The Daily Times - www.delmarvanow.com - Salisbury, Md.

The discontent with the tax increases was not universal. Some voters said they approved of O'Malley's actions and believed that they were a necessary evil. "Nobody likes taxes," said Commodore Monk, 60, of Prince George's County, who saw the budget crisis as a problem O'Malley inherited. "But if that's going to make the state more fiscally sound, and deal with some of the other pressing issues of the state like improving the school system and crime, we have to do what we have to do."