Posted on 09/12/2013 6:18:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
"The entire state is controlled basically by three jurisdictions," Strzelczyk said. "That's not representative government. ... We don't think this government can be fixed."
The solution? Form your own state.
I guess that's easier than a voter registration drive.
Strzelczyk's group believes the people of Western Maryland are fed up with Democratic dominance and they want Garrett, Allegany, Washington, Frederick and Carroll counties to break away and form a new state, perhaps called West Maryland.
According to a blog that he writes, Strzelczyk is "a constitutionalist concerned with the legitimate role of the federal government and the infringement of our unalienable rights to life, liberty, and property." He is a software consultant, conservative activist and father of five children. He's 49 and lives in New Windsor, which is a lovely place in Carroll County. I don't know why anyone who lives in New Windsor would complain about anything, but Strzelczyk has a lot of gripes about life in Maryland.
He ran through his list for me, and they were familiar:
The Democrats rigged the 6th Congressional district with a big chunk of liberal Montgomery County to guarantee the election last fall of John Delaney, depriving Western Maryland voters of an 11th term of representation by the 86-year-old Roscoe Bartlett of Buckeystown.
The "flush tax," which helps pay for improvements to wastewater systems to protect the Chesapeake Bay.
Sales taxes.
Gasoline taxes.
The regulation of new housing and septic systems. That's part of the so-called "war against rural Maryland," with Democrats in Annapolis devilishly devising all kinds of limits on farms and the development of land.
(Excerpt) Read more at articles.baltimoresun.com ...
It’s where I’m from, and I’d gladly live there again should this come to pass.
and so it begins.
may take 100 years.
but it has begun.
Really the same thing is true even in liberal bastions like New York, Illinois and California. Huge swaths of conservative rural areas are held under the jackboot of a couple huge urban areas.
Very few places where Dems win rural areas — pretty much the only exceptions I can think of are Massachusetts, Vermont, the Iron Range of Minnesota, South Texas, the Navajo Reservation, New Hampshire and Maine kind-of and the black belt of the deep south.
Why not just join West Virginia?
The activists are right though: Prince Georges County, Baltimore County, and Baltimore City rule the state.
I say,”Go for it!”
“The entire state is controlled basically by three jurisdictions,” Strzelczyk said.
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Very true. They dominate state politics by virtue of their densely populated areas and extreme gerrymandering. They run all over the rest of the state and have no interest in “inclusiveness”, a principle liberals love to espouse.
Nearly everyone we know is leaving the state. And that even includes some liberals!
Prince Georges County
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They can’t even rule themselves. The county is a financial mess and crime is totally out of control.
You can add to that list Imperial County, Calif., which has been "blue" for many years, thanks to so many compadres.
I don’t know if a lot of people realize this, but if you cut out Baltimore county, Montgomery county, and PG county, Maryland is a red state. The Eastern shore of Maryland also bears little resemblance to the Balt-DC beltway mindset and if there were any chance of a Western Maryland state, Eastern Maryland wouldn’t be far behind. It would be funny to see Martin O’malley run for president in 2016 against that backdrop.
I think that is true about most states...cut out the major metro areas (and possibly the university towns) and what you are left with are solid common sense conservatives.
This is happening everywhere. Huge cities controlling whole states. It even has important effects in the Federal gov’t as those same cities basically control the Senate. This is a major reason why direct popular election of Senators is a bad idea; it disenfranchises suburban and rural citizens to the benefit of Chicago, Baltimore, Denver, etc.
I live in St. Mary’s County and we have had a bellyful of Democrats. Problem is we are being moved in on by the refugees from SE Washington DC who have moved down from PG to Charles County and are invading our Northern boundaries.
We tried hard to unload Steny Hoyer, but his black constituency in Prince Georges and Charles Counties beat us.
Looks like this year for Governor we will have a choice between two black candidates. Charles Lollar, Republican and Brown—O’Malley’s steppinfetchit puppet-—Democrat.
The Democrat People’s Republic of Maryland. (DPRM)
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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