Hogan watches media closely, doesn’t hold back in emails

While the Maryland General Assembly’s presiding officers rely on staff to read and respond to email sent to their state accounts, Gov. Larry Hogan is in the driver’s seat of his.

Hogan is blunt with his staffers when it comes to defending his administration.

The Associated Press obtained hundreds of pages of emails from the governor and leading lawmakers over a week’s time through a Public Information Act request as part of a Sunshine Week initiative. Hogan doesn’t hold back when he reads something he doesn’t like.

In response to an editorial in The Baltimore Sun that questioned whether Hogan’s “inaction” was holding the state back, Hogan emailed his communications director: “What a joke. We have more action in one year than most do in 8.”

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