Peter Franchot Archives : Maryland Politics & News

Uncategorized February 16, 2020

Franchot announces support for Klobuchar presidential bid

Maryland Comptroller Peter V. R. Franchot (D) announced in a Sunday-morning Facebook post his endorsement of U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) for president. “Thrilled to…

2022, David Trone, Peter Franchot February 15, 2020

David Trone is making moves to run for governor in 2022, sources say

A number of sources close to U.S. Rep. David J. Trone (D-Md.) say the first-term congressman is already eyeing an exit from Washington, setting his…

2022 January 20, 2020

Sen. Brian Feldman mulling a bid for comptroller

Peter V. R. Franchot (D) announced earlier this month that he will not seek a fifth term in 2022 as the state’s comptroller. He’s running…

Peter Franchot November 14, 2019

Franchot met with skepticism amid Montgomery County’s progressive bastion

Visit any New Hampshire diner around this time of the year, every three to four years or so. You’re likely to run into a presidential…

Eastern Shore, Peter Franchot September 7, 2019

Franchot, a frequent Eastern Shore guest, highlighted 6 themes of a potential gubernatorial bid at a Friday-evening Easton fundraiser

Maryland’s Comptroller Peter V. R. Franchot (D) is not a full-time resident of the Eastern Shore, but he certainly could be considered a resident guest….

Annapolis, Peter Franchot August 28, 2019

Turning down a future gubernatorial bid, Paul Pinsky dings Franchot as ‘too conservative’

The chairman of Maryland’s Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee is unlikely to be campaigning for or cutting a check to Comptroller Peter V….

Maryland Politics, Peter Franchot August 22, 2019

Franchot and Company’s Rebel Yell

Around 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, much of Annapolis may have heard a clangorous rumble emanating from Jake Weissmann’s rather unimpressive first-floor State House office…

Maryland Politics July 29, 2019

Hogan and Franchot’s lonely island of political sanity

Disclaimer: I am writing this column after a long day out in the sun and too much cable news on the XM dial. I’m feeling…

Peter Franchot, Uncategorized July 19, 2019

With a robust statewide coalition in place and money in the bank, Franchot is taking obvious steps toward a 2022 gubernatorial bid

One day after Maryland politicos battled the sweltering summer heat and infringing humidity at Somers Cover over crabs, clams and Smith Island mini-cakes, the perfect…

Maryland Democrats, Maryland Politics, Peter Franchot June 7, 2019

The Annapolis Machine’s Opus Dei has a leader in Eric Luedtke

The late Maryland House Speaker Michael E. Busch was an exceptionally astute man with uncanny political instincts. Busch must have instinctively known that there was…