{"id":11556,"date":"2018-07-20T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T16:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11556"},"modified":"2018-07-22T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T16:22:12","slug":"rga-promotes-hogan-blasts-jealous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11556","title":{"rendered":"RGA Promotes Hogan, Blasts Jealous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Republican Governors Association (RGA) is promoting Governor Larry Hogan and attacking Democratic nominee Ben Jealous in a new mailer.\u00a0 The mailer praises Hogan on education spending but neglects to mention that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7476\">cut K-12 state aid in his first budget<\/a> and was forced by the General Assembly to fully fund it in years going forward.\u00a0 As for the mailer&#8217;s other side, it puts forth a message we are going to hear a lot about: the notion that a Ben Jealous administration will aggressively raise taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The mailer below was received by multiple Democrats in Montgomery County.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RGA-Mailer-vs-Jealous-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RGA-Mailer-vs-Jealous-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RGA-Mailer-vs-Jealous-1.jpg 2016w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RGA-Mailer-vs-Jealous-1-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RGA-Mailer-vs-Jealous-1-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RGA-Mailer-vs-Jealous-1-1024x560.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2016px) 100vw, 2016px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RGA-Mailer-vs-Jealous-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RGA-Mailer-vs-Jealous-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RGA-Mailer-vs-Jealous-2.jpg 2016w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RGA-Mailer-vs-Jealous-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RGA-Mailer-vs-Jealous-2-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/RGA-Mailer-vs-Jealous-2-1024x573.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2016px) 100vw, 2016px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. The Republican Governors Association (RGA) is promoting Governor Larry Hogan and attacking Democratic nominee Ben Jealous in a new mailer.\u00a0 The mailer praises Hogan on education spending but neglects to mention that he cut K-12 state aid in his first budget and was forced by the General Assembly to fully fund it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11556\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RGA Promotes Hogan, Blasts Jealous<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[1197],"tags":[1977,968],"class_list":["post-11556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-larry-hogan","tag-ben-jealous","tag-larry-hogan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-30o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11565,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556\/revisions\/11565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}