Wes Moore is hosting breakfasts and taking selfies with Maryland Democrats and Republicans alike, winning lawmakers over after eight years of Larry Hogan.
He started his first Board of Public Works meeting by saying that the powerful three-member spending panel was doing a top-to-bottom review of how the state was failing to meet its minority business contracting awards and that he planned to fix it. He leaned heavily into racial equity as he kicked off the state’s final push to bring the FBI headquarters to majority-Black Prince George’s County, rather than Virginia.
Moore indirectly talks about this as fuel for his agenda: “The nation is watching Maryland right now.”For his first legislative session, he has pitched things that Republicans and Democrats can vote for: tax cuts for military retirees and companies building high-tech infrastructure, such as wet labs and IT hubs secure enough for classified servers.
J.B. Jennings , a longtime state senator, called Moore’s approach refreshing, especially as Republicans, used to having Hogan around, are not eager to be shut out. And while the GOP objects to some of the bills Moore supports, the tone is cordial. “Who knows what’s going to happen in four, five, six years? But as of now, everybody is getting along,” said Jennings, a former minority leader.
Moore faced his most tense moments of the session during the confirmation process of some nominees who raised eyebrows.of a natural gas industry official, Juan Alvarado, to the Public Service Commission after intense backlash from environmentalists. His appointment of a Latina business executive to serve on the powerful Stadium Authority remained in the drawer of the committee after questions were raised about her personal and business financial history.
“No one who is put up is put up on a whim,” he said. “There’s nothing that was said back to me about anybody we’re putting up that I didn’t already know. I stand by that and stand by my people.”
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