News Corner
Happy Juneteenth!
Today we celebrate the great Republican holiday of Juneteenth. 
Our party was founded to put an end once and for all to slavery, we were opposed at every turn by the Democrats and ended up in the depths of a horrible civil war, costing more American lives than any other conflict, but we prevailed.
When President Lincoln put forth the emancipation proclamation it took the troops to put it into effect, Juneteenth was the last date that the last state got the word out about freedom. It wasn’t even realized right here in the Montgomery County area until about the time.
We’ve made such great strides since the Republican party started us down this road, but the battle isn’t over. There are folks that have expanded their hatred toward every skin color and race, and we have to be vigilant.
But today we thank Lincoln, Douglass and so many Republican founders for setting us on this road. Happy Juneteenth
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MD Republicans In Action
By Stacey Sauter
By any measure, the GOP spirit is alive and well in Maryland as witnessed at the recent Republican State Convention held in Anne Arundel Mills June 9th-10th! Special guest and presidential candidate Governor Chris Christie kicked off the events with a personal appearance on Friday night. This was followed the next day with video appearances by Tim Scott and Donald Trump speaking to a packed convention hall of county chairmen and Central Committee members. (It should be noted that Montgomery County representation beat out all other counties in attendance with 41 of our members present – not including the two elected members from MOCO who serve as State Party leaders.)
Dems Inflate Gas Tax
By Delegate Kathy Szeliga
In 2013, the extremists in Annapolis passed the first increase in the gas tax in more than two decades which included an automatic increase every year tied to the Consumer Price Index - CPI - or inflation. This guaranteed that when families were hurting the worst in the future under rising inflation, Maryland would kick them when they were down. This past session in Annapolis, we had a chance to put a stop to the automatic gas tax increases.
