{"id":198290,"date":"2007-11-20T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/20\/omalley-increases-influence-with-wins-on-taxes-and-slots-washingtonpost-com\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T00:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T05:28:00","slug":"omalley-increases-influence-with-wins-on-taxes-and-slots-washingtonpost-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/20\/omalley-increases-influence-with-wins-on-taxes-and-slots-washingtonpost-com\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Malley Increases Influence With Wins on Taxes and Slots &#8211; washingtonpost.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/11\/19\/AR2007111901926.html?nav=rss_print\/asection\">generally glowing review of Martin O&#8217;Malley&#8217;s handling of the special session<\/a>.  He comes across as engaged, hard working, and willing to listen, as opposed to this characterization of his predecessor, which is prize:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Del. Tom Hucker (D-Montgomery) said O&#8217;Malley won points for his openness to lawmakers&#8217; ideas and a work ethic that contrasted with that of Ehrlich, whose tenure Hucker derided as &#8220;four years of press conferences and golf.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I will still vote against the slots proposal, but it was a productive session because O&#8217;Malley did his homework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has a generally glowing review of Martin O&#8217;Malley&#8217;s handling of the special session. He comes across as engaged, hard working, and willing to listen, as opposed to this characterization of his predecessor, which is prize: Del. Tom Hucker (D-Montgomery) said O&#8217;Malley won points for his openness to lawmakers&#8217; ideas and a work &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1071,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-maryland","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}