Senate President Mike Miller - 43 YEARS MD Senate! When is He Leaving?!!! (Mount Vernon: amusement park, tax)

[LesLucid]

Career politicians are a curse. They embed themselves like ticks into the body politic and suck it dry. I routinely vote against any incumbent now, unless they’re still on a second term. I’ll give them that. After that, they all need to be flushed.

[sunglo1]

Originally Posted by sunglo1

Someone should give him a fast foot up his ass as he leaves! Thanks to lovely people like this in Annapolis you have one of the biggest tax burdens in the county, (Democrat Party) so for all the big supporters on this blog, I want to you to thank this jackass -and people like him- when you go to do your taxes, and when you look at your pay check, and check out how 70% of our taxes goes out to the ridiculous education bureaucracy we have here in lovely Maryland. Oh, and lets not forget the funding for the shooting gallery called Baltimore city. Yes lets thank this Nitwit, great job!

Forgot a few things, our high property and piggyback taxes;oh ,an of course the rain tax! Yea, the sad thing is D-bags like Miller will be in till they kick the bucket , unless a miracle happens and the GOP gets a better hold on the state.

[westsideboy]

Well, it is normal for the in-district people to love having representative in state leadership.

It is also normal for people out-of-district to see the benefits being funneled to these places, and to be upset about it.

That's how it was when Cas Taylor was Speaker of the House. He was loved in Cumberland, loathed by our neighbors very close by. Still a bit surprised to this day that people in Washington County didn't see the immense benefit he would have brought their communities over...............Leroy Myers..............but no dice. Those people would vote for Mickey Mouse if he ran under the elephant banner. Ahead of their time perhaps?

[G1..]

Originally Posted by sunglo1

Forgot a few things, our high property and piggyback taxes;oh ,an of course the rain tax! Yea, the sad thing is D-bags like Miller will be in till they kick the bucket , unless a miracle happens and the GOP gets a better hold on the state.

The rain tax is gone,move on.Thank your ex Governor for that.

[G1..]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Yes, but the first duty of every elected representative at every level is to the people in his district.

Someone in another thread mentioned that I know a goodly number of Maryland officials, which is true. But knowing a lot of them isn't as important as knowing, and being on good terms with, the right ones. Miller is one of those.

Maryland, like most if not all states and unlike the federal government, has to have a balanced budget. So when it starts to hand out discretionary spending, which accounts for only 18% of the budget because the rest is already mandated to go here or there, like with the bond bills you have to have someone to shepherd that request through the process which ends at the Board of Public Works (Governor, Comptroller, (State Treasurer) for approval or denial.

To bad many of you don't remember Louis Goldstein, now there was a MD politician!!! Again he was someone O met through my job at the time and met him many more times after that and he remember my name ...that always surprised me.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L._Goldstein

[MidValleyDad]

Originally Posted by G1..

To bad many of you don't remember Louis Goldstein, now there was a MD politician!!! Again he was someone O met through my job at the time and met him many more times after that and he remember my name ...that always surprised me.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L._Goldstein

I wish Louis would have lived another month. Then it would be too late to take him off the ballot and he would have won from the grave!

[slowlane3]

You can thank Mike Miller for obstructing any attempt to re-draw the ridiculously gerrymandered U.S. Congressional districts which extremely favor Democrats. One of these Congressional districts actually stretches all the way from Ocean City west to Taneytown (on border of Carroll and Frederick counties).

A friend of mine said that Miller once ordered state police cars to block all the intersections on Route 5 in order to clear a path for a procession of alumni to drive to their Surrattsville high school class reunion picnic, held down at Point Lookout.

[G1..]

Originally Posted by slowlane3

You can thank Mike Miller for obstructing any attempt to re-draw the ridiculously gerrymandered U.S. Congressional districts which extremely favor Democrats. One of these Congressional districts actually stretches all the way from Ocean City west to Taneytown (on border of Carroll and Frederick counties).

A friend of mine said that Miller once ordered state police cars to block all the intersections on Route 5 in order to clear a path for a procession of alumni to drive to their Surrattsville high school class reunion picnic, held down at Point Lookout.

No, never happen but people do like to make things up.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by G1..

The rain tax is gone,move on.Thank your ex Governor for that.

Thank O'Malley for imposing it or thank him for eliminating it? Yes to the first but it Hogan was who got rid of it. The rain tax was a bogus issue in any case. I am absolutely not a fan of Martin O'Malley, I can't stand even being in the same very large room with him, but what people don't understand is that every single jurisdiction in the state collects a "rain tax" in some form , it was just that the O'Malley Administration mandated that those 9 Counties have a separate revenue line item for it. The TMDL and WIP requirements are still in place, still being enforced and still costing a crap ton of money.

Originally Posted by G1..

To bad many of you don't remember Louis Goldstein, now there was a MD politician!!! Again he was someone O met through my job at the time and met him many more times after that and he remember my name ...that always surprised me.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_L._Goldstein

Never fear, I remember him. His son just sold his main estate down here for development.

Did you get one of his "God Bless Y'All Real Good" coins?

[G1..]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Thank O'Malley for imposing it or thank him for eliminating it? Yes to the first but it Hogan was who got rid of it. The rain tax was a bogus issue in any case. I am absolutely not a fan of Martin O'Malley, I can't stand even being in the same very large room with him, but what people don't understand is that every single jurisdiction in the state collects a "rain tax" in some form , it was just that the O'Malley Administration mandated that those 9 Counties have a separate revenue line item for it. The TMDL and WIP requirements are still in place, still being enforced and still costing a crap ton of money.



Never fear, I remember him. His son just sold his main estate down here for development.

Did you get one of his "God Bless Y'All Real Good" coins?

I know it was Hogan who got rid of it,not a fan of Martin myself. Rumor years ago was that Louis had all the property on the Calvert side of the bay so when they build a "second" bay bridge it would have to go through him. Yes I did ,the company I worked for at the time was always having some sort of party or meetings and he was always there ,he always remembered my first name and that I had come to Maryland from NJ.