Larry Hogan can’t hide his MAGA tendencies | READER COMMENTARY
Don’t be fooled by former Gov. Larry Hogan’s ads promising to cut through the “BS” of Washington (“US Senate candidate Larry Hogan to skip Donald Trump-led Republican National Convention,” June 4). I find the Republican U.S. Senate candidate’s campaign commercials troubling and misleading.
Hogan, if elected, will be caucusing with some of the same senators who backed the Jan. 6 insurrection and who tried to overturn a fair election. He will be voting with the same senators who want to deny women contraception and abortion rights. He will vote with his party or face being treated like a pariah by his fellow GOP senators. It also means that he will block many bills that Marylanders want passed.
I believe Hogan would not have voted to fund the Francis Scott Key Bridge reconstruction if he were in office now. It is one thing to be governor of a blue state. But when you are a GOP senator, and representing a blue state, you must fairly represent your constituents. As a Republican senator, Hogan will have no choice but to knuckle under to the GOP leadership.
If Hogan is so committed to play acting like an independent, then he should run as an independent. Hogan talks a good game against the convicted felon former president. However, I fear that if Donald Trump and Hogan are elected, Larry will be dusting off the MAGA hat he keeps in his closet.
— Daniel Phelps, Towson
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