A group of Maryland residents
frustrated with its state’s liberal government is joining a recent movement
across the country of regions trying to secede.
Western Maryland is made up of five counties whose residents largely
vote Republican and feel under-represented at the state capitol, run by
Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley and a Democrat-controlled legislature.
The movement began in July as a
social-media effort, with activist Scott Strzelczyk starting a Facebook page
titled the Western Maryland Initiative. The
movement, however, has since garnered significant media attention, with
Strzelczyk talking to everybody from National Public Radio to The Washington
Post. “We are tired of this,” he said
during an interview Thursday with Washington-area NPR affiliate WAMU. “We have
had enough.”
Strzelczyk said the biggest
concerns are increasing taxes, and the Democrat-controlled legislature
gerrymander voting district so that the state’s big metropolitan areas have the
most representation and tighter gun laws enacted this year, which he calls “the
last straw.” The movement is just one
of several across the country that includes the Upper Peninsula in Michigan,
Northern California and several conservative northern Colorado counties…..ToRead More……
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