ANNAPOLIS – This afternoon Larry Hogan and Boyd
Rutherford filed their certificate of candidacy with the Maryland Board
of Elections for Governor and Lt. Governor respectively. They also
filed their notice of intent to participate in the Fair Campaign
Financing Fund.
“The matching funds level the playing field for
grassroots campaigns like ours and enables us to compete with the out of
touch monopoly in Annapolis,” said Hogan.
“I also want to make it perfectly clear. No tax dollars are used in the Fair Campaign Financing Fund”, said Rutherford.
Maryland’s Fair Campaign Financing program is not funded
by taxpayer dollars. Instead, it relies on voluntary donations made by
Marylanders on their State personal income tax form before the option
was removed by the legislature in 2010. Since 2010, the fund has grown
strictly through investment income.
“Every election, millions in special interest dollars pour into the campaigns of the out-of-touch Annapolis politicians,” charged Hogan.
“By
accepting these funds, we give a voice to hundreds of thousands of
Marylanders fed-up with the monopoly of power in Annapolis and our
campaign to change Maryland can focus on reaching voters with our common
sense message of fiscal restraint and reform in Annapolis.”
By participating in the Fair Campaign Financing fund the
Hogan-Rutherford campaign agrees to limit their expenditures during the
primary to $2.6 million, approximately ten times the amount raised by
their nearest challenger for the Republican nomination.
Internal and external polls suggest Larry Hogan is the
best positioned to stop status quo, politics-as-usual in Annapolis.
Recent polling shows just 31% of likely voters wanting to see a
continuation of the current administration’s failed leadership. In
fact, this same polling indicates that Maryland voters favor a dramatic
change of direction by an impressive 25 point margin.
Together, Larry Hogan and Boyd Rutherford have the right mix of private and public sector experience to turn Maryland around.
A business owner for over 25 years, Larry has helped
attract hundreds of businesses and thousands of jobs to Maryland. He
took time away from his successful business to serve as a Cabinet
Secretary in the Ehrlich Administration, and founded the state’s largest
non-partisan grassroots organization, Change Maryland, focused on
bringing fiscal responsibility and common sense policies to Annapolis.
Boyd Rutherford is an accomplished Attorney and
Operations Executive with broad private and public sector experience and
expertise at both the Federal and state levels. He has served as the
Assistant Secretary for Administration at the US Department of
Agriculture (USDA), Associate Administrator of the GSA, as well as the
Secretary of the Maryland Department of General Services (DGS).
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For additional information contact:|
Adam J Schmidt (443) 221-4450 office (410) 897-7050 mobile aschmidt@hoganforgovernor.com |
Hannah Marr (443) 221-4450 office (443) 935-3684 mobile hmarr@hoganforgovernor.com |
@Hogan4Governor | www.HoganforGovernor.com | fb.com/ChangeMaryland
Authority: Larry Hogan for Governor, John C. Wobensmith, Treasurer
Authority: Larry Hogan for Governor, John C. Wobensmith, Treasurer
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