A thick newspaper insert with a smiling, polo-shirt-wearing Comptroller Peter Franchot on the cover landed at more 150,000 Maryland homes this weekend, advertising unclaimed property and raising questions among some observers about whether the comptroller’s attention-getting marketing was designed to promote his bid for governor as the primary draws near. Although the practice has ruffled some of Franchot’s competitors in a crowded field for governor, the mailing is “completely legal,” according to Jared DeMarinis, campaign finance director for the Maryland State Board of Elections.
Md. comptroller’s spoof raises questions about use of public funds
June 3, 2022
