Why Hogan Is Better for Blue Maryland Than Brown: A Real Choice

In so many races across the country, voters head to the polls with a false choice. Democratic and Republican candidates on the ballot, who campaign on their differences but in reality they're basically the same politician. Maryland voters have a real choice.

Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown seems well intentioned, and his public and military service deserves our thanks, yet he's promising leadership that he hasn't delivered for eight years in Annapolis. The likelihood of a candidate who has presided over a state that ranks 41st in business environment, according to Chief Executivemagazine, and has lost 29,000 manufacturing jobs since 2007 "lead[ing] Maryland to a better future" is remote. And it's a risk Marylanders can't afford to take.

On the other side, Secretary Larry Hogan represents not just hope for a brighter and better Maryland but a whole new day in how politics can work for everyone. He knows how to put people to work, because he's done that his entire life in business--the right way. He understands what it takes to grow an economy, because he's had to balance his books, manage healthcare costs, rely on our education system, and evolve for new opportunities and the challenges of the 21st century to succeed--and he has. And he knows what most of Marylanders feel, the reason we need help in Annapolis now, that the talk about economic recovery hasn't translated to major increases in our home values or our salaries, to lower tuition costs, or to a decrease in the overall financial burden on our families.

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