Democrat I presume?
He doesn't strike me as the usual panty-waist whiny-liberal RAT.
No need to presume, the first sentence of the second paragraph identifies him as such.
It's Maryland, he's a life-long pol, so yes he's a Dem.
Have to say he was a pretty good mayor and governor too. I think he is also a life-long batchelor. And he may have stayed too long at the party.
He wasn't known to us Marylanders as William 'Tax Your Dollar' Schaefer for nothing. About a dozen or so years ago, I dated a girl who attended a state dinner hosted by Schaefer. She said he had breath that could blast a buzzard off a shitwagon.
"Democrat I presume?"
Absolutely. It's the reason for the lack of outrage in the press.