{"id":9952,"date":"2018-03-25T09:14:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T13:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9952"},"modified":"2018-03-25T09:14:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T13:14:40","slug":"mcintosh-all-in-for-conway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9952","title":{"rendered":"McIntosh All In for Conway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_6867.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9953\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_6867.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_6867.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_6867-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_6868.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_6868.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_6868.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_6868-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Del. Maggie McIntosh, Chair of the Appropriations Committee and the most influential member of the House of Delegates after Speaker Mike Busch, is all in for incumbent Sen. Joan Carter Conway&#8217;s effort to secure a sixth full term.<\/p>\n<p>Both represent District 43 in Baltimore City, where Conway faces a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9035\">strong challenge<\/a> from two-term <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9038\">Del. Mary Washington<\/a>. Washington is running hard, heavily emphasizing her efforts to protect residents from losing their homes over water bills, and represents the strongest challenge Conway has faced.<\/p>\n<p>However, Conway has won reelection despite past scandals and has a large war chest. The emphatic public backing of McIntosh surely will also help her campaign. While Conway mused publicly about retirement, she now is in it to win it.<\/p>\n<p>The one downside for McIntosh, even if Conway wins, is that younger members of the House are increasingly restive regarding opportunities for advancement&#8211;notwithstanding the deserved promotion of Del. Anne Kaiser to head of Ways and Means. Protecting Conway reinforces that perception. On the other hand, it confirms McIntosh&#8217;s reputation as a loyal ally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Del. Maggie McIntosh, Chair of the Appropriations Committee and the most influential member of the House of Delegates after Speaker Mike Busch, is all in for incumbent Sen. Joan Carter Conway&#8217;s effort to secure a sixth full term. Both represent District 43 in Baltimore City, where Conway faces a strong challenge from two-term Del. Mary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9952\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McIntosh All In for Conway<\/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":[433],"tags":[1455,1503,1500],"class_list":["post-9952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-43","tag-joan-carter-conway","tag-maggie-mcintosh","tag-mary-washington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2Aw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952","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=9952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9956,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions\/9956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}