Unfortunately, this is Maryland, where the GOP is inherently VERY weak. Hogan will have to play ball with the Dems to get an agenda through a hostile legislature. Picking off some reasonable Dems he can work with is his best approach.
He can’t do things the same way as Walker, Kasich or Scott, all of whom are fortunate to have GOP legislative majorities. If he tries an exclusively “Republican” approach, he might as well spend the next 4 years going to supermarket openings, because nothing will get done and he’ll be just as swiftly voted out.
Oh stop with the logic DJ, it’s more fun to shout RINO RINO RINO. A few democrat advisors, in a state full of democrats? Cut the RINO’s head off!!!!! Too bad the light-skinned Black demmy didn’t win, cause those guys are all AWESOME.
I tell you right now, this guy Hogan appears to be noticeably more conservative than my new RINO Governor, Bruce the Spruce Goose, anyone wanna trade?
GOP numbers in the leg BTW, 14 (+2) of 47 in the Senate (30%). 50 of 141 (35%) in the House (which this article calls a “likely historic high” which can’t be true as GOP did have a majority in the late 1910’s.) Very very low. Veto threshold is unfortunately 3/5s and not 2/3s. And their stinking terms are all 4 years, which is probably a good cause in a POTUS year GOP would probably really take in the A.
If he is a good leader he won't have to. But he's a typical Milquetoast Republican.
Why? Why can't he stand for conservative principles, go to the people and explain how wrong liberalism is and how its killing the state, and that he'll veto any and all liberal crap that reaches his desk. Why work with these cretins?
He can’t do things the same way as Walker, Kasich or Scott, all of whom are fortunate to have GOP legislative majorities.
Many of these Republicans in these legislatures were RINOs and tried to thwart the Governors' agenda. Walker, in particular, won out because he stood his ground and didn't back down from the progressives in both parties who tried to destroy him.
Hogan is not going to get his agenda passed by "working with" Democrats. In fact, the state will continue its socialist slide, and Hogan will get the blame for it because he's a Republican. I'd rather see Hogan stand for conservative principles and lose (Then voters will open their eyes and break from liberalism), than to be a groveling feckless RINO and still end up losing and getting blamed for it.
Not disagreeing with any of that but that's how they trapped GOP gov Ehrlich so O Malley could beat him in 2006.
They sent him popular spending bills to him to sign that he was scared to veto, soon he was looking at state bond problems and went with Dem assembly raising taxes while claiming that he wasnt,
Then all O Malley had to do was call him dishonest.
Then OMalley raised about ~44 taxes himself.