CAN YOU AFFORD MoCo IN 2024?

Don't be distracted by national politics!

Our County Executive and County Council are planning to:

• Raise property taxes (again).
• Require businesses to install expensive energy fixes and pass the cost to you.
• Require condos to change to ALL electric heating and cooking ($20,000+ per unit)
• Abolish the sex Ed "Opt-Out" option for K-3 graders.
• More road diets and bike lanes.
• Defund / disrespect the police.
• Remove gas stations.

Think they won’t do it…think again!

It is no wonder that people are leaving Montgomery County in droves ... We need to bring back common sense for the common good back to Montgomery County.

Please contact me if you have had enough and want to help make meaningful change in our County.

Reardon “Sully” Sullivan, P.E.

[email protected]

Next Meeting January 17

Republican Club of Leisure World

First 2024 Forum

by Bob Kammer, [email protected]

PO Box 12293

Silver Spring 20908

BOARD OF ELECTIONS AND OPEN POLITICAL DISCUSSION

We've postponed the candidates forum until after the Primary filing deadline. At the January meeting, we will have an open political discussion for our Members and Guests.

We invited Dr. Gilberto Zelaya, Montgomery County Board of Elections, to speak. Find out the procedures for the 2024 Primary and General Election, and the positions open that need your assistance as paid volunteers to ensure a free and fair election.

If members are concerned about other issues, please contact Bob ([email protected] / 301-873-9942). Also check with Bob about how to attend as a guest.

We are also expecting to review all of the positions that we will be voting on next year and how Republicans can enter those races.

If you're a fan of the MCGOP Podcasts Mondays with MoCo you'll remember our friend and participant Dr. Carol Swain, co-author with county Republican Dr. Christopher Schorr, of Black Eye for America. Recently, with the massive antisemitism demonstrations on college campuses, the President of Harvard University has come under scrutiny. Dr. Swain has noticed that Dr. Gay had plagiarized some of her work - and demanded her ouster. Dr. Swain has a great background, is thoughtful in policy analysis and has added so much to the public dialog on the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity movement. 

APPARENTLY IT DEPENDS ON THE "CONTEXT"

The leaders of Penn, MIT and Harvard refused to say before Congress that calling for the genocide of Jews on their campuses is harassment. The President of Penn resigned, stating she'd been wrong. However, there was apparently a change of "context." The President of Harvard resigned, stating she was forced out because of racism. No final decision yet from the President of MIT. Send us your thoughts at [email protected]

Imagine if any racial group was charged more because of their skin color. Do you think the PRESS would be up in arms? Well, hardly a peep from the Mainstream Press on this issue. RU surprised?

SHOULD WHITE FOLKS PAY MORE?

We couldn't resist. This was sent to us by a concerned citizen. Seems folks who have "white" skin should pay more than BIPOC folks in Montgomery County. (BIPOC is Black, Indigenous, People of Color.) We don't know if "Regular" includes Asian, many WOKE activists call them "White Adjacent." Perhaps our esteemed Montgomery County Councilmember Kristine Mink could look into this.

Tell us what you think at [email protected]

2023 was an active year for Republicans in Montgomery County...

• Lunar New Year Celebration
• Spring Convention
• Breakfast with Friends
• GOP Roundtables
• Opposing massive tax increases
• Summer Soiree
• Back the Blue events
• Lincoln Day Dinner
• MCGOP Open House
• School Board rallies
• Police State
• Talking Politics
• Pizza & Politics
• Food Donations to MANNA
• State GOP Conventions
• CD 6 Congressional Forum
• Third Thursdays
• Booths, Fairs and Parades
• 2T Petition

and much, much more...did you participate? Let us know what your favorite activity was at [email protected]  What do you suggest for 2024?

Want to understand how to keep yourself and your family safe during these uncertain times?  Want to learn how MCPD and city police departments work together?  Find out during the next free 15-week Citizen Academy class on Tuesday nights from 7 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. from Jan. 9th – April 16th offered by the Montgomery County Police Department at the MCPD training facility at 8751 Snouffer School Road in Gaithersburg (zip 20879).  FIND OUT MORE HERE

I gave her $20 in cash. She was outside the Safeway in Damascus with a young man and two young children. Her sign in broken English said “please help, new to country, need food.” My Spanish is very poor but from trying to chat I found out she had been in Mexico about two weeks before and came here because she thought life would be better.

Inside the store I spoke to workers and found out that the young man wasn’t her husband, it was her brother. They said she had been out there off and on for several days. Indeed, when I gave her the money, she came right in and bought her kids food – candy and sodas - but I don’t judge. I don’t know what happened to her, it’s been a couple of months.

Today I see more and more migrants coming to our “Sanctuary County.” In Germantown at Milestone Plaza there are now men in the middle of every street corner asking for money. Recently as I drove into the parking lot for the shopping center there was a woman with two young children collecting money. The kids were playing on the grass at the street side. It was cold. As I went into Walmart, before getting to the Salvation Army kettle, women approached me in the parking lot asking for money to feed their kids. Mostly with broken English, not only Spanish, folks of every color and nationality.

From a CNN Report on border crossings in Lukeville, Arizona.