Legislature To Probe Firings in Ehrlich Era

Republicans Calling For Broader Review

By John Wagner

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 15, 2005; Page B01

Leading Democrats agreed yesterday to probe the firing practices of Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s administration, promising a balanced look at whether the rights of state workers have been violated.

The investigation -- the first of its kind by the General Assembly in three decades -- was announced jointly by Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. and House Speaker Michael E. Busch and comes at a time of bitterly divided government in Annapolis.