If there was one durable political relationship in Annapolis, it appeared to be between state Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot (D) and his longtime chief of staff, Len Foxwell.
Foxwell has been advising Franchot since the early 2000’s, well before Franchot was elected comptroller in 2006. He plotted Franchot’s improbable political rise, helped mold his political persona as a maverick, and made him the adroit and popular politician that he is today ― the early frontrunner in the 2022 gubernatorial election.
But the mutually beneficial partnership came to a swift and stunning end Monday when Franchot’s office released a terse statement announcing that Foxwell was relinquishing the top job in the comptroller’s office immediately and would “separate from the agency at the end of the month.”
The statement also said that Emmanuel Welsh, who has been Foxwell’s deputy chief of staff for the past four years, would become interim chief of staff.
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