didn't support him last time and say they haven't supported other Rs, but are backing him this time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/hogan-lands-endorsement-of-another-labor-group-that-normally-backs-democrats/2018/07/30/b4a5e450-943d-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html?utm_term=.0fbd9c5c69bb

The moral of the story is that if you give free stuff away to firefighters, they will vote for you:

Leaders from the International Association of Firefighters on Monday said the union was endorsing Hogan because of his accessibility to firefighters and legislation he helped enact to exempt $15,000 of their retirement income from state taxes.

A bribe is a bribe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hogan just picked up his third union endorsement. They didn't support him last time and say they haven't supported other Rs, but are backing him this time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/hogan-lands-endorsement-of-another-labor-group-that-normally-backs-democrats/2018/07/30/b4a5e450-943d-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html?utm_term=.0fbd9c5c69bb

Hogan will (deservedly) win.