Posted on 12/09/2014 6:28:12 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
After weeks of promising bipartisanship and refusing to make policy announcements that might rile Democratic lawmakers, Maryland Gov.-elect Larry Hogan has picked his first political fight, coming out swinging against environmentalists and their powerful allies in the General Assembly.
Mr. Hogan vowed Monday to roll back proposed new regulations that would limit phosphorus runoff from farms, siding with Eastern Shore farmers who rely on phosphorus-rich chicken manure for fertilizer and against environmentalists who blame it for choking the life out of the Chesapeake Bay.
The regulation, known as the “phosphorus management tool,” or PMT, has been hotly debated in the state for years and was key to the green agenda of outgoing Gov. Martin O'Malley, a Democrat who is trying to finalize the rule before he leaves office next month.
“The first fight [when I take office] will be against these politically motivated, midnight-hour phosphorus management tool regulations that the outgoing administration is trying to force upon you in these closing days,” Mr. Hogan, a Republican, said in a speech to the Maryland Farm Bureau Convention in Ocean City. “We won’t allow them to put you out of business, destroy your way of life or decimate your entire industry.”
His hard-line opposition guaranteed a scuffle with environmentalists and Democratic lawmakers as soon as he’s sworn in Jan. 21.
It likely won’t be the last or the biggest brawl for Mr. Hogan, who will be only the second Republican governor in Maryland since 1969 and will face a Democratic-dominated General Assembly. But it’s the first time the moderate Republican and former businessman has drawn blood in the political arena since his upset victory Nov. 4 over Democratic Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, who promised to carry on Mr. O'Malley’s agenda.
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Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Good for the governor.
Steve Forbes coined the phrase “Food Luddites” which he aimed directly at the Anti-GMO crowd (and we have more than a few Freepers who are Food Luddites).
The goal of the Luddites is to destroy the greatest food producing machine ever constructed in the history of mankind.
These environmentalists are simply another facet.
They need to be roundly defeated, or starvation is on the menu.
Tony Brown is still trying to figure out what the hell happened.
Who cares? He’s an arrogant pr!ck.
...coming out swinging against environmentalists and their powerful allies in the General Assembly.
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Good luck with that, Larry. The Rat-heavy General Assembly will fight him every step of the way just as they did with Ehrlich.
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