Maryland Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wes Moore has picked up a significant endorsement from one of many state’s largest unions: the Maryland Fraternal Order of Police.
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Police union endorses Democrat Wes Moore in Maryland governor’s race
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Clyde Boatwright, president of the Maryland FOP, mentioned the union members had been impressed by Moore’s résumé and his imaginative and prescient of bettering training and rising jobs as a part of an general crime-fighting plan.
“He spoke to our delegation, and he was natural,” Boatwright mentioned. “He clearly has, along with his army background, a deep understanding for the wants of people who put on a uniform. He didn’t are available in asking something or providing something. What either side needed was a partnership.”
Moore, an Military veteran, captured greater than 60 p.c of the vote from the 400 delegates attending the FOP’s convention. Boatwright mentioned the delegates had been deciding between Cox or Moore, or extending no endorsement. To win the endorsement, Moore or Cox wanted 60 p.c of the vote.
The police help comes as debate intensifies over crime-fighting initiatives in Baltimore and past, and because the state continues to implement the sweeping modifications it made final 12 months on how police do their jobs and the way they’re disciplined. The modifications had been the results of a nationwide outcry over systemic racism and policing after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in Might 2020.
An endorsement from the Maryland FOP to a Democratic candidate shouldn’t be uncommon in Maryland. Former lieutenant governor Anthony G. Brown received it in 2014 in his bid in opposition to Larry Hogan (R). Hogan obtained it in 2018 in his run for reelection.
Larry Stafford, govt director of Progressive Maryland, mentioned there was a sea change in policing since Brown’s endorsement in 2014. Since 2014 — the 12 months Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer — requires police transparency and accountability have elevated, they usually intensified in 2020, after the videotaped homicide of Floyd.
When advised of the FOP endorsement, Stafford mentioned he doesn’t need Moore to take progressive votes with no consideration. “We wish to be certain that he holds true to these values in workplace,” he mentioned. “Our chief function on this election is to be sure that we show that progressive votes certainly matter.”
Brian Jones, a spokesman for Moore, mentioned the endorsement underscores “how clear the selection is between the Democratic and Republican nominees for governor and the intensive coalition we’re assembling and that we’re taking nothing with no consideration in his marketing campaign and wish to carry each entity that has a stake in the way forward for Maryland” to the desk.
Moore attended the FOP’s convention Tuesday to make a bid for the endorsement of the 21,000-member union. Union officers mentioned Cox was slated to current on Monday, however had a scheduling battle emerge. In a press release, Cox expressed his disappointment with the selection and took purpose at Moore profiting off his 2010 best-selling e book “The Different Wes Moore,” wherein a person who shares Moore’s title was convicted of killing Baltimore County police Sgt. Bruce Prothero.
“As a State Delegate I’ve stood firmly with the FOP in opposition to efforts to ‘defund the police’ and as Governor, will all the time again the blue,” mentioned Cox, who has made crime a chief subject of his marketing campaign.
“I’ve been talking with tons of of legislation enforcement officers all through the state throughout this marketing campaign and stay up for persevering with to earn each single particular person legislation enforcement officer’s vote come November,” he continued.
At an occasion launching his headquarters in Annapolis this week, the first-term delegate advised just a few dozen supporters that crime “is uncontrolled and sadly, we don’t have the help of the police that we should always have. … It’s not working for our economic system. It’s not working for Marylanders for our security. We have to flip that round, must be sure that we again the blue and defend them of their jobs.”
Union officers mentioned Moore didn’t provide or define particular proposals throughout his interview.
Moore, who’s making his first bid for public workplace, assured the officers that he could be collaborative, expressed his help of collective bargaining and mentioned he deliberate to deal with recruiting and retaining officers and making it inexpensive for retired officers to stay within the state.
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Michigan State football opens as sizable underdog vs Maryland
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Who’s ready for Big Ten play to begin? In all honesty, I am not. I really wish Michigan State football had more tune-up games after seeing them struggle against Florida Atlantic and only win 16-10. But unfortunately, that is not how the schedule unfolds for Michigan State this season.
The Spartans will hit the road for an early Big Ten game as they face Maryland on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Going into the season I thought Michigan State and the Terps were on a pretty level playing field, but after seeing both teams play week one that doesn’t appear to be the case.
And Vegas agrees.
Michigan State opens as a 7.5-point underdog next week at Maryland. My guess is that grows to 8, 8.5.
— Graham Couch (@Graham_Couch) September 1, 2024
As you all know, Michigan State only beat Florida Atlantic by six and did not look very impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball. So it’s no surprise that MSU will be the underdog next week. But 7.5 points feels like a lot, and according to the Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch, it likely will only go up from there.
So does Vegas have it right or are they underrating Michigan State?
Looking at Maryland’s week one game against UConn it appears Vegas has this line right. The Terps were up 23-0 at halftime and never looked back and went on to win in dominant fashion 50-7. UConn and FAU are very similar in terms of what level they’re at in college football, so that drastic of a difference in the final score is very scary.
So Vegas probably could’ve gotten away with Maryland being even bigger favorites in this one.
But maybe Vegas saw what I did and thinks a lot of Michigan State’s mistakes on Friday are easy to fix. Maybe they think Aidan Chiles will be much better next week. The Spartan’s defense was also fairly dominant so there isn’t much of a chance Maryland scores 50 points next week either.
I tend to not bet on Michigan State games, but even if I did this would be a line that I would avoid because who knows how much Jonathan Smith’s squad will improve by next week, and who knows how much Maryland might struggle against a Power Four opponent.
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University of Maryland reverses decision to allow anti-Israel protest on October 7
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.
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