Gov. Wes Moore: ‘The President of the United States Does Not Get to Determine What My Worthiness Is’

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MOORE: “Well, I‘m not casting judgment on any governor that chooses to attend. For any governor, if they choose to attend the dinner, that is their prerogative. I will not. And I also know it‘s because the president of the United States does not get to determine what my worthiness is. The reason I‘m a member of the National Governors Association is because the people of Maryland elected me with a historic margin of victory, a historic number of individual votes to make me the governor of Maryland, not the president. The reason I‘m the vice chair of the National Governors Association is because both Democratic and Republican governors voted for me to help lead the organization, not the president. And so, I will not cast judgment on anyone else‘s decision. But my decision is very clear. If this is not going to be a serious gathering where we can talk about issues, where we can address the fact that everything is more expensive under the president, if we can address the fact that why he is spending his time giving tax cuts to his friends while making life more expensive on everyone else, if that’s not the intent, then I have no desire of actually sitting down.”