Political notebook: Hogan calls out ‘Project 2025’ in Washington Post opinion piece

Hogan calls out ‘Project 2025’ in Washington Post opinion piece

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican candidate for United States Senate, wrote a recent opinion piece for the Washington Post calling a much-discussed conservative presidential planning document a “radical approach.”

At issue is the more than 900-page document Mandate for Leadership The Conservative Promise produced last year by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington-based think tank. The document, which includes plans for federal agencies from some former officials in the administration of Donald Trump, has come to be known by its subtitle on the opening page, “Project 2025.”

“I am a firm believer in what might be called traditional American values: rule of law, separation of church and state, and respect for civil service professionals,” Hogan said in the July 19 piece. “Project 2025 takes many of the principles that have made this nation great and shreds them.”

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Hogan said “toxic politics” on both sides undermine faith in the United States’ system of government, but called out Project 2025 as a “threat to American values.” In his piece, the former governor pointed out some of the document’s proposals including those pertaining to federal workers, and the Department of Justice, and called a Project 2025 suggestion to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education “absurd.”

The full text of Hogan’s opinion can be found at tinyurl.com/35z37bd7. The full text of the Heritage Foundation document can be found at tinyurl.com/bzsvsyd2.

(Washington County Commissioner Derek Harvey, formerly of the office of California Republican U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, is listed in the Project 2025 document as a contributor.)

---Dwight A. Weingarten

This article originally appeared on Salisbury Daily Times: Political notebook: Hogan calls out ‘Project 2025’ in opinion piece