Baltimore businessman Ed Hale has picked up the endorsement of several prominent Maryland Republicans as the June 23 primary election rapidly approaches. Delegate Kathy Szeliga (R - District 7a) and her district colleague Ryan Nawrocki (R) announced they are backing Hale at a press conference. Nawrocki picked up on one of Hale's signature issues, lowering utility bills, by noting that Governor Wes Moore's electric bill relief plan provides less than $13 a month to ratepayers. "Not even the price of a gumball," Nawrocki said.
Hale has also pulled off something of a coup in earning the endorsement of his biggest primary rival's own 2022 running mate. Gordana Schifanelli ran for lieutenant governor that year on a ticket with Dan Cox, who is running again this year with a different running mate, Rob Krop. Schifanelli not only isn't running alongside Cox this time, but has come out in support of Hale. An attorney from Queen Anne's County, Schifanelli retains a significant statewide following from that high-profile 2022 race and her own independent activism.
At a separate press conference, Schifanelli touted Hale's "wisdom, his experience, his knowledge in business." Referring to Hale's rags-to-riches success story, and the moribund state of the Maryland economy, Schifanelli responded to the biggest critique of Hale by his primary opponents: his recent party switch from Democrat to Republican. "I don't care if he was a Democrat, or if he's a Martian, for that matter, if he has experience to fix this economic disaster," she said. Szeliga also took that attack line head-on, recalling that Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump were once Democrats.
Don't think there is much of a chance in MD for a republican these days even if they were moderate like Hogan. Remember Connie Morella was a moderate and now we have one of the worst house members in congress, Raskin, who is the congressional ankle biter and whose wife got questionable government contracts through to a company that she now works for.
ReplyDeleteHow are them Trumps boys doing today in the crypto market, the stock market, the retail market....I could go on and on, but you get my drift.
DeleteMost of the farm community endorsements are of the trumpian variety, stupid people. The uneducated stock.
ReplyDeleteAnother fine mind ruined by 'higher education.'
Delete7:45: Have you considered the fact that you would likely starve to death in about 18 days if it wasn’t for the “farm community . . . stupid people?”
DeleteYour impressive ignorance, arrogance, and condescension is why nobody likes democrats anymore.
"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land—the common clay of the new West. You know... morons."
DeleteFarmers have been voting against their own interests for a long time. Now they're going full shocked pikachu at the dystopian secret police abducting and trafficking their workers, climate change reducing their crop yields, and their bankruptcies caused by the GOP's dumb trade wars and disastrous economic policy, allowing corporations to gobble up their land for pennies on the dollar.
Listen....listen close, do you hear that? It's the sound of that drat new DATA CENTER, Johnny Walton just sold his farm. Dang it!
DeleteLol at you following this like it matters. He has the same chance at being elected governor that you do
ReplyDeleteAll hail Hale.
ReplyDeleteAWE HALE NAW!!!
Delete@7:45 Is a case in point for blue state exodus. Sooner or later, other peoples money runs out.
ReplyDeleteThe path to victory in the free state is its motto: "Strong Words, Weak Deeds."
ReplyDelete-- L. Hogan.
DeleteNope. Let’s keep Maryland blue.
ReplyDelete7:41 is calling for a doom loop as blue states/cities are run so well.
DeleteMD is the epicenter of the Deep State, unlikely to elect someone who believes in smaller government.
ReplyDeleteEveryone is ignoring the larger problem...which is that the 2-party machine makes it impossible for an independent to win in states where Independents have a strong chance of winning. It's clear that Hale would rather run as an independent, but the idiot Republicans would still run a candidate and then effectively doom both candidates. His chances of winning as an independent with no Republican competition would go up 1000%.
ReplyDeleteWe still know his roots are red.
DeleteFirst time I ever voted for anything on the ballots other than Prez candidates, was the year Larry ran and won, it was a huge deal and happy to have had a hand in getting him voted Guvnah' despite all the toidy bowl blue people in the "Free" State.
ReplyDeleteStill a wet behind the ears, juvey, with rookie skills at voting huh.
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