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Anonymous wrote:I think I'm going to leave that one blank. I have a serious problem with Hogan's calendar mandate, both the substance of it and the interfering with local decisions (especially from a supposedly "small government" Republican--what a hypocrite). I can't vote for a Republican with the current state of the party, even though Hogan knows his audience and is not outwardly a Trump toady.

But Jealous is a useless candidate and Maryland has done fine under Hogan. I don't want to vote for Jealous, either.

I pretty much could have written this post at one point - I originally was going to vote for neither (or one of the 3rd party candidates but both of them seem pretty worthless) but am probably going to vote for Jealous, just to record my vote against the Republican.

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Anonymous wrote:Hogan has continued to tout himself as the Education Governor while siphoning off money from MCPS schools.

The beltway widening/I270 widening ideas are election-year gimmicks that won't happen. If you think they will, please come find me, because I have some beachfront property to sell you in FL!

If that isn't enough for you, 2020 is when Maryland does redistricting.

And if that isn't enough for you, please move out of this blue county and into some crazy red county - we really don't want you here.

You think Jealous will be better? Two words - Kirwan Commission.

Also, Maryland is one of the poster children for gerrymandered districts. If we are going to complain about districts in red states, and insist on fairly drawn districts, we need to accept the (far fewer) instances that hurt Democrats.

You post about Jealous and the Kirwan Commission on every thread as if it's Mein Kampf. It affirms the importance of early childhood education, reiterates the need for highly qualified teachers and school leaders, explains the importance of coherent paths for both college bound and vocational track kids, talks about the importance of supporting at-risk students with resources, and supporting better governance and more accountability throughout the school system. I'm iin favor of all of that, and I'm for Jealous.
http://dls.maryland.gov/pubs/prod/NoPblTabMtg/CmsnInnovEduc/2018-Preliminary-Report-of-the-Commission.pdf

Anonymous wrote:Whoever is elected governor this year will be in charge of post-Census redistricting. If it's Hogan, the Dems will lose 1 or 2 seats in the House.

Do you want to give the Republicans more assured control over the House? Do you want to continue to support national-level Republican politics?

If not, don't vote for Hogan.

Anonymous wrote:I am genuinely torn. On the one hand Jealous seems over-ambitious and our part of the state continues to trail behind Virginia in economic growth. On the other Hogan rejected the Red line in Baltimore, made several bad decisions regarding the purple line, cut education funding including to the University of Maryland, plus The stupid calendar thing, and of course I have to urge to send the GOP a clear message- they are not wanted.

Anonymous wrote:Because Hogan could pull a Chris Christie on us and fall in line behind Trump.

Anonymous wrote:Because we have the chance to elect the first Black governor in the history of Maryland, that's why.

Is throwing off the chains of racial oppression not a good enough reason?

If you still vote for hogan, how do you look yourself in a mirror and say you're NOT a racist a-hole? Because you can't. You had a chance to vote for a Black governor, but you didn't. You voted for another cracker, yet again.

You might as well just burn a cross in your front yard if you vote for hogan, because that's what you're saying.

Anonymous wrote:I am shocked anyone is even remotely considering voting for Jealous. To see the future of our state all you have to do is look at the once great state of Connecticut to see what we will become.

Governor Malloy raised the state corporate tax to 7.75%, raising $700K for the state, and the results have been disastrous. The only thing going for Connecticut is that it is a rich state.

GE has left the state for Massachusetts due to tax increases and Aetna, which once pledged to stay, is negotiating with other states. Malloy is offering financial incentives to stay. I do not know where that stands right now. Per The Atlantic article I posted below, Aetna is gone from CT. People are leaving the state as well in part because of the failure to thrive and because Malloy made CT a sanctuary state, which Jealous wants to do as well.

High corporate tax rate, business will be driven out of Maryland killing jobs, sanctuary state, open borders.

Maryland's economy is decent. That will be gone under Jealous.

Do you think for one minute that the businesses will not pass that tax increase on to consumers?

I cannot understand why anyone would actually vote for our state to go down the tubes.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-01-14/connecticut-and-new-jersey-rich-states-poor-economies
https://www.wsj.com/articles/aetna-to-move-headquarters-out-of-connecticut-1496253002
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/connecticut-tax-inequality-cities/532623/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think I'm going to leave that one blank. I have a serious problem with Hogan's calendar mandate, both the substance of it and the interfering with local decisions (especially from a supposedly "small government" Republican--what a hypocrite). I can't vote for a Republican with the current state of the party, even though Hogan knows his audience and is not outwardly a Trump toady.

But Jealous is a useless candidate and Maryland has done fine under Hogan. I don't want to vote for Jealous, either.

I pretty much could have written this post at one point - I originally was going to vote for neither (or one of the 3rd party candidates but both of them seem pretty worthless) but am probably going to vote for Jealous, just to record my vote against the Republican.

Anonymous wrote:I think I'm going to leave that one blank. I have a serious problem with Hogan's calendar mandate, both the substance of it and the interfering with local decisions (especially from a supposedly "small government" Republican--what a hypocrite). I can't vote for a Republican with the current state of the party, even though Hogan knows his audience and is not outwardly a Trump toady.

But Jealous is a useless candidate and Maryland has done fine under Hogan. I don't want to vote for Jealous, either.