Big bucks developer to MD governor Bob Ehrlich: I’ll scratch your back, then you can scratch mine.
The $4,000 checks started arriving in Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.’s reelection campaign treasury Jan. 2 from such obscure corporations as Freestate Owner LLC, Muirkirk, Chase Limited and President Street Associates.
By Jan. 3, there were seven of the checks, each from a company directly linked to developer Kingdon Gould III, a descendant of railroad barons who is one of Maryland’s most prolific political donors and a vigorous booster for the intercounty connector.
That same day, Ehrlich’s transportation secretary signed off on a final study of the controversial highway, an 18-mile ribbon of asphalt that would extend east from Rockville to the gravel pits where Gould plans a massive commercial and residential development called Konterra.
It’s sad that the rest of us in Maryland don’t have $4,000 checks to wave under the nose of the governor to get his attention.
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