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Life in Brief Quick Summary Born: , 1956 Highly popular Republican governor in a blue state who juxtaposes pro-business, anti-tax Hometown: Edgewater, MD message with across-the-aisle work on climate and infrastructure Current Residence: Annapolis, MD • Son of a U.S. Congressman and native Marylander with early interest in politics Education • Founded a real estate business; frustration with • BA, Government and Political Science, state tax environment spurred him to create State University, 1978 Change Maryland, an anti-tax advocacy non- profit, which fueled his gubernatorial campaign Family • Focused time in office on providing financial • Wife, Yumi, is an artist and instructor at relief to the state taxpayers, including through Maryland Institute College of Art tax breaks, lowering toll prices, and removing • Three stepchildren regulations that hinder business • Champions restoration and Work History has joined national coalitions to address climate • , 2015-Present change • Founder, Change Maryland • Pursues public-private partnerships to fund state • Appointments Secretary, Office of Governor Bob infrastructure such as the expansion Ehrlich, 2003-2007 • Well respected in his state and amongst fellow • Founder, Hogan Companies ; second Republican governor in the state’s history to be re-elected and was Electoral History unanimously elected by his peers to chair the • Ran unopposed in 2018 gubernatorial primary National Governors Association and won general election by 11.9%; first elected in 2014 by 3.8% Approach and Motivations

Professional Affiliations Results-oriented Republican whose moderate stances help him achieve bipartisan goals • Appalachian Regional Commission • Says he seeks the best solutions, regardless of • Maryland Science Center the side of the political aisle they come from • National Governors Association • Considers his father his biggest political • Southern States Energy Board inspiration, citing Hogan Sr.’s dedication to • St. John’s College bipartisanship; Hogan Sr. was the first • Maryland Board of Public Works Republican to vote for President Nixon’s • The impeachment, and the only Republican to vote for all three articles of impeachment • In his capacity as chair of the National Governors Association, he has worked with Democratic state leaders on national infrastructure policies; active member in bipartisan U.S. Climate Alliance • Has given mixed messages on President Trump, balancing strong criticism with praise on economic matters; supported the House impeachment inquiry

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LARRY HOGAN (R-MD) GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND

Policy Positions and Areas of Focus Core Communities

Prioritizes growing economy, infrastructure, and Bipartisan network of governors and state protecting the environment bureaucrats; active in business community

Economic Growth: Fostering a strong economy Governors: Collaborates with bipartisan through tax breaks and deregulation gubernatorial allies, especially on infrastructure • Prioritizes tax relief, including through breaks for and climate families, small businesses, and retirees; signed • Worked as Secretary of Appointments in the bill to repeal stormwater remediation taxes administration of Governor (R) • Announced cost reductions at all major toll before entering politics facilities to save taxpayer money • Chair the National Governors Association • Focused on deregulating rules for businesses; alongside Vice Chair (D), where created Regulatory Reform Commission, he has focused on issues of infrastructure eliminating or reforming 850 regulations, • Member of bipartisan coalitions of governors including continuing education requirements for that address climate change, including the U.S. professional licensing Climate Alliance, American Flood Coalition, and Chesapeake Executive Council Infrastructure: Extends and modernizes transportation infrastructure through public- Pro-Business Community: Longstanding ties to private partnerships state business arena; involves business • Under his leadership, MDOT broke ground on community in policy process the Purple Line light rail public-private • Founded a successful real estate company now partnership to extend metro lines from Bethesda run by brother Timothy Hogan to New Carrollton • Founder of Change Maryland, a nonprofit anti- • Introduced Traffic Relief Plan to widen the tax advocacy organization, which he used to , I-270, and the - promote his own 2014 gubernatorial campaign; Parkway through America’s largest co-founder Thomas Kelso is President of Matrix transportation public-private partnership Capital Markets Group • As chair of the National Governors Association, • Named Maryland business executives including launched Foundation for Success initiative to business law attorney Abba David Poliakoff and rebuild and repair infrastructure in ways that will Soltesz CEO Jim Soltesz to his Regulatory grow the economy Reform Commission

Climate: Active in regional and national climate Maryland Bureaucrats: Personal bipartisan frameworks; mixed record on fracking relationships in state government • Chairs the six-state Chesapeake Executive • Familial ties to state government including Council, which leads the restoration of the father Sr., who served as a Chesapeake Bay; established the Governor’s U.S. Congressman and as Prince George's Task Force on Development County Executive; brother Patrick N. Hogan was and Siting to grow state solar and wind projects a representative in the Maryland House • Opposed the U.S. exit from the Paris • Tapped friend and former Maryland Secretary of Agreement; joined bipartisan coalition of states General Services as his in the U.S. Climate Alliance to uphold the gubernatorial running mate commitments of the • Fostered close ties with powerful state • Signed law banning fracking in the state but Democrats, including former Governor and supported pipelines in Maryland that transport mentor and friend and former out-of-state natural gas obtained by fracking President of the Mike Miller

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LARRY HOGAN (R-MD) GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND

Relevant Financial Information Publications, Media, and Speaking

Top donors in previous election cycle include Discusses bipartisanship and climate on the Maryland-based companies, business national stage; engages with state business executives, and unions groups

Biggest Industry Donors (2018) Publications: Authors op-eds in national • Finance, Insurance, & Real Estate: $1.8 million newspapers to criticize hyper-partisanship and • Construction: $1.4 million promote environmental protection • General Business: $1.3 million • Favorite Subjects: Gerrymandering, partisan • Party: $1.2 million compromise, and clean air • Health: $700,000 • Preferred Outlets: National newspapers including USA Today, , Biggest Group Donors (2018) and CNBC • Maryland Building Industry Association (Fulton, PA), $40,000 Media: Cultivates national platform for views on • Associated Builders & Contractors, Baltimore bipartisan policymaking, climate, and Metro Washington Chapter (Beltsville, MD), infrastructure $23,000 • Favorite Subjects: Bipartisanship, criticism of • Maryland Asphalt Association (Glen Burnie, President Trump, climate policy, and MD), $22,000 infrastructure projects • BSC America (Belcamp, MD), $21,000 • Preferred Outlets: National outlets including • CUA Opco LLC (Owings Mills, Maryland), NBC News, MSNBC, FOX News; late night $20,000 shows including Late Night with Seth Meyers • NRG Energy (Houston, TX), $18,000 • Social Media Habits: Active on

Biggest Individual Donors (2018) Speaking: Frequents local business • Dorothy S. Bishop, Self-employed CPA conferences to speak on state economic (Baltimore, MD), $18,000 development and trade • Alan L Meltzer, Founder of the Meltzer Group • Favorite Subjects: Workforce development, (Boca Raton, FL), $17,000 state of business, U.S.-Korea and U.S.-Canada trade • Anne W. Kinsley, President of the Kinsley Family Foundation (Seven Valleys, PA), • Preferred Audience: Business groups including $16,000 Maryland Municipal, the Chesapeake Gateway • Michael Epstein, Gastroenterologist (Annapolis, Chamber of Commerce, and the Korea-U.S. MD), $14,000 Investment Forum • George S. Rich, Managing Partner at the GRI Fund (Baltimore, MD), $13,000 • Joel S. Meisel, Managing Partner at Meisel Holdings (Washington, DC), $12,000

Political Donations • O’Donnell (R-NY) for Congress, 2012, $2,500 • Nancy Jacobs (R-MD) for Congress, 2012, $1,000 • Republican National Committee, 2012, $1,000

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LARRY HOGAN (R-MD) GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND

Family and Personal Background Criticisms and Controversies

Family background in politics; married to a first- No notable controversies generation Korean American and is a cancer survivor

Roots in Florida and the DC metro area; early exposure to politics • Born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Landover, Maryland • Moved to Florida with his mother after his parents divorced • While in college, worked in the Florida State Legislature and then on Capitol Hill • Helped his father run a successful campaign for Prince George's County Executive and later worked for his father as a legislative liaison

Wife Yumi is a first-generation Korean American • Yumi Hogan works as an artist and teacher at the Maryland Institute College of Art • She is the first Asian first lady in Maryland history and the first Korean-American first lady in U.S. history • They have three daughters, four grandchildren, and two shih tzu dogs

Cancer survivor • Diagnosed in 2015 with stage three non- Hodgkin lymphoma • Completed 18 weeks of chemotherapy and announced the cancer was in remission • Underwent his final chemotherapy treatment in 2016 and was deemed to be cancer-free

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LARRY HOGAN (R-MD) GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND

COVID-19 Update COVID-19 Update (Continued)

Prominent voice for governors of both parties, Actions (Continued) advocating for increased federal assistance on • Directed the Maryland Department of Labor to testing and speaking out against President take action to bolster the unemployment claims Trump process, including by doubling staff • Introduced “Maryland Strong: Roadmap to Actions: Through partnerships with the private Recovery” plan to gradually reopen the sector, expands services to address public economy, based on guidance from the National health and state economy Governors Association, the American Enterprise • In early February, convened meeting of two Institute, and Johns Hopkins dozen governors with members of the White House coronavirus task force including Dr. Messaging: Calls for caution and increased and Center for Disease Control testing; encourages residents to stay hopeful and Prevention director Robert Redfield; worked • Named the lack of testing as the number one with the Democratic-controlled state legislature issue facing states; wrote to President Trump to to fund emergency preparations, including request guidance on using federal labs for increased hospital bed capacity COVID-19 testing and has been critical of the • Created a state coronavirus response team Trump Administration’s insistence that states comprised of epidemiologists and public health are prepared to reopen, citing inaccessible doctors from Johns Hopkins University, the testing University of Maryland, and other state • Called President Trump’s plan of reopening by institutions Easter very harmful, stating “we would obviously • Announced a stay at home order and closed not listen to that” nonessential businesses; was the second state • Has emphasized that he bases his policies on in the country to close public schools advice from scientists and doctors; denounces • Issued proclamation to postpone the April 28 partisan politics primary and implement vote-by-mail system • Maintains that there are very real reasons for • With Bloomberg Philanthropies, announced the hope and optimism; offered reassuring message State of Maryland would fund Johns Hopkins to state’s children by naming the Easter Bunny University-led COVID-19 treatment research an essential worker • Announced the launch of COVIDConnect registry for Marylanders who have recovered Public Reception: High approval rating amongst from COVID-19 Marylanders; conflict with President Trump • Worked to expand testing facilities, including • Maryland residents and media have largely through converting Vehicle Emissions Inspection praised Hogan’s response as pragmatic and Program Stations into testing sites science-driven • Secured 500,000 COVID-19 tests through • President Trump has criticized Hogan, including Operation Enduring Friendship with South Korea for Hogan’s move to source tests from South • Activated statewide strike teams for nursing Korea, claiming that there was sufficient testing homes; ordered shut down of unsafe facilities capability in the state and that Hogan should • Enacted emergency orders to expand telehealth have called instead • Announces financial relief initiatives for Marylanders and small businesses, including partnership with banks and credit unions to provide additional flexibility for borrowers

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