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[luthersomd]

You read it here first:

Peter Franchot will not run for Governor in 2014.

He will be a candidate for re-election as State Comptroller.

[Baltimatt]

Link?

And how about a more descriptive title?

Thanks.

[luthersomd]

Link?

And how about a more descriptive title?

Thanks.

No link available. You can deep six this but bring it back when the Sun publishes the news. They are always the last to know.

11:06...link arrived....http://articles.centermaryland.org/?p=4408

[Haberdasher]

Polling must've been horrible.

[Marshan Man]

Anthony Brown's gonna be governor...

[LarryN]

Anthony Brown's gonna be governor...

My guess is that, as Brown seems to be the anointed one, Franchot was asked to step aside by the Party.

[Marshan Man]

Pretty much...

Dem fight fi Jamaican guvnor mon!

[ivanbalt]

Anthony Brown's gonna be governor...

I met him once, seemed like a decent guy. Much better than when I met his scumbag boss running for Mayor.

[LarryN]

Pretty much...

Dem fight fi Jamaican guvnor mon!

He's got the Jamaican/Swiss vote locked up. Why should anyone else even run?

[Sprightly]

Bummer. He's one of the only MD Democrats that would get my vote. Maybe Brown.

[BlandFood]

Brown > O'Malley who I hope gets sucked into oblivion once he loses the nomination.

[bmore_ken]

Bummer. He's one of the only MD Democrats that would get my vote. Maybe Brown.

Franchot was the front runner for my vote. I have to admit I know very little about Brown

[luthersomd]

I met him once, seemed like a decent guy. Much better than when I met his scumbag boss running for Mayor.

Boss?? Who would that be?

[ichy]

Anthony Brown appears to be a smart guy, and he had a very respectable military career which is more than O'Malley ever accomplished in his life. Unfortunately he chose to become a lawyer :-/

Lt. Governor of Maryland is a pretty meaningless job, although I'd be curious to know how Brown has done with Maryland's BRAC plan. Most of his his other political accomplishments don't seem particularly noteworthy.

[ivanbalt]

Boss?? Who would that be?

O'Malley. Isn't he considered the Lt Governor's boss?

[luthersomd]

O'Malley. Isn't he considered the Lt Governor's boss?

Sorry. I thought you were talking about Franchot.

[octoburn]

This was expected even if the announcement is rather early. Franchot really had little or no after backing the losing side in the last election and losing the support of his own party in the process.

[luthersomd]

This was expected even if the announcement is rather early. Franchot really had little or no after backing the losing side in the last election and losing the support of his own party in the process.

I think you need to flesh your thinking out. Are you talking about gambling?

[octoburn]

I think you need to flesh your thinking out. Are you talking about gambling?

Yes. I do not think that he has or will have the support of the Democrat Party for that and for not being a "team player" on taxes and spending issues. While I agree with him on some of those issues, I think the public stance he took hurt his chances of ever winning enough intra~party support to mount a successful run for governor against the "establishment" Democrat candidate(s).

[luthersomd]

I agree. Maryland Comptrollers over the last 50+ years have been fiscally conservative and pretty independent. Franchot has used the same playbook as his predecessors.