Tom Coale @hocorising Twitter profile

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Tom Coale

1 year

Check out my most recent Op/Ed in the @baltimoresun : "The politics of local government make movement on the housing crisis impossible. It’s time for state lawmakers to step in." #MDHousing #Housing @yimbyaction

Maryland’s ‘local control’ over housing worsens shortage crisis | GUEST COMMENTARY

Maryland’s housing crisis is getting worse. Freddie Mac and the National Association of Realtors have reported there is a housing shortage of around 120,000 units in Maryland. This number isn…

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Tom Coale

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3 years

The Governor of Maryland won’t meet with the Mayor of Baltimore, but is tweeting about him?

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Young people: Joe Biden is boring Fox News:

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Dark Brandon lives rent free in their minds

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Hey journalists - "luxury apartments" is a branding term. You don't cover auto accidents by saying "a sleek new sports mobile with leather seats" ran the red light. Don't do it with housing.

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2 years

Maryland’s response to omnicron seems to be “do your best not to need the hospital for the next month.”

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1 year

If a school received $5.1 billion for equity training, the impact would be so large even MTG would be a little less racist.

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Greene: Can you tell me how much money went to CRT? Dodaro: CRT? Greene: It’s a racist curriculum used to teach children that somehow their white skin not equal to black skin and other things

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Tom Coale

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3 years

The PHIMBY (public housing in my backyard)/YIMBY divide is either fake or a one-way conflict. I don’t know any housing advocates who wouldn’t welcome a robust public housing program.

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“We flew the plane. Unfortunately, we couldn’t land it.”

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"Our administration didn't end well" -- Mike Pence to Hannity

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Tom Coale

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2 years

Big pulls from @jenny_schuetz ’s book - you can’t build a housing unit that costs less than $500/mo rent - you need an annual income of $20k to afford $500/mo - only 1/4 of low income families eligible for housing assistance receive it - Min wage of $7.25/hr = $15k annual income

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Tom Coale

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2 years

The Washington Post’s decision not to endorse @BrookeELierman because “one party rule is bad, mmkay” is such an insult to Brooke’s work. She’s been one of the most substantive delegates in Annapolis since being elected in 2014. 1/4

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Tom Coale

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You got towels? Crazy coincidence - we have towels too!

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Calais Campbell really likes Renegade

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Tom Coale

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1 year

The word “we” has never carried so much weight.

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Every MLK Day we are treated to a bevy of thinkpieces on how the only way to achieve MLK's dream is to embrace group redistributionism and racial discrimination. MLK may have made such arguments in 1968, but that simply isn't the dream or the pathway we celebrate him for.

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I need someone to tell the Maryland Vaccination Center that I’ve received my booster. I’m just not willing to answer their phone calls to tell them.

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1 year

I feel like Ledo’s Pizza has an under appreciated place in the Maryland food canon.

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1 year

I, for one, would like to thank @tedcruz for coming to Maryland and reminding the 6th Congressional District of what was at stake this election.

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Tom Coale

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1 year

“Can you believe Joe Biden accused me, an innocent MAGA Republican, of supporting political violence?”

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"By the way, how is she doing lately?" -- Trump on Nancy Pelosi

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Tom Coale

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1 year

Good news for Maryland Senate Republicans - you can all fit in 2 booths at Chick & Ruth’s.

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Tom Coale

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3 years

I did not expect the next revolution to be started by folks who stopped going to Orioles games because Baltimore was “too dangerous”.

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Tom Coale

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2 years

If you think beating Dan Cox is easy, may I remind you of the power of slightly discomforted white suburban voters.

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Tom Coale

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3 years

Watching UMD professors testify against graduate student subsidized housing is so disappointing.

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Tom Coale

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2 years

Enjoy today, Maryland. It's probably the last day for the next three weeks that you will not be frustrated over the completely avoidable lag in counting mail-in ballots caused by Governor Hogan's veto of HB 862/SB 163.

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Tom Coale

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4 years

Don’t contribute to the narrative that this debate is a manifestation of our politics. This is one man. Our country is bigger than him.

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Tom Coale

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2 years

If you welcome refugees, but don’t support more housing because the schools are too crowded, I would genuinely like to understand your position better than I do right now.

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Tom Coale

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1 year

No one honors the retirement of a relief pitcher who left the team 5 years ago better than the @Orioles fan base.

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Tom Coale

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2 years

Imagine typing all this nasty hateful stuff and then thinking “let’s see what Clip Art has to offer.”

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1 year

It is breathtakingly bold for Dan Cox to make puns with Wes Moore’s last name…

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Tom Coale

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1 year

Gov. Moore just reported that our state’s economy is lagging behind the rest of the country. Seems like something someone could have told us in between articles about Larry Hogan’s popularity. But sure yeah fine.

The Baltimore Banner

@BaltimoreBanner

1 year

Opinion: Journalists must make sure they don’t allow Gov. Wes Moore’s personal appeal to get in the way of holding him accountable with their coverage

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Tom Coale

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2 years

I’m just a guy, standing in front of a Governor, asking for COVID infection data.

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Tom Coale

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2 years

I have three kids. I am not "well rested after the break". I am at work to rest.

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2 years

Larry Hogan had 8 years to form the Republican Party into something else. He could have done so by getting laws passed that improved the lives of every day Marylanders. Instead, he chased the support of those who disdain government and prize the status quo.

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Tom Coale

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1 year

I normally keep my personal news for FB and Insta, but we have a 4th kid on the way. The world can be a scary place, but I’ll say that many of you, often strangers, make me feel like it’s ok to bring another person here despite all my fears to the contrary.

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Tom Coale

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4 years

I am struggling with the fact that the @baltimoresun had articles about grammatical errors in Healthy Holly, but zero coverage of the conditions under which Maryland prisoners are making masks. And tomorrow, someone is going to tell us about the Easter bunny being “essential”

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This essay by @ClintSmithIII in @TheAtlantic is thoughtful, compassionate, and ruthlessly critical of the manner in which we remember and memorialize collective sins. I can’t recommend it enough.

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Tom Coale

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1 year

Done - Calvin Ball wins re-election in Howard County Executive race.

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Tom Coale

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3 years

There are approximately 25,000 more registered Democrats in Howard County than there were in 2014. There are 5,000 less registered Republicans.

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Tom Coale

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3 years

For those wondering why millennials and Gen X are so keyed in on housing, imagine your parents bought something for $100. When you tried to buy it, it was $1,000. And then everyone said you were lazy because you didn’t buy the thing sooner.

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Tom Coale

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I wish local and national media would stop buying Larry Hogan’s “I wasn’t going to run but then like a million hundred people called me and asked me to run” narrative. That did not happen. He waited until the last second because he didn’t want to draw a credible MAGA opponent.

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Tom Coale

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5 months

You need to build luxury units to feed the luxury beast. If you don’t feed the luxury beast, it eats the affordable units.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

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If you don’t let developers build new high end homes, the rich people who would have lived in them don’t just disappear. Instead, they buy existing less-expensive homes in desirable neighborhoods and renovate them into luxury housing.

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"I'm really looking for the angle on how Larry Hogan polls well with Democrats. Can we write that story?" - Every single newspaper editor

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Tom Coale

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9 months

“Emphasizing Oh in the National Anthem is unpatriotic” is my favorite of bad takes.

TheFanOpinion💎🇳🇱

@TheFanOpinion

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You gotta be kidding me lol.

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2 years

Wes Moore will bring back the Red Line. Dan Cox will bring back the…Christopher Columbus statue?

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Tom Coale

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1 year

10 votes in 9A gives the seat to Chao Wu. Two seat flip!

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Tom Coale

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2 years

Could a Maryland journalist ask Dan Cox these exact same questions?

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Tom Coale

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2 years

Over the past week, I've been working with @yimbyaction to bring their tremendous resources and organizing skills to Maryland. I'm happy to announce the creation of the first Maryland chapter - @YimbyMD . Please follow that account for more information about how to get involved!

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Tom Coale

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3 years

Here’s what you can expect if you speak out on #housing : Men - accusations of corruption Women - accusations of corruption, misogyny, personal threats, harassment, doxing, emails to your employer, comments about your children, comments about your appearance, etc. etc. etc.

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Tom Coale

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4 years

Let's all agree not to take COVID-19 advice from a 32 year old Republican political operative named Aaron Ginn, deal?

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1 year

The victims died because someone couldn’t handle how they existed in this world. This is powerful.

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“Therefore, we will be identifying the victims by how they identified themselves and how their families have loved and identified them.”

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Tom Coale

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3 months

Did you know that @baltbeat distributes its paper in “Beat Boxes” that also serve as community resource pantries? I don’t know why a journalist who made his money selling Baltimore’s tragedies fixated on them in his QTs, but I’ll be donating today.

Beat Boxes

What’s a Beat Box? Beat Boxes look like this, and we currently have eleven locations throughout the city. They are a home for our bi-weekly newspaper and also have a community exchange built-in....

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Tom Coale

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2 years

There is honor in all work.

The Recount

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2 years

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says there’s a “real risk” Biden forgiving some student loan debt will help Democrats in the 2022 midterms: “If you are that slacker barista who wasted seven years in college … if you can get off the bong for a minute … it could drive up turnout.”

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There it is. Gov. @iamwesmoore putting $63M towards the construction of affordable rental housing. Secretary @jacobrday gets to hit the ground running. #MDHousing

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2 years

Just sat in on a breakfast roundtable with @iamwesmoore . Wow. It’s an exciting time for Maryland and we all have reason to be optimistic about the next four years.

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Tom Coale

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3 years

The idea that we have “enough #housing but not enough affordable housing” relies on the premise that everyone making the median income or higher is housing secure. That’s just not the case. It also ignores the existence of housing vouchers.

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Tom Coale

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2 years

Not now, Larry.

Larry Hogan

@LarryHogan

2 years

The Democratic party is dragging us in a far-left direction that America doesn’t want and can’t afford. Biden said he would govern from the center and unite the country, instead he caters to the far-left extremes of his party and flails from crisis to crisis. #BetterPathForward

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Tom Coale

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3 years

People saying that a Biden win with a Republican Senate is still a loss have not lived the same four years I've just lived.

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2 years

Such an excellent, and empathetic, profile of those who profess liberal ideology, but provide the foundation for our conservative #housing laws. ⁦ @ConorDougherty ⁩ is one of my favorite writers on this subject, and this is a good example why.

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Tom Coale

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26 days

I know others have said it, but it really is remarkable how on point the @BaltimoreBanner has been on the Key Bridge collapse and recovery effort. Every angle is covered. I'm very glad to be a subscriber.

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1 year

Breaking: Larry Hogan would endorse Donald Trump in the rain. And in the dark. And on a train. And in a car. And in a tree. He will endorse him with a fox. He will endorse him in a house. He will endorse him here and there. He will endorse him anywhere!

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Tom Coale

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4 years

We had to put our 14 year old black lab to sleep today. I wasn’t going to post about it, but my 5 year old, on her own, described death as “turning into love”. It was beautiful and it helped me. I figured there may be someone else who could use it too.

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Tom Coale

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3 years

Kinda wild that the only federal dollars we’re turning down are the ones that help people out of work. And then citing states’ rights. It’s too much.

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3 years

Even President Biden has said that states have every right to do what’s best for our economies. I’m confident the courts will rule in favor of getting Marylanders back to work, supporting struggling small businesses, and continuing our economic recovery.

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2 years

We’re about to enter “send money to long shot candidates in other states” season. Remember - 1) your local elections matter more; 2) those long shot candidates are going to have plenty of money; and 3) money won’t change the electorate.

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1 year

WOW! @iamwesmoore names @jacobrday as Secretary of Housing and Community Development. What a fantastic pick! #MDHousing #MDPolitics

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Tom Coale

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3 years

Women are superheroes. My wife just created her third human life. Just amazing.

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2 years

Friends - I know you did everything you were supposed to do. You wore masks and didn’t take on unnecessary risks. We need to start lowering the stigma for catching COVID.

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Tom Coale

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24 days

Get 👏 them 👏 Gov

State of the Union

@CNNSOTU

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“My response is, I have no time for foolishness.” @GovWesMoore dismisses some Republicans who have tried to blame Baltimore’s bridge collapse on policies that encourage workplace diversity.

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3 years

Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back for turning away from a police officer.

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BREAKING: Pro-Trump protestors have breached the Capitol.

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Here comes Trone

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Tom Coale

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9 months

Replacing huge parking lots next to sports complexes that are full less than 100 days per year with housing is good.

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Tom Coale

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7 months

“I don’t go to the city anymore because they refused to open the ‘$1,200 concert ticket express lane’”

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Crowd flowing into the lots now is increasingly angry. “I paid $1200 for these tickets. Shame on Baltimore,” yelled one woman as she hustled across the lot. Her husband stayed with their car in line to park.

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1 year

I can’t imagine spending eight years talking about lowering taxes and fees and then spend my last two months in office telling people to gamble on sports to fill state coffers.

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1 year

TFW you appear in *whatever is left of* Newsweek for making fun of Majorie Taylor Greene

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1 year

Here comes the 2024 Democratic Primary for Ben Cardin's seat in the US Senate.

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Tom Coale

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1 year

Dan Cox is going to spend all day working on his “Stop the Maryland Steal” banner.

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1 year

Doom scrolling the end of Twitter is peak Twitter.

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Tom Coale

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3 years

My wife: All I want for Mother’s Day is to sleep in until 8. Me with three kids and a puppy at 7:33:

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1 year

Only if they can pay the poll tax, amirite Dan?

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3 years

We don’t have enough money to keep people housed. We appear to have money to “refund” police budgets that were never defunded in the first place. This is America.

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Tom Coale

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1 year

Larry Hogan's confession that he would support Donald Trump if he were the 2024 Republican nominee for President demonstrates that he is slightly less of a joke than he was in 2020 when he voted for a dead person.

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Tom Coale

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2 years

Doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to say that if Larry Hogan ran for President, he would lose the Maryland Republican Primary to Donald Trump.

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Tom Coale

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1 year

Allan Kittleman came to my house dressed as Santa, hugged my kids, and still tried to drag my name through the mud in an attempt to win an election. I hope this is the last time we see his name on a ballot.

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Tom Coale

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2 years

This looks like people waiting for the host to call their name at a Ruby Tuesday’s

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Maryland packed the house at Maralago last night to support Gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox. President Trump was on fire with his midterms speech; he currently has a 99pc win rate with his endorsed candidates. @realdonaldtrump @dancoxforgovernor

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1 year

Today, @BrookeELierman turns a glass ceiling to dust.

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1 year

I appreciate @marylandmatters providing a write-up of my career shift! There’s important work to be done in Annapolis and I’m excited to be a part of it! That pun though…

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Tom Coale

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1 year

Waiting for my friends on the right to acknowledge that, in his first budget submitted to the General Assembly, Governor Moore included a tax cut for military retirees.

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Tom Coale

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2 years

Dan Cox is relatively careful with his answers about Trump, January 6th, and election denialism. His running mate is not.

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Tom Coale

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1 year

Frederick County Executive Race Update: Mike Hough's lead over Jessica Fitzwater down to 2,063 votes. Fitzwater has outpaced Hough in mail-in ballots 14k to 5K. Many more to count.

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Tom Coale

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2 years

The WaPo endorsement also ignores the broad tent of the Democratic Party that comes with deep divisions and disagreements. To suggest there won’t be deliberative decision-making bc everyone has the same suffix initial is embarrassingly shallow in its analysis. 3/4

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Tom Coale

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4 years

Everyone, please watch #PlotAgainstAmerica - it is the “frog in boiling water” metaphor that America needs.

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Tom Coale

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1 year

Just saw a local Council-person post on FB about how land bought for $4 million could be sold for $8 million after entitlements were secured. That’s you. You did that. When you increase risk and narrow the path, you create arbitrage. Maybe don’t do that?

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Tom Coale

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2 years

I had a hard time with the 2020 Pete Buttigieg that seemed to live in the “mealy mouthed” unity he rejects here. I would enthusiastically vote for this version of Pete Buttigieg.

Rex Chapman🏇🏼

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Pete Buttigieg is a superstar…

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Just a reminder that term limits don't take anything away from elected officials, who must stand for re-election at the end of every term. Term limits just take the decision away from voters.

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2 years

People who insist on backing into parking spaces - what’s up with that and also please don’t.

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3 years

With appreciation for all that was accomplished in the General Assembly this session, I just don’t understand why housing justice is given such low priority. How can you enjoy the protections and benefits of progressive government if you’re housing insecure?

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2 years

“First step is to pretend you have no responsibility for those areas experiencing crime.”

Larry Hogan

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Holding a roundtable with Oregon’s next governor @ChristineDrazan and local Portland leaders to talk about addressing the homelessness and crime crises in this state.

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2 years

Hello, police? I would like to report an assault on the English language.

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1 year

I hope to one day have the self-confidence to pull out of a race I could never win and claim it was for selfless reasons.

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Tom Coale

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4 years

There are seven parking spaces for every car in this country. Parking minimums discourage mass transit, encourage single-occupancy trips, and should be abolished.

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3 years

If the “tree person” on your local council has filed exclusively anti-development legislation and hasn’t taken up parking minimums or mass transit, they’re probably more about the classicism than the environment.

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In November of 2014, there were 56,354 registered Republicans in Howard County. In June of 2022, there are 49,340 registered Republicans in Howard County. In November of 2014, there were 94,886 registered Democrats. There are now 121,066 registered Democrats in Howard County.

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2 years

Calling someone a NIMBY is not a value judgment. It’s an objective description. The extent to which someone opposing development rejects the label is directly proportionate to internal discomfort. I’m not here to help you through your identity issues. I’m here to build housing.

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3 years

Today is as good a day as any to say that @BrookeELierman will be an excellent, ground-breaking, ceiling-shattering Comptroller.

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Tom Coale

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4 years

Very excited to have been selected by the @ewarren campaign to be a Delegate to the National Convention for the 7th congresssional district. #ElizabethWarren #DreamBig #FightHard

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