Anonymous
Post 08/21/2024 07:52     Subject: Alsobrooks vs Hogan
Anonymous wrote:I like Hogan and his state-level executive experience. I think going from PG County to the U.S. Senate is too big a leap.


Why? All senators do is cast votes. You don’t need special experience to do that. JD Vance had no political experience whatsoever, yet no one claimed he was unprepared for the senate.

Anonymous
Post 08/21/2024 07:46     Subject: Alsobrooks vs Hogan
Another Susan Collins is a good way to put it— occasionally complaints aboit Trump but substantively votes the R line.

Plus remember when he chartered a plane to Korea to buy masks and it turned out they were useless? Huge waste of money for a cowboy ohoto op.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2024 07:19     Subject: Alsobrooks vs Hogan
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What did Hogan do for Maryland? He voted for him as Gov, but his record was crap. Never again.


+1. People like to talk about how great Hogan was but can never name a single accomplishment that Hogan did while in office.


He basically told Trump to f&@$ off during covid when he was trying to meddle with governors' access to PPE for their states. I did appreciate that but there is too much on the line now at the state and national level for reproductive rights to put a Catholic Republican in office. I won't risk that in a million years.


+1
I could vote for him again easily for governor in a blue state with the blue legislature. But senate seats are valuable and control of the senate is a binary decision.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2024 07:14     Subject: Alsobrooks vs Hogan
Anonymous wrote:I love Hogan, but no way will I risk contributing to the republican majority in the senate


+1

Hogan will confirm Trump’s Supreme Court nominees and block Harris’ Supreme Court nominees. If Trump gets another SC Justice on the court, that person will serve for the next half-century. If that person replaces Sonia Sotomayor, who has some health issues, Republicans will have a 7-2 SC majority and it will probably take Dems 100 years (not exaggerating) to get a majority again.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2024 07:04     Subject: Alsobrooks vs Hogan
Anonymous wrote:I love Hogan, but no way will I risk contributing to the republican majority in the senate


What do you love about Hogan? What has he done policy wise for Maryland?
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2024 07:01     Subject: Alsobrooks vs Hogan
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Currently listening to Alsobrooks at DNC. I haven’t done much research on her. I very much liked Hogan as governor. Besides her being a Dem and wanting to keep the Senate… why should I vote for her?


"Hogan has said he does not support taking abortion rights away, even though he personally opposes abortion. However, as governor, he vetoed legislation to end a restriction that only physicians provide abortions. When his veto was overridden by Democrats who control the Legislature, he used the power of his office to block funding set aside to support training non-physicians to perform them."

He wewas hand picked because Republicans know he will follow whatever they say.



This!

Do not get fooled by another Susan Collins in making.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2024 06:58     Subject: Alsobrooks vs Hogan
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hogan can definitely pull this off. It’s actually better for him if Harris is able to pull away from Trump a little in the polls. There are many people who would gladly vote for Hogan but are reluctant to add another Republican to the Senate with Trump as president. If it looks like Trump will lose, he could be the winner in this race. I prefer Hogan, but I understand the reluctance to add a Republican to the Senate if Trump wins.


He's solidly against Trump though


Doesn’t mean he would vote against the Republican caucus or with democratic causes. He would be another Mitt Romney at best and a Susan Collin’s at worst.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2024 06:56     Subject: Alsobrooks vs Hogan
Anonymous wrote:Currently listening to Alsobrooks at DNC. I haven’t done much research on her. I very much liked Hogan as governor. Besides her being a Dem and wanting to keep the Senate… why should I vote for her?


Because Hogan would never caucus with Democrats and for sensible policies to be enacted Democrats need to keep senate. Also the SC!
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2024 06:54     Subject: Alsobrooks vs Hogan
I love Hogan, but no way will I risk contributing to the republican majority in the senate
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2024 06:11     Subject: Alsobrooks vs Hogan
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hogan can definitely pull this off. It’s actually better for him if Harris is able to pull away from Trump a little in the polls. There are many people who would gladly vote for Hogan but are reluctant to add another Republican to the Senate with Trump as president. If it looks like Trump will lose, he could be the winner in this race. I prefer Hogan, but I understand the reluctance to add a Republican to the Senate if Trump wins.


He's solidly against Trump though


Sure. If he wins and Trump wins, he will fall in line and support the Project 2025 agenda, don’t fool yourself into thinking any of these people value integrity.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2024 05:46     Subject: Alsobrooks vs Hogan
Hogan is a snake. He's been a micromanager since the days of trying to dictate school opening/closing dates even pre-covid. I wouldn't trust him an inch on "restoring women's right to choose" because I saw what he did, refusing to release funds for training NPs on abortion care.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2024 05:03     Subject: Alsobrooks vs Hogan
Anonymous wrote:I like Hogan and his state-level executive experience. I think going from PG County to the U.S. Senate is too big a leap.


I think it's too big a leap to go from having the ability to make decisions about my body (abortion) and how I build a family (IVF and birth control) to having that taken away.

Hogan won't need his executive experience because he won't be making the decisions. Check out who asked him to run. That's who your vote will be going to and the policies Hogan will support.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2024 03:32     Subject: Alsobrooks vs Hogan
I like Hogan and his state-level executive experience. I think going from PG County to the U.S. Senate is too big a leap.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2024 02:53     Subject: Alsobrooks vs Hogan
Alsobrooks all the way. Anyone in the GoP is a threat to women’s health and reproductive freedoms, a barrier to meaningfully bolstering the middle class, stands in the way of accessible, affordable healthcare, and continues to perpetuate the violent agenda of the gun lobby that literally profits from the US’ sky-high homicide by gun rate and blocks common sense background checks and loopholes.

Hogan will support their agenda. No way.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2024 23:52     Subject: Alsobrooks vs Hogan
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Currently listening to Alsobrooks at DNC. I haven’t done much research on her. I very much liked Hogan as governor. Besides her being a Dem and wanting to keep the Senate… why should I vote for her?


"Hogan has said he does not support taking abortion rights away, even though he personally opposes abortion. However, as governor, he vetoed legislation to end a restriction that only physicians provide abortions. When his veto was overridden by Democrats who control the Legislature, he used the power of his office to block funding set aside to support training non-physicians to perform them."

He was hand picked because Republicans know he will follow whatever they say.



This is why from me Hogan is a non-starter. If the GOP was smart, they would encourage every state to put reproductive healthcare on their ballots to allow their people to decide and to remove this political anvil.

I thought Alsobrook was impressive.