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August 29, 2010
REGISTER HERE for the lunch with Gov. Ehrlich!
Governor Bob Ehrlich is coming to Southern Maryland to Work with Waugh!
Come to a fundraising lunch for Steve Waugh where you will hear the next Governor of Maryland talk about Jobs, Taxes and the future Business Climate in the state. Governor Ehrlich will talk about the kind of help he needs in the State Senate, and ask you to support Steve Waugh. We will also hear from our House Minority Leader, Delegate Tony O’Donnell, and the coordinated strategy to bring Prosperity to Maryland.
Tickets start at $25, registration ends September 3rd.
REGISTER NOW!
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August 28, 2010
1. PHONE BANKING
Come have some fun with your Friends! Every Tuesday, beginning August 24, at Victory Headquarters in Prince Frederick (located at the Calvert Republican HQ), we’re coordinating with several campaigns and other Republicans in Southern Maryland to identify unaffiliated voters, supporters and issues. There are 22 phones; scripts are provided with 4 or 5 questions. It takes 3 minutes to train on the phone with the on-site trainer – the computer does all the work! The information we collect will go a long way to helping our campaign, and others. Choose a 2 hour time block: 10 a.m. – 12 noon, 12 – 2 p.m., 2-4 p.m., 4-6 p.m., 6-8 p.m.
Contact Kara Wheeler, 410.258.2412, kwheeler@mdgop.org
2. POLL WATCHERS
We are looking for volunteers who are willing to serve as poll watchers at early vote polling locations for the Primary. It is crucial that we have volunteer poll watchers in each location to ensure the process runs smoothly and every vote that should be counted is counted. If you know of anyone interested in helping MD GOP with Early Vote Poll Watching please direct them to our Election Center website at http://www.mdgop.org/site/c.9sILJXMCLdJ0H/b.6160597/k.13E4/2010_Election_Center.htm they can click on “Volunteer at the Polls” and sign-up!
Early Voting, September 3rd – 9th (except Sunday 5th). Early voting centers will be open 10am to 8pm daily.
- Calvert County: Calvert County Elections Office, 30 Duke Street, Prince Frederick
- St. Mary’s County: Potomac Building, Rm 14, 23115 Leonard Hall Drive, Leonardtown
- Charles County: Charles County Elections Office, 201 E. Charles Street, La Plata
From the Southtown Star: GINGER BRASHINGER, Correspondent
The familiar sounds welcoming home another American soldier, blaring sirens and motorcycle engines, were heard again Thursday night.
Army Spc. Christopher Waugh, 10th Mountain Division Infantry, an Orland Park resident, was reunited with family and friends after a 10-month deployment in Iraq.
Army Spc. Christopher Waugh (left) is greeted by members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion on Thursday during a ceremony at Tinley Park American Legion Post 615.
“It’s so great to be home-sweet-home Chicago. It’s the greatest place on the earth,” Waugh said as he arrived at Tinley Park American Legion Post 615, where more than 100 people greeted him, many of them forming a flag line along 67th Court.
Waugh’s first order of business was to shake hands and salute each of the nearly two dozen veterans of the Tinley Park post and members of the Orland Park American Legion and Orland Park Veterans of Foreign Wars color guard who completed the escort.
The trip to the post began with the Soldiers Guardian Angels and the Tinley Park fire and police departments at Chi-Town Harley-Davidson on LaGrange Road in Tinley Park.
Waugh’s 10-month tour of duty included protecting Iraqi citizens during elections and patrolling Baghdad, resulting in his proudest honor, the Combat Infantry Badge.
“He really took it upon himself to do this,” said his father, Michael Waugh. “As a matter of fact, the military was the last place I wanted him to be when there was a war going on. It took a lot of courage for him to do that.”
During a ceremony preceding a party for Waugh, he received certificates of appreciation for his service from the Tinley Park post, Soldiers Guardian Angels and the Orland Park Veterans Commission.
When Cynthia Barr, homecoming events coordinator for the Soldiers Guardian Angels, confessed there was some confusion as to whether Waugh should have a specialist or corporal rank, a voice from the crowd yelled out, “We’ll take hero.”
Waugh’s boot camp experience alone would have earned him the label of “hero” – having suffered a stress fracture in each leg on two separate occasions, each time healing and returning to training.
Waugh, 27, who said his rank is “soon to be corporal,” has not yet decided whether he will re-enlist, but he said the Army was the right choice for him when he enlisted in 2008.
“I finally grew up,” he said. “I knew sticking around town, hanging with the wrong crowd, I needed a change.”
Younger brother Justin Waugh, 25, is looking forward to hanging out with his brother while he’s home.
“I think it’s great that he joined the military,” Justin Waugh said. “He’s doing good for himself, and he was able to do something meaningful by serving the country.”
For those who worry about Federal taxes, Americans For Prosperity put together a concise list of taxes that will go up on January 1, 2011.
Personal Income Taxes
- The 10% bracket rises to an expanded 15%
- The 25% bracket rises to 28%
- The 28% bracket rises to 31%
- The 33% bracket rises to 36%
- The 35% bracket rises to 39.6%
Higher taxes on marriage and family
- Marriage penalty will return.
- The child tax credit will be cut in half from $1000 to $500 per child.
- The dependent care tax credit will be cut.
The return of the Death Tax: 55% top death tax rate on estates over $1 million.
Higher tax rates on savers and investors
- The capital gains tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 20 percent in 2011.
- The dividends tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 39.6 percent in 2011.
Obamacare
- 10% excise tax on getting a tan at a tanning salon.
- The HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike, from 10 to 20 percent.
- Brand Name Drug Tax.
The Alternative Minimum Tax and Employer Tax Hikes
- The AMT will ensnare over 28 million families, up from 4 million last year.
- These families will have to calculate their tax burdens twice, and pay taxes at the higher level.
Tax Benefits for Education and Teaching Reduced
- The deduction for tuition and fees will not be available.
- Tax credits for education will be limited.
- Teachers will no longer be able to deduct classroom expenses.
- Coverdell Education Savings Accounts will be cut.
- The student loan interest deduction will be disallowed for hundreds of thousands of families.
Charitable Contributions from IRAs no longer allowed
But other than that, your taxes won’t go up at all.
August 8, 2010
A year ago, President Obama signed the MOVE Act, to help ensure our soldiers and sailors overseas can vote by absentee ballot. I certainly exercised that right while I was in the service for 24 years, and was dismayed to see Annapolis ignore the law and O’Malley ask for a waiver.
According to the Overseas Vote Foundation, the MOVE Act does four things:
- eliminates any State requirement for notarization
- makes absentee registration electronic
- makes military voters register for every election
- makes States plan for 45-day window for ballot round trip.
Apparently planning ahead more than 45 days is beyond O’Malley and Annapolis these days, so they’re asking for a ‘waiver’. Did you know you can get a waiver for complying with the law? Like voting ‘present’ it’s a strategy most of us would not have considered. Maybe Arizona should ask for a waiver.
Why does O’Malley think it is unimportant to comply with this law? Is he that confident a soldier in Towr Kham, Afghanistan will get his mail in less than 3 weeks? Will the airmans’ ballot get back from Djibouti in time to count? How about the Marine in Kyrgystan? What of the sailor on submarine patrol, underwater for weeks at a time? Of the 1.1 million men and women in uniform, about 300,000 are ashore or afloat abroad. This is not a reasonable accommodation for those who would give their lives for us, and we need leadership that will serve them – and not ask for waivers.
August 2, 2010
Sunday and Monday, the campaign paid for a survey of likely voters conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. Unfortunately, while editing several questions the full name of my opponent was incorrectly stated. As soon as the error was discovered, the survey was discontinued. We apologize for the mistake.
July 19, 2010
In the last few days many of us were shocked to see this news headline:
“Maryland Becomes Second State to Offer Federally Funded Abortions under Obamacare”
What happened? America was promised this could not, would not, happen as a result of Health Care Reform. The Stupak Amendment was supposed to prevent it, and the President’s Executive Order was supposed to block it. Yet the Administration quietly maneuvered to do just that in Pennsylvania, Maryland and other states, but was exposed on July 13th. It was a shell game:
- Feds give Maryland funds for ‘high risk’ insurance.
- Maryland selects Maryland Health Insurance Plan (MHIP) to provide the insurance.
- MHIP pays for abortions.
From the MHIP Certificate of Coverage, page 53:
“Section Three – Covered Services, Maternity Services, Abortions”
Fortunately, some dedicated conservatives uncovered this and managed to bring enough attention to it that the Administration appears to have reversed course, for the moment. The question is, what guarantee do we have they will not re-attack?
When the Supreme Court decided Roe vs. Wade in 1973 they could not have imagined that 35 years later 20% of all pregnancies are aborted. Justice Byron White correctly assessed it as “…an exercise of raw judicial power…”, and Justice Rehnquist said “…the drafters did not intend to have the Fourteenth Amendment withdraw from the States the power to legislate with respect to this matter.”
In 1983 Ronald Reagan wrote, “Abortion concerns not just the unborn child, it concerns every one of us.” He properly assessed that abortion would cheapen the value of all human life, and when 20% of all babies in America are aborted nobody can contend it does not. Think about that – for every 4 of us, 1 other was aborted.
The questions we must ask are straight forward: When does God grant a child a soul? If we don’t know the answer to that, how can we allow abortion during this trimester, but not that one?
While it is a simple test, life is complicated. There will be a handful of cases where families must choose between the life of a mother and her child. Rape happens. Incest happens. These are the three exceptions made in the Hyde Amendment, originally passed in 1976 and reaffirmed since then. A passionate argument can be made that any abortion kills a child, and no compromise is acceptable – that argument is reasonable and defendable. However, even Ronald Reagan could not look into the eyes of a young girl, raped by her father and compel her to carry that baby to term.
Where can we go from here? Maryland must embrace life, especially when the feds do not.
What can we do? MHIP should not pay for abortions with taxpayer dollars.
Who will do it? Not the leadership we have now. Our current career politician in the State Senate has not sponsored a single bill that would significantly change the status quo in 16 years. He didn’t even co-sponsor a proposition in 1981, when 60 real conservatives like Ike Skelton did.
We need new leadership. We need a real advocate for life – not a reluctant one. We need leadership that will act, sponsor legislation, and take positive steps to reduce the thousands of abortions in Maryland every year. I will bring that leadership.
June 28, 2010
This is to advise you that Governor Martin O’Malley has ordered the Maryland State Flag flown at half staff immediately. This is in memory of, State Delegate Page Elmore of Summerset and Wicomico Counties, who died suddenly yesterday. The flag shall continue to be flown at half staff until sunset on the day of the funeral. Additional notice will be sent out when the date of the funeral is released.
Governor Martin O’Malley also ordered the Maryland State Flag AND the U.S. Flag flown at half staff immediately in memory of Senator Robert Byrd, who died today after a long battle with illness at the age of 92. The flags will remain at half staff until his internment.
June 20, 2010
Here’s some video from the Calvert County Relay For Life this weekend, from Friday night at 6pm until Saturday morning at 6am. What an inspirational event – the very patriotic kickoff with the Pledge of Allegiance and the Star Spangled Banner, and followed by the introduction of the cancer survivors. They led the first lap of the march, draped in a purple sash. The Grand Marshall was a young boy looking very happy to be riding shotgun in a Gator! This event is so touching, it brings tears to your eyes. Incredible numbers of people committed to staying and walking through the night, until the dawn.
If you haven’t been before, you should go next time. There were dozens of teams from churches, schools, and families – all walking for someone they love who has been stricken with this disease. Many people you know are there, and some you never knew had been ill are survivors. This is a terrific way to pitch in with the Community and make a difference!
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