WMAL Interview - GREG KLINE - 01.18.18

INTERVIEW - GREG KLINE – co-founder of “Red Maryland”, a popular conservative blog about Republican politics in the Free State of Maryland. KLINE is also an attorney in Maryland @RedMaryland @GregoryKline – discussed the Maryland gubernatorial race, Gov. Hogan’s budget and Chelsea Manning jumping into the Senate race.
•    MARYLAND GOVERNOR RACE: For all those Democrats running for Md. governor, Wednesday was a day of reckoning
•    Md. Gov. Hogan releases state budget plan amid fight for minimum wage raises in state ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland Governor Larry Hogan is unveiling his new $17 billion dollar state budget -- which says has no new taxes and no gimmicks. The Republican governor is already facing an increasingly combative Democrat-majority General Assembly. Democrats have proposed to raise the state minimum wage to $15 an hour and could again be a point of contention between lawmakers and the governor. This minimum wage fight has already played out locally in both Montgomery County and D.C., which just passed laws gradually hiking the minimum hourly wage to $15 in 2020. 
•    How a defiant Chelsea Manning could upend the race for U.S. Senate in Maryland (Washington Post) -- In her first utterances as a U.S. Senate candidate, Chelsea Manning declares war on establishment politicians, proclaiming, “We don’t need them anymore” in a video that includes clips of white supremacists, police assaulting protesters and grinning congressional leaders meeting with President Trump. The transgender former Army private convicted of passing classified government documents to WikiLeaks is challenging Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, a two-term senator and the highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Her candidacy brings drama to an otherwise staid primary and gives Republicans an opportunity to stoke divisions among Democrats. But analysts say Manning’s maverick approach may not play well in Maryland, a progressive but establishment state that is home to the National Security Agency and went for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders by a large margin in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary.