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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hogan is a Republican and an incompetent one at that. I remember when he knowingly encouraged RWNJs to harass Rockville HS after the alleged rape there, insinuating the school was for cooperating with police without evidence. [b]I also think given what has happened with the Purple Line that he is not especially good at getting things done[/b].[/quote]

It depends on what sorts of things he was trying to get done....

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/06/20/larry-hogan-purple-line-fiasco/

[i]Early in his tenure as governor, Hogan, a Republican who had opposed the Purple Line as a candidate in 2014, demanded that the project be redesigned and its costs cut to free up money for road construction. Some of that road building would benefit real estate ventures in which Hogan, a developer, had invested, as the Washington Monthly has previously reported. The redesign delayed the start of the light rail line’s construction by almost two years.

Hogan’s administration also negotiated a contract with a group of private construction firms that contained an unusual provision: In the case of delays lasting more than a year, the companies could abandon the work, no questions asked. When the inevitable delays ensued and the contractors threatened to walk, Hogan’s hand-picked transportation secretary negotiated a new arrangement in which the companies agreed to stay and finish the project for less than $175 million. Then, on the eve of signing the deal, the administration backed away.

Had it gone through with the transportation secretary’s deal, the contractors, not Maryland taxpayers, would have had to absorb the pandemic-related cost increases. And the Purple Line, according to MDOT projections in the spring of 2020, with COVID-19 already raging, would have been up and running, partially by 2022 and fully by the early summer of 2023—giving commuters, hit by high gas prices, more mass transit options. [/i][/quote]

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