Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III wants to take control of the county’s troubled Board of Liquor Commissioners, assuming responsibility for the appointment of the five-member panel, its chair and the board’s administrator, effectively removing the governor and local senators from the process.
Baker (D) offered an outline late Monday of legislation that will be submitted this week by the county’s House delegation.
The action comes just weeks after two Prince George’s liquor board officials were charged in a long-running federal corruption investigation, resulting in calls for an overhaul of the system.
The legislation would compete with a measure proposed by Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and another that was introduced Monday night by the Prince George’s delegation.
“Everyone has been working on how best to move forward,” Baker said Monday. “This is the legislative process. . . . There will be changes to the legislation, and in the end there will be one bill that will come out.”
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