Last Saturday, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan closed the state’s beaches, leaving the state's 7,719 miles of shoreline to piping plovers and sand crabs.
WASHINGTON — There were people on the beaches, and Larry Hogan was furious. Normally the governor of Maryland might be pleased to see citizens flocking to Ocean City and Assateague instead of decamping for the warmer climes of South Carolina or Florida. But with the coronavirus poised to strike his state, there were considerations beside tourism on the mind of the 63-year-old Republican.
His manner is so apolitical that it would be difficult to tell whether Hogan is a Republican or Democrat. He is, in fact, a Republican, one who was reelected in 2018 in a state in which both legislative chambers are bluer than the Chesapeake Bay. But his is a legitimately independent brand of Republicanism, rooted in his father’s having been the first Republican member of Congress to support the impeachment of Richard Nixon.
“He is acting based on science, he is based on expert opinion, and he is not making things up as he goes along,” Raskin says. That the suburbs Raskin represents were among the few places in Maryland to vote for Hogan’s challenger for the governorship have not resulted in retribution of the kind the aforementioned Christie exercised on a Democratic mayor, which became known as Bridgegate and led to his own undoing.
The virus did not arrive in Maryland in earnest until early March. On March 6, just as Maryland surpassed a half dozen confirmed coronavirus cases, Hogan created a state coronavirus task force packed with pedigreed experts with ties to Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland. Six days after that, Hogan made Maryland the second state in the nation after Ohio to close all of its schools.
If some are in the thrall of alternative facts or gut feelings, Hogan refuses to be among them. “I’ve been listening to the scientists and the doctors,” he says.
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