The duel between the two front-runners in the Democratic race for Maryland governor heated up Friday as Ben Jealous criticized Rushern L. Baker III over a new audit questioning raises given to employees of the Prince George’s County school system.
Jealous pointed to a new audit of the school system that had found additional evidence of improper salary increases amounting to about $300,000. The system was already under fire for questionable raises.
Baker’s campaign responded by saying the audits are a normal function of county government that Baker oversees as county executive.
David Byrd, a Baker campaign consultant, said the county deserves credit for detecting the problems through its internal audit process. He said that in “a political season” such…
