Hogan approved $16 million in competitive housing awards to develop family property

Marylanders are seeing widespread coverage of Republican Larry Hogan’s mounting conflicts of interest, including new reporting that Hogan personally approved spending more than $16 million in competitive state funds to develop his own family’s property. Hogan also reportedly directed more than $90 million in competitive state housing awards to his real estate firm’s listed clients.

Here’s what people are saying:

Senator Ben Cardin: Public service requires trust. Trust requires avoiding actual or perceived conflict of interest. Hogan majorly missed the mark here. #MoreReasonstoElectAlsobrooks

Lieutenant Governor Aruna Miller: ICYMI: ?@LarryHogan approved millions of dollars in state funds that benefited a property development involving his stepmother.

Comptroller Brooke Lierman: Inexcusable.

Former Attorney General Brian Frosh: Larry Hogan approved $15 million in subsidies for development of his stepmother’s property. That’s all.

Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman: As Governor, Larry Hogan personally approved spending more than $16 million in state funds to develop his family’s property. We cannot have this kind of corruption in the Senate.

House Majority Whip Jazz Lewis: This latest news is just another example of the Trump-endorsed former governor putting his own interests before Marylanders’. As a senator, he would continue to do the same.

Delegate Vaughn Stewart: Another shoe drops: Larry Hogan directed public housing dollars to his stepmom. Maryland law says officials must recuse themselves when their public actions benefit themselves or their family. Larry *repeatedly* failed to follow the law.

Delegate Courtney Watson: Violation of Ethics 101 – stay far away from awarding state tax credits to family property.  Do not put this guy in the U.S. Senate.

Baltimore City Councilman Juliane E. Jones Jr.: No elected official should make money off of decisions they oversee – or in Larry Hogan’s case, personally approve, especially when it now benefits a relative. This is again why we must elect @AlsbrooksForMD for US Senate!