Hogan running for Senate

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Anonymous wrote:According to WTOP news Hogan “supports legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law.” Has anyone else made that pledge, Dem or R?

It’s true. Heard the same on WTOP yesterday.

It’s settled: Hogan is pro choice.

Probably not as pro choice as you would like.

He is NOT PRO CHOICE
That is BS

He's a liar. His actions speak louder than his words. When he was governor of MD we knew exactly how he was pro life. His daughter spews it daily.

And JFC he is a Republican unless he says he is no longer a Republican he is unfit for office.

He will vote party line. He will vote in PROJECT 2025, who wants that hellscape???

Maryland needs to stay Blue!!!!

PP, I don't necessarily disagree with you, but your approach is counterproductive. I get a ton of complaints about your posts and you seem to be everyone on the site. So, I hate to have to do this, but I am going to have to give you an ultimatum. You can ether mellow out and communicate in a calmer and less confrontational manner or I can do whatever it takes to prevent you from posting in the future. It's your choice.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d like to see some support for renewed investment in Baltimore. Someone who would support converting that freeway-to-nowhere US 40 into a boulevard that could reunite neighborhoods long blighted by that road. Md could easily snag federal funding for that.

Also someone who would back the redevelopment of the State Center (Metro Subway Link) station, surrounded by blocks of parking lots, blight, and soon to be abandoned state office buildings. What a waste of real estate in the heart of the city. Politicians have been talking about redeveloping that area for years with no progress. I’m sure there are federal funds (economic development funds and block grants) the state could get.

These are actually really good ideas.

I could see Hogan championing Maryland the way Don Schaefer pushed through the complete makeover of the inner harbor (which was a truly brilliant move).

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Anonymous wrote:I’d like to see some support for renewed investment in Baltimore. Someone who would support converting that freeway-to-nowhere US 40 into a boulevard that could reunite neighborhoods long blighted by that road. Md could easily snag federal funding for that.

Also someone who would back the redevelopment of the State Center (Metro Subway Link) station, surrounded by blocks of parking lots, blight, and soon to be abandoned state office buildings. What a waste of real estate in the heart of the city. Politicians have been talking about redeveloping that area for years with no progress. I’m sure there are federal funds (economic development funds and block grants) the state could get.

These are actually really good ideas.

I could see Hogan championing Maryland the way Don Schaefer pushed through the complete makeover of the inner harbor (which was a truly brilliant move).

If you can see Hogan championing Baltimore, then you paid no attention at all to Hogan's actual actions in Baltimore during the 8 years when Hogan was governor.

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Hogan is a Republican

Maryland is blue

If we go read the country goes red

We will be magadonia

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Anonymous wrote:I’d like to see some support for renewed investment in Baltimore. Someone who would support converting that freeway-to-nowhere US 40 into a boulevard that could reunite neighborhoods long blighted by that road. Md could easily snag federal funding for that.

Also someone who would back the redevelopment of the State Center (Metro Subway Link) station, surrounded by blocks of parking lots, blight, and soon to be abandoned state office buildings. What a waste of real estate in the heart of the city. Politicians have been talking about redeveloping that area for years with no progress. I’m sure there are federal funds (economic development funds and block grants) the state could get.

Roads are not racist. Roads allow people to get to work in placed that are not near their homes. Why should people be limited to employment and leisure to places that are within walking distance?

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Anonymous wrote:I’d like to see some support for renewed investment in Baltimore. Someone who would support converting that freeway-to-nowhere US 40 into a boulevard that could reunite neighborhoods long blighted by that road. Md could easily snag federal funding for that.

Also someone who would back the redevelopment of the State Center (Metro Subway Link) station, surrounded by blocks of parking lots, blight, and soon to be abandoned state office buildings. What a waste of real estate in the heart of the city. Politicians have been talking about redeveloping that area for years with no progress. I’m sure there are federal funds (economic development funds and block grants) the state could get.

Roads are not racist. Roads allow people to get to work in placed that are not near their homes. Why should people be limited to employment and leisure to places that are within walking distance?

Roads benefit those with unearned white privilege.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d like to see some support for renewed investment in Baltimore. Someone who would support converting that freeway-to-nowhere US 40 into a boulevard that could reunite neighborhoods long blighted by that road. Md could easily snag federal funding for that.

Also someone who would back the redevelopment of the State Center (Metro Subway Link) station, surrounded by blocks of parking lots, blight, and soon to be abandoned state office buildings. What a waste of real estate in the heart of the city. Politicians have been talking about redeveloping that area for years with no progress. I’m sure there are federal funds (economic development funds and block grants) the state could get.

Roads are not racist. Roads allow people to get to work in placed that are not near their homes. Why should people be limited to employment and leisure to places that are within walking distance?

Have you actually ever seen US 40? It’s an incomplete freeway to nowhere. The freeway protests of the 70s blocked its completion which had already leveled a dozen blocks of charming rowhouse neighborhoods in a largely black section of West Baltimore. Just imagine the redevelopment potential of all those blocks in the center of the city. Everyone would benefit, even the unscrupulous developers.

Have you ever actually been on the Central Leg Freeway in Washington DC? It dead ends at NY Ave because the neighborhoods from Shaw to Takoma successfully blocked it. The freeways were not only racist, but they would have absolutely destroyed these cities and their charming neighborhoods with sidewalk cafes, gardens, mom and pop variety stores, and victorian era homes.

Buttigeig is tearing down these racist freeways and building beautiful boulevards one at a time. But not without support from the states’ congressional delegations.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d like to see some support for renewed investment in Baltimore. Someone who would support converting that freeway-to-nowhere US 40 into a boulevard that could reunite neighborhoods long blighted by that road. Md could easily snag federal funding for that.

Also someone who would back the redevelopment of the State Center (Metro Subway Link) station, surrounded by blocks of parking lots, blight, and soon to be abandoned state office buildings. What a waste of real estate in the heart of the city. Politicians have been talking about redeveloping that area for years with no progress. I’m sure there are federal funds (economic development funds and block grants) the state could get.

Roads are not racist. Roads allow people to get to work in placed that are not near their homes. Why should people be limited to employment and leisure to places that are within walking distance?

Roads are not racist, but the decisions about where to build and not build those roads sure can be racist. The slogan about "white men's roads through black men's homes" comes from right here in DC, and in fact that particular highway was not built; Metro was built instead.

It should go without saying that Metro allows people to get to work in places that are not near their homes, and that there are ways to get to employment and leisure that don't involve driving a car on a road.

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Yikes. That's pretty bad for Hogan to lose 30% of the vote to that Robin Ficker of all people. Seems like Hogan is not as popular as people think he is.

Have you looked at Ficker’s positions? He’s way to the right of Hogan. The people who voted for him will vote for Hogan in the general election.

Did these people not see Fickers ads? He went full MAGA. None of those folks will refuse to vote for Hogan in the general election.

MAGAs hate Hogan and may not actually vote for him in the general.

As between Hogan and Alsobrooks the MAGA’s and other GOP will vote for Hogan, without exception.

Voters skip contests all the time. Trump ran behind tons of downballot Republicans in 2020 which is a big reason why he lost. It’s totally plausible that MAGAs will show up to vote for Trump and not vote for Hogan.

Here’s what MAGA thinks of Hogan.

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At the end of the day, giving the GOP control of the senate impacts judicial appointments and any SCOTUS replacements. It should be a non-starter for democrats and independents to support this candidacy.


https://www.marylandmatters.org/2024/05/22/hogan-doubles-down-on-abortion-stance-dems-say-his-track-record-shows-otherwise

Republican Senate nominee Larry Hogan doubled down Wednesday on his pledge to be a “pro-choice” senator, promising to support legislation codifying the protections of Roe v. Wade that guaranteed a right to an abortion up to 26 weeks.

But his Democratic opponent, Angela Alsobrooks, shot back Wednesday, arguing that Hogan’s time as Maryland’s governor proves that voters “can’t trust” his newfound position on abortion.

Political analysts say it was necessary Hogan for come out in support of some abortion protections if he hopes to win a Senate seat this fall, as abortion continues to be one of the issues driving voters to the polls since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

“Especially in a place like Maryland, the fact that Hogan chose it to be the topic of his first general election ad is a clear sign that this is an issue he wants to get ahead of,” Jacob Rubashkin, deputy editor for Inside Elections, said Wednesday. He added that Hogan “clearly sees abortion as his No. 1 vulnerability in this race.”

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Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, giving the GOP control of the senate impacts judicial appointments and any SCOTUS replacements. It should be a non-starter for democrats and independents to support this candidacy.


https://www.marylandmatters.org/2024/05/22/hogan-doubles-down-on-abortion-stance-dems-say-his-track-record-shows-otherwise

Republican Senate nominee Larry Hogan doubled down Wednesday on his pledge to be a “pro-choice” senator, promising to support legislation codifying the protections of Roe v. Wade that guaranteed a right to an abortion up to 26 weeks.

But his Democratic opponent, Angela Alsobrooks, shot back Wednesday, arguing that Hogan’s time as Maryland’s governor proves that voters “can’t trust” his newfound position on abortion.

Political analysts say it was necessary Hogan for come out in support of some abortion protections if he hopes to win a Senate seat this fall, as abortion continues to be one of the issues driving voters to the polls since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

“Especially in a place like Maryland, the fact that Hogan chose it to be the topic of his first general election ad is a clear sign that this is an issue he wants to get ahead of,” Jacob Rubashkin, deputy editor for Inside Elections, said Wednesday. He added that Hogan “clearly sees abortion as his No. 1 vulnerability in this race.”

Alsobrooks is such an untrustworthy politician, she campaigned on trying to paint Trone as somehow MAGA.

She is a flip-flopping, inexperienced, disaster. Isn’t there enough disfunction in the senate already ??

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Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, giving the GOP control of the senate impacts judicial appointments and any SCOTUS replacements. It should be a non-starter for democrats and independents to support this candidacy.


https://www.marylandmatters.org/2024/05/22/hogan-doubles-down-on-abortion-stance-dems-say-his-track-record-shows-otherwise

Republican Senate nominee Larry Hogan doubled down Wednesday on his pledge to be a “pro-choice” senator, promising to support legislation codifying the protections of Roe v. Wade that guaranteed a right to an abortion up to 26 weeks.

But his Democratic opponent, Angela Alsobrooks, shot back Wednesday, arguing that Hogan’s time as Maryland’s governor proves that voters “can’t trust” his newfound position on abortion.

Political analysts say it was necessary Hogan for come out in support of some abortion protections if he hopes to win a Senate seat this fall, as abortion continues to be one of the issues driving voters to the polls since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

“Especially in a place like Maryland, the fact that Hogan chose it to be the topic of his first general election ad is a clear sign that this is an issue he wants to get ahead of,” Jacob Rubashkin, deputy editor for Inside Elections, said Wednesday. He added that Hogan “clearly sees abortion as his No. 1 vulnerability in this race.”

Alsobrooks is such an untrustworthy politician, she campaigned on trying to paint Trone as somehow MAGA.

She is a flip-flopping, inexperienced, disaster. Isn’t there enough disfunction in the senate already ??

Her campaign pointed out that Trone had donated a lot of money to MAGA Republicans. Which is true.

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Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, giving the GOP control of the senate impacts judicial appointments and any SCOTUS replacements. It should be a non-starter for democrats and independents to support this candidacy.


https://www.marylandmatters.org/2024/05/22/hogan-doubles-down-on-abortion-stance-dems-say-his-track-record-shows-otherwise

Republican Senate nominee Larry Hogan doubled down Wednesday on his pledge to be a “pro-choice” senator, promising to support legislation codifying the protections of Roe v. Wade that guaranteed a right to an abortion up to 26 weeks.

But his Democratic opponent, Angela Alsobrooks, shot back Wednesday, arguing that Hogan’s time as Maryland’s governor proves that voters “can’t trust” his newfound position on abortion.

Political analysts say it was necessary Hogan for come out in support of some abortion protections if he hopes to win a Senate seat this fall, as abortion continues to be one of the issues driving voters to the polls since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

“Especially in a place like Maryland, the fact that Hogan chose it to be the topic of his first general election ad is a clear sign that this is an issue he wants to get ahead of,” Jacob Rubashkin, deputy editor for Inside Elections, said Wednesday. He added that Hogan “clearly sees abortion as his No. 1 vulnerability in this race.”

Alsobrooks is such an untrustworthy politician, she campaigned on trying to paint Trone as somehow MAGA.

She is a flip-flopping, inexperienced, disaster. Isn’t there enough disfunction in the senate already ??

Your posts against her are very one note and distinctive in nature.

Anyway - I don't see how electing Hogan lessens any dysfunction in the Senate.

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Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, giving the GOP control of the senate impacts judicial appointments and any SCOTUS replacements. It should be a non-starter for democrats and independents to support this candidacy.


https://www.marylandmatters.org/2024/05/22/hogan-doubles-down-on-abortion-stance-dems-say-his-track-record-shows-otherwise

Republican Senate nominee Larry Hogan doubled down Wednesday on his pledge to be a “pro-choice” senator, promising to support legislation codifying the protections of Roe v. Wade that guaranteed a right to an abortion up to 26 weeks.

But his Democratic opponent, Angela Alsobrooks, shot back Wednesday, arguing that Hogan’s time as Maryland’s governor proves that voters “can’t trust” his newfound position on abortion.

Political analysts say it was necessary Hogan for come out in support of some abortion protections if he hopes to win a Senate seat this fall, as abortion continues to be one of the issues driving voters to the polls since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

“Especially in a place like Maryland, the fact that Hogan chose it to be the topic of his first general election ad is a clear sign that this is an issue he wants to get ahead of,” Jacob Rubashkin, deputy editor for Inside Elections, said Wednesday. He added that Hogan “clearly sees abortion as his No. 1 vulnerability in this race.”

Alsobrooks is such an untrustworthy politician, she campaigned on trying to paint Trone as somehow MAGA.

She is a flip-flopping, inexperienced, disaster. Isn’t there enough disfunction in the senate already ??

Her campaign pointed out that Trone had donated a lot of money to MAGA Republicans. Which is true.

I’m curious what the excuse will be when she loses to Hogan in the fall.

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Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, giving the GOP control of the senate impacts judicial appointments and any SCOTUS replacements. It should be a non-starter for democrats and independents to support this candidacy.


https://www.marylandmatters.org/2024/05/22/hogan-doubles-down-on-abortion-stance-dems-say-his-track-record-shows-otherwise

Republican Senate nominee Larry Hogan doubled down Wednesday on his pledge to be a “pro-choice” senator, promising to support legislation codifying the protections of Roe v. Wade that guaranteed a right to an abortion up to 26 weeks.

But his Democratic opponent, Angela Alsobrooks, shot back Wednesday, arguing that Hogan’s time as Maryland’s governor proves that voters “can’t trust” his newfound position on abortion.

Political analysts say it was necessary Hogan for come out in support of some abortion protections if he hopes to win a Senate seat this fall, as abortion continues to be one of the issues driving voters to the polls since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

“Especially in a place like Maryland, the fact that Hogan chose it to be the topic of his first general election ad is a clear sign that this is an issue he wants to get ahead of,” Jacob Rubashkin, deputy editor for Inside Elections, said Wednesday. He added that Hogan “clearly sees abortion as his No. 1 vulnerability in this race.”

Alsobrooks is such an untrustworthy politician, she campaigned on trying to paint Trone as somehow MAGA.

She is a flip-flopping, inexperienced, disaster. Isn’t there enough disfunction in the senate already ??

Her campaign pointed out that Trone had donated a lot of money to MAGA Republicans. Which is true.

I’m curious what the excuse will be when she loses to Hogan in the fall.

Unlikely to happen. Hogan lead up through March. But polling in May has shown that Alsobrooks currently is favored to win. She only has to win in the largest jurisdictions. 5 of the top 6 largest jurisdictions in MD (out of 24) are all very strongly Democratic. Montgomery County, PG County, Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Howard County (all but #5 Anne Arundel County) are staunchly liberal and have 72% of the voters in the state. It's not going to be that close. She currently is polling in the lead and those counties are all pretty much majority in for her. I would be surprised if Hogan were to come within 8 points or less.

Hogan was a popular two-term governor, but most voters in those jurisdictions know the major differences between governor and Congress.