You call him Gov. Hogan — she calls him Dad

During last year’s gubernatorial race in Maryland, Larry Hogan’s response to barbs that he would roll back gains in women’s rights included a pitch by someone he knows well — one of his wife’s three daughters.

Jaymi Sterling, who lives and works in St. Mary’s as an assistant prosecutor, came to the defense, through a television commercial, of the man who today, Jan. 21, will take on the title of governor, but whom she knows as Dad.

“We had not planned to do anything like that [commercial], ... [but] I couldn’t just sit back,” Sterling said during a recent interview in her office at the St. Mary’s courthouse in Leonardtown. “I wanted to set the record straight.”

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