INTERVIEW - GREG KLINE – co-founder of “Red Maryland”, a popular conservative blog about Republican politics in the Free State of Maryland. KLINE is also an attorney in Maryland @RedMaryland @GregoryKline – discussed the Maryland gubernatorial race, Gov. Hogan’s budget and Chelsea Manning jumping into the Senate race. • MARYLAND GOVERNOR RACE: For all those Democrats running for Md. governor, Wednesday was a day of reckoning • Md. Gov. Hogan releases state budget plan amid fight for minimum wage raises in state ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland Governor Larry Hogan is unveiling his new $17 billion dollar state budget -- which says has no new taxes and no gimmicks. The Republican governor is already facing an increasingly combative Democrat-majority General Assembly. Democrats have proposed to raise the state minimum wage to $15 an hour and could again be a point of contention between lawmakers and the governor. This minimum wage fight has already played out locally in both Montgomery