More than two-dozen Democratic delegates have called for the resignation of Kenneth C. Holt, Gov. Larry Hogan's secretary of Housing and Community Development in the wake of controversial lead poisoning comments made on Friday.

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Department of Housing and Community Development Sec. Kenneth C. Holt is apologizing for controversial comments he made Friday about how some mothers may intentionally poison their children to get housing benefits.

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Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford publicly rebuked Department of Housing and Community Development Sec. Kenneth C. Holt for statements made a day earlier in which the agency head repeated an anecdote told to him about mothers that may use lead fishing weights to intentionally poison their children to get housing benefits.

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Kenneth C. Holt, speaking at the Maryland Association of Counties convention in Ocean City, used the anecdote to highlight his support for reforming state law he said imposes unlimited liability on the owners and landlords of properties in the state.

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OCEAN CITY — Maryland Secretary of Housing and Community Development Ken Holt will seek sweeping changes in how his agency is run, and he has proposed helping graduates with high student loan debt buy houses. The secretary made the announcement at the ...

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