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Maryland, the state gubernatorial candidate and Obamacare point man, Lt. Governor Anthony Brown, boasted would be “the model” for implementing the Affordable Care Act, fell woefully short of its enrollment goals. According to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Maryland “enrolled” only 67, 757 resident in private health insurance plans between October 1, 2013 and March 31, 2014. This number falls far short of the revised goal of 150,000 newly insured O’Malley-Brown administration officials set for the now junked Maryland Health Benefit Exchange. The HHS report notes that the reported number enrolled in private insurance plans is “the cumulative number of individuals determined eligible to enroll in a plan through the Marketplace who have selected a plan…” the data does not reveal how many of those classified as enrolled have made payments.   The report does not include data on how many enrollees received subsidies noting, “Maryland is presently unab...

I bet that title got your attention, but I do in all seriousness believe that Montgomery County Delegate Heather Mizeur might very well be in the driver's seat in the Democratic Primary. The conventional wisdom for the last three years is that one of the two presumed front-runners, Lt. Governor Anthony Brown and Attorney General Doug Gansler, would be the Democratic nominee for Governor. Brown had all the trappings and benefits of incumbency, while Gansler had the $5 million war chest he was able to keep after the Maryland GOP's bad idea of giving him a free pass in his 2010 re-election campaign. But it's starting to look like the conventional wisdom is all wrong. There are two very distinct and very important things that have become apparent about the two front-runners: Anthony Brown is No Leader : One of the knocks against Anthony Brown in this race has been his inability to point to any successes or accomplishments in public office. It isn't exactly like his reputati...