Maryland’s incoming lieutenant governor, Boyd Rutherford (R), has decided that he doesn’t want a stand-alone office with a full staff that reports just to him. Instead, Rutherford said Tuesday that he plans to work closely with the staff of Gov.-elect Larry Hogan (R). I think we should be a team, and Larry feels the same way, Rutherford said Tuesday evening at a menorah-lighting ceremony in Baltimore. We’ve seen with lieutenant governors — almost since they re-created the lieutenant governor position — that, sometimes, you have conflict. We started as friends, and we want to stay friends. Hogan, who has been quietly and quickly building his administration, confirmed Tuesday that he and Rutherford plan to share a staff. Hogan already has tasked his No. 2 with overseeing the state’s response to a rush of heroin-related overdose deaths. Usually the lieutenant governor has kind of a peripheral function without any real responsibilities, but he’s going to be just the opposite, Hogan said. He’s going to be directly involved in the management of the government with us.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:00:01 +0000
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