Mar 30, 2017
Peter Franchot is Maryland's Comptroller and tasked with pretty much all things financial. Primarily he collects taxes and sits on the powerful three member Board of Public Works that doles out the dollars!
This week, we sat down with Franchot to talk about his
aggressive stance on fraudulent tax preparers who are getting
Marylanders in trouble. We also talk about computer fraud and why
the legislature will not give his office the power to go after
criminals who file thousands of fraudulent returns--it's the "good
ole boy network."
Aside from that, Franchot was a force to be reckoned with to have
schools start after Labor Day and getting much needed air
conditioning in aging Baltimore City and County schools.
After representing Montgomery County in the House of Delegates,
Franchot has been Comptroller for nearly a decade. He reaches
across party lines and finds a way to get things done. Is this man
playing the long game for a Gubernatorial run in 2018 or 2022? Tune
in and find out....or not!
A special thanks to our sponsors this week including... Zachary's Jewelers and Anne Arundel Medical Center's Denim & Diamonds. And a special thanks to Rushern Baker for the pre-show plug!
Nourishment for this episode provided by absolutely no one! We left starving and in search of a hot dog from Pip's Dogs!
Thank you to everyone who wrote with suggestions for upcoming episodes. We are on it.
Next week we talk pot! We will be talking to the organizers
of the National
Cannabis Festival which will be held on April
22nd in DC. We will hit on all you need to know as the weed becomes
legal in Maryland. Looking ahead--Travis Pastrana, Congressmen
Anthony Brown and John Sarbanes, St. John's College President Chris
Nelson, the new developers of Crystal Spring ...now knows as
Providence Point, and much more!
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