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Governor
MARYLAND |
Nov. 4,
2014 Governor |
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Plurality: 65,510 votes (3.64 percentage points). : MD
State Board of Elections
REPUBLICAN PICK-UP Notes: Businessman Larry Hogan (R) laid the groundwork for and ran a good campaign, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (D) ran a negative, play-it-safe campaign and the result was a shocking win for Hogan. Hogan, 58, is the son of Lawrence Hogan, who served three terms in Congress and as Prince George's County executive. He founded Hogan Companies in 1985. Hogan ran for Congress in 1981 and 1992 and served as Secretary of Appointments in the Ehrlich administration. In 2011 Hogan formed Change Maryland, an LLC, which issued regular critiques of the O'Malley-Brown administration and provided the foundation for his campaign. Hogan formally launched his campaign on Jan. 21, 2014, and at the end of the month he announced Boyd Rutherford, an attorney who served as Secretary of General Services in the Ehrlich administration, as his running mate. Brown, 52, served as a
helicopter pilot n the U.S. Army and as a JAG in
the U.S. Army Reserve. A graduate of
Harvard Law School,. he worked as an attorney,
and was elected to the Maryland House in 1998
before serving as Gov. Martin O'Malley's
lieutenant governor for both terms. He
announced his candidacy on May 10, 2013 and
announced Howard County Executive Ken Ulman as
his running mate on June 3.
Primaries were held on June 24, 2014. Brown/Ulman won the Democratic primary with 51.4%, defeating Gansler/Ivey (24.2%) and Mizeur/Coates (21.6%). Hogan/Rutherford won the Republican primary with 43.0%, defeating Craig/Haddaway (29.1%), Lollar/Timmerman (15.6%) and George/Aloi (12.4%). Also on the November ballot was the Libertarian ticket of Shawn Quinn//Lorenzo Gaztañaga. Hogan and Brown participated in three debates: at WJZ-TV studios in Baltimore on Oct. 7 (>); at News Channel 8 studios on Oct. 13 (>); and at Maryland Public Television studios on Oct. 18 in Owings Mills (1, 2). Change Maryland summarizes the outcome of the race thusly: "out-numbered in party registration by more than 2-1, and outspent by more than 5-1, Hogan pulled off the biggest upset in America to become only the second Republican Governor elected in Maryland in 50 years." Campaign Managers: Larry Hogan: Steve Crim (Jan. 2014) Co-founded Hogan's Change Maryland in 2011. Owner of Voter Contact Solutions, LLC from Apr. 2004. Senior account executive at DCI Group, Aug. 2011-Dec. 2013. Worked on the Campaign for Working Families, 1998-99. B.A. in government, marketing from Campbell University, 1998. Anthony Brown: Justin Schall Campaign manager on Friends of John Delaney (MD), 2012. Campaign manager on Tom Henry for Mayor (Fort Wayne, IN), 2011. Campaign manager on Callahan for Congress (PA), 2009-10. Campaign manager on Massa for Congress (NY), 2008. Advance aide on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, 2007-08. Partner at Whitesand Webworks, 2002-08. Campaign manager on Chavez for Mayor (San Jose, CA), 2006. Studied at University of Iowa. See also: Kevin Robillard. "How Larry Hogan won in Maryland." Politico, Nov. 7, 2014. James Briggs. "Why Anthony Brown lost the Maryland governor's race." Baltimore Business Journal, Nov. 5, 2014. Len Lazaric. "Rutherford Strengthens Hogan, But It's Still An Uphill Slog." MarylandReporter.com, Feb. 5, 2014. Oct. 30, 2014 photos of Anthony Brown rally with Hillary Clinton. |
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