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Last Updated on Thursday, 5 February 2009 03:00 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 5 February 2009 01:19
From Maryland Politics:
O’Malleywatch is up with renewed speculation about the possibility that Attorney General Doug Gansler might be leaving for a job in the Obama administration. That rumor has been kicking around for a while because Gansler was a big and early Obama supporter in Maryland and is a former federal prosecutor.
It wouldn’t be all that surprising to see him take a job in the justice department, particularly if he got something big in enviornmental law or one of the other issues he focuses on the most. On the other hand, Gansler has been raising a lot of money for a re-election bid — enough to scare off competitors and set himself up as a front-runner for governor in 2014. Going to the federal government would definitely take him out of that mix.