So I get asked:
@moelane You seen this? http://t.co/w1jIwLIa3C
— Brent Cochran (@BrentCochran1) January 28, 2015
And it turns out that I had not: the gist of it is, Governor Hogan showed up on time (O’Malley apparently couldn’t be bothered) and pretty quickly got into the thorny problem of the state’s role in funding school maintenance programs. Turns out that having a governor that doesn’t default to reflexively deferring to the teachers unions may be welcome news for the other two DPW members (both Democrats). I don’t want to make a definitive pronouncement on this issue before I look it up, but I can’t say that I am against making the county governments understand that the state government is there to blithely cover for every time the budget gets busted…
I’m curious as to what the “emergency contract” was for since the story doesn’t say.
It does actually – a Public Relations firm.
Huh. Do you know if Gov. Hogan is familiar with the writings of Art Chance?
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Mew
Impressive. Most impressive.
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He keeps this up, he’s going to have his own throne….
If he keeps it up he is going to have a lot more citizens and voters going “This is what we’re paying all of these taxes for? A PR firm?”
There is nothing like stealing Sen. Proxmire’s “Golden Fleece Award” idea and trumpeting the waste fairly regularly.
The bar has been set so low in government that starting a meeting on time and using common sense when evaluating contracts and school maintenance makes people want to march in the streets on your behalf.
Imagine if a GOP presidential candidate unapologetically articulated conservative principles. No telling what might happen.
It starts locally and in the states. Mike Duggan, the mayor of Detroit, has been cutting back property tax assessments in order to – get this – get more compliance with paying property taxes. The Laffer Curve strikes again.
Hogan for president 2016 in ( why not, even Lindsay Graham is getting in.)