With Maryland’s Democratic state senators set to meet Thursday in Annapolis, speculation is running rampant about what Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) will tell his colleagues about his health and his future – and the jockeying to replace him is intensifying.
While the agenda for the Democratic caucus meeting is shrouded in mystery, Miller, who has stage 4 prostate cancer and other ailments, is almost certain to deliver the health update he promised his colleagues earlier in the year. And several senators said this week that they expect to be presented with a proposed rules package to govern any future caucus election to replace Miller, who has held the job for 33 years.
What Miller will say – and what will happen next – is anyone’s guess.
But there is increasing speculation that Miller, a singular figure in Maryland politics and policymaking who is 76 years old, will announce his departure. And the race to succeed him as Senate leader, which has taken place quietly for months, would then explode into public view.
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