Kevin Kamenetz, Baltimore County executive & Democratic candidate for governor dies of heart attack

[DonViejo]

Source: The Baltimore Sun




By Doug Donovan, Dan Rodricks and Pamela WoodContact Reporters
The Baltimore Sun

May 10, 2018 6:00 A.M.

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz — a Democratic candidate for governor and a fixture in state and local politics for nearly a quarter-century — died Thursday morning of a heart attack, officials said.

Baltimore County police issued a statement saying that Kamenetz, 60, had been transported by ambulance early this morning to University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center where he was declared dead of a cardiac arrest.

“Kamenetz was at his home in Owings Mills, asleep, when he awoke at about 2 a.m. and complained of feeling ill,” police said in a statement. “He was transported by the Garrison Fire Station’s Medic 19 to St. Joseph, where doctors pronounced him deceased at 3:22 a.m.”

The news stunned his friends, colleagues and Maryland’s political establishment.

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-kevin-kamenetz-ill-20180510-story.html

[hlthe2b]

1. ohh, I didn't know of him, but that is tragic.

Stress of our current state of affairs, getting to more and more, it seems...

[IronLionZion]

2. Serious ramifications for the election

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-kamenetz-governor-race-20180510-story.html

RIP

His voters have an important choice to make next month.

[rtracey]

3. I disagree

IMO, There was not going to be a Democrat as Governor anyway. Hogan is very popular, and too bad, but my home state is turning to the right. The candidates who will/would appose Hogan are going to lose badly...

[IronLionZion]

4. That's a super attitude

[rtracey]

7. attitude

Keep your attitude, I have live here for 60 years and see this state turning on its ear. Sorry, but Hogan won by a pretty good margin and there are no candidates thar seem to match him. Many are still kicking O'Malley down, and seeing Hogan sign laws that many democrats supported....well.

[elleng]

5. You may be right that hogan is popular,

but 'my home state is turning to the right?' On what basis do you see this?

[rtracey]

6. hmmmm

Hogan won governor, and not by a small margin.....pretty large. I also are seeing right wing trash talk in forums, many are very much still trashing O'Malley. When you get Ed Norris constantly trashing O'Malley on the sportstalk radio, people listen. I also think candidates like Jealous are not up to par with Hogan....

[elleng]

8. While I don't follow many 'forums,'

Governor O'Malley has been trash-talked for a long time, in many places, and otherwise ignored.

Ben Jealous may or may not be 'up to par with hogan,' whatever that means; I'm watching them all.

[onenote]

9. Hogan's margin was not "pretty large"

He got 51 percent of the vote against a weak Democratic candidate. Compare that to O'Malley, who got over 56 percent of the vote four years earlier. Also consider that the other statewide race in 2014, for attorney general, was won by the Democratic candidate by a margin of over 15 points.

If Maryland held its gubernatorial elections in the same year as its presidential elections, there is little doubt that a Democrat would have won. Clinton bested Trump in 2016 with over 60 percent of the vote. And Van Hollen got more than 60 percent of the vote for Senate.

[rtracey]

10. the key word

key word......weak candidates...he won by 65,510 votes in a heavy dem state....

[elleng]

13. Thanks for the facts, onenote.

Glad to have someone around who provides them.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

15. Political fortunes can turn on a dime.

Just ask Eric Schneidermann. His entire political career derailed in a matter of hours.

There's still a lot of time between now and November, and just because Hogan is still popular now doesn't necessarily mean that he'll maintain that through that point. A lot can happen between then and now.

Not saying that it will, but I sure as hell wouldn't write off any election for the Democrats in Maryland, of all places.

[Blue_Tires]

11. Jesus...

I gotta start watching my blood pressure and my diet...

[appalachiablue]

12. How very sad for Kamenetz' family, community and Md. politics.

He was relatively young, what a shock.

[backtoblue]

14. K&R