{"id":524,"date":"2025-09-03T17:53:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/?p=524"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:53:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:53:31","slug":"cbs-news-local-news-baltimore-businessman-ed-hale-switches-parties-formally-announces-run-for-maryland-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/news\/2025\/09\/cbs-news-local-news-baltimore-businessman-ed-hale-switches-parties-formally-announces-run-for-maryland-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS News:  Local News Baltimore businessman Ed Hale switches parties, formally announces run for Maryland governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Baltimore businessman Ed Hale, Sr., formally announced his campaign for Maryland governor on Wednesday, switching parties from Democratic to Republican.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the retired banker said he would\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/baltimore\/news\/maryland-governor-democrat-election-ed-hale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">challenge Gov. Wes Moore<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the Democratic nomination. However, on Wednesday, he announced he would run as a Republican, saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t care about the party affiliation as much as I care about doing the right thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/baltimore\/news\/maryland-governor-candidate-ed-hale-2026-election\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Baltimore businessman Ed Hale, Sr., formally announced his campaign for Maryland governor on Wednesday, switching parties from Democratic to Republican. In May, the retired banker said he would\u00a0challenge Gov. Wes Moore\u00a0for the Democratic nomination. However, on Wednesday, he announced he would run as a Republican, saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t care about the party affiliation as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}