Posted on 11/22/2020 8:07:53 PM PST by EinNYC
Since the start of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic earlier this year, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has repeatedly said testing is the best way for life to get back to normal. In early April Hogan directed his state to purchase 500,000 COVID tests from South Korea. The problem, however, is it turns out those tests had "flaws" and weren't used.
According to The Washington Post, Hogan dropped $9.46 million for the South Korean tests. Once Hogan's administration realized the tests were ineffective, Hogan reportedly paid the company another $2.5 million to replace the first batch of flawed tests.
From WaPo:
The state offered the tests free to two private labs, one of which declined because the tests took much longer to process than U.S. versions, records and interviews show.
The University of Maryland, which had spent months equipping its lab in Baltimore to process coronavirus tests, abandoned the replacement South Korean tests this fall after a spate of suspected false positives. But the other private lab continues to use them; a state official said Wednesday that 370,000 of the replacement tests have been used.
To make matters even worse, when it became apparent that the tests were flawed, Hogan and his team reportedly kept testing data and flags from the state legislature, state spending authorities and even the public.
Hogan decided to order tests on his own because he was "frustrated" with the Trump administration, The New York Times reported at the time. Hogan reportedly relied on his wife, Yumi, who is a Korean immigrant, to help broker a deal.
The Hogans touted the deal so much that they shared photos of them meeting with the delivery person at the airport.
Hogan retorted, saying governors across the nation wouldn't have had to "fend for themselves" to get the coronavirus tests they needed.
"Stop golfing and concede," he tweeted to Trump.
What is it with these people? Can anyone explain it?
Small-government fiscal conservatives are furiously taking notes about all the Big Government Republican jobsworths who want us to turn out in January 2021 and 2022 to help secure their lucrative groobermint jobs once more...
Hogan is a criminal. A mass murderer in fact. Arrest, tty, execute.
So now we have a republican governor, lobbing personal insults at the republican president, a president who is already under fire from several sources. That’s pretty low.
The day may come when Gov. Hogan will wish he hadn’t been so
callous or petty in a public forum.
Right now, he thinks he is scoring points with the Dems and the RINOs. Similar to the way Chris Christie used to act as Gov.
Maryland is just greater Washington DC and this PoS “Republican” governor knows what he has to do to survive.
Republican office holders have no respect for Trump.
They've gotten used to the 20% who voted for Perot in 1992 voting for them as "the lesser of two evils" for the last 25 years.
I suspect that's going to change if they help torpedo President Trump...
I don’t care if a Democrat takes his place. Vote this bum out.
/spit.
But emember when Trump said he had the authority, then the Governors in the 6 blue Eastern states had a mutiny and said Trump isn’t a king, we can do our own deals!
Those people are liberals.
Why, because it wouldn’t affect you personally?
Hogan’s a RINO. They make blue states effectively one-party dictatorships with their Democratic fellow travelers.
Alas we have no such individual. Someday perhaps.
Seems like Hogan should be in prison for misuse of taxpayer money.
Hogan is an unconscious incompetent.
What a petty, self-aggrandizing thing to say. Does not help the body politic in the least.
Wow, an increasing number of RINOs (such as Maryland Governor Hogan) are very aggressively attacking President Trump. They sense he's been seriously weakened and they're going after him like rabid dogs.
As I often say, all Democrats are totally 100% united in their fight against President Trump: Highly-coordinated and very consistent messaging. In contrast, Republicans are all over the map: Messaging? ... We're Republicans! We don't need no stinkin' messaging!
I wish my idiotic governor would just STHU!!!
While our magnificent POTUS is on the verge of dispatching a historic vaccine to hopefully conquer this plague, RINO Hogan is now reimposing restrictions on Marylanders’ lives.
Does a broker get remuneration?
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