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Why Anthony Brown's Tax Promise Is Risky

Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown.
Christopher Connelly
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Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown.
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown.
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Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown.

Why Anthony Brown's Tax Promise Is Risky

Lt.Gov. Anthony Brown, the Democratic nominee for governor,has declared that he would not raise taxes if elected governor. WYPR'sFraser Smith and Bryan Sears of the Daily Record talk about how that might put Brown in a difficult political position if voters choose him in November.

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Fraser Smith has been in the news business for over 30 years. He began his reportorial career with the Jersey Journal, a daily New Jersey newspaper and then moved on to the Providence Journal in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1969 Fraser won a prestigious American Political Science Association Public Affairs Fellowship, which enabled him to devote a year to graduate study at Yale University. In 1977, Fraser was hired away by The Baltimore Sun where in 1981, he moved to the newspaper's Washington bureau to focus on policy problems and their everyday effect on Marylanders. In 1983, he became the Sun's chief political reporter.