Twisted campaign tricks: Brown's claim that Hogan will cut $450 million to school construction is a stretch

Republican candidate for governor Larry Hogan is probably kicking himself privately over the numerous errors in a flawed report his campaign released, which claimed ways to save $1.75 billion in state spending through curtailing waste and fraud.

For one thing, it’s given rise to the latest whopper that Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, Hogan’s Democratic opponent, is spinning: Governor Hogan would cut $450 million in state funding to build schools. Brown even enlisted county executive candidate Jan Gardner, state Sen. Ron Young and the Frederick County Teachers Association as surrogates to sell this latest piece of campaign bunk at a press conference this week.
 
Gardner, not surprisingly, used the opportunity to take a shot at her Republican opponent, Commissioner Blaine Young.

“Blaine Young has added over 10,000 houses on the eastern side of Frederick County in New Market and Monrovia without a plan to fund the needed schools, and then we combine that with the proposed $450 million cut ... and we have a debilitating disaster in the making,” she said.
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