Lavender versus Cinnamon Counties in Maryland 2012 – on Question 6 (homosexual marriage)

Lavender versus Cinnamon Counties in Maryland 2012 – on Question 6 (homosexual marriage)

Lavender Counties – voted FOR homosexual marriage

Anne Arundel

Baltimore City

Baltimore

Frederick

Howard

Montgomery

Cinnamon Counties – voted AGAINST homosexual marriage

Allegany

Calvert

Caroline

Carroll

Cecil

Charles

Dorchester

Garrett

Harford

Kent

Prince George’s

Queen Anne’s

St. Mary’s

Somerset

Talbot

Washington

Wicomico

Worchester

Detailed election results:

Last Updated 11/12/2012 01:01:01 PM

Question 06

Civil Marriage Protection Act (Ch. 2 of the 2012 Legislative Session)

Referendum Petition

	Yes	No
Allegany County	9,654	18,636
Anne Arundel County	122,499	112,907
Baltimore City	126,244	94,666
Baltimore County	178,669	169,517
Calvert County	19,648	23,490
Caroline County	4,606	7,898
Carroll County	36,843	47,618
Cecil County	17,926	22,715
Charles County	32,054	38,725
Dorchester County	5,441	8,780
Frederick County	56,562	54,948
Garrett County	3,357	9,035
Harford County	53,545	67,655
Howard County	85,741	59,692
Kent County	4,582	4,774
Montgomery County	257,460	137,498
Prince George's County	168,086	172,471
Queen Anne's County	10,365	13,290
St. Mary's County	19,762	25,324
Somerset County	3,102	5,976
Talbot County	9,327	10,156
Washington County	21,967	35,236
Wicomico County	15,324	23,731
Worcester County	10,654	14,814
Totals	1,273,418 ( 51.9%)	1,179,552 ( 48.1%)

Alzona presages 2012 Maryland GOP election results in a Gazette Newspapers story

Augustus Alzona presages 2012 Maryland election results for the GOP in a Gazette Newspapers story, by C. Benjamin Ford, quoted below:
...
In Montgomery County, nonaffiliated voters passed registered Republicans for the first time in December 2010. In the latest report, there were 333,118 Democrats, 123,404 Republicans and 133,523 nonaffiliated voters.

Augustus Alzona, who served on the Montgomery County Republican Central Committee from 1998 to 2002 and again from 2006 to 2010, said he was not surprised.

From his observations, voter registration outreach efforts by the Montgomery County GOP initially helped attract new voters, including minorities in the increasingly diverse county, Alzona said.

But then, money raised was sent to help the top of the campaign tickets and less was spent on local retail political efforts, he said.

That was a major reason why the number of nonaffiliated voters eventually passed the number of registered Republicans, he said.

Republican numbers have continued to decline in Montgomery County, while the number of Democrats and nonaffiliated voters grows, he said.

Alzona, who remains a Republican, expressed frustration that as a socially conservative Catholic, he believes too many Republicans are supporting same-sex marriage. This could lead other social conservatives to leave the party and either become independents or find another party to join, he said.

“One of my pet peeves was the focus was solely on fundraising and not on the grass-roots fundamentals of registering voters,” Alzona said.
...

"Number of nonaffiliated voters continues to grow"

http://www.gazette.net/article/20121019/NEWS/710199726/1124/number-of-nonaffiliated-voters-continues-to-grow&template=gazette

A long since buried Fox News report regarding Israeli spying in the U.S.

MarylandGOP's Diversity Slate - April 2012

The following MarylandGOP's Diversity Slate of candidates has been endorsed for election, at the Maryland Republican Party's 2012 Spring Convention, as Delegates and Alternate Delegates to the Republican National Committee (RNC) Convention to be held in Tampa, Florida, August 2012.

Delegates to the RNC Convention:

CANDICE CLOUGH
MARK CRAWFORD
MICHAEL HARGADON
LARRY HELMINIAK
FAITH LOUDON
TONY O'DONNELL
JAMES RETER
RICK SAFFERY
ALLEN TWIGG
CORROGAN VAUGHN

Alternate Delegates to the RNC Convention:

COLLINS BAILEY
CAROL BOWIS
ADRIAN CITRONI
J. SCOTT DELONG
TOM DE SABLA
TYLER HARWOOD
JESSICA RAMOS
GEORGE OTTO
JERRY WALKER
DARRELL R. WOOD

THE (former) EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

- or how the failed Ehrlich/Kane legacy campaign punished Maryland’s conservatives, other minorities, plus Alex Mooney and former Brian Murphy supporters.

These injustices occurred at the 2011 Maryland Republican Party’s Spring Convention down in Ocean City, Maryland last weekend, May 6^th-7^th, 2011.

The following is based on my onsite observations as a proxy holding member of the Montgomery County Republican Central Committee and a veteran conservative volunteer activist in the GOP.

Using Saul Alinksy/Democrat/union thug type tactics, Republican leaders of a highly prejudicial 2/3rds majority of voting delegates at that convention voted to include a new, highly discriminatory, permanent voting scheme into the state Party by-laws.

There was a successful, rather naked power grab, which summarily disenfranchised minority Republicans in the state’s three largest jurisdictions.  The remnants of the former Ehrlich/Kane gang, which controlled both the State Party and local Montgomery County Republican Party since 2002, managed to accomplish the following during last weekend’s convention:

1.  Alienated the new conservative majority of Montgomery County Central Committee members, elected in the fall of 2010.  (Note that true conservative, gubernatorial candidate Ellen Sauerbrey did receive 41.33% of the general election vote in Montgomery County in the nineties, versus “moderate” Bob Ehrlich’s 30.51% in 2010 - debunking the myth that conservatives cannot do relatively well here).

2.  Further marginalized the local Ehrlich moderates, who had worked so hard in 2010 to mitigate Ehrlich’s lame reputation among Montgomery County voters as a whole.  At the convention, Republicans from the state’s largest counties were falsely accused of not having worked hard to enough to “produce” statewide victories for our lame 2010 statewide candidates.  Truth be told, the responsibility for the statewide Ehrlich/Kane ticket failures of the 2010 election should rest solely on the failed leadership and paid operatives of both their local, as well as statewide campaigns, many of whom still have jobs and remain in power at the local, as well as statewide levels to this day.  We know who these people are.  Do you, too?

3.  Severely reduced the power of Tea Party Activists, including constitutionalists, from the state’s largest jurisdictions.

4.  Reduced the support, of both suburban moderates and conservatives for the non-partisan, non-ideological campaigns against illegal immigration (e.g. the anti in-state tuition for illegal immigrants petition).

5.  Have made it less likely that “Rule 11” reform will ever be incorporated into the by-laws.

6.  Have divided, not united, the Maryland Republican Party even more so, by the very public insults hurled at Baltimore City, Prince Georges and Montgomery County Republicans.

Maybe the time has come for Republicans from the state’s three largest jurisdictions to consider seceding from the new Confederacy of Maryland?  That unholy confederacy includes some tyrants from certain county delegations who hate Montgomery County.

That’s all for now…… Stay tuned for a more detailed expose of what really went down at last weekend’s convention in Ocean City….

Augustus Alzona

Former two term, Maryland state legislative District 16 member of the Montgomery County Republican Central Committee (1998-2002, 2006-2010, resigned 10/26/2010)

Why the One-Person-One-Vote default is the only constitutionally sound voting methodology

Maryland Republican Central Committee Voting Methodology - 20110426

Why GOP central committee members should vote down the proposed, unconstitutional, socialistic state party by-laws changes

An open letter from an honorable, longtime Carroll County Republican Party patriot::

"Dear fellow Maryland Republicans,

Upcoming at our May State GOP Convention is going to be a review of
many proposed changes to the State Party By-Laws.

Any organizations' By-Laws certainly set the tone for, and guide the
progress of, or lack of same, for any organization. Either they
foster the goals of the Party, or they kill them, based largely on
how well the By-Laws are constructed, or are used.

As both a member of the 2007 and 2011 By-Laws Committee, I must
plainly state what has been produced from this current Committee, is
if passed in total, going to lead to another 40 years in the darkness
for the State GOP.

This time around the entire process was rushed, due consideration and
discussion of important points were lacking, or ignored. Several
damaging proposed changes were made, which were then pushed through,
over the protests of many Committee members.

While many members of the Committee tried hard to do quality work,
this was not the views of all the Committee. A specific agenda was
being played out.

Several punitive sections were added, and of course, these would not
have been added, if someone did not look to use them into the future!

An entire section, dubiously named the 'Judiciary Section' was
conceived. Although proposing to illegally empower the Party to strip
the legally elected position of any Central Committee member, where
they judged sufficient 'cause' to exist, was pushed through, in spite
of the notification this could not be done legally!

Basically, as many do not find discussions of By-Laws to be
interesting, take heed! As they say, the 'Devil is in the details' as
always! These changes, if passed for the current By-Laws, will result
in the crippling of the Party, if not the Party getting sued!

Not only would this cripple any fund-raising efforts, instead of
training future GOP leaders, we would become the Party of 'Sit Down &
Shut Up' lest we remove you from your position! What poor example
that type of move would set?

The ironic point is these changes taken as a whole would promote the
Party itself as all powerful, over top of the individuals elected to
represent the Party!

Thus we would be changing the entire concept of a 'We the People'
type GOP into a poor copy of the Soviet version of what a 'Party'
really would be, for our future! We would allow the crushing of
individuals, for the sake of the Party, or really, the Party elite,
threatened by new ideas and the Tea Party types elected in September!

In the Socialist Republic of Maryland, this will not do us any good,
but at least we will be in line with the rest of the State's
viewpoint!

Sincerely,

Joseph Burns, Jr.
Carroll County
"