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Maryland Page 2b Monday, Jan. 20, 2003 The Sun in Howard Cabinet lured from business, lawmaking Ehrlich's Cabinet Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has selected 14 of the 20 members of his Cabinet whom the governor appoints.

Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele and Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick also serve.

BARBARA HADDOCK TAYLOR SUN STAFF Adrienne A. Jones, a Baltimore County delegate since 1997, was chosen by Speaker Michael E. Busch to be speaker pro tern. Jones' ability, not her race, earning her praise as pro tem Name Agency Former position R. Karl Aumann Secretary of State congressional aide Robert L.

Flanagan Transportation delegate and lawyer James D. Fielder Jr. Labor, Licensing business executive and Regulation James C. Budget Ehrlich campaign DiPaula Jr. Management manager Victor L.

Hoskins Housing Commu- business executive nity Development Thomas E. Hutchins Veterans Affairs delegate and retired police commander Christopher J. Human Resources federal administrator McCabe and former state senator Aris Melissaratos Business Eco- business executive nomic Development Kenneth C. Juvenile Justice former delegate Montague and lawyer Edward T. Norris State Police former Baltimore police commissioner Jean W.

Roesser Aging former state senator Boyd K. Rutherford General Services federal administrator Audrey E. Scott Planning former county council member Maj. Gen. Bruce F.

National Guard assistant Tuxill adjutant general By Andrew A. Green SUN STAFF think you can come in and run a state like it's General Motors. However, there are business techniques that can be woven into the fabric of government that can make it run better." Business executives named to the Cabinet include James D. Fielder Jr. for secretary of Labor, Licensing and Regulation; Aris Melissaratos for Business and Economic Development; and Victor L.

Hoskins for Housing and Community Development. And DiPaula worked in real estate development for 10 years. As for a balance of ethnicities and genders, Ehrlich and Steele said they did not have quotas in mind when choosing candidates. "It just happens, which is better than forcing it," Ehrlich said. But some people are worried that it hasn't quite happened, and are waiting for the final appointees to pass judgment.

Two women, former Bowie Mayor and Prince George's County Councilwoman Audrey E. Scott for planning secretary and former state Sen. Jean W. Roesser for aging secretary; and three African-Americans, Montague, Hoskins and Rutherford, have been appointed. Ehrlich "made an effort to say that he's going to have a Cabinet that is reflective of the state," said Isiah Leggett, an African-American and chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party, "and I think you can find appropriate talent that can do that.

So I would have a concern about how the Cabinet is reflected in terms of overall diversity." Others, too, are waiting anxiously for Ehrlich to name the final nominees. (Overall, his naming process has been comparatively slow; Glendening had his Cabinet members named four days before his inauguration.) Environmental groups in particular are antsy, since neither an environmental nor a natural resources secretary has been announced. "There are crucial issues facing those agencies," said Dru Schmidt-Perkins, executive director of 1000 Friends of Maryland, "and without the leadership, they can't begin to confront them." Del. Adrienne A. Jones is the first African-American woman to serve as the speaker pro tem of the Maryland House, but the flowers on her desk aren't from the NAACP or the Women's Caucus.

They're from Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley. Neither she nor many other people in Annapolis make much of her race, but in a time when the Baltimore City delegation is shrinking and the Baltimore County delegation is losing seasoned leaders, many see the Randallstown Democrat's ascension to the House's No. 2 post as key to the power balance between Baltimore and the Washington suburbs. "The Baltimore region is hurting right now," said Sen. Delores G.

Kelley, a Democrat who represents Jones' district. "We've got to bring some thought back to this area, which is still the economic engine of the state and is in kind of a moribund position. While she works quietly, she is a very effective and strong advocate for the re- Cabinet, from Page 1b general, who is responsible for the Maryland National Guard. If confirmed by the Senate, all of them will be charged with transforming the behemoth of state government from a Democratic bureaucracy into a Republican "lean, mean responsive machine," in the words of Lt. Gov.

Michael S. Steele, at a time of severe fiscal constraint. Their task is to enact Ehrlich's policies, make their agencies more efficient, and never make the governor look bad. Ehrlich says his first priority in picking Cabinet members was common philosophy. "The most important question was Are you with our Loyalty, yeah, but also, are you really buying in to what we're trying to do?" he said.

He also wanted a team that was politically savvy, he said. For the first time in three decades, a Republican governor must try to push his budget and policies through a legislature controlled by Democrats. Ehrlich needs all the insider knowledge he can get. "You'll notice that we have a bunch of former legislators," he said. "Particularly when you have a new Republican administration, it's going to be a big help to have people who understand the legislative process, and have experience dealing with the legislature.

We have a very unique challenge here." In addition, all the former state lawmakers are people Ehrlich knew and liked when he served in the House of Delegates. Kenneth C. Montague Ehrlich's nominee for the Department of Juvenile Justice, served with him on the House Judiciary Committee, and his Transportation Department pick, Del. Robert L. Flanagan, was active in his campaign.

Some sitting Democratic lawmakers say Ehrlich is smart to load up his Cabinet with their colleagues, and that they look forward to working with them. "I'm very happy that he's chosen a lot of legislators," said House Majority Leader Kumar P. Barve. "It shows that he wants to work with the legislature." But others say they're a tad worried that while some of Ehrlich's picks might have good political instincts, their resumes seem to lack hefty administrative experience. Ehrlich has never been an executive.

"They have a very light bench," Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller said of the state GOP. "It's not the best of all possible worlds, but it's understandable" why Ehrlich chose whom he chose. Their lack of experience, he said, "is not a major concern, but it is a concern." Flanagan, a lawyer, has not managed a large organization before; nor has Ehrlich's former campaign manager, James C. DiPaula nominated as budget secretary, run anything close to a $22 billion operation such as the state of Maryland.

House Speaker Michael E. Busch said the advantage the three previous governors had over Ehrlich in choosing a Cabinet is "that they either had executive experience or an idea of who they wanted to bring, who had established themselves as good administrators in counties." Former Gov. Parris N. Glen-dening brought in many manag-ers from Prince George's County, where he had been county executive. "Many might look at it as a drawback that Governor Ehrlich does not have those resources to draw on, so he's starting with a core of people that does not have real experience in managing government," Busch said.

But the people in charge of Ehrlich's transition team say they are thrilled with the level of experience and business smarts the Cabinet reflects. Besides, said Steele, chairman of the transition team, the trouble with some of Glendening's Cabinet secretaries is that they were "too intellectual. They were not good at the business aspects of running their agencies." The transition team members' theory was that they weren't necessarily going to choose an engineer to run the Department of General Services, for instance, when a business-minded person might bring better ideas about how to streamline government. They chose Boyd K. Rutherford for the job, who has degrees in economics, political science, law and communications management.

"He's not someone who has groveled around in state government for his career," said James T. Brady, who ran the transition's day-to-day operations as he did for Glendening. "We tried to bring in very bright people. If they don't have the technical background, we'll surround them with people that do." DiPaula, for example, had his new deputy budget secretary, Thomas Lee, by his side Friday when he presented Ehrlich's budget plan. Lee held the same position under Glendening.

"Government is not the same as the private sector," Brady continued. "Too many people LOTTERY Maryland Pick 4 Day Daily 0671 Night Daily 386 Pick 4 01 02 13 22 36 40 Lotto, Jan. 18 Bonus Match Five, Jan. 19 01 02 18 27 3606 gion." The official duty of the job is to preside over House sessions when the speaker is absent, but Jones said she is busy with the unofficial parts of the job. Because she will be at the table for leadership meetings and will work closely with Speaker Michael E.

Busch, an Anne Arundel County Democrat, on shaping and passing his agenda, she is being lobbied on issues outside of her district, being tapped for ad hoc committees and getting hit up for advice by new legislators. "I was a Baltimore County delegate before, but now this increases my visibility," she said. Jones, 48, has never been known as the kind of politician who seeks to increase her visibility she said she has always been interested in politics but never dreamed of running for office herself. After earning a degree in psychology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 1976, she got a job as a clerk in Baltimore County's Office of Central Services. A few years later, she became an aide to then-County Executive Donald P.

Hutchinson. Since Hutchinson, Jones has worked for four Baltimore County executives she will keep the job under new County Executive James T. Smith Jr. focusing on minority affairs, community relations and equal employment opportunity compliance. When one of the delegates in her home legislative district died in 1997, her experience in county government made her a natural fit to take over the open seat and the slot on the House Appropriations Committee that went with it, said U.S.

Rep. CA. Dutch Ruppersberger, who was county executive at the time. To this day, Jones said, she feels uncomfortable promoting herself, which makes running for re-election difficult. When Busch, a friend from previous legislative sessions, was poised to become speaker after the defeat of his predecessor, Casper R.

Taylor Jones didn't approach him about becoming his speaker pro tempore. Instead, he called her the night before Thanksgiving. "It was like being proposed to," she said. "Of course, I answered right away." Her colleagues say that lack of aggressive self-promotion is an important element in her new job. She will be a team player and has a solid reputation as a quiet, thoughtful consensus builder with few enemies, if any, making her ideal for her new job, they said.

"She is not a boisterous person, but because of her dominance on the issues, she is a good coalition builder, and I think that will be a good asset to Mike Busch to bring coalitions together the Women's Caucus, the Legislative Black Caucus and the Republican Caucus," said Martha S. Klima, a former Republican delegate from Lutherville who served with Jones for six years. "I respect her a lot." Lotto: There was no winning ticket for Saturday night's $3.2 million jackpot. Fifteen tickets matched five numbers, winning and 650 matched four numbers, winning $40. Wednesday's drawing will be worth an estimated $3.4 million.

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