I was very pleasantly surprised to see Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler knocking on doors in Ocean Pines on a recent weekend. He was energetically canvassing our neighbors and asking for their votes.
I have been carefully watching the gubernatorial candidates for months, and strongly believe Gansler will make the best governor. He is clearly a financial conservative, advancing many intelligent programs to woo out-of state manufacturers to locate — or in the cases of many who have left our state, relocate — to Maryland, create more jobs, provide free child care for low-income families so families and single parents can find and hold jobs and implement new job-creating ideas for prison inmates to reduce Maryland's high percentage of criminal re-entry in the the prison systems.
Gansler has said publicly he wants to win Ocean Pines and Worcester County. He's the only gubernatorial candidate I've seen acting on that ambition. And I believe he is the only candidate presenting intelligent and fiscally conservative plans to reduce our taxes by increasing statewide employment.