Newsletter

By Amy Waychoff

The Maryland House and Senate are busy finalizing the budget (with an April 1 deadline), and the bottom line for Maryland consumers is that taxes, fees, and tolls will dramatically increase. Under the proposed budget (SB 360 and SB 362), revenues of $576 million will be generated in FY 2025 by, among other means,

• raising vehicle registration fees
• increasing the vehicle excise tax
• assessing fees for Uber and Lyft
• collecting an annual registration surcharge from owners of zero-emission and hybrid vehicles

After passing both houses, but with amendments, the budget bills are back in the Senate, so please email your Maryland state senators in opposition to the budget. (If you would like to email all the senators, please email Amy Waychoff, [email protected], for a complete list.)

Fitzgerald Mofor of Montgomery County is running for a seat on the Montgomery County Board of Education. Born and raised in MoCo, he is the product of Sherwood High School, graduating in 2013. After graduating, Mr. Mofor continued with his education, earning a double major in General Studies and Sociology, and also received a Masters from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He now returns home with a clear goal: education reform.

This afternoon, scrolling through Twitter/X while waiting for my takeout order to be ready, I stumbled across a post from Mr. Mofor talking about MCPS. The post was a fiery declaration that the MCPS that MoCo residents used to be so proud of is no more. Indeed, Mofor says, “[o]ur school system has become a perpetual embarrassment, and it’s you, the taxpayer, who will foot the bill for the incompetence.”^[1]

GOP Chair Dennis Melby addresses the Potomac Women's Republican Club at their St. Patrick's Day event, Leprechauns and Patriots, last week at Quincy's in Park Potomac

Members of the Rural Women's Republican Club met last week at MCGOP Headquarters in Rockville.

La Mex restaurant in Gaithersburg hosted the regular monthly meeting of the Mid-County Muster of Republicans in the mid MoCo area. It was a packed house and excellent food.

By Greg Decker

I think I can speak for most if not all of us when I say that we hate the current system of unlimited use of mail-in ballots. We hate it because we know that the use of mail-in ballots increases the opportunity for fraud and we assume that our opposition promotes this system precisely for that reason.

We fought against it and tried to curtail it. We hated it so badly that we have encouraged our voters to avoid it’s use entirely!

So, why are we embracing it now?

Short answer, because the Dems are beating us badly by using it and the simple truth is that the opportunity for fraud exists regardless of whether or not we Republicans choose to use it!

You must play by the rules as they are, not as you wish them to be.  Know the rules and adjust your campaign plan accordingly.  Sooner rather than later.  Like…yesterday.

Volunteers door knock for signatures on the 2T petition to limit our MC County Executive's term to the same as the US President and the MD Governor. If you'd like to volunteer sign up HERE.

Por informacion llame Leo Salazar al 301-448-6936