Kevin Kamenetz, Baltimore County executive & Democratic candidate for governor dies of heart attack
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 Stations Medic 19 to St. Joseph, where doctors pronounced him deceased at 3:22 a.m.
The news stunned his friends, colleagues and Marylands political establishment.
Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-kevin-kamenetz-ill-20180510-story.html
hlthe2b
(102,328 posts)Stress of our current state of affairs, getting to more and more, it seems...
IronLionZion
(45,494 posts)RIP
His voters have an important choice to make next month.
rtracey
(2,062 posts)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
(45,494 posts)rtracey
(2,062 posts)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
(131,054 posts)but 'my home state is turning to the right?' On what basis do you see this?
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
(131,054 posts)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
(42,737 posts)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
(2,062 posts)key word......weak candidates...he won by 65,510 votes in a heavy dem state....
elleng
(131,054 posts)Glad to have someone around who provides them.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,189 posts)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
(55,445 posts)I gotta start watching my blood pressure and my diet...
appalachiablue
(41,168 posts)He was relatively young, what a shock.