Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and his predecessor, Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley, are squabbling over furniture O’Malley allegedly took with him upon his 2015 departure from the governor’s mansion.
Hogan accused O’Malley of being “misleading” in his account of when O’Malley showed the Hogans the mansion before the Hogans moved in.
“He has been misleading, no question about it,” Hogan said at a news conference Tuesday, according to The Baltimore Sun. “At no time did Governor O’Malley or the first lady mention any plan to take 54 pieces of furniture.”
Hogan alleged that O’Malley claimed that he owned the furniture Hogan said belonged to the taxpayers.
In a comment to the Sun, O’Malley’s campaign spokeswoman Haley Morris shot down Hogan’s accusations and that he followed the state’s Department of General Services procedures, as well as the precedent set by his predecessor, former Gov. Robert Ehrlich (R).
“Under the direction of DGS, the O’Malleys — just as the Ehrlichs did before them — purchased these non-historic household materials with their own money, according to guidelines set by DGS,” Morris said.
