Republican former Gov. Robert Ehrlich was unable to respond to a Capital News Service inquiry last week about the appointment of Frank Kratovil, the Democratic candidate in the 1st Congressional District, to the State Board of Victims Services.
Kratovil, running against Republican state Sen. Andy Harris, has been citing the appointment as evidence of his bipartisanship, a claim a CNS article questioned because the position automatically is picked by a particular lawyers’ group, which Kratovil headed at the time.
Now more evidence the CNS inquiry was on target.
Ehrlich left a message for this CNS reporter over the weekend saying he “never directly appointed Kratovil to anything.” He just signed the appointment letter as it crossed his desk.
–By Capital News Service’s Christopher Weaver