Former Delegate Carl Anderton talks state of the Republican party in Maryland, WBAL Radio
Response:
We had our Primary election in the State that concluded last Tuesday. We had some ugly contested primaries across the State within the Maryland GOP up & down the ticket & across multiple counties.
Regardless of those outcomes last week, the Party needs to unite for the General Election.
Why do we need to unite? Whether you’re in Cumberland out in Western Maryland, or Columbia, a population Center in Howard County, or Ocean City down on the Eastern Shore. The State of Maryland as a whole is a “State on the Brink’ of financial ruin. under the leadership of the Democrat majority in Annapolis & the Moore Administration.
The record Maryland is facing since January of 2023 is the following:
$5 Billion dollars in the reserves squandered to $3 Billion dollars in the hole as of January of 2025. From April of 2024 to current over $2 Billion dollars of Tax & Fee Increases on Maryland’s small businesses and working families, In 2024 a 34 page regulatory bill was signed into law to “kill competition on energy” in the State leading Maryland to have the “highest energy rates” in the Country, & questionable “constitutional laws” on the book now that ban the most popular used gun in the Country & making the State a “Full on Sanctuary State” for illegal immigration.
2026 is a very similar climate the State was in 2014, under the leadership of Governor O’Malley, where then candidate for Governor now former Governor Larry Hogan ran on a message of “Taxed to Much, Spent to Much. Regulated to Much” “It’s time to “Change Maryland” The O’malley / Brown Administration were punishing small businesses & working families with “over 40 Tax & Fee Increases” businesses & homeowners were “punished” for the size of their roof & their driveway increasing their taxes, that was deemed “The Rain Tax”… Governor O’Malley famously told a business owner “where are you going to go?”…
In the fall of 2014 Republicans in Maryland “united” with Larry Hogan, because of the fear of another 4 years Of Martin O’Malley with Anthony Brown. & Larry Hogan was victorious that November.
Ironocally Governor Hogan & with strong messaging & campaigning across the State, is what got former Delegate Carl Anderton elected to legislature in 2014, defeating a long time incumbent Democrat Delegate Norm Conway, an ally of Governor Martin O’Malley. Now Anderton works for & has endorsed Governor Moore for reelection, definitely some irony there when you look at the Moore Administration’s record currently compared to the O’Malley Administration’s record then…
We had fights going on in “contested primaries” up and down the ballot & across the State; however let’s all try not to lose sight of what’s at stake, because it’s all on the line this November!
Its time for Republicans in Maryland to unite & Stand against Billions of Dollars of Tax and Fee Increases, Excessive Spending in Annapolis that is bankrupting Maryland, Heavy Regulations that has us given us the highest energy rates in the Country, and Unconstitutional Laws being passed on the 2nd Amendment and Public Safety!
Maryland needs Fiscal Sanity in Annapolis this November, to replace the Fiscal Insanity that’s been going on for the past 3 and half years. If we unite and fight together we have a better chance of doing this, if we’re divided we will fall, along with what’s left of The State…