{"id":9801,"date":"2018-03-07T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9801"},"modified":"2018-03-07T10:29:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:29:02","slug":"do-you-believe-klausmeiers-primary-opponent-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9801","title":{"rendered":"Do You Believe Klausmeier’s Primary Opponent? I Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, I published a post<\/a> on medical marijuana lobbyist Max Davidson\u2019s strange, last-minute decision to primary Sen. Kathy Klausmeier (D-8). Davidson has given the bulk of his donations to Republicans and by far the most to Del. Christian Miele (R-8), who also just happens to be running for the seat.<\/p>\n

Quick off the dime, Max Davidson is not. He took over three days to respond to my post, an eternity for a candidate not to respond to negative publicity. What is he, high? Oh, wait. . .<\/p>\n

Clocking in at over 2100 words, his Facebook post reply<\/a> feels more like the start of Leviathan than a campaign statement. If he\u2019s this lengthy in chatting up legislators, no wonder it took so long for medical marijuana to pass in Maryland.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I believe Max Davidson.<\/p>\n

I believe \u201cfirmly pro-choice\u201d Davidson gave $970 to \u201cfirmly pro-life\u201d Miele because he cares deeply about abortion rights.<\/p>\n

I believe Davidson when he says that he gave over four times as much money to Republicans as Democrats \u201cin support of attempting to pass my most recent bill.\u201d Lobbyists always give more money to minority party legislative opponents.<\/p>\n

I believe Davidson gave $150 to Del. Kathy Szeliga (R-7) but not Chris Van Hollen because he is \u201ca proven lifelong Progressive\u201d and \u201cBerniecrat.\u201d<\/p>\n

I believe Davidson even though he never addresses whether he discussed his bid with Miele in his very long reply.<\/p>\n

I believe Davidson cares about issues other than cannabis legalization even though the word \u201ccannabis\u201d appears 21 times in his post.<\/p>\n

I believe Davidson gave over $500 to Sen Justin Ready (R-5) because he cares passionately about “raising the minimum hourly wage to $15 per hour” and keeping education affordable.<\/p>\n

I believe this is a good logo:<\/p>\n

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I believe electing a lobbyist like Davidson is \u201cour chance to stop politics as usual in Annapolis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, I published a post on medical marijuana lobbyist Max Davidson\u2019s strange, last-minute decision to primary Sen. Kathy Klausmeier (D-8). Davidson has given the bulk of his donations to Republicans and by far the most to Del. Christian Miele (R-8), who also just happens to be running for the seat. Quick off the dime, … Continue reading Do You Believe Klausmeier’s Primary Opponent? I Do<\/span> →<\/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":[2149],"tags":[1533,2151],"class_list":["post-9801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-8","tag-kathy-klausmeier","tag-max-davidson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2y5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801","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=9801"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9808,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801\/revisions\/9808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}