Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) worked the crowd before speaking to the business group Maryland Free on Tuesday. Photo by Josh Kurtz
A leading statewide business organization is rebranding but is keeping its influential legislative scorecard – the latest of which was released Tuesday.
Maryland Business for Responsive Government, which has promoted business-friendly legislation and attempted to hold lawmakers in Annapolis accountable for 36 years, has changed its name to the Maryland Free Enterprise Foundation – Maryland Free, for short.
“We spent a lot of time thinking it through,” Duane Carey, the president of the organization, said in an interview. “We kind of want to have a refresh.”
Maryland Free unveiled its new iteration online Tuesday, and Carey offered more details at the group’s annual luncheon Tuesday, which featured Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) as the keynote speaker for the fifth straight year.
