Hogan's Trump Apologist Interview in the NY Times

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He's the only Republican I voted for in the last election where he was on the ballot. MD was getting out of control with taxing and spending. He has pushed forward on getting a rein in on that, and also furthering transpotation priorities and slowly making MD pro-business.

I don't see MD becoming more pro-business. He didn't lift a finger when Discovery left Silver Spring. The only people I see him trying to help is his voter base in Ocean City, with his ridiculous Labor Day to June 15 policy which means that Maryland schools don't have a spring break week this year.

That's the school's fault partially. They can just move their days off for teacher service days if they want to keep those breaks. The benefit of starting school after Labor Day is it's a big benefit to Ocean City and the MD taxpayer (tax revenue), for no additional taxpayer cost.

NO ADDITIONAL TAXPAYER COST??? Sorry it's NOT a benefit to parents who have to pay for extra camp or a babysitter when no camps are open because all the counselors have gone back to college.

This is turning me into a single issue voter and I will vote for his opponent because of it.

[Anonymous]

The widening the beltway project Hogan is pushing is pissing me off, too.

[Anonymous]

Hogan is not making Maryland great

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's the only Republican I voted for in the last election where he was on the ballot. MD was getting out of control with taxing and spending. He has pushed forward on getting a rein in on that, and also furthering transpotation priorities and slowly making MD pro-business.

I don't see MD becoming more pro-business. He didn't lift a finger when Discovery left Silver Spring. The only people I see him trying to help is his voter base in Ocean City, with his ridiculous Labor Day to June 15 policy which means that Maryland schools don't have a spring break week this year.

That's the school's fault partially. They can just move their days off for teacher service days if they want to keep those breaks. The benefit of starting school after Labor Day is it's a big benefit to Ocean City and the MD taxpayer (tax revenue), for no additional taxpayer cost.

NO ADDITIONAL TAXPAYER COST??? Sorry it's NOT a benefit to parents who have to pay for extra camp or a babysitter when no camps are open because all the counselors have gone back to college.

This is turning me into a single issue voter and I will vote for his opponent because of it.

The children are in school for the same number of days. How is paying for care for the same number of days you used to have to pay for care for somehow breaking your budget?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's the only Republican I voted for in the last election where he was on the ballot. MD was getting out of control with taxing and spending. He has pushed forward on getting a rein in on that, and also furthering transpotation priorities and slowly making MD pro-business.

I don't see MD becoming more pro-business. He didn't lift a finger when Discovery left Silver Spring. The only people I see him trying to help is his voter base in Ocean City, with his ridiculous Labor Day to June 15 policy which means that Maryland schools don't have a spring break week this year.

That's the school's fault partially. They can just move their days off for teacher service days if they want to keep those breaks. The benefit of starting school after Labor Day is it's a big benefit to Ocean City and the MD taxpayer (tax revenue), for no additional taxpayer cost.

NO ADDITIONAL TAXPAYER COST??? Sorry it's NOT a benefit to parents who have to pay for extra camp or a babysitter when no camps are open because all the counselors have gone back to college.

This is turning me into a single issue voter and I will vote for his opponent because of it.

+1 And no one has even been able to substantiate that starting school after Labor Day helps Ocean City a ton, and even so, what kind of poorly run state makes up its school calendar based upon directing increased revenue to a tiny part of the state?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's the only Republican I voted for in the last election where he was on the ballot. MD was getting out of control with taxing and spending. He has pushed forward on getting a rein in on that, and also furthering transpotation priorities and slowly making MD pro-business.

I don't see MD becoming more pro-business. He didn't lift a finger when Discovery left Silver Spring. The only people I see him trying to help is his voter base in Ocean City, with his ridiculous Labor Day to June 15 policy which means that Maryland schools don't have a spring break week this year.

That's the school's fault partially. They can just move their days off for teacher service days if they want to keep those breaks. The benefit of starting school after Labor Day is it's a big benefit to Ocean City and the MD taxpayer (tax revenue), for no additional taxpayer cost.

NO ADDITIONAL TAXPAYER COST??? Sorry it's NOT a benefit to parents who have to pay for extra camp or a babysitter when no camps are open because all the counselors have gone back to college.

This is turning me into a single issue voter and I will vote for his opponent because of it.

The children are in school for the same number of days. How is paying for care for the same number of days you used to have to pay for care for somehow breaking your budget?

NP. You must not have kids in school or have to deal with summer camps/summer care. Summer camps are staffed by and summer babysitters largely consist of college students, who are all heading back to college by the middle of August. They're also off in early June, generally. So it's nearly impossible to find summer camps and summer babysitters after mid-August, because the supply of counselors and babysitters has dropped to nearly zero.

Wealthier parents can afford to take a week or two off to cover the gap. We're taking the last two weeks of August off to vacation with our kids, but we are dual earners with careers in professions that give us enough PTO to cover the childcare gap. Many other parents, though, don't have the job flexibility, the resources, and the PTO to do the same. Or maybe they have to burn all their PTO to cover the gap, making it much harder during the year to take a day off for a sick kid. Is it that hard for you to understand that there is a huge cost to parents to pushing back the school start date until after Labor Day, because the supply and demand for child care doesn't line up in August?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's the only Republican I voted for in the last election where he was on the ballot. MD was getting out of control with taxing and spending. He has pushed forward on getting a rein in on that, and also furthering transpotation priorities and slowly making MD pro-business.

I don't see MD becoming more pro-business. He didn't lift a finger when Discovery left Silver Spring. The only people I see him trying to help is his voter base in Ocean City, with his ridiculous Labor Day to June 15 policy which means that Maryland schools don't have a spring break week this year.

That's the school's fault partially. They can just move their days off for teacher service days if they want to keep those breaks. The benefit of starting school after Labor Day is it's a big benefit to Ocean City and the MD taxpayer (tax revenue), for no additional taxpayer cost.

NO ADDITIONAL TAXPAYER COST??? Sorry it's NOT a benefit to parents who have to pay for extra camp or a babysitter when no camps are open because all the counselors have gone back to college.

This is turning me into a single issue voter and I will vote for his opponent because of it.

The children are in school for the same number of days. How is paying for care for the same number of days you used to have to pay for care for somehow breaking your budget?

NP. You must not have kids in school or have to deal with summer camps/summer care. Summer camps are staffed by and summer babysitters largely consist of college students, who are all heading back to college by the middle of August. They're also off in early June, generally. So it's nearly impossible to find summer camps and summer babysitters after mid-August, because the supply of counselors and babysitters has dropped to nearly zero.

Wealthier parents can afford to take a week or two off to cover the gap. We're taking the last two weeks of August off to vacation with our kids, but we are dual earners with careers in professions that give us enough PTO to cover the childcare gap. Many other parents, though, don't have the job flexibility, the resources, and the PTO to do the same. Or maybe they have to burn all their PTO to cover the gap, making it much harder during the year to take a day off for a sick kid. Is it that hard for you to understand that there is a huge cost to parents to pushing back the school start date until after Labor Day, because the supply and demand for child care doesn't line up in August?

+1 Hogan is prioritizing his Ocean City voter base over the rest of the state. He shouldn't be playing political games with academic schedules.

[Anonymous]

I agree that widening the beltway and changing the school calendar suck as policy choices

Don't like jealous and don't like Hogan either

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's the only Republican I voted for in the last election where he was on the ballot. MD was getting out of control with taxing and spending. He has pushed forward on getting a rein in on that, and also furthering transpotation priorities and slowly making MD pro-business.

I don't see MD becoming more pro-business. He didn't lift a finger when Discovery left Silver Spring. The only people I see him trying to help is his voter base in Ocean City, with his ridiculous Labor Day to June 15 policy which means that Maryland schools don't have a spring break week this year.

That's the school's fault partially. They can just move their days off for teacher service days if they want to keep those breaks. The benefit of starting school after Labor Day is it's a big benefit to Ocean City and the MD taxpayer (tax revenue), for no additional taxpayer cost.

NO ADDITIONAL TAXPAYER COST??? Sorry it's NOT a benefit to parents who have to pay for extra camp or a babysitter when no camps are open because all the counselors have gone back to college.

This is turning me into a single issue voter and I will vote for his opponent because of it.

The children are in school for the same number of days. How is paying for care for the same number of days you used to have to pay for care for somehow breaking your budget?

NP. You must not have kids in school or have to deal with summer camps/summer care. Summer camps are staffed by and summer babysitters largely consist of college students, who are all heading back to college by the middle of August. They're also off in early June, generally. So it's nearly impossible to find summer camps and summer babysitters after mid-August, because the supply of counselors and babysitters has dropped to nearly zero.

Wealthier parents can afford to take a week or two off to cover the gap. We're taking the last two weeks of August off to vacation with our kids, but we are dual earners with careers in professions that give us enough PTO to cover the childcare gap. Many other parents, though, don't have the job flexibility, the resources, and the PTO to do the same. Or maybe they have to burn all their PTO to cover the gap, making it much harder during the year to take a day off for a sick kid. Is it that hard for you to understand that there is a huge cost to parents to pushing back the school start date until after Labor Day, because the supply and demand for child care doesn't line up in August?

The kids are in school for the same amount of days.
You have to find care for the same amount of days.

That's why I'm not understanding what you're struggling with. It's the same number of days!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's the only Republican I voted for in the last election where he was on the ballot. MD was getting out of control with taxing and spending. He has pushed forward on getting a rein in on that, and also furthering transpotation priorities and slowly making MD pro-business.

I don't see MD becoming more pro-business. He didn't lift a finger when Discovery left Silver Spring. The only people I see him trying to help is his voter base in Ocean City, with his ridiculous Labor Day to June 15 policy which means that Maryland schools don't have a spring break week this year.

That's the school's fault partially. They can just move their days off for teacher service days if they want to keep those breaks. The benefit of starting school after Labor Day is it's a big benefit to Ocean City and the MD taxpayer (tax revenue), for no additional taxpayer cost.

NO ADDITIONAL TAXPAYER COST??? Sorry it's NOT a benefit to parents who have to pay for extra camp or a babysitter when no camps are open because all the counselors have gone back to college.

This is turning me into a single issue voter and I will vote for his opponent because of it.

The children are in school for the same number of days. How is paying for care for the same number of days you used to have to pay for care for somehow breaking your budget?

NP. You must not have kids in school or have to deal with summer camps/summer care. Summer camps are staffed by and summer babysitters largely consist of college students, who are all heading back to college by the middle of August. They're also off in early June, generally. So it's nearly impossible to find summer camps and summer babysitters after mid-August, because the supply of counselors and babysitters has dropped to nearly zero.

Wealthier parents can afford to take a week or two off to cover the gap. We're taking the last two weeks of August off to vacation with our kids, but we are dual earners with careers in professions that give us enough PTO to cover the childcare gap. Many other parents, though, don't have the job flexibility, the resources, and the PTO to do the same. Or maybe they have to burn all their PTO to cover the gap, making it much harder during the year to take a day off for a sick kid. Is it that hard for you to understand that there is a huge cost to parents to pushing back the school start date until after Labor Day, because the supply and demand for child care doesn't line up in August?

The kids are in school for the same amount of days.
You have to find care for the same amount of days.

That's why I'm not understanding what you're struggling with. It's the same number of days!

Then you must struggle with literacy. Because PP explained clearly why it's harder to find coverage on certain days than other days.

[Anonymous]

I had no issue finding childcare for the last 2 weeks of August. if you look, you will see openings thru the county and check certifikid for many other options. if you need a nanny, a friend of mine found a 2 week temporary person on care.com. I am thrilled that my kids can still enjoy a couple more weeks of summer before going to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's the only Republican I voted for in the last election where he was on the ballot. MD was getting out of control with taxing and spending. He has pushed forward on getting a rein in on that, and also furthering transpotation priorities and slowly making MD pro-business.

I don't see MD becoming more pro-business. He didn't lift a finger when Discovery left Silver Spring. The only people I see him trying to help is his voter base in Ocean City, with his ridiculous Labor Day to June 15 policy which means that Maryland schools don't have a spring break week this year.

That's the school's fault partially. They can just move their days off for teacher service days if they want to keep those breaks. The benefit of starting school after Labor Day is it's a big benefit to Ocean City and the MD taxpayer (tax revenue), for no additional taxpayer cost.

NO ADDITIONAL TAXPAYER COST??? Sorry it's NOT a benefit to parents who have to pay for extra camp or a babysitter when no camps are open because all the counselors have gone back to college.

This is turning me into a single issue voter and I will vote for his opponent because of it.

The children are in school for the same number of days. How is paying for care for the same number of days you used to have to pay for care for somehow breaking your budget?

NP. You must not have kids in school or have to deal with summer camps/summer care. Summer camps are staffed by and summer babysitters largely consist of college students, who are all heading back to college by the middle of August. They're also off in early June, generally. So it's nearly impossible to find summer camps and summer babysitters after mid-August, because the supply of counselors and babysitters has dropped to nearly zero.

Wealthier parents can afford to take a week or two off to cover the gap. We're taking the last two weeks of August off to vacation with our kids, but we are dual earners with careers in professions that give us enough PTO to cover the childcare gap. Many other parents, though, don't have the job flexibility, the resources, and the PTO to do the same. Or maybe they have to burn all their PTO to cover the gap, making it much harder during the year to take a day off for a sick kid. Is it that hard for you to understand that there is a huge cost to parents to pushing back the school start date until after Labor Day, because the supply and demand for child care doesn't line up in August?

The kids are in school for the same amount of days.
You have to find care for the same amount of days.

That's why I'm not understanding what you're struggling with. It's the same number of days!

Then you must struggle with literacy. Because PP explained clearly why it's harder to find coverage on certain days than other days.

I’m a new poster. That’s a horribly offensive insult. Many of us on this site are parents of kids who DO struggle with dyslexia. For you to use that as a “clever” comeback is beyond the pale. Check yourself.

[Anonymous]

Not a huge fan of the later start personally, but most people I know are, even people without kids. There seems to be a a sense thst it is returning the school schedule to what it was historically. I believe there was polling in the Baltimore Sun that showed a large majority approved of the change. If Jealous is going to win, it won’t be on the basis of,the school calendar issue.

[Anonymous]

I don't have kids and hate the new school calendar... because we always wait to take our vacation to OC after schools go back in. So now it's pushed back to after Labor Day weekend.

[Anonymous]

Hogan tell Marylanders what they want to hear and sadly, many have fallen for it.

I understand why Republicans like him but how would a Democrat fall for what he's selling?

He has a terrible record with minorities and LGBT rights. He badmouths teachers and is generally kind of sleazy.

In his second term when he doesn't worry about re-election, watch that fake moderate thing go out the window.

He will support Trump completely.