From poetry to prose and numbers

In his Inaugural address today, Governor Hogan declared, “I am prepared to create an environment of trust and cooperation, where the best ideas rise to the top based upon their merit, regardless of which side of the political debate they come from.”

The proof will be in his policies.

As a freshman member of the Appropriations Committee, I learned that the budget bill is the policy document of the state.

Where you spend the public’s money establishes the state’s priorities.

Governor Hogan’s budget bill will be introduced on Friday.

The late Mario Cuomo said, “You campaign in poetry and govern in prose.”

The prose and the numbers are about to take center stage.

If your Task Force recommendation can make it there, it can make it anywhere…

The New York Times reports:

Governor Cuomo’s “aides worked with several advocacy groups, including the Brady Campaign in Washington, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence and the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence in San Francisco, to develop a package of measures that would be comprehensive but also politically achievable. They looked to other states; a provision in the new law to require mental health professionals to report possibly violent patients was similar to a recommendation by a task force created last year by Gov. Martin O’Malley and state legislators [Delegate Lu Simmons and I were the sponsors] in Maryland.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/nyregion/cuomo-used-all-his-means-to-pass-gun-control-package.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

That is a first.  My legislation leads to a law being enacted in another state before we do so in Maryland.

As we draft our bill, Delegate Simmons and I will include all of the recommendations of the Task Force so that they can receive a full hearing by the legislature.

    We will also introduce legislation outlining the preventive programs the State should fund so that people don’t reach the stage where they pose a threat to others.

 

  • My Key Issues:

  • Pimlico and The Preakness
  • Our Neighborhoods
  • Pre-Kindergarten
  • Lead Paint Poisoning