Anjali Reed Phukan: Republican for Maryland Comptroller

Today, we continue our series of Conversations with the Candidates. The general election is November 6th, which is 16 weeks from yesterday.My guest is Anjali Reed Phukan, the Republican nominee for Maryland Comptroller. She is running against the incumbent, Democrat Peter Franchot, who was first elected as the state’s fiscal chief in 2006.Ms. Phukan is an auditor for the State of MD. She is a Certified Public Accountant. This is her second bid to become the state’s Comptroller. She ran as a write-in candidate in 2014. This conversation was livestreamed on the WYPR Facebook page. Click here to watch the video. Note: Imamu Baraka died last week. He is the Good Samaritan whose video of a patient who had just been dumped outside a local hospital went viral last January. He shared his story on Midday.Email us at [email protected], tweet us: @MiddayWYPR, or call us at 410-662-8780.