Larry Hogan, you're next. We are not satisfied.

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Ben Jealous or Rushern Baker are both strong candidates to unseat Hogan. Baker will need to clean up the education issues in his county.

Ken Ulman is well liked across the state. I expect to hear him mentioned as a candidate for Lt. Gov., if he doesn't decide to put his hat in for gov. The dems have their picks - the primaries will be interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight, it was your friend Ed, the "great leader".

We'll see you on November 6, 2018. Get ready.

Annapolis went completely Blue. The new mayor is a democrat as well as the city council. That area is Hogan's home turf. Cannot wait for him to be booted out as well.

Annapolis has always leaned heavily blue. The city, that is. Rest of AA is Republican. Has nothing to do with Hogan, who actually was originally from PG County and later moved to AA County.

He lives about 4 miles outside of Annapolis. Where he is originally from is irrelevant.

He was born in DC and lived in Florida. Also irrelevant.

And AA is very red, Annapolis the actual city might be blue but my Annapolis neighbors are all very red. The farther out you get from downtown the less blue people are - which would explain the Republican Mayor that was just ousted.

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight, it was your friend Ed, the "great leader".

We'll see you on November 6, 2018. Get ready.

As someone left of center, I don't always agree with Gov Hogan, but he hasn't embraced the absolute hate of much of the GOP and there are some areas that I think he has been doing a good job.

How so? How has he been doing a good job?

It really doesn't matter, does it? I don't think anything that can be offered in Hogan's defense will ever convince you. You simply don't like him for whatever reasons. I agree that Hogan has been a solid steward for the state and a decent balance to the Democratic leadership in Annapolis. They seem to get along well enough. He cancelled the transportation projects due to funding concerns, which is sort of understandable as it'd be state taxpayers paying for something most wouldn't have used. There's a lot more to the state outside DC. Not everyone would have agreed, of course, and I'd have preferred if the Red and Purple lines were built, but on the whole I'm fine with Hogan's leadership and will probably vote for him.

The purpose of the increase in the gas tax was to pay for the Red Line and the Purple Line. Hogan canceled the Red Line (a transit project) and redistributed the money to road projects in places whose delegates voted against the gas tax increase and against transit. I don't think that's good leadership. I think that's politics.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm very much a democrat, but I'll vote for Hogan. He is a good governor. We all benefit when both parties are sane, and Hogan is the kind of republican the USA needs more of.

I'm very much a republican, but I'll vote against Hogan. His campaigning for Gillespie, a very flawed candidate, showed his true colors. That is not who republicans are - Hogan should have stayed in his lane. And, I agree with PP who said MoCo hates him - you can't win Md w/o MoCo. He's finished.

It's who Republicans are now.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought all the Dems here were professing their love and bipartisanship for Hogan?

I guess that was just words.

I was with him until he issued the mandate that schools can't start before Labor Day. Now I'm unsure if I would vote for him when he's up for re-election.

Republicans are supposed to be for more local control and lower taxes. Hogan micromanages school schedules and taxes are high everywhere. So if I can't have those "Republican benefits," give me a plain old Democrat who can stand with our values on social issues. He's been silent on everything Trump does and didn't even stand up against the Muslim ban. He even deleted posts off his Facebook when people asked him to denounce the Muslim ban. So much for free speech!

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-hogan-trump-20170204-story.html

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight, it was your friend Ed, the "great leader".

We'll see you on November 6, 2018. Get ready.

Hogan’s support for Ed sealed Hogan’s fate. He’ll be gone in 2018.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t be so sure about Hogan. If he can keep his moderate views, I predict he will have a tight race but emerge victorious. If he allows Rs to dictate a divisive campaign, he’s toast.

It depends on how much he can make the transvaginal ultrasound and get brown people out wings of his party go away. He's actually done fairly good so far.

Hogan has to be pro abortion with all the social welfare problems in Maryland.

Can you explain what you are talking about, please?

Many poor children in the State rely on social welfare programs for support. If that population could be controlled through more abortions, less money would be needed for those programs. Funds could be used for other programs or taxes reduced.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a liberal D who actually didn't mind Hogan but the school start thing has really pissed me off. I thought Republicans were supposed to be about small government, and yet here the R governor is interfering with local control of school calendars and imposing policies that fly in the face of all research about summer learning loss. The harping on taking away professional days, like there are even any left, every time MCPS tries to get some calendar flexibility reeks of an agenda against MCEA instead of sound policy.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a liberal D who actually didn't mind Hogan but the school start thing has really pissed me off. I thought Republicans were supposed to be about small government, and yet here the R governor is interfering with local control of school calendars and imposing policies that fly in the face of all research about summer learning loss. The harping on taking away professional days, like there are even any left, every time MCPS tries to get some calendar flexibility reeks of an agenda against MCEA instead of sound policy.

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I can't think of anything particularly good that Hogan has done. Find me a halfway decent Democrat, and I'm happy to vote for him/her.

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"Despite his approval rating, early polling suggests that Hogan may not win a second term." - https://wtop.com/maryland/2018/02/early-polling-suggests-steep-climb-reelection-gov-larry-hogan/

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Anonymous wrote:Tonight, it was your friend Ed who you called the "great leader".

We'll see you on November 6, 2018. Get ready.

“Larry Hogan has no idea what’s about to hit him.” ~Ben Jealous, 6/26/2018.

[Anonymous]

it is not always greener....

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Anonymous wrote:What has Hogan done that was good for MD? I don't count the changing of the school start date as "good for MD". Did that actually help MD businesses much?

That helped everyone get off all the high Jewish holidays.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn’t be so sure about Hogan. If he can keep his moderate views, I predict he will have a tight race but emerge victorious. If he allows Rs to dictate a divisive campaign, he’s toast.

It depends on how much he can make the transvaginal ultrasound and get brown people out wings of his party go away. He's actually done fairly good so far.

Hogan has to be pro abortion with all the social welfare problems in Maryland.

Can you explain what you are talking about, please?

Many poor children in the State rely on social welfare programs for support. If that population could be controlled through more abortions, less money would be needed for those programs. Funds could be used for other programs or taxes reduced.

+1
I couldn't agree with you more!

[Anonymous]

I pray Hogan is toast. Marylanders will come together to get rid of him. He did not condemn Trump, even though he didn't support him either. He's part of the problem and must go.