The error, that Wes Moore is a native of Baltimore, was published in paperback editions of his book, “The Other Wes Moore,” years before Moore launched his gubernatorial bid and asked — for the second time, he said — for the error to be corrected . The publisher took responsibility for the error, which was also published in curriculum materials available to teachers using the book in the classroom. The book details Moore’s childhood in Takoma Park, Md., and the Bronx, and tells the parallel story of another black man of the same age, also named Wes Moore, who grew up in Baltimore and is now serving time for the role of in the killing of an off-duty Baltimore County officer. Instead, candidate Moore went on to be a Rhodes Scholar and a White House Fellow. The book skyrocketed his national profile. “I think Mr. Moore needs to come clean and the book needs to be pulled from the curriculum,” Cox said. Moore’s campaign played down concerns about the book during the hotly contested primary he won, calling Cox’s charge — on a day when polls showed Moore leading the freshman state congressman by more than 20 percentage points — a “desperate Dan Cox’s attempt to distract from today’s poll results.” Moore Spokesman Brian Adam Jones went on to say that Cox was “peddling baseless conspiracy theories.” Cox also said making the books available to city schools was akin to distributing campaign materials on the taxpayer dime. Invoking an unrelated federal rule about equal time for political candidates on the radio and radio stations, Cox said he would like his campaign materials in schools as well. Maryland voters, tell us what you want to hear from the gubernatorial candidates. “It is inappropriate to present material that is really fictional campaign material as part of a curriculum, particularly this fall. I would like at least equal time because my campaign material is true,” Cox said, later adding that it was a matter of integrity and character that Moore let the inaccuracy sit on the book jacket for years. An uncle of incarcerated Wes Moore, Daren Muhammad, joined Cox and also took issue with the book and the way it portrayed certain family members. Muhammad, who has been speaking publicly since the spring about the book, said Monday that he never gave Moore permission to write about his parents, and it was traumatic to have them profiled in a national bestseller. Cox said his objection to the book was part of his pitch to voters that parents need more control over school curriculum. Asked if there were other books he would like to see removed from the curriculum, Cox said his parents said they “have very serious concerns with books like ‘Gender Queer’” and what he describes as age-inappropriate depictions. sexual acts. The graphic novel is a memoir by Maia Kobabe about growing up asexual and non-binary. It was pulled from Virginia Beach schools and discussed in areas from South Carolina to the Chicago suburbs. “We need to get back to world-class education,” Cox said, adding that he believes teachers should focus on core subjects because “those are the jobs.”
