Gotta love seeing the ed board of one of America's leading papers impose an outmoded, 1980s-vintage frame on a high-importance political campaign. washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-s…
Still cheesed off over this. Maryland's governor shouldn't get marketed on platforms such as the Post editorial page as a 'centrist' when he's just as arguably governed as a low-key-but-effective ethnic chauvinist. washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-s…
As governor, Hogan's done little to alter the funding formula that punishes Baltimore city schools, leaving some facilities without heat in freezing temperatures last winter — and in fact has laid fault on the city's school system … baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/…
… despite his awareness that the state government, not the city of Baltimore, sets funding for Baltimore schools. npr.org/2018/01/18/578…
A signature decision in Hogan's early tenure was the killing of a light-rail project — the Red Line — much clamored for by African-American city residents seeking public transportation to employment centers. baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/…
In lieu of the Baltimore rail project, plans for which had been laid and relied upon for a decade (h/t @AlecMacGillis) … placesjournal.org/article/the-th…
… Hogan plowed state transportation money into expansion of suburban highways and tollways … ggwash.org/view/67378/mar…
… and the Purple Line light-rail project serving the whiter, more affluent Washington suburbs. washingtonpost.com/local/traffica…
Hogan also allowed the city's sole subway line — managed by a state transportation agency — to decline to a condition that required it to shut down for weeks this year for repairs. usa.streetsblog.org/2018/02/13/bal…
To top it off, Hogan has pressed lawmakers to adopt mandatory-minimum sentencing requirements and parole restrictions that — when adopted in other states — have typically had disproportionate effects on African Americans. baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/o…
Only in a bubble of entitlement where none of that matters — where the most pressing issue before voters is the marginal tax rate for affluent residents of Montgomery County, Maryland — does calling Hogan a 'centrist' make sense. 
To the contrary, what seems plain is that Hogan has a clear ideology: one shared with many of his fellow Republicans, and one he's pursued ruthlessly.
Hogan might confound pundits who read a civil tone and the occasional feel-good sop — “crowd-pleasing measures such as delaying the start date of public schools” — as centrism.
But what the Post ed board says of Ben Jealous — that “he has an agenda and a vision” — is as true for Hogan. And we've had three years to see that agenda hammer the predominantly African-American residents of Baltimore over and over.
My thanks to @ericming5 for calling bulls*** on that Post editorial. I have half a mind to get this published somewhere.
I forgot about Hogan’s attempt to block felon re-enfranchisement.
G*d, what a garbage take WaPo’s ed board coughed up by calling Governor Hogan a ‘centrist.’
washingtonpost.com/local/md-polit…
G*d, what a garbage take WaPo’s ed board coughed up by calling Governor Hogan a ‘centrist.’
washingtonpost.com/local/md-polit…
(* Sorry to butt my nose into your state’s politics, @owillis, but this revisionism by WaPo was just too much to take.)
