Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

Here's a trivia question.

What do Blair Lee, Sam Bogley, Joe Curran, Mickey Steinberg, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Michael Steele, Anthony Brown, Boyd Rutherford, and Aruna Miller have in common? If you follow Maryland politics closely, you probably know that these are the nine men and women who have served as lieutenant governor in the modern era, beginning in 1971.

Okay, here's a deeper cut.

Who is Christopher Cox? He was a surgeon from Talbot County and a Union general during the Civil War.

Quote, "'We don't have to change the sign,' Steinberg declared." They finished third in the primary.

It was Parris Glendening, a three-term Prince George's County executive whose political career began on the Hyattsville City Council in 1967, who won that Democratic primary for governor.

Glendening's pick for his running mate that year was Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a member of the most storied family in Democratic politics.

KKT had run unsuccessfully for a Maryland congressional seat in 1986, but largely faded from political view after that.

Whenever you have a political dynasty, you got political power in the family, everybody does anything they can to keep that middle, that last name.

They hyphenate, they make it a middle name, and they go by the, whatever it is, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.

I remember in Maryland, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.

Like, okay, she's like a second cousin twice removed, but damn if she's not going to suckle off that Kennedy teat.

Same thing with Lucas and her grandson.

Thank you so much for joining us here on Battle Line.

We have with us Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.

Welcome back, Lieutenant Governor.

It's

Did they change any final undecided thinkers? Gonna ask our fine guests this evening.

First, Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend here for her virgin, uh, visit with battle line.

Lieutenant Governor, welcome aboard.

Good to be with you this evening.

Uh, he seemed to be more in accordance with the rules, very relaxed, and very much in command of the facts.

I'm wondering if we're not looking at a bit of a wash here.

To you, Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.

Oh, I don't think it was a wash at all.

But today was one of those days.

In a column for Politico Magazine, former Congressman Joseph Kennedy II, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, and her daughter Maeve Kennedy McCain criticize RFK Jr.'s longtime anti-vaxxer efforts.

They write, "He has helped spread dangerous misinformation over social media, and is complicit in sowing distrust of the science behind vaccines."

Even if this was the deadly disease that they say it is, there's worse things than death.

Absolutely

... right, I m- it's, that's our democracy.

In 2019, your siblings, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and, um, Joseph P. Kennedy II, as well as your niece, penned an essay in Politico entitled, "RFK Jr.

Is Our Brother and Uncle: He's Tragically Wrong About Vaccines." If I can ask you, what's your relationship like with the rest of your family as these issues around vaccination, and it's a hot topic, right? Have become so contentious and polarizing.

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Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and that whole ph- uh, philosophy that were rejected back in 2002.

2014, 41 toll tax fee increases from Martin O'Malley, and a rain tax.

Right.