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2022 Democratic Gubernatorial Primary, Campaigns, Elections, Peter Franchot June 14, 2021

BREAKING: Franchot door hangers upend Dem gubernatorial contest

Please take out your red pens and mark June 14 as the day the Maryland Democratic gubernatorial contest solidified its top-tier: Peter Franchot’s door hangers…

2022, Campaigns, Endorsements, Peter Franchot March 25, 2021

Franchot endorsed by 112 former, current elected officeholders

112 current and former Maryland elected officeholders endorsed Peter Franchot’s 2022 gubernatorial campaign, according to an announcement released Thursday by Franchot’s campaign. “Today, I’m incredibly…

2022, Larry Hogan, Maryland Gubernatorial Primary, Peter Franchot March 11, 2021

Sabato’s Crystal Ball: Maryland 2022 gubernatorial race ‘leans Democratic’

Famed political science professor Dr. Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan political analysis and handicapping newsletter run by the University of Virginia Center for…

A Miner Detail Podcast, Black Lives Matter, COVID19, Peter Franchot, Washington County July 16, 2020

A Miner Detail Podcast Episode 270: Charlotte Aufdem-Brinke talks COVID-19, BLM

Charlotte Aufdem-Brinke is the co-owner of Dan’s Restaurant and Tap House, a longtime Boonsboro, Md. restaurant, a cornerstone hangout in the historic Western Maryland town….

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, Amie Hoeber, Anne Arundel County, Campaigns, David Trone, Peter Franchot February 15, 2020

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

Sources close to U.S. Rep. David J. Trone (D-Md.) say the first-term congressman is taking a hard look at running for governor in 2022. Trone…

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….