HELP THE MOCO POLICE DEPARTMENT

By Ann Guthrie Hingston

Marc Elrich’s Executive Order tied the hands of law enforcement. In 2019 County Executive Marc Elrich signed an executive order prohibiting local law enforcement from cooperating with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Soon thereafter, we organized and hundreds showed up in protest led by Larry O’Connor and Vince Coglianese of WMAL, Sabastian Gorka, Michelle Malkin and families of MCPD officers killed by convicted felons illegally in the United States. MCPD officers faced away from us to protect us as County officials and those they hired lined up across the street.

Rockville ICE Rally - Maryland Matters, courtesy Glynis Kazanjian

Policies have consequences. WJLA reports that so far this year Montgomery County has failed to honor 119 detainers and it is only February. Recently, reporter Brad Bell accompanied ICE agents as they attempted to arrest a non-citizen, convicted felon who had been the subject of an ICE detainer for deportation but was released from a local jail after 18 months. WATCH THE WJLA STORY HERE

Dozens of MoCo Republicans and Independents traveled to the CPAC conference at National Harbor last week to attend the Spring Meeting.  Participants said it was an awesome Convention with excellent speakers and an exciting program. It featured among others the President of El Salvador and former President Donald Trump.

Maryland is in a crime crisis. 

While Governor Wes Moore is claiming in his State of the State Address that "crime is down across the state," the statistics paint a much dimmer picture.  Take a look at just a few examples:

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  Feb 19 Presidents' Day
• Feb 21 CPAC
• Feb 21 Leisure World Republicans
• Feb 24 SC Republican Primary
• Feb 27 Michigan Primary
• Feb 29 From Loss to Legislation

  MORE EVENTS HERE

They Made Theft and Hard Drugs Legal

Bay Area mayors join move to walk back Prop 47 and crack down on thefts and drugs

Democrat San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Thursday joined other major-city leaders from her party supporting a California ballot initiative that would increase penalties for certain retail theft and drug crimes, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Proposition 47 was a ballot measure approved by California voters in a state-wide referendum in 2014 that reduced the penalties for property crime by reclassifying some felonies, such as shoplifting and grand theft, as misdemeanors. After a large increase in such crimes in recent years, a campaign to repeal Proposition 47 is underway, which Breed, as well as Democrat Mayors Matt Mahan of San Jose and Todd Gloria of San Diego, have endorsed, the Chronicle reported.

Even the Left Coast gets realistic. Do you think they could contact the all-Democrat Montgomery County government?

Just a few hundred Republicans and their friends came out to the 8th annual MCGOP Lunar New Year Celebration last week in Gaithersburg.

Great food from the Hong Kong Pearl, great presentations by Dennis Melby, Stacey Sauter, Reardon Sullivan, Stanley He and Mina Kim.

Candidates attending were: For Senate - Robin Ficker, John Myrick, John Teichert. For Congress. Dan Cox, Chris Hyser, Neil Parrott,Tom Royals. For District Judges - Mary Beth Ayres, Jennifer S. Fairfax, Louis M Leibowitz, J. Bradford McCullough.  For Board of Education - Ricky Mui and Brenda Diaz.

Glad you enjoyed it. We'll see you next year.

"We don't have a race problem, we have a grace problem!"

Bob Woodson, founder of the Woodson Center, was the guest speaker in Chevy Chase last Saturday. He was the guest of the Chevy Chase Women's Republican Club and is pictured here with members Louise Cox, Bonnie Tarone and MCGOP Treasurer Brigitta Mullican. See the bio of Dr. Woodson written by Ann Guthrie Hingston (below).

We tease the Democrats 'cause we love 'em!