Governor Larry Hogan - I just watched a great interview on The View of him. What a normal....

[George II]

....down to earth guy he is, and effective. He's battling trump as much as any governor and just wants to do the right thing.

Toward the end I was shocked, he's REPUBLICAN! But he doesn't give a crap about his party, just his people.

Well done, Governor!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. He's putting Marylanders first.

He's really impressing me and I'm a very blue Marylander.

[RockRaven]

2. This is the State of the Union: acting like a normal human garners praise for a Republican

Getting rid of Trump and McConnell is insufficient to fix what ails the US.

[zonkers]

5. You are so right.

[Jake Stern]

3. Let's not kid ourselves here

The only reason Repub governors Hogan and Baker in MA are so "moderate" is because Maryland and Massachusetts are solidly blue states that have overwhelmingly Dem legislatures in place to keep them from going full tilt Trumper.

They don't really fear a challenge from the right.

Now Mike DeWine really impresses me. From his history one could believe he'd be an un-repentant Trump bootlicker but he has proven his ability to not only buck Trump but tell the GOP dominated Ohio assembly NO once in a while.

[niyad]

6. DeWine is doing some good thing, but is using this plague to continue his attack on women's rights.

[Jake Stern]

8. Didn't say he was 100% awesome

but his standing up to Trump and basing his actions on real science, not the junk science others are following, is something I give massive kudos to.

[niyad]

9. I have no problem giving him credit on standing up to donnie bodybags, but I don't forget, ever,

How he targets women's rights. We can do both at the same time.

[woodsprite]

4. My friend's daughter and SIL work for him.

Admitted, they're repubs, but they say he's a really good guy, with old fashioned repub beliefs -- not all this teabagger and Trump crap. If that's the case, then good -- but he's still a repub.

[honest.abe]

7. Many Dems didnt understand back in Nov 2018 why we in Maryland voted for this guy.

I suppose now they get it.

[a kennedy]

10. This is his wife.......

When Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland addressed the media at his Monday afternoon news conference, he made it clear his wife, Yumi Hogan -- and not the federal government -- was the reason his state secured half a million coronavirus test kits.

Maryland's first lady was born in South Korea and became a US citizen in 1994. She not only used her native language to help secure the tests but also helped negotiate the deal.
"We convened countless calls, nearly every night, sometimes it seemed like all night," said Hogan of the 22 days he and the first lady worked in conjunction with the Korean government to land the mother lode of hard-to-come-by coronavirus test kits.
On Saturday, both Hogans were on the tarmac at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, greeting a chartered 777 Korean Air plane with no passengers aboard. Inside were enough test kits from Korea's LabGenomics for Maryland to perform 500,000 tests.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/20/politics/who-is-yumi-hogan/index.html