


Delivery Fee Hurts Small Businesses and Folks the Most; Crosby Sponsoring Bill to Add 4th Judge to St. Mary’s Circuit Court; Todd Morgan Voter Id; Boosting Corruption in Bids by Upping the Amount before Competition is Required
Hoodwinks, Hijinks, and Offenses to Taxpayers Underway in the Lawless Town of Annapolis
BY KEN ROSSIGNOL
THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY
News and Commentary on the Politician Class
ANNAPOLIS, MD. – A brief roundup of the laws introduced that may be of interest to anyone with a pulse in Maryland.
DELIVERY TAX
A tax being considered in the Maryland General Assembly in the 2025 session is similar to the one that was proposed last year but failed to pass. The 2024 legislation, House Bill 1215, was proposed by Montgomery County Delegate Marc Korman, a liberal Democrat and Chairman of the Environment and Transportation Committee. Korman is also the leader of the pack for those of the far-left loons favored by Del. Brian Crosby of St. Mary’s County.
The Delivery Tax that failed last year would have placed a .50 fee on each and every delivery to a business or residence, and this year, the same new and regressive tax is being sought to balance the budget aims to find some way to finance the excessive spending of the Pirates’ running Maryland has been raised to .75. This year the proposal is part of the Budget put forward by the Marxist Wes Moore.
VOTER ID REQUIRED TO CAST A BALLOT
Failing to require voters to show identification is the best way to allow illegal aliens and others to participate in elections and cheat citizens of the value of their vote. Democrats oppose Voter ID in Maryland and other Democratic Party strongholds. However, Democrats support having to provide an ID to buy tobacco and alcohol and to obtain welfare benefits. St. Mary’s Delegate Todd Morgan joined fellow Republican delegates Tomlinson, Szeliga, Rose, Nawrocki, Miller, Hartman, Grammer, Chisholm, Arentz, and R. Long to sponsor House Bill 91. Requiring an election judge to establish a voter’s identity by requiring the voter to present a valid government-issued photo identification or a valid nongovernment-issued photo identification and a current bill, statement, or check that states the voter’s name and address as proof of identity; requiring a voter to vote a provisional ballot if the voter is unable to provide certain proof of identity; and prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully voting or attempting to vote under a false form of identification.
Robert Atkins Urged Support of Voter ID in 2024
This bill requires voters to present a photo ID when voting. Election integrity has become a significant issue for many citizens. Facts such as the more than 40 cases of voters attempting to vote twice in Anne Arundel County during the 2022 election make people believe the system is rigged. A requirement of providing identification is needed to reassure the population that the system is not rigged. Everyone has an ID as it is needed to transact all essential services like health care, transportation, government aid, education, etc. Adding this requirement to Maryland’s voting system will strengthen trust in it. I support this bill.
Anthony Brown thinks blacks and other minorities are too dumb to get an ID
When the Voter ID bill was proposed in the 2024 session of the General Assembly, witnesses who testified or presented letters included Attorney General Anthony Brown. Brown was a lawyer in the District at the time of the hotly contested election for Maryland Governor in 1994, when Republican Ellen Sauerbrey lost to Parris Glendening. The topic of voters from Greenwood Cemetery taking part in the election that year was a bone of contention. Brown later was elected to the House of Delegates from PG County, a bastion of political corruption, in 1999 and elected Lt. Governor on the ticket with Gov. Martin O’Malley in 2006.
Attorney General Brown’s assistant, Tiffany Johnson Clark, sent the following for House Bill 192 last year: The Office of Attorney General urges an unfavorable report on House Bill 192. House Bill 192 amends § 10-310 of the Election Law Article to require an election judge to further establish a voter’s identity by having the voter present photo identification (governmental-issued or nongovernmental-issued) or another form of documentation proving the voter’s name and address.
Under current law, a voter must already provide their date of birth and address to be verified against the election register. The bill further amends the criminal provision of Election Law § 16- 201 to criminalize voting or attempting to vote under a false form of identification. Under § 16- 201(a)(1), voting under a false name and voting while impersonating another person are already crimes. Voter identification requirements are unnecessary and serve to disqualify otherwise eligible voters. They disparately impact the elderly, people of limited means, and people of color. They are, in short, a solution in search of a problem because there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Maryland law should seek to expand the franchise to as many eligible citizens as possible, not to constrict the franchise to only those individuals with photo identification and proof of address. For the foregoing reasons, the Office of the Attorney General urges an unfavorable report on House Bill 192.

4TH CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE IN ST. MARY’S PROPOSED BY CROSBY
Delegate Brian Crosby, who is not a lawyer but somehow believes that St. Mary’s County needs a fourth Circuit Court Judge, has sponsored House Bill 125 to add such a new judge. Should the bill pass the General Assembly, Governor Marxist Wes Moore could appoint such a new judge as of Oct. 1, 2025. When consulted for a view from the St. Mary County Bar, one longtime attorney in St. Mary’s County believes that trial caseloads require another judge.
Require Board of Education Candidates to stand for election only in a district, not county-wide.
Two Screwball Delegates File House Bill 391 Requiring Board of Education candidates to run from the district they represent and not to have to run county-wide.
The bill is sponsored by Del. Jeff Long (D. Calvert) and Del. Brian Crosby (D. St. Mary’s). It will affect the following counties: Calvert, Cecil, Garrett, Montgomery, Queen Anne’s, St. Mary’s, Somerset, Talbot, and Worcester.

Higher Amounts of Contracts to Avoid Competitive Bids
All three of the delegates representing St. Mary’s County have signed on to sponsor House Bill 490 to allow St. Mary’s County to increase the amount of a bid not requiring competitive bidding to $50,000, at the request of the St. Mary’s County Commissioners, showing that the legislators have surrendered their responsibility to protect the taxpayers from the goofballs in Leonardtown. The immediate effect would be to allow even more corruption in St. Mary’s County Government operations as contracts would be awarded to those who wear blue suede shoes, shop at Leonardtown Square, are relatives of certain county officials or employees, and belong to specific fraternal organizations. The poor, overworked county purchasing department must be working their fingers to the bone processing of all those contracts in their spiffy computers that presently require competitive bidding. The delegates are Republicans Todd Morgan, Matt Morgan, and Democrat Brian Crosby.
Schools Must Be Notified When a Juvenile Criminal is Moved into a New Public School
Delegate Matt Morgan (R. St. Mary’s is one of seven sponsors of House Bill 588 that will require the Department of Juvenile Services to notify the superintendent of schools in each county or the school principal of a student’s criminal record. A Leonardtown High School student, Howard Anthony Straughn Jr, transferred to the school from Delaware, and his violent criminal record was not a barrier to his enrolment. That student administered a violent beating to another student at the school. Delegates Fisher, Nawrocki, Szeliga, Grammer, Arikan, and Chisholm are also sponsors.

TRACK AND KILL
Sen. Jack Bailey (R. St., Calvert) introduced Senate Bill 100 to allow hunters who have legally obtained the proper hunting permit for the designated legal hunting season to continue after hours to track and kill a deer wounded after the cut-off time of hunting on that day. The bill, if passed, would become effective on July 1, 2025.
Increase Penalty for Killing by Boat or Vehicle
Senator Bailey introduced Senate Bill 364, which increases the penalties under Maryland Criminal Law for Manslaughter by a motor vehicle or vessel.
Increasing the maximum period of imprisonment for a first conviction for manslaughter by vehicle or vessel from 10 years to 20 years and for a second or subsequent conviction, or having been previously convicted for certain other crimes, from 15 years to 30 years. The bill is tagged as Jamari’s law for a St. Mary’s County resident that a drunk driver killed.

Bill Will Make It Unlawful to Fail to Report A Death, To Conceal A Corpse
Senator Jack Bailey (R. St. Mary’s, Calvert) introduced a bill to imprison anyone who fails to call authorities about a death. Senate Bill 394 makes doing so a crime for the first time in Maryland, and similar statutes are on the criminal law books in New York and North Carolina. The Bill is explained on the General Assembly website: Prohibiting a person, with the intent to conceal the death of another, from failing to notify emergency medical services or law enforcement regarding the death, knowingly and willfully dismembering, destroying, removing, or otherwise obliterating by any means any portion of human remains, or burying or otherwise disposing of a dead body; prohibiting a person from aiding or abetting another in committing a violation of the Act; and establishing that a violation of the Act is a felony with a penalty of imprisonment not exceeding 10 years.
In a recent murder in St. Mary’s County, the victim, a drug dealer, was dismembered and his remains were spread across two counties.
Teachers Taking Action Against Bad-Ass Students Law
(Right to Teach Act of 2025)
Senator Bailey is a cosponsor with other senators of Senate Bill 482 to authorize teachers in middle and high schools to deal with unruly students. The Bill: Authorizing a teacher in a public middle or high school in the State to take certain disciplinary actions in response to certain student behavior and to direct students to certain school officials; and prohibiting a county board of education from taking disciplinary action against a certain teacher for certain actions.

Bureaucrats Prohibited from Creating Regulations Stopping Harvest of Invasive Species
Never underestimate the boneheaded staff of the Department of Natural Resources. Senator Jack Bailey has sponsored Senate Bill 186 to prevent the bureaucrats from enacting regulations preventing the harvest of the incredible numbers of blue catfish and flathead catfish that the same agency begs fisherfolks to harvest. Go figure. The invasive species was introduced to the Chesapeake Bay by Virginia bureaucrats, and now, catfish are eating oysters and crabs, and every fish that is smaller than them.
Prohibiting certain regulations adopted by the Department of Natural Resources from prohibiting the holder of a commercial blue and flathead catfish finfish trotline license from fishing in the main stem of the Chesapeake Bay that is south of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Theft of Gun Classified as a Felony
Senate Bill 39, sponsored by Senator Bailey to categorize theft of a firearm, was introduced and failed to pass in 2024. Only in the looney world of the Maryland General Assembly would there be a Racial Equity evaluation of the bill, and this was the statement provided to the legislators considering the bill in 2024.
Racial Equity Impact Statement
Under current law, penalties for gun theft are provided under the general theft statute and vary based on the value of the stolen property. The bill removes gun theft from the general theft statute and alters the penalties applicable to theft of a firearm. Demographic data specific to gun theft is not readily available to measure specific impacts. Data on general larceny-theft arrests from 2022, however, indicates some disparity between Black offenders and offenders of other races. This limited data suggests that the bill’s provisions have the potential to exacerbate racial disparities that exist currently in the State’s criminal justice system. Additional data on the racial and ethnic distribution of the individuals charged and/or convicted of firearm thefts would be required to measure the specific impacts of the bill.
TRANSLATION IN ENGLISH:
In short, since blacks steal guns in numbers more than other races, outcomes in court would tend to find more black criminals convicted of stealing guns and send more of their miscreant selves to prison in more significant numbers than those who did not steal firearms. And we can’t have that in Marxist Maryland.
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