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+1   NP here lest I be accused by the one poster who can't fathom that many people oppose Hogan.   Maryland education has tanked during Hogan's tenure, [b]and he's bad for Marylanders who value a life without bigotry (Hogan refused to speak up against the Muslim ban) or violence against women (refused to deploy resources to investigate Christine Blasey Ford's allegations.)[/b]  I'm voting for Jealous.[/quote]

Oh please.  He's a moderate.  Extreme liberals like you are so tiring with your hyperbole.  He has a middle of the road stance, but you frame everything as black and white.  He's not bigoted or against bigotry.  He is married to an Asian American, a Koren woman who was naturalized 24 years ago, 7 years before they met.  He has an AA Lt governor.  He was originally for civil unions for gay spouses, but now is a supporter of gay marriage.  So, he is adapting.  Maybe slower than you would like, but some people believe in progress at a slower rate instead of all at once.

He refused to speak up against the Muslim ban because it was a issue for national politics and he has repeated frequently that he focuses on issues that affect the state of MD and he stays out of national politics.  Likewise in the Christine Blasey Ford case, he said that the state police would not investigate the allegations because it was a county issue.  MD state law enforcement has a standing policy that local jurisdictions handle local cases and the state police only get involved when the appropriate local jurisdiction requests it.  So, Dr. Ford's allegations were the appropriate jurisdiction of the Montgomery County Police.  MD State Police would only step in if the Montgomery County Police requested state assistance.  The Montgomery County Police said that they would investigate if Dr. Ford would contact them to open a case; she did not.  So as far as MD LEO, they ball was in Dr. Ford's court.  She could contact the MoCo Police to open a case, but didn't.  If she did and the MoCo Police asked, MD State would have stepped in.  But it would have been a huge breach of protocol for MD State Police to step in and investigate the case without any of those earlier steps.  This decision had nothing to do with the governor.  These are long-standing policies in place that have been in place long before he was governor.  He was not going to make a gubernatorial executive decision ordering the state police to violate a victim's right and a county's jurisdiction to insert himself into national politics.

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