News Corner

By Stacey Sauter

The Maryland State Republican Party held its first quarterly meeting of the year in Nottigham (Baltimore County) on Saturday, March 16^th.  Here are some highlights:

• The RNC National Convention is being held at the Baird Center in Milwaukee, July 14th-18th. Maryland State Committeeman, Dave Bossie, is one of the leading organizers of event, and has secured the Hilton Garden Inn Suites for our entire delegation. The hotel is within walking distance of the convention center. Packages to the event will be sold through the Maryland State GOP. Details are still being worked out, so stay tuned for upcoming links.
• The Maryland State GOP Spring Convention is being held on May 17th-18th at the Hager Hall Convention & Event Center 901 Dual Highway, Hagerstown. A block of hotel rooms are reserved at the Hampton Inn Hagerstown.  To purchase tickets for the event go to:  https://secure.anedot.com/maryland-republican-party/sc2024

...HE WON 49 STATES!

By Greg Decker

There are actually a few reasons that the primary election in MoCo matters this year. We will talk about just one of those reasons here and then follow-up in future installments.

As you probably know, Maryland sends 8 representatives to Congress. In recent years the only one who is a Republican is Andy Harris from District 1. Previously, we had another Republican representative but severe gerrymandering effectively eliminated Republican Roscoe Bartlett from representing District 6. After the 2020 census and much judicial and legislative wrangling District 6 has been returned to a demographic make-up which as far as major party registration is fairly equal.

An election district analysis at the non-partisan website “FiveThirtyEight” indicates that Maryland’s 6^th District is now what they call “Highly Competitive” as opposed to how it used to be, D+double-digits. Democrat David Trone has purchased this district for the last few terms but he has set his sights on the US Senate so there is now no incumbent running.

Here are a couple of images, from the “FiveThirtyEight” site, which describe the demographic make-up of Maryland’s Congressional Districts: