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Sailor Io's avatar

He's not that great. The article doesn't really go into how he's actually a lot more conservative on his policies than he's trying to seem to win this seat. Like he's now claiming he'll support Roe, but he certainly didn't do that as governor.

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Susan D's avatar

Someone else told me he was weak on Roe. Wasn't aware of this.

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Sailor Io's avatar

Yeah, he's trying to run as an abortion moderate, but that is not how he legislated as governor:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maryland-larry-hogan-veto-abortion-access-bill/

including pettily denying funding when he didn't get his way:

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-business-health-larry-hogan-f3598a08b63cbf470f0bbc4bc2360415

Our current Democratic governor, Wes Moore, released those funds on day one.

He also praised the Trump SCOTUS appointees AFTER they overturned Roe. He's just claiming to be pro-choice to win an election, but it's very much banking on a very politically-engaged state to just ignore everything he already did on that issue.

Even aside from the abortion issue itself, I just personally, as a Maryland voter, don't see how the blatant lies about his record (he's tried to take credit for legislation he vetoed, including these) is really the "return to honesty and integrity" his campaign is claiming to be, you know?

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