News Corner
DOOR-TO-DOOR FOR MAIL IN BALLOTS
GET OUT THE VOTE
Vikki Birkett of the Maryland Federation of Republican Women, Reardon Sullivan, former Republican nominee for Montgomery County Executive, Beth Lawson, Chair of the Howard County Republican Central Committee, Nicolee Ambrose, Maryland's RNC Committeewoman and many other Maryland Republicans showed up last Saturday for Super Saturday door-to-door activity in Damascus and Clarksburg. Birkett and folks from Howard, Prince Georges, Washington, Baltimore, Hartford, Anne Arundel, Frederick and Carroll Counties coordinated the activity to encourage folks to mail in their ballot for the 2024 election.
Breakfast With Friends!
The Republican Breakfast Club
Brad Botwin of Help Save Maryland and Doreen Rubin of UARE.US (United Against Racism in Education) spoke at the last Republican Breakfast with Friends meeting in Park Potomac last week.
OFF THE FISCAL CLIFF
By Lori Jaffe
It’s Your Money – Take Action Now!
Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich is driving us taxpayers over a fiscal cliff. We need to take his foot off the accelerator and put on the brakes. You can help the Committee for Better Government limit him to two terms but you must act soon. Ten thousand valid signatures must be gathered by August 2024. (See below).
During his March 14, 2024, FY25 Operating Budget Press Event, Elrich said that he feels “really good” (0:27) about the FY2025 Budget. This is his 18th budget. His 6th as county executive and 12th as council member. Yes, he’s been in power for a very long time.
He continued (3:34): “We could have taken a $25 million cut in this budget to stay within our MOE guidelines. We didn’t do that because that would have meant pulling teachers out of classrooms and doing things that would have been disruptive to schools. So, we are at, you know, $132M over last year.” Yes, that’s 132,000,000 taxpayer dollars.
(4:22) He congratulates Montgomery College: “You get points for reality-based budgeting.” He says, “…when you understand what your resources are and build a budget understanding the resources. Not everybody does that.” Yes, not even Marc Elrich does that.