The Sun might have it close to correct.... Hogan's fringe
flank
Go to the website for the complete editorial… http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-gop-extreme-20150112-story.html
January 12, 2015 Monday - - This week the New York Times
held up Gov.-elect Larry Hogan as an exemplar of Republicans turning away from
the ideologically-driven tea party politics of 2010 and toward pragmatism. The
Times identified a new breed of governors in that mold, not just in blue states
like Maryland and Illinois but in solidly red ones like Tennessee as well. Mr.
Hogan is quoted in the article saying his victory "had nothing to do with
partisan politics" and that he did not plan "to push [Maryland] in a
conservative direction." At least initially, it seemed like he would have
some room to maneuver in a state Republican Party that also saw victories by a
trio of socially moderate, fiscally conservative county executives in Anne
Arundel, Harford and Howard counties.
But the divisive wing of the state GOP is, apparently, not
quite ready to hold its tongue.
[…]
[…]
And finally, we have the case of Robin Frazier, the former
Carroll County commissioner. She lost her re-election bid last year but saw her
political career resurrected when the county's Republican Central Committee
picked her for the state Senate seat being vacated by Joe Getty, who is taking
a post in the Hogan administration. Should Mr. Hogan confirm the committee's
choice, as governors almost always do, he will see an even-keeled and
articulate spokesman for his agenda in the Senate replaced by someone whose
claim to fame is her pledge to go to jail rather than omit the word "Jesus"
from a prayer at the start of a commission meeting. What makes the choice all
the more inexplicable is that the committee members passed over the well
qualified and eminently reasonable Del. Justin Ready. It's almost as if they
don't want the governor to succeed.
[…]
Mr. Hogan won election by avoiding divisive social issues
and focusing on a centrist agenda of fiscal conservatism and economic growth.
But apparently that memo hasn't trickled down to all corners of the state GOP
just yet. The governor-elect has a golden opportunity to build a competitive
Maryland Republican Party, so long as his fellow Republicans don't get in the
way.
Go to the website for the complete editorial…
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