Maryland can afford Larry Hogan as governor, but not senator | GUEST COMMENTARY

I don’t know how he did it, but Larry Hogan, an old-school Reagan Republican, somehow fooled my mother into thinking that he is a moderate. She can be forgiven somewhat, I guess. She hasn’t spent 20 years working in and around Maryland politics like her son. But my mother is no pushover either.

We were sitting in the IHOP on Loch Raven Boulevard, across from Morgan State University, when she tried to explain to me how I had gotten Hogan all wrong. The conversation was beginning to grow heated when our waffles finally arrived.