Posted on 08/19/2005 9:51:43 AM PDT by Heatseeker
Want to know what Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich is thinking? Just listen:
The difference between Virginia's budget situation and Maryland's? "They have a huge surplus because they passed taxes when they didn't need to," Ehrlich said last month.
The controversy over an Ehrlich fundraiser held at a Baltimore golf club that has no black members? "All a bunch of nothing," he declared on July 5.
His feelings about stem cell research? "I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research," he stated in April as the General Assembly was considering whether to allow state funding of it.
Ehrlich didn't make those pronouncements in a news release, press conference or newspaper interview. Instead, each time the venue was the same: the radio call-in programs on WBAL (1090 AM), Baltimore's powerful -- and generally conservative -- news-and-talk station. When the governor has something to say, chances are he'll say it on Chip Franklin's morning program or Ron Smith's afternoon drive-time show on the station. Or maybe he'll save it for his biweekly "Stateline With Governor Ehrlich," a live, one-hour program that airs on WBAL on Saturday mornings.
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This, of course, drives Ehrlich's opponents crazy.
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That's the truth.
It's a good show.
Ehrlich and Steele alternate on the show. Both are talented leaders and plain spoken men. And far too much gentlemanly when putting up with BS from State democraps.
Bobby Ehrlich raised every last "fee" the state collects so he could get more money without raising income or sales taxes. I believe he is a heck of a lot better than Kathleen Kennedy Townsend would have been, but he is generally a borderline RINO as governor.
You have no idea how angry I am to be paying higher sales tax on everything when it wasn't needed in the first place.
Sometimes I think I've entered the Twilight Zone with a Dem Va. gov and Rep. Md. gov.
We got a ton of fee increases as well as the sales tax increase. Sigh.
When Ehrlich gets tuition rates down, then and only then could he get my vote.
Well, you'll have a chance to do something about that this November. ;)
I agree tuitions are obscene here. But unfortunately with all the mess left over by previous Dem regimes plus the General Assembly, it looks like it Ehrlich has had to play budgetary triage.
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