FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 22, 2013
Contact:
Steve Crim
ANNAPOLIS
– Larry Hogan, founder and Chairman of Change Maryland, said he would
launch a campaign for governor in January 2014 during
the citizen organization‘s Fall Harvest Party at the DoubleTree Hotel in Annapolis on Friday evening. Hogan, a successful businessman and lifelong citizen activist, spoke to a sold-out
crowd of over 1,000 people at the event. The party was the largest political
event of the year.
"
My friends here tonight, and a countless number
of our 65,000 folks from every single county all across the state have
encouraged me to consider running for Governor of Maryland next year,
"
Hogan said.
"
Many people seem to think that it may be the only
way we will have a chance to bring real reform and meaningful change to
Maryland.
“
Hogan founded Change Maryland
in 2011 because he "believed that we needed an independent,
bi-partisan voice that would advocate for sound, fiscally responsible,
common sense government." Since its inception, the
group has received much attention; it made national news in 2012 after
the release of its Tax Migration Study, which showed 31,000 taxpayers
leaving the state after the O'Malley-Brown Administration's historic
tax increases.
"
We cannot just sit back and allow an arrogant and
out-of-touch monopoly to run this great state into the ground without
putting up a fight,
"
Hogan said.
“I
believe that a majority of Marylanders,
regardless of party, are finally ready to say enough is enough! And
that the time has come for all of us, to stand up together, and fight
back for a change!
“
Larry Hogan has been a
business owner for over 25 years and has attracted hundreds of new
businesses and created thousands of new jobs in Maryland. He has spent a
lifetime working to make Maryland a better place
from leading citizen referendums to reforming government and limiting
taxes.
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