{"id":11444,"date":"2018-07-03T09:48:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T13:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11444"},"modified":"2018-07-03T09:48:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T13:48:01","slug":"franchot-tacitly-supports-hogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11444","title":{"rendered":"Franchot Tacitly Supports Hogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Democratic Comptroller Peter Franchot says he wants to remain &#8220;neutral&#8221; in the gubernatorial race, it&#8217;s a big win for Hogan that the statewide official won&#8217;t endorse the Democratic nominee. Moreover, as reported in the\u00a0<em>Baltimore Sun<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/politics\/bs-md-franchot-hogan-20180702-story.html\">Franchot&#8217;s comments make his true feelings clear<\/a> regardless of his nominal neutrality:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Franchot said he considers Hogan a friend.<\/p>\n<p>Jealous and Franchot represent different ideological wings of the Democratic party, even though both claim the anti-establishment mantle and share many views on social issues. Jealous, who won the Democratic primary last week, is a strong progressive on economic issues, while the comptroller has positioned himself as a fiscal conservative.<\/p>\n<p>Without directly referring to Jealous, Franchot said voters want Democrats to offer them something other than the type of expansive social programs Jealous is proposing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe don\u2019t want higher taxes, they don\u2019t want higher fees, they don\u2019t want pie-in-the-sky programs that sound great\u201d but are too expensive, Franchot said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s fascinating that Franchot is now seen as a fiscal conservative, as he not too long ago cast himself as a leading progressive. In any case, Franchot is coasting to reelection and just did his buddy on the Board of Public Works a solid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Democratic Comptroller Peter Franchot says he wants to remain &#8220;neutral&#8221; in the gubernatorial race, it&#8217;s a big win for Hogan that the statewide official won&#8217;t endorse the Democratic nominee. Moreover, as reported in the\u00a0Baltimore Sun, Franchot&#8217;s comments make his true feelings clear regardless of his nominal neutrality: Franchot said he considers Hogan a friend. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Franchot Tacitly Supports Hogan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2020],"tags":[1472],"class_list":["post-11444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-governors-race","tag-peter-franchot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2YA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11445,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444\/revisions\/11445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}