{"id":11588,"date":"2018-07-26T13:41:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T17:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11588"},"modified":"2018-07-26T13:41:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T17:41:53","slug":"rga-hits-jealous-on-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11588","title":{"rendered":"RGA Hits Jealous on Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Republican Governors Association (RGA) is up with a second TV ad, this one claiming that Democratic nominee Ben Jealous would raise taxes and &#8220;would blow a Chesapeake Bay-sized hole in the state budget.&#8221;\u00a0 That latter quote comes from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/chevy-chase-populism-in-maryland\/2017\/10\/29\/0e80e812-b8bb-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?utm_term=.34046c3d12a2\">Washington Post editorial<\/a> opposing Jealous&#8217;s proposal to offer free tuition for Marylanders at public colleges.\u00a0 RGA&#8217;s campaign, which also includes mail to Democrats, may be early but the risk is that it will define Jealous before Jealous gets to define himself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RGA Maryland TV Ad: &quot;Fire&quot;\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yhrQDF-kDmE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. The Republican Governors Association (RGA) is up with a second TV ad, this one claiming that Democratic nominee Ben Jealous would raise taxes and &#8220;would blow a Chesapeake Bay-sized hole in the state budget.&#8221;\u00a0 That latter quote comes from a Washington Post editorial opposing Jealous&#8217;s proposal to offer free tuition for Marylanders &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=11588\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RGA Hits Jealous on Taxes<\/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":[134],"tags":[1977,1539],"class_list":["post-11588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taxes","tag-ben-jealous","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-30U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588","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=11588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11589,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11588\/revisions\/11589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}