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| Profession | Physician and small business owner. | 28 year incumbent professional politician. |
| Jobs | Will create jobs and make job creation a priority. Please see solutions page for more information (We need to change our attitude towards jobs/business and stop chasing them out of our state). | Policies have cost us 3,000 small businesses and put over 240,000 Marylanders out of work. |
| Taxes | Signed no new tax pledge. I will repeal largest tax increase in history of this state. | In last 15 years alone voted 91 times to raise taxes almost $2 BILLION/year and was the deciding vote which allowed the largest tax increase in history to go through. |
| Illegal Immigrants | End sanctuary policies. No drivers licenses or in-state college tuition to illegals. | Voted to give in-state college tuition and drivers licenses to illegals and voted to maintain sanctuary status of Maryland. |
| Budget | Cut spending and roll the budget back to 2008 levels. Implement PAY AS YOU GO-any new legislation must have an identified funding source. | Increased the budget over 120% in the past 15 years and has voted for every irresponsible budget. |
| Spending | Cut spending across board EXCEPT in emergency services, promised obligations and education (with some money left over to be used as legislature sees fit). | Increased spending almost $18 BILLION in the past 15 years. |
| Education | Will vote to fully fund Thornton (for which the legislature never identified a source of revenue) and has, in fact, identified a funding source moving forward. | Will vote to cut spending on Education (Thornton funding formula) as he stated in the Capital interview on October 12, 2010. |
| Public Safety | Make AAMC a cardiac center, re-open State Police Barracks in Annapolis. | Helped block AAMC from becoming a cardiac surgery center. Did not stand up for our community residents as he allowed the State Police Barracks in Annapolis to close. |
| Ethics | Establish independent commission with subpoena power. | Supported a bill to make it more difficult to obtain voting record of legislators. |
| Politics | Establish term limits for legislators and committee chairmen. | Has served 28 years in the legislature. |
| Traffic | Support REAL solutions to fixing this-like removing EZ Pass tax and installing high speed EZ pass lanes. | Supported becoming the ONLY state in the US to tax EZ Pass. |
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