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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Opt Ed Piece from Senator Nancy Jacobs

Opt Ed Piece from Senator Nancy Jacobs

Wed, Jun 26, 2013

Maryland State House – Call 911 – Ambulance Needed

Maryland drivers are getting ready to head to the emergency room for a transfusion, as Governor O’Malley is sucking their life’s blood out of them, or should I say the few dollars they have left in their wallets.

With all the legislation that was passed in the recently ended legislative session, we should all be thankful that it only lasts for 90 days.  Otherwise we might be finding ourselves at the local soup kitchen for what this Governor is costing us.

On July 1, Martin O’Malley’s sticky fingers will plunge deep in our pockets to pull out an additional $2 dollars in toll fees for the Bay Bridge, the Harry W. Nice Bridge, the JFK Highway (I-95) and Thomas J. Hatem Memorial Bridge.  Oh, that hand’s not finished yet – grab an additional dollar for the Harbor and Ft. McHenry tunnels and the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Next year when the Express Toll Lanes open on Interstate 95 we’ll have even more toll hikes with the variable toll rates lanes. All for the sake of cutting time off on our work commute. This gives whole new meaning to the phrase “time is money” with Governor Martin O’Malley in charge of your wallet. 

Until this year Governor O’Malley should have been forced to buy malpractice insurance to cover what his administration had not been doing – going after those who breeze through the E-Z pass tolls without paying.  In the last five years these toll-runners have chalked up nearly $6.7 million in unpaid tolls – and they want to dip into the pockets again of the law-bidding motorists.  Botched operation – get me a lawyer!

Now you take the surrounding states, Delaware has $10 in tolls for the entire state.  West Virginia has only one toll road (take me home country roads).  Our good friends in Virginia only pay $27.10 and that’s including the Chesapeake Bay-Bridge Tunnel at $12.00.  Only the state of Pennsylvania equals our current total of $33.00 … and they have 15 toll roads compared to our 8 soon to be 9.  Really? I think I’m going to faint – grab the smelling salts.

The public is still choking on the Gas Tax we’re going to start paying on July 1, 2013, the same day that the tolls increase.  If the feds don’t add to our misery, you’ll be paying at least 62.5 cents per gallon in taxes by 2016.  My suggestion to you -- learn the Heimlich maneuver before then!

In just the past two years alone we’ve see car registration double (don’t forget to add the additional $3.50 the gas tax bill has included in raising the registration fee once again), titling a vehicle doubled, and car dealers processing fees doubled.  For those of you who found a car or truck too expensive to use – even moped and motor scooters owners found the “Tax Man” waiting like the Grim Reaper.  The addition of a $20 titling fee and an excise tax of 6 percent, requirement of insurance and the additional cost to purchase a helmet and protective eye wear…  We always have the option of riding a bike, rollerblades or a skateboard – oh wait, give’em time -- they’ll tax that too!    

Wait a dog gone minute – the intake from toll fees collected minus expenses for the fiscal years 2011 and 2012 is a whopping $621,460,763.  Oh my gosh -- the heart is beating double time, I’m having a hard time breathing!  Didn’t the MDTA say in 2011 that costs for repairs involving all these toll roads AND the expense of addressing traffic congestion along I-95 (the express toll lanes) and the Inter-county Connector in the DC area totaled $909,000,000.  Oh hon, one more year without another toll increase and the funds for all that work will have given us $130,000,000 to spare – the cost of gold-plated pacemakers for everyone in the state.

The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Maryland in 2012 reports that the standard for a three-person family has increased by an average of 54% in the last decade.  How much will these new taxes and fees increase that average?

Enough is enough; we haven’t even gotten to the wind and rain taxes O’Malley inflicted on us.

The only person dancing in the rain after the 2013 Legislative Session is Martin O’Malley. After July 1, 2013 the rest of us will be on life support.


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Sunday, January 08, 2012

State lawmakers hope to ride anti-incumbent wave to Congress

State lawmakers hope to ride anti-incumbent wave to Congress




Nearly a half-dozen Maryland state lawmakers are hoping to exploit the nation's anti-incumbent mood with campaigns for Congress that focus heavily on Washington's dysfunction.

Two Republican state senators, David Brinkley of Frederick County and Nancy Jacobs of Harford County, announced plans this week to run for the House of Representatives. A third, Democrat C. Anthony Muse of Prince George's County, is expected to toss his name in for the Senate on Thursday... http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-congress-2012-20120104,0,7834362.story

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Monday, October 17, 2011

Bryan P. Sears: Senate Committee Approves O'Malley Congressional Map

Senate Committee Approves O'Malley Congressional Map
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By Bryan PSears A 15-member Senate committee voted 10-4 along party lines to give preliminary approval to Gov. Martin O'Malley's congressional ...

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There was no debate on any of the bills.
"It's a done deal," said Harford County Sen. Nancy Jacobs. "Why waste everyone's time talking?"

There was no debate on any of the bills.
"It's a done deal," said Harford County Sen. Nancy Jacobs. "Why waste everyone's time talking?"

Keep up with what's happening in state and Baltimore County politics by following Bryan P. Sears on his Insider Politics Blog and on Twitter and Facebook .
Related Topics: Maryland General AssemblyMaryland redistricting, and congressional redistricting

Senator Nancy Jacobs Minority Leader (R-Harford/Cecil): THREE MINORITY-OFFERED MAPS FIGHT TO PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF RURAL COMMUNITIES AND CONTAIN THREE MAJORITY-MINORITY DISTRICTS

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Live blog of special session on redistrictingOctober 17, 2011
Want to follow what’s going on at today’s opening of the special session on redistricting and this afternoon’s hearing, but can’t get to Annapolis? Megan Poinski and Len Lazarick will be liveblogging the session and hearing throughout the day. Come back to this story -- their updates will be here beginning at around 11 a.m
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THREE MINORITY-OFFERED MAPS FIGHT TO PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF RURAL COMMUNITIES AND CONTAIN THREE MAJORITY-MINORITY DISTRICTS: GET INVOLVED TODAY.
From the Office of:
Senator Nancy Jacobs
Minority Leader (R-Harford/Cecil)

I’m heading to Annapolis on Sunday to put the finishing touches on my testimony for our Special Session that begins tomorrow. Our Republican Caucus will meet at 9 am to discuss strategy for each day of the special session.
The redistricting bill that I’m sponsoring in the Senate is being sponsored by Delegate Tony O’Donnell in the House. Our bill is a Good Government Redistricting Plan because Marylanders deserve fair and accurate representation of their interests We will do our bill presentation together at 1 pm Monday before the Senate and House Committees hearing the redistricting bills.
We want our constituent's voices to be heard this week.
  • If you can, come to Annapolis for the hearings at 1 pm on Monday. There are other ways to have your voice be heard as well.
  • Call your senator and delegates offices and let them know your opinion on the Governor’s redistricting plan. Tell them that you support the Good Government plans being offered by the republicans that keeps communities together. Let them know that redistricting shouldn’t be about reducing the number of republican congressman in the state or denying minorities’ representation.
  • Call in to radio talk shows.
Earlier this week Senator Joe Getty and Senator E.J. Pipkin also introduced maps. All three proposals operate under a simple fairness doctrine that complies with existent federal laws. Our proposals will keep people with similar interests together, preserve the integrity of rural areas and allow for accurate representation of minorities communities by creating three majority-minority districts.
The Governor finally released his plan on Saturday (yesterday). In stark contrast, his redistricting bill tears these communities apart. The O’Malley plan may be politically satisfying to the backroom dealmakers of Annapolis, but it disenfranchises the very people it is meant to represent. The plan lacks discernible criteria for boundaries such as communities, school districts, or even county lines.
The redistricting process was never meant to be an incumbent retention exercise. Marylanders should be ashamed that the byproduct of the backroom deal-making resulted in ridicule from national media including one newspaper holding a naming contest for the redrawn 3rd Congressional District. O’Malley’s plan isn’t about the people; it’s about the self-serving politics that have come to define Annapolis.
Until Thursday night none of these alternative plans were going to be considered by the Maryland General Assembly. The Governor’s bill was the only one that would have a hearing. I called the President’s office and shared my concern that doing that would look like blatantly backroom partisan politics. At the bare minimum, Marylanders at least deserve to be heard and to offer their opinions on the multitude of plans. To his credit, the President of the Senate agreed that all of our bills deserve a hearing. ALL of the redistricting bills will be heard on Monday.
I believe that decision-making processes should be taken out of the back rooms and we should have open, honest and transparency from our leaders. I have no delusions that any of our bills will truly be considered throughout this process. What we gained by calling on the democrat leadership to do the right thing was making them realize that the process they created was neither open nor fair.
The democrats control Annapolis, so much so that they don’t even acknowledge that republicans and independents in this state deserve to have their voices be heard too. Rural Maryland and minorities are totally ignored as well.
It’s as though they are the democrats are the only ones whose opinions matter. That is part of what is wrong when one political party controls an entire state.
All three of the republican plans create a majority minority district, allowing for all minorities to have accurate and fair representation in D.C. Our governor chose partisanship over doing the right thing for the citizens of Maryland. Let your voice be heard this week.

Click here for a PDF of the Map

Sponsor: Senator Nancy Jacobs* Respects existing county and municipal boundaries to keep communities of common interest together.
* Splits counties as infrequently as possible
* Creates three Minority-Majority districts
* Creates a district solely for Baltimore City of inside the beltway communities
* Protects the interests of voters rather than incumbent politicians

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL:
Suzanne Collins
Chief of Staff
410-841-3158

God bless you.
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Senator Nancy Jacobs
Senate Minority Leader
District 34-- Harford and Cecil County

Web sites:
nancyjacobs.com
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www.facebook.com/Senator.Nancy.Camp.Jacobs

Brief, Intense Special Session Kicks Off With Target On Bartlett’s Back
CityBizNews / October 17, 2011
The 188 members of the Maryland General Assembly return to the State House today for what promises to be a brief but intense special session to redraw congressional district lines.
It kicks off at 10 a.m. with a press conference by Gov. Martin O'Malley, Senate President Mike Miller and House Speaker Michael Busch, the principal architects of the plan O'Malley officially unveiled Saturday evening after a week of largely negative comments from the public concerning a plan submitted earlier by a five-person advisory committee.

The plan the governor submitted, as he promised, is "substantially similar" to the one recommended by the advisory committee on which Busch and Miller served. O'Malley did little to mollify the critics of the original plan, though he did return some of the Democratic-leaning precincts taken away from Montgomery County Democrat Rep. Chris Van Hollen in the party's attempt to target Republican Rep. Roscoe Bartlett in the 6th Congressional District
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Despite loud, public and bipartisan outcries about the lack of a third minority district, it was actually Van Hollen - not Rep. Donna Edwards of Prince George's - who lost the most minority and Democratic voters, according to a chart prepared by the Baltimore Sun based on figures from the state Democratic Party.
Morning session, afternoon hearing

The House and Senate will come into session at 11:30 a.m. to introduce the governor's plan and several alternatives from the GOP, along with bills on other topics that are not expected to be acted on. The Senate will promptly pass a rule to form a new, large standing Committee on Reapportionment and Redistricting to be chaired by Sen. James Robey, a Howard County Democrat.

At 1 p.m., the new committee along with the House Rules Committee - also a large group of legislative leaders - will convene a joint hearing that is likely to last most of the afternoon.

MarylandReporter.com will be updating events throughout the day with a live blog LINK post that will be running above this story on the home page.

While as many as 40 members of the House and Senate listen to testimony on congressional district lines and two bills on school board districts, the six standing committees of the House will get briefings on topics such as budget mandates, health benefits exchange, community colleges and other matters. (With more than a third of the 47-member Senate on the redistricting committee, its four standing committees will not be meeting.)
Wrap up Tuesday or Wednesday

In a brief conversation last week, Robey said the committees would try to wrap up their work on redistricting today, or tomorrow morning if they go late.

Both houses could conceivably vote on a bill Tuesday, although that would require getting a super-majority to pass the redistricting as an emergency bill so that it would go into effect as soon as the governor signs it. That requires 85 votes from the 141 delegates and 29 from the 47 senators. Finishing up on Tuesday would also require a suspension of the rules to vote on a bill twice in the same day.

Fast action is necessary to meet a Jan. 11 filing deadline for congressional candidates for the April 3 primary, and to allow for any court action on lawsuits likely to be filed against the plan.

Three House committees are already planning hearings on Wednesday, and the House Environmental Matters Committee says its hearing on Chesapeake Bay nutrient control will happen at 11:30 a.m. or "immediately following session," indicating some leaders are expecting a three-day session.

GOP no longer hoping for black alliance

At the Monday hearing, Republicans will be offering several very different plans that create three minority districts, and three that favor Republicans. They had been hoping for an alliance with the Black Legislative Caucus to support an alternative map, but a meeting this weekend indicated the caucus was likely to support the governor's plan when it meets again this morning.

On a Facebook posting, Senate Minority Leader Nancy Jacobs, Harford-Cecil, said she and House Minority Leader Tony O'Donnell, Calvert, "will present our bill together. Hope lots of people show up and object to O'Malley's exercise in partisan gerrymandering. We were hoping to have the support of the black caucus - evidently we won't."
 


Senator Nancy Jacobs Minority Leader (R-Harford/Cecil): THREE MINORITY-OFFERED MAPS FIGHT TO PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF RURAL COMMUNITIES AND CONTAIN THREE MAJORITY-MINORITY DISTRICTS
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Report from HdG Hatem Hearing: Great Story. Great Photos

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HAVRE DE GRACE TOLL HEARING II: June 27
Hundreds Speak Out Against Hike at Hatem Bridge

Karen Green gets a standing ovation when she tells the crowd at the Havre de Grace Activity Center "This toll kills me literally, because I will not be able to pay..." Karen is dying from kidney disease and must cross the Hatem Bridge three times every week to get kidney dialysis...

It was a wild and whacky night....





A COMMUNITY TELLS IT'S STORY: Hatem Hearing I
Public Hearing at Perryville High School

TOLL HIKES AT HATEM WILL HURT OUR FAMILIES...OUR ELDERLY...OUR TOWNS...OUR LIVELIHOODS

A World War II Veteran bent from age and illness struggles to the microphone at Perryville High School to tell the Maryland Transportation Authority Board in a weakened voice how hard higher tolls at the Hatem Bridge will be for the elderly. The crowd, 1200 strong, gives him a standing ovation. That community spirit is apparent throughout the night as over a hundred people with similar stories of hardship testify against increased toll rates at the Hatem Bridge. CLICK HERE FOR THE REST OF THE STORY
Senator Nancy Jacobs
Senate Minority Leader
District 34-- Harford and Cecil County

Web sites:
nancyjacobs.com
mdsenategop.com
My constituents are currently paying 10 dollars a year for a decal for unlimited passage. If they are forced to get this EZ Pass, initially they would have to pay 100 dollars and 54 dollars in 2012. Then in 2013 with the yearly price for the Hatem program would rise to 90 dollars a year. If people have more than one car and need more transponders, multiply that cost.




Senator Nancy Jacobs: Help Stop an Increase in Tolls on the Hatem Bridge: We Need Your Help

 


Senator Nancy Jacobs: Help Stop an Increase in Tolls on the Hatem Bridge: We Need Your Help


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God bless Senator Jacobs for rallying folks to speak-out about the massive Maryland Transportation Authority (MTA) toll increases.  However, in her heart she must know that citizen feedback will fall on deaf ears...

Please, I pray I'm wrong...

However it is my view that it will not do any good what-so-ever to give the Maryland Transportation Board any feedback.  The MTA has already made up its mind.  This huge out-of-touch behemoth bureaucracy absolutely does not care what citizens have to say.  

It is going to go forward with all its fare and toll increases and is just going through the motions so that they may say they made time available for public feedback.

Some time ago when the MTA decided to charge a maintenance fee on the EZ Pass, our family provided feedback.  The response was almost satire - or - Orwellian double-speak at its best.  After it imposed the maintenance fee, all of my family and most of my friends and colleagues all joined the avalanche of folks who returned the MD EZ Pass and went to another state for the EZ Pass.

I'm just saying...

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VISIT THE HATEM BRIDGE INFO CENTER
HELP STOP AN INCREASE IN TOLLS
FROM THE OFFICE OF: SENATOR NANCY JACOBS
MINORITY LEADER, (R-Harford/Cecil)

The Maryland Transportation Authority Board has just voted unanimously to support a proposal to raise tolls around the state. I want all my constituents to know the details of that proposal locally, and how we plan to fight it. Here is information on the Hatem Bridge tolls they'd like to approve. The increases go into effect in two phases, starting this fall and again in 2013. The board has just suggested a new discount program specifically for users of the Hatem Bridge through EZ-PASS, but they plan to eliminate the current decal program.

Senator Nancy Jacobs
Senate Minority Leader
District 34-- Harford and Cecil County

Web sites:
nancyjacobs.com
mdsenategop.com

My constituents are currently paying 10 dollars a year for a decal for unlimited passage. If they are forced to get this EZ Pass, initially they would have to pay 100 dollars and 54 dollars in 2012. Then in 2013 with the yearly price for the Hatem program would rise to 90 dollars a year. If people have more than one car and need more transponders, multiply that cost.

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2011/06/senator-nancy-jacobs-help-stop-increase.html

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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Red Maryland: Its So EZ To Hit Up Taxpayers

 
Red Maryland: Its So EZ To Hit Up Taxpayers

Because they care so much for “working families” the O’Malley administration is set to impose fees on EZ Pass users making their commutes to work more expensive.

The Maryland Department of Transportation is set to slap a $1.50 monthly fee on EZ pass tag holders and start charging $21.00 for the EZ pass transponder. Maryland has 530,000 EZ Pass users.
In addition to those new fees MDTA will also increase fees on vehicles on with three or more axles. ...

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Read the entire post here

Red Maryland: Way to Avoid Maryland's Proposed EZ Pass Fee

 
Red Maryland: Way to Avoid Maryland's Proposed EZ Pass Fee

The comments on this post on Red Maryland are quite informative for folks who have a Maryland EZ Pass...

See also: Red Maryland: Way to Avoid Maryland's Proposed EZ Pass Fee

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Red Maryland: Way to Avoid Maryland's Proposed EZ Pass Fee

 

Red Maryland: Way to Avoid Maryland's Proposed EZ Pass Fee

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

My wife called this to my attention the other day and we are less than pleased…

Ya know – this is nuts. Maryland should be encouraging the use of EZ Pass as it saves the state a great deal of money in personnel expenses and other assorted overhead with efficiency fueled by technology.

Way to Avoid Maryland's Proposed EZ Pass Fee

Despite the tough economic times, I knew Governor Martin O'Malley could never resist the urge to raise some form of tax/fee.

Read the rest of Red Maryland’s post here: Way to Avoid Maryland's Proposed EZ Pass Fee



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