Long time SPJ member and founder of Maryland Reporter.com Len Lazarick ended up loaning his tie to the Maryland governor the other day.
We’ll let Len explain:
O’Malley ties one on with Lazarick
“I regret that I have but one tie to give to my governor,” says I as I stripped off my bright red Van Heusen silk and handed it to Martin O’Malley.
I had hung around the governor’s reception room after a news conference on a teacher survey followed by a “gaggle,” an impromptu question session with mostly TV reporters. As the media questioned O’Malley, the room filled with members of Delta Sigma Theta, the college sorority for women at historically black universities founded at Howard University in 1913.
They were all dressed in various shades of red dresses, suits and jackets, and had come up for a photo opportunity with O’Malley on Delta Day in Annapolis. His appointments secretary, Jeanne Hitchcock, had been Miss Delta at Morgan State University, class of 1968.
I had hung around to see what might transpire as the governor interacted with what you would call a core Democratic constituency.