One tax at a time
September 24, 2007
What do you think of Governor O’Malley’s one-tax-a-day announcement strategy?
In his article in today’s Daily Record, reporter Andy Rosen quotes Johns Hopkins University political scientist Matthew Crenson as saying, “It’s a very shrewd way to do it. To lay it all out at once would give the opportunity to different groups who are opposed to provisions of the program to join together.”
Crenson also said the gradual rollout gives O’Malley the opportunity to pull back pieces that draw heavy political flak.
House Minority Whip Christopher B. Shank, D-Washington, was not impressed with the O’Malley dribs and drabs gambit. “Marylanders are not fooled by smoke and mirrors,” he told Rosen. “They are smarter than that.”
So which is it—a good way to help people grasp the intricacies of a complex plan or a crass attempt to manage the news and give the governor maximum political cover?
-TOM LINTHICUM, Executive Editor
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I think it has not been an effective strategy. Every day I have opened the newspaper it seems there is a new tax increase. If they would have came out all at once we would have only had it front in center for one news cycle.