If an elected official isn’t on top of a high profile issue that they can score cheap political points with – they shouldn’t be in office we say!

Taking on a new role as environmental watchdog, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler says he plans to hold town hall-style meetings across Maryland to find strategies to cut pollution into the Chesapeake Bay.One goal of the meetings – which start tomorrow in Chestertown – is to get tips from residents about polluters the state could prosecute, Gansler said.

But a broader goal is to come up with new public policies that could help solve environmental problems, and to help coordinate the efforts of other state agencies, he said.

“We want to change the culture in our office, and do more outreach,” said Gansler, a Democrat who took office last year. “We want to go out and find out what people think are the biggest issues causing environmental degradation of their rivers and the bay.”

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