A surprise guest at the BPW

June 12, 2008

There was an unusual substitution at Wednesday’s meeting of the Board of Public Works.

Gov. Martin O’Malley was flanked by Treasurer Nancy Kopp and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown — instead of Comptroller Peter Franchot.

O’Malley and Franchot have been known to snipe at each other at BPW meetings, sometimes coming down on different sides of spending issues. They had some particularly unpleasant interactions last summer over some land acquisitions for state conservation programs. O’Malley and Brown, on the other hand, shared a ticket in 2006 and seem to get along just fine.

During the opening of Wednesday’s meeting, Brown noted that he was not the comptroller, but thanked O’Malley for the introduction.

“I thank you,” O’Malley quipped. Everybody got a kick out of that one.

ANDY ROSEN, Business Writer 

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One Response to “A surprise guest at the BPW”

  1. Anonymous on June 13th, 2008 6:48 am

    Does the Lt. Gov. have the authority to vote in place of the Comptroller?

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