Comptroller-elect Peter Franchot’s transition team
November 28th, 2006
November 28th, 2006
Now this is a diverse, bi-partisan and
Some of the brighter bulbs are: retiring Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan; former Gov. Harry Hughes; former GOP senator Howard Denis; and “former Baltimore County Sen. F. Vernon Boozer, once the Senate’s GOP leader, and state Sen.-elect George Edwards, current leader of the GOP in the House of Delegates.”
But perhaps one of the brightest is former Marine and Vietnam Veteran John Bambacus. Senator/Mayor Bambacus served as a Special Assistant to U.S. Senator Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., from 1979-82 and is a former GOP Senator (District 1, Frostburg, 1983-91) and mayor of Frostburg.
Gov.-elect O’Malley would have been smart to have put some folks like Senator Bambacus, or McDaniel Professor Dr. Herb Smith or UMBC Professor Dr. Tom Schaller on his transition team.
All three are arguably some of the top political science and history minds in Maryland today. (Yes, there are others, like former Secretary of State John Willis, Harford County Executive David Craig... let’s not belabor the point…) Folks who can look at the challenges of governance with a broader view than the many special interest advocates on his team. (See my November Tentacle column, "Now Comes The Hard Part.")
For someone who campaigned on not being beholden to special interests, Gov.-elect O’Malley’s transition team was quite a surprise for many of us. Hey, he didn’t ask me my opinion. I wish he had.
Anyway, Len Lazarick, writing for The Examiner, wrote a piece on Comptroller-elect Franchot’s transition team on Nov 22, 2006:
BALTIMORE - Not that there’s any competition between Comptroller-elect Peter Franchot and Gov.-elect Martin O’Malley, but Franchot’s transition team is bigger than O’Malley’s, and is co-chaired by an ex-governor and the mayor’s former primary opponent.
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