Howard County

me tell you a positive that I believe has come out of this that's not necessarily involving Baltimore City 530 Club, but involving the Inspector General's office in general.

As we were concerned, Brian, that this situation in Baltimore would lead to, and it did, lead to a chill when it comes to local governments, Howard County, Baltimore County, Montgomery County, dealing with their own IG's offices, like putting, you know, stiff arming them for certain information they wanted.

Howard County, a councilwoman, Deb Jung, Yesterday.

Yesterday.

Now, the timing of this, you can't get away from because of the appellate court order on Friday.

So yesterday, Councilwoman Jung put a bill in to basically give the Howard County Inspector General, which we now know as Kelly Madigan, the same power that the Judge White gave to Isabel Cumming.

What the bill would do is make the Howard County Inspector General co-custodian, which is an important term.

That means that I can look at what you look at.

That is Congressman Jamie Raskin, congressman from Montgomery County, Maryland, Democrat in the Baltimore region.

Brian, joining Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott, Baltimore County Executive Democratic nominee Julian Jones, Howard County Executive Democrat nominee, who, by the way, is unopposed.

Nobody's running against her.

Vanessa Atterbury, a whole bunch of state senators, delegates, all of them together, Brian, an audience pushing for question three, the constitutional amendment that will change the way we draw district lines for Congress.

This morning we just went down before the, the big weather hit.

We played, uh, down at the timbers at Troy, which is, uh, South of the tunnel, um, down in, I think it's, it's seen there in Arundel or Howard County.

It's right in that area, like in the middle of everything.

Um, but played okay.

Oh, I love this part.

He explains that he operates these businesses in Howard County, which is a very wealthy, notoriously high-rent zip code.

And then he points the finger right back at the consumer's wallet.

He points out that those shiny credit card reward points everyone loves to collect, like your Visa travel miles, your Amex points, they are not magically funded by the banks.