As the longest serving speaker in Maryland history, he shares immense power with the governor. He is also a hometown family man who lives in a modest house on McKendree Avenue in the Homewood section of Annapolis and knows thousands of residents of the capital city from a quarter-century of knocking on their doors in election campaigns. (This feature profile of House Speaker Michael Busch by Len Lazarick is running in the May issue of the regional magazines What’s Up Annapolis and What’s Up Eastern Shore.)
Day: April 16, 2012
State Roundup, April 16, 2012
A long-standing rift between the Senate president and the House Speaker rises to the top in the turmoil of the General Assembly’s latest session; the contention continues as the two debate whether gambling should be part of any special session; O’Malley’s budget secretary recommends not signing any fiscal bills until agreement reached on balanced budget; environmentalists come out on top in latest General Assembly round; veterans groups benefit from Annapolis session; Sen. Ed Reilly files ethics complaint against Del. McConkey over real estate bill; youth detention center violence spikes; and U.S. Reps. Sarbanes, Edwards and Van Hollen win praise, but no GOP support, in addressing Super-PAC influence.
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