Maryland's governor is attracting great expectations.
On a spring day, Maryland’s capital, Annapolis, has a toy-box air—colonial row houses neatly ordered along brick-laid streets, the Chesapeake glittering in the harbor. Midshipmen from the Naval Academy, nearing graduation, show their families around in their dress whites. There are no fewer than three places on Main Street to get ice cream.
The paradox is right there in his bearing, the buoyancy in his gaze, the way he alights his attention on you and listens, but also easily draws you onto his side. This guysingular. “He commands authority,” says former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, who Moore worked for when he was a White House Fellow. “He’s got a kind of presence about him,” she says. “He’s really solidly grounded in who he is.
The morning after our interview is the Friday before the Preakness Stakes, a big weekend on Maryland’s social calendar and a busy day for Moore and his family. I’ve arrived at Government House early so that I can catch a ride with the governor to Coppin State University, a historically Black institution in West Baltimore, where he is due to give the commencement address.
“The simple life is not what I do,” is how Moore puts it. “And Dawn very much rolls with it.” The two eloped when Moore returned on a brief leave from Afghanistan—his grandfather had died and so he had permission to attend the funeral. Moore knew if something were to happen to him in combat, the Army would treat a wife differently from a fiancée, so they made their way to a Las Vegas wedding chapel. “Literally, Elvis Presley married us,” Moore says.
He’s fixated on inflection points, on moments when you can set people—especially kids—on a different path. This was his focus at Robin Hood, an organization he pushed from a traditional charitable model to a more policy-focused approach to fighting poverty in New York City. “Robin Hood had always been pretty fearful of coming over into the advocacy and lobbying space,” says Jason Cone, Robin Hood’s chief public policy officer. “But Wes is a catalyst.
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