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Mon May 6, 2019, 01:01 AM May 2019

As Highway Expansion Foes Pack Town Hall, Hogan Hits Back on Twitter

The approximately 750 elected officials, activists and citizens who packed Sunday’s Beltway/I-270 Town Hall in Montgomery County had reason to wonder whether their messages of opposition to Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s road-widening plan would reach Hogan himself.

They need not have worried.

About an hour in to the two-hour gathering, the governor took to social media to defend the state’s proposals — and to call into question the motives of those gathered at the Silver Spring Civic Building.

In one tweet, he referred to “anti-congestion-relief activists.”

Montgomery County Councilmember Tom Hucker (D), the organizer of the event, immediately read portions of Hogan’s posts off his phone. They were not well received by the standing-room-only crowd.

Read more: https://www.marylandmatters.org/2019/05/05/as-highway-expansion-foes-pack-town-hall-hogan-hits-back-on-twitter/

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