By Dennis Brent Melby

I’ve spent the week talking with some of the finest citizens in Montgomery County. Great folks who came here for a better life and helped to make MoCo and the USA a much better place because of their experience, beliefs, hard work and family values.

We had hundreds at our celebration of the GOP Lunar New Year in Gaithersburg. Many from communist China so grateful to live in the USA – and so productive paying taxes, raising kids and providing for those less fortunate – many of them native born Americans.

Saturday at Coffee with the Chairman in Gaithersburg again, from Russia, Bangladesh, Germany – all folks who’d come here with their families to escape the confines of the old world and form a better Union here in a democratic, capitalist and often very religious new world. What did they have in common? They all came legally. Did they fear deportation? No…not one of them. The hype of a threatening ICE was not a reality – only a story from the left wing media and a opposing Party seeking to use if for political advantage in the next election. Sad. The left-wing media drops the word "Illegal" and calls everyone immigrants. Why? READ ON

Hundreds of moderates, conservatives, Republicans, Independents and Democrats joined us in Gaithersburg for our 10th annual MCGOP Lunar New Year Celebration featuring 22 candidates, emcee Dennis Melby and main speaker Xi Van Fleet.

• Mar 3, Frederick Co. Burnett Innovation Corridor & Economic Town Hall
• Mar 5, Reardon "Sully" Sullivan Campaign Kickoff
• Mar 7, MCFRW Voter Registration Class
• Mar 7, HQ Open House
• Mar 7, Meet Hispanic Candidates
• Mar 8, Spring forward
• Mar 11, Leisure World Candidate Forum
• Mar 12, LD15 PAC Membership Meeting
• Mar 14, HQ Open House
• Mar 15, Brenda Diaz Campaign Kickoff
• Mar 16, PWRC Leprechauns & Patriots
• Mar 17, St. Patrick's Day
• Mar 17, MCGOP Central Committee
• Mar 20, Nowruz
• Mar 20, Eid Al-Fitr
• Mar 21, HQ Open House
• Mar 28, HQ Open House
• Apr 1, April Fools Day

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By Lori Jaffe

Last month, two volunteer groups, the Montgomery County Taxpayers League (MCTL) and the Parents’ Coalition of Montgomery County (PCMC) held the Montgomery County Public Schools budget review - “MCPS FY2027 Operating Budget Palooza.”  As we watched, it brought to mind the old saying, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Below are some of the highlights.

This November we have several good candidates who will run for office, including the County Council and the Board of Education. Remember what was unearthed in the analysis and vote for change.

• The MCPS budget (3.77 Billion) is roughly half of the total Montgomery County budget (6.6 Billion). The County Council funds MCPS.

• MoCo economic conditions are stagnant. The average taxpayer’s personal income has increased 1%. Population growth is “muted,” i.e. 0.6% annually. Unemployment is up.

• Despite our economic conditions, “(t)his year, the Superintendent is proposing a 5% increase over last year’s budget, to $3.778 Billion.”

• Funding of MCPS by the taxpayers through the council is on a per pupil basis. In the past, when the student population was increasing, it made more sense for MCPS to ask for more money. But now that the student population is decreasing, it doesn’t make sense for that request to increase.

Tuesday, March 3 at 6:30 PM

Frederick Co. Innovation Corridor & Economic Town Hall

Please join us for the upcoming Innovation Corridor & Economic Town Hall hosted by Chris Burnett, Candidate for Maryland’s 6^th Congressional District. This event will feature local Frederick County candidates and will be held on March 3, 2026 at 6:30 p.m.  Below is the announcement with details of the event. Location will be announced by Wednesday, February 25^th.  

This is a FREE public event. Please share this invitation with as many people as possible so the public can be informed about the Burnett Innovation Corridor Plan and the various candidates’ Economic Development solutions for Frederick County. For more information, please contact [email protected] or call Jen Charlton at 410-507-1197.

LIBERATION DAY - HAPPY NEW YEAR

Norwuz, the Persian New Year is in about 2 weeks. In Persia the Iranian people are dancing in the streets of Tehran because of the liberation of their county by Israel and the United States. Much the way the Venezuelans celebrated months ago when the drug kingpin Maduro was arrested and removed, the young residents of Iran will finally be able to experience a normal life.

Instead of President Obama sending pallets of Billions of Dollar bills President Trump has sent planes, rockets and liberation to rid the country of the Death to America chants and the murderous clerics who for years had tormented their own citizens, sending their own people to gulags or fields of war for slaughter or torture. The world, the US and the people of Iran have finally had enough.

God bless, them, Happy Norwuz, Happy New year and we all look forward to a free, prosperous and safe Iran from today forward.

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