Newsletter
DC AND MOCO DEFUND AND DISRESPECT COPS
Mayor Muriel Bowser of the District of Columbia allowed BLM protesters to paint "Defund the Police" in front of the White House. The DC City Council passed defund and disrespect laws to hamstring the police from doing their jobs. Crime went through the roof.
MoCo County Exec Marc Elrich forbade the police to post the "Thin Blue Line" flag in their offices, took away the School Resource Officers, and forbade the police to work with ICE to deport criminal illegals. Members of the County Council to this day write and rewrite rules to tie the hands of police saying they might be "disrespectful" to criminals. Murders, thefts, carjackings and violent crimes have spiked, and a sense of well being has declined.
This is what our elected leaders keep doing to us. Here's a quote from one of our readers:
"I am for more funding of the police and much tougher laws for criminals than we have now!
It is due to these lax laws and defunding the police that we are all in shock about the crime rate going up at such an alarming rate in Montgomery County and the whole metro area!"-Name withheld-
PROTECT US FROM VIOLENT CRIME
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
CPAC AT NATIONAL HARBOR
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.
MDGOP Update
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:
|
|
GOD BLESS AMERICA
Today we honor Presidents' Day.
George Washington formed the United States and Abraham Lincoln saved the United States. Most people consider them the greatest Presidents, and we salute them.
Today many people are distressed with the vision of our country being put forth by those in power, but I know better days are ahead.
It’s not new that Republicans and others must stand up for what’s right. We are not alone. It’s what the party was founded on and what we’ve often had to do over the decades.
We’ll do what’s right, we’ll lead by example, and stand with those preserving freedom, family and community.
As we stand with you, share your thoughts with us at [email protected]
God Bless America
Dennis Melby, MCGOP Chairman
Learn more HERE in an inspiring speech by one of our great Republican Presidents, Ronald W. Reagan.
PLANNING FOR FEBRUARY
File Under "GEE, YA THINK?"
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?
MCGOP LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION
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.