Gubernatorial candidate Rushern L. Baker III (D) will announce Friday that, if elected, he will move the governor’s office to the city of Baltimore for much of the year.
Baker’s campaign said it was a “clear commitment to making Baltimore City his administration’s top priority.”
“For the state to prosper, we have to turn Baltimore City around. Right now, the city faces profound adversity: broken, underfunded schools; the highest gang and gun violence rates in the country; and an economy in reverse as the city continues to lose population even as the rest of Maryland grows and thrives,” Baker, a former legislator and Prince George’s County executive, said in a statement released by the campaign. “The Governor of Maryland needs to treat these challenges as Maryland’s challenges, not just Baltimore City’s challenges. That has not been the approach from the State House for many years.”
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