Martin O’Malley Courts Hollywood

On a Monday in early June, a few dozen Maryland natives sat down in the executive dining room at the Sony Pictures Studios lot for a hometown meal, catered by CJ’s Restaurants, one of Baltimore County’s classic crabhouses.

The lunch spread, flown over the weekend into Culver City, Calif., was what a Marylander might simply describe as “correct”: pan-fried crab cakes, crab soup, coleslaw, soft-shell crabs, corn, and Utz potato chips coated in Old Bay.

The group of more than 40 people, mostly producers and executives who left Maryland years ago for careers in Hollywood, came to meet a new face on the political scene in Los Angeles: the governor of their home state, Martin O’Malley.

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