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☆ Maryland Gov. Wes Moore needles the GOP presidential contenders over the 'divisive' worldview offered in their first debate: 'I'm just not sure who they're actually speaking to'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Wes Moore questioned who the GOP contenders spoke to in their first presidential debate. "I'm not hearing the conversations about national abortion bans," he said of his own constituents. Wes Moore of Maryland criticized the tenor of the first Republican presidential debate, arguing that the contenders were not speaking to the everyday concerns of most Americans. So they just weren't speaking to the people of my state, or frankly, I'm just not sure who they're actually speaking to." "But the political divisiveness is something that I'm hearing all across the state, too," he continued.

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☆ Gov. Wes Moore wants Democrats to deliver results. If he pulls it off, he could change Maryland for decades.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

When speaking about the Democratic Party in Maryland, Moore leaned into a similar message. "If you look at the work that we're doing here in the state of Maryland, it's results," he said. Moore in his office at the Maryland State House in Annapolis. Moore told me that he had full confidence in the legality of the legislation, calling it "the right thing to do." Moore gives his first State of the State address at the Maryland State House on February 1, 2023.

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The bill already passed the Senate and now goes to President Joe Biden for his signature. “In removing Taney’s bust, I’m not asking that we would hold Taney to today’s moral standards,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Wednesday while advocating for the statue’s removal. Figures like Taney belong in history textbooks and classroom discussions, not in marbled bronze on public display of honor.”A similar effort in 2020 that passed the House aimed to remove Taney’s bust from the Capitol along with monuments honoring Confederates. That bill, however, was eventually stalled by Senate Republicans who argued that states should decide which statues they’d like to display in the Capitol. A statue of Taney was previously removed in 2017 from the grounds of the Maryland State House.

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