BROOKE LIERMAN: GRANDSTANDING WHILE MARYLANDERS WAIT
- Baby Bonds distraction: Comptroller Brooke Lierman touts a $7,000-per-child “Baby Bonds” fantasy. Maryland is broke. Her office doesn’t invest. She’s selling dreams she can’t deliver.
- Core failure: Tax refunds under Lierman crawl at 463% slower for paper filers compared to Peter Franchot’s 3‑day standard.
- Customer service collapse: Phones once answered in 40 seconds now ring endlessly. Taxpayers report months of silence.
- Public trust broken: While she spins legislative mandates into campaign slogans, Marylanders still wait for last year’s refunds.
- Human cost: Since she took office, 156,000 Marylanders have died. Many never saw their refunds, never heard a human voice from her office.
- Contrast: Franchot delivered refunds in days, answered calls in seconds. Lierman delivers excuses, delays, and press releases.
- Bottom line: Brooke Lierman isn’t fixing the Comptroller’s office. She’s auditioning for higher office while Maryland taxpayers pay the price.
🎭 Baby Bonds Grandstanding
- Brooke Lierman has publicly promoted Baby Bonds, a program that would give newborns $7,000 in state-funded accounts.
- Reality check: Maryland faces a $1.4 billion budget deficit, and the Comptroller’s office has no authority to implement investments.
- The Baby Bonds report was a legislative mandate, not her initiative — yet she’s using it as a campaign talking point while her core responsibilities (refunds, service) falter.
📞 Customer Service Collapse
- Under Franchot, phones were answered by a human in under 40 seconds.
- Under Lierman, taxpayers report weeks of unanswered calls, endless recordings, and no callbacks.
- Even the Comptroller’s new MyCOMConnect portal hasn’t solved the basic problem of reaching a human being.