Anonymous wrote:I would vote for another centrist Republican in Maryland. The candidate would need to clearly have been anti-Trump. I consider myself a left leaning democratic moderate.

Anonymous wrote:Hogan was okay. He was a better choice than Jealous. Maryland needs to create a better pipeline of moderate Dems equipped to lead.

Anonymous wrote:No. Hogan is a mini Trump. He never divested himself from his real estate company and directed public funds to projects near his holdings. He has directed public contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to Sam Malhotra, his former head of the department of Human Resources and chief of staff.

He made a big show of buying tests from South Korea that cost millions of dollars and were ultimately never used.

He canceled the red line and screwed up the purple line, costing the state millions.

He cut education funding so that more of our children can grow up without critical thinking and therefore vote Republican.

It’s grifters all the way down. Obviously Republicans need some remedial ethics training and I will not vote for them until they have it.

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Anonymous wrote:No. Hogan is a mini Trump. He never divested himself from his real estate company and directed public funds to projects near his holdings. He has directed public contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to Sam Malhotra, his former head of the department of Human Resources and chief of staff.

He made a big show of buying tests from South Korea that cost millions of dollars and were ultimately never used.

He canceled the red line and screwed up the purple line, costing the state millions.

He cut education funding so that more of our children can grow up without critical thinking and therefore vote Republican.

It’s grifters all the way down. Obviously Republicans need some remedial ethics training and I will not vote for them until they have it.

You don't sound like someone who would ever consider voting for a Republican. And that's fine, but let's not pretend that your vote was or ever will be in play.

I’m talking about my specific issues with Hogan. Graft should not be accepted by any politician, Republican or Democrat. This tolerance for this behavior is why Maryland has so many issues with corruption.

You took a very partisan stance on all of the items you listed. Only the most egregious of which is claiming that he tried to rob children of critical thinking skills so they would vote Republican.

That's not someone who simply takes issues with specific actions of one politician. That's someone with a pronounced idealogical edge who almost certainly would not look at the same events the same way if someone in his own party was the one in power.

Again, there are plenty of partisan Democrats and Republicans who will vote for the party in virtually every circumstance, but they are really not the people being addressed by this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:No. Hogan is a mini Trump. He never divested himself from his real estate company and directed public funds to projects near his holdings. He has directed public contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to Sam Malhotra, his former head of the department of Human Resources and chief of staff.

He made a big show of buying tests from South Korea that cost millions of dollars and were ultimately never used.

He canceled the red line and screwed up the purple line, costing the state millions.

He cut education funding so that more of our children can grow up without critical thinking and therefore vote Republican.

It’s grifters all the way down. Obviously Republicans need some remedial ethics training and I will not vote for them until they have it.

You don't sound like someone who would ever consider voting for a Republican. And that's fine, but let's not pretend that your vote was or ever will be in play.

I’m talking about my specific issues with Hogan. Graft should not be accepted by any politician, Republican or Democrat. This tolerance for this behavior is why Maryland has so many issues with corruption.

Anonymous wrote:I like him better than the last Republican gov, Bob Ehrlich, but I'm not really enthusiastic about Larry Hogan either. I'm from/am more rooted in Baltimore rather than DMV, so I imagine my likes and dislikes of the guy are going to be a little different.

On one hand, it was incredibly petty and expensive for him to cut the Red Line after the 2015 unrest... But on the other, there was levelheaded local opposition to it that the "white butterfly"-dwelling liberals ignored or dismissed. In general, on the broad issue of the hellhole that is Baltimore, he's been no different than most governors. O'Malley was the last one who gave a hoot, but only because his political success was rooted in putting a dent in the city's horrendous problems... Other than that, Hogan's been no different. Punish the city leadership when something really awful happens, but otherwise, kick the can down the road.

Hogan's handling of the virus hasn't really blown me away. It's great this state was one of the first to respond to it, but the stunt with the tests being flown directly from Seoul or wherever, eh. I also roll my eyes when he does his whole "standing up to Trump as a Principled Republican" business.

The Democrats here need to put up guys who aren't empty suits like Anthony Brown or Ben Jealous. Larry Hogan ran on a platform that didn't seem to completely revolve around universal pre-k, so he was able to get my vote just for having slightly more depth on state issues.