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JAISAL NOOR: He's got the money on his side.
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Maryland's Republican Governor Larry Hogan
has a massive fundraising advantage, allowing
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him to flood the airwaves with ads like this.
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TV SPOT: Tax, toll, and fee relief.
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Highest ever funding for schools.
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Healthiest Bay in a generation.
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JAISAL NOOR: His opponent says he needs the
people power
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to win.
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Polls have him down by double digits.
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To win, Ben Jealous says he needs a massive
increase in voter turnout in places like Baltimore
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City, where barely one in three voted in 2014.
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Low voter turnout statewide helped propel
Hogan into the governor's mansion in a state
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where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to
1.
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LARRY HOGAN: It seems like most people are
happy with some of the progress we've made
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over the last four years, and they want to
see us continue.
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JAISAL NOOR: Hogan does have high approval
ratings in Maryland, and his supporters say
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he's taken the state in the right direction.
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HOGAN SUPPORTER 1: What's important for us
is how Governor Hogan is supporting minority,
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diversity businesses.
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Specifically diversity women businesses.
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HOGAN SUPPORTER 2: I think in this jurisdiction
it's economic opportunity, fairness, and of
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course the violence situation.
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I think it's been- I think he's done a lot
more productive stuff here in our jurisdiction
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in Baltimore.
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JAISAL NOOR: But according to a new report
by the United Way, more than a third of Maryland
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residents are struggling to afford basic needs;
a number that remains largely unchanged over
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the past eight years.
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Baltimore has close to double the state average
unemployment and poverty rates.
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That's why Jealous recently visited the historic
Lexington Market to talk about his economic
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platform: Taking on corporate interests by
passing state-based Medicare for All, boosting
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aid for small businesses, and increasing the
minimum wage to $15 an hour, which would boost
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wages for one out of four workers in Maryland.
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Hogan says he's created 100,000 jobs in Maryland
during his tenure.
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We asked Jealous for a response.
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BEN JEALOUS: The question is how many more
jobs could we have created?
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We have dead last job growth in the region.
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It's not just, you know, how many jobs have
we created?
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It's how many more could we have created if
we were really leading this economy in bold
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new ways.
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I'm out here today to talk to local businesspeople
who are job creators, and have to bootstrap
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their businesses.
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And if we were willing to take risks on them
like we do on big corporations, they'd be
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growing that much more quickly.
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We'd be creating more jobs in places like
West Baltimore.
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JAISAL NOOR: We questioned Jealous about what
he would do to fight chronic unemployment.
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The black unemployment rate in Baltimore is
more than double the national average.
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BEN JEALOUS: My family's been rooted in West
Baltimore since 1941.
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[Inaudible] family even earlier than that.
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But my grandparents moved up here in '41.
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And when their old neighborhood was on fire
during the uprisings, I sat down with friends
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who were leaders in the city, business people
in the city.
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We mapped out the city.
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You can find all sorts of shortages and gaps.
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The one thing you could not find a shortage
of were small businesspeople and entrepreneurs.
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In fact, if each one of those small business
people in the city, each one of those entrepreneurs
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was just able to create one more job, it would
put a massive dent in the unemployment rate
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in the city.
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According To a Harvard study.
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Baltimore has the worst social mobility for
young black men in the country, which Jealous
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notes has its roots in racist government policies.
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BEN JEALOUS: Baltimore was the laboratory
for redlining.
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You go back, this is really where residential
segregation at its most extreme began.
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JAISAL NOOR: Jealous criticized Hogan for
canceling the Red Line, which he called a
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boondoggle.
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A federal civil rights complaint against the
move was dismissed by the Trump administration.
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BEN JEALOUS: This governor, when he redlines
the Red Line subway route that would have
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opened up opportunity in the county and the
city- even in Anne Arundel County, the chamber
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down there is upset that the governor killed
the Red Line.
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It set us back.
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What we really have to understand is that
all those systems have to work well together.
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I think people get how transportation gets
people to jobs, brings customers to businesses.
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But also you've got to make sure that your
education system is training young people
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for jobs that exist.
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So it's the fattest pipeline of talent, our
public schools, into every industry in our
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city and our state.
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JAISAL NOOR: Residents also expressed their
concern about a police department seemingly
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out of control.
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I asked Jealous if he supports reforming the
Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights,
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and putting the Baltimore Police Department,
currently under state control, under local
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control; a longtime demand of local criminal
justice reform advocates.
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BEN JEALOUS: Job one has to be to create a
police department that keeps us safer; where
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people are coming into the department from
the neighborhoods.
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We're actually creating an apprenticeship
program so that officers are being trained
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up into the department from those neighborhoods
so they serve them with the same heart that
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my grandfather, who raised his family across
West Baltimore, served West Baltimore as a
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probation officer.
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We've got to hold police officers to the same
standard we hold everybody else too.
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If you're a police officer and you kill somebody
wrongfully, that should be treated like murder.
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There should be no special treatment.
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You shouldn't have days to prepare your defense
before your fellow officers get to investigate
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you.
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We will fix that.
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It's wrong.
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It was good, I'm glad to see that the officer
who assaulted somebody now is being considered
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for charges for assault.
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That's the way that it should be working.
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As far as local control, I'm certainly open
to that but.
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But first order of business for me, make sure
we have enough homicide detectives.
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Make sure that we're funding Safe Streets.
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And make sure that we're routing out the corruption
we've seen so many examples of.
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Since the Civil War, the police department,
dual responsibility, the state and the city.
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And given how broken things are, I think the
state has to first make sure that it's fixed,
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and then hand over a fixed department to the
city.
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But you can't just throw one more problem
on the city and wash your hands of it.
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JAISAL NOOR: Thanks so much.
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Real News will continue to cover the campaign
for governor in Maryland.
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This is Jaisal Noor, in Baltimore.
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