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O'Malley cited the rough economy but also sought to put in perspective the $46.3 million figure recommended for Montgomery next year by a state panel.
Appearing on WAMU (88.5 FM), O'Malley said Montgomery was going to receive $98 million for school construction during the first two years of his administration, compared with $19 million during the term of former governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R).
"That's a 500 percent increase," O'Malley said.
Maryland Superdelegates Back Obama
In the wake of Sen. Barack Obama's convincing win in North Carolina and better-than-expected showing in Indiana, undeclared Democratic superdelegates have been breaking his way.
A pair of Maryland supers got out ahead of the pack earlier in the week with endorsements of the Illinois senator.
Maryland Democratic Party Chairman Michael Cryor and the state party's vice chairwoman, Lauren Glover, announced their support for Obama at a news conference on the eve of last week's primaries.
"I have been inspired by what he represents," Cryor said of Obama.
Obama soundly defeated Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in Maryland's presidential primary in February, 60 percent to 37 percent.
But Cryor's choice put him at odds with Gov. Martin O'Malley, an early Clinton supporter who recruited Cryor as chairman of the state party after his election in November 2006. Cryor has served as an adviser to O'Malley since early in his tenure as mayor of Baltimore, which began in 1999. "The governor and I are good friends . . . but this decision was mine," Cryor told reporters.
On Friday, another Maryland superdelegate, John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, also declared for Obama.
