INTERVIEW – GREG KLINE – RED MARYLAND – 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

• Democratic candidates take swipes at Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan in first TV debate of election season. (Baltimore Sun) — In the first televised debate of the election season, Democrats running for Maryland governor attacked popular Republican incumbent Larry Hogan and attempted to stand out by highlighting what little differences exist among their campaigns. The hour-long taped debate, which aired at 7 p.m. Monday on Maryland Public Television and WBAL-TV’s digital channel, offered many voters their first glimpse at the crowded field of nine candidates seeking the Democratic nomination in the June 26 primary election. The Democrats — from longtime government officials to political novices — largely agreed that Maryland needs to spend more on education and mass transit and less on locking people in jails. They also agreed that Hogan had damaged Baltimore by canceling the proposed Red Line transit project and by not engaging enough to help the city deal with the more than 1,100 homicides during the GOP governor’s term. They criticized Hogan for not investing more in education and for what they described as an unfriendly business climate.