The MCGOP Digest is a compilation of items sent to us by our Friday 5pm deadline. Send items to [email protected] We value your engagement and appreciate your continued support. God Bless America!

In a brilliant editorial last week, columnist Peggy Noonan chastised California’s political leaders for losing focus on their primary responsibilities of keeping “citizens and their property safe.” What more evidence than the Los Angeles fires do we need that a progressive agenda with esoteric goals became far more important to the Democratic super-majority in California than the basic protection of its tax-paying citizens? Noonan added that, “A one-party will yield one-party rule that encourages sloth, carelessness, and corruption. People on a team cover up for their own. Good government comes from competition.” (You Never Forget a Fire, Wall Street Journal, 1/16/25)

Beware, because Maryland is the East Coast mirror image of California. The last time Maryland legislators had any real political competition was when Larry Hogan was governor. After inheriting a $5 billion deficit from Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley, Hogan retired that debt then left the state with a $5 billion surplus – a $10 billion turnaround. So is it any surprise that in just under two years Governor Moore and his Democratic super-majority in the state legislature vanquished that surplus and created a $3 billion deficit? Experts claim that number is expected to soar to $6.2 billion by 2030. Help.

I love that this country has an ability to self-correct, which is what we witnessed in this past election. It’s high time for change in California and in Maryland, too. Which is why the MCGOP is gearing up now for the 2026 elections. Please keep that in mind as we reach out to you in the months ahead to help us in a pivotal election year; one where we earnestly hope to see Marylanders self-correct by breaking the Democratic super majorities in our county council and state legislature.

Stacey Sauter

MCGOP Chair

WE LISTEN - what do you think? Write me at [email protected]

On Wednesday, January 29^th, the Fairness in Girls’ Sports Act will be heard in the Maryland House Ways & Means Committee.  Democrats have been blocking and suppressing this legislation for years, but polls show a vast majority of Americans support commonsense bills like this one to ban biological males from competing in girls’ high school sports.  
 
The facts, logic, and public opinion are all on our side—we just need to let the Democrats in the Maryland General Assembly hear it.  

Here is more information on how you can get involved in supporting the Fairness in Girls’ Sports Act:  📚Read and share this op-ed from the bill’s sponsor, Delegate Kathy Szeliga:

Read the Op-Ed!

Testimony By Amy Waychoff

Please send emails to the House Ways and Means Committee (see email addresses below) before January 29, when the Maryland General Assembly (MGA) will hear the bill. If possible, please submit testimony on the MGA website between 8 am and 6 pm on Monday. Contact Amy Waychoff, [email protected], 240-393-5550, for help.

By Miriam Gutierrez, January 21, 2025

Among the 50 states, Maryland currently ranks 14^th in economic growth, falling behind Virginia’s current robust growth. Certain counties in Maryland have competitive positions in healthcare, life science, and pharmaceutical and medical research.  However, there are major economic, demographic, and political challenges that could deteriorate the economic growth in these counties, and in the entire state of Maryland.  Among these challenges are:

1. The Trump administration plans to drastically downsize the federal workforce, abolish, reduce, or relocate 60 federal facilities currently operating in Maryland, and reclassify some civilian positions (converting them into short-term political appointees). Defunding or displacing federal facilities could bring drastic revenue reductions in the 2025 Maryland budget.

The displacement of federal workers will reduce local and state government budgets through taxation. (Giacomo Bologna, in The Baltimore Banner and also at [email protected])

This reduction in tax revenues will be inevitable since the federal labor force in Maryland represents 6 percent of its total labor force, or 10% if those who commute to DC. (US Census Bureau)

Weekly Report to Montgomery County

Quote of the Week:

“The Trump administration immigration policy is a threat to immigrants like criminals.” Representative Ilian Omar

Illegal Immigration NOT undocumented………..

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during preparations for the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 16, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

The Trump Effect: Gov. DeSantis Reminds Woke Reporter It's OK To Call Illegal Aliens Illegal Again

 By C. Douglas Golden  January 24, 2025 at 5:52am

One of the themes in President Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Monday was a “revolution of common sense.”

“It’s all about common sense,” Trump said, before announcing his executive order “declar[ing] a national emergency at our southern border.”

That there is a national emergency there should be, well, common sense. Consider the fact that, under the previous president, roughly 10 million illegal aliens were encountered trying to enter the United States in an unlawful manner. However, doing anything about this was considered impolitic. In fact, it was impolitic to even call illegal immigrants “illegal,” or referring to the process of letting them free in the United States pending an immigration court date as “catch and release.”

In 2025, our "award-winning" newsletter will be sent to you the first week of each month. For the other weeks, we plan to send out a weekly digest, starting with this one. The MCGOP Digest is a compilation of items sent to us by our Friday 5pm deadline. Send items to [email protected] We value your engagement and appreciate your continued support. God Bless America!

From Doreen Rubin (United Against Racism in Education)

The following link gives parents, grandparents, community members, and clergy members the opportunity to express their dissatisfaction with the MD Comprehensive Health Education Family Life Unit which in 2019 included topics on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation for grades PreK - 12. Parents should take the lead in discussions surrounding these sensitive issues.

We need everyone to fill out this form and voice their disapproval and encourage its removal from the curriculum! Thanks! Dee

https://ujoin.co/campaigns/3419/actions/public?action_id=4541

TELL THE COUNCIL “NO” TO AHSI AS PROPOSED 

MCCF applauds announcements from Montgomery County Councilmember At- Large Will Jawando and District 5 Councilmember Kristin Mink, opposing moving forward on the proposed Attainable Housing Strategies Initiative, “AHSI”. These were the first announcements of opposition to AHSI among the current eleven members of the Council. See their statements here and here.