From the office of State Sen. Nancy Jacobs:
State Senator Nancy Jacobs tells people gathered at Jad’s Caddy Shack in Essex today that she will run for Congress in the 2nd District against incumbent, Dutch Ruppersberger. Over the past few months Jacobs has been meeting with citizens and business owners across the district. After receiving overwhelmingly positive feedback, she is convinced that voters are ready for a change.
As a former small business owner, Jacobs has fought burdensome tax hikes and regulations to help our small business community create jobs for all Marylanders. With gang violence on the rise, Jacobs worked hand-in-hand with community law enforcement to pass the first gang law in Maryland history.
As a mother and grandmother, Jacobs has repeatedly fought for our children cracking down on child sex offenders with Jessica’s Law that mandated long prison sentences for child sex offenders.
Voters want a representative who cares about their concerns and listens to their opinions. Nancy Jacobs’ strong history of constituent service will give her an edge against a Washington-insider incumbent who’s lost touch with the people back home.
With citizens struggling to pay their bills and find jobs, the politicians in Washington shouldn’t be running up the tab on the voter’s dime. Jacobs is committing to fixing what should be our nation’s top priority: job growth and getting our skyrocketing deficit in line. Pledging to work tirelessly for the people of the 2nd District, Jacobs plan to reach out to all citizens seeking their votes.
Nancy Jacobs has served in the House of Delegates, the Maryland Senate and as Senator Minority leader. She was recently named Senator of the Year by the Maryland State’s Attorney’s Association.
Here are a few of the elected officials who are endorsing Nancy Jacobs for Congress:
Bob Ehrlich: “Nancy is a leader who cares about her constituents. She is a tenacious fighter–but knows how to work across the aisle when needed. In these troubling times, she is the kind of competitor taxpayers need to shake up Congress.”
Harford County Executive David R. Craig: “Having worked with Senator Jacobs for many years, she is a common sense, honest, dedicated public servant who is not afraid to take on tough issues. She has worked hard for the citizens of Harford County in the General Assembly and truly cares about the people she represents.”
Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold: “I’ve known Nancy Jacobs for nearly two decades. She is committed to the people, community and country. That is just what the people of the second district deserve. In tough times, she will be able to get things done…I have no doubt about it. I’ve seen her work to reign in out of control spending, she’s strong on law enforcement, and she’s worked to create jobs. She’s a citizen lawmaker who gets through the partisan politics to get things done.”
I am excited! I can’t wait to vote for Mrs. Jacobs.
Uphill battle against an entrenched politician. I will vote for her.
She is a career politician, time to retire Nancy. Can’t win reelection, didn’t know which office to seek which is why she is now in the race. My man, Larry Smith has been spot on.
I’m with you. There are better Republicans to vote for. She couldn’t even hold Harford Co. against Helton in her last Senate race. Cecil Co. saved her bacon. She has no chance. Not likely that any Republican can win against Dutch this time around but he may decide to move to greener pastures and putting up a viable republican candidate now could lay the groundwork for a better shot at the seat 3 years from now.
Larry Smith is the REAL deal. He has outstanding, relevant qualifications that would serve the 2nd district residents in the manner they should expect and demand-larrysmith4congress.com. Larry is a contemporary candidate who will be able to defeat the incumbent. We have got to stop electing permanent politicans. There are innovative, truly driven citizens, like Larry Smith, who are ready, willing, and able to represent the people of their districts and they haven’t spent years upon years within the political system. If you are a person who wants to elect a candidate that has been working diligently for months, meeting and speaking with the 2nd district residents versus a career politician who just decided today they want to takeover the 2nd district’s congressional seat then Larry Smith is worth checking out – larrysmith4congress.com.
While I like David Craig, I can’t believe a smart man like him would endorse someone like Senator Jacobs. Congratulations Mr. Craig, you just lost my vote when you run for Governor.
And this is the “representative” who fought against Harford County getting a room tax! Five huge hotel/suite complexes in Belcamp and hundreds of rooms booked up since the first mention of BRAC with all those high-paid employees commuting back and forth on weekends but having their “stay” in Harford County subsidized by big corporations and the government — and the county gets zilch!
Her explanation was it might impact the tourist industry. As if it were “tourists” packing those rooms while they were site-seeing APG. She didn’t do a good job for citizens in this county!
Good, old “I never saw a tax I didn’t really, really like Elsie.” When will enough taxes be truly enough, Elsie? Or do you only really like the ones you can avoid paying?
It was formerly tax and spend, tax and spend, tax and spend. Now it is spend it first then use the deficit as an excuse to raise taxes to replace what was spent, over and over again.
Elsie, I’m a citizen of Harford County and have been for a long time. I pay taxes. Plenty of them. Nancy has done a good job for me. Keep voting for the Dem/Libs, honey. They are just your style.
Alex R,
Don’t start the nasty comments. Let’s all be civil. If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
George,
When people insist on putting their hand in my pockets to take more and more taxes to finance their liberal agenda I am way past being civil.
So much for BRAC. APG leadership recently sent a formal request forward to conduct a reduction in force (RIF) to eliminate several hundred jobs by September 30, 2012. They hired all these people and now they want to lay them off. Hopefully Dutch will do something to help. Just what we need – more layoffs in a terrible economy.
BRAC FAMILY,
I’m sorry that you re-located to Harford County and now your job may be a risk. What we need in this economy are more private sector jobs and far less government spending including spending on the government workforce. You work for the government so you must know that a lot of what they do makes no sense and re-locating people only to then lay them off is one of those things. But we need desperately to make large reductions in the cost of government at all levels.
Government spending does push the economy though. The short-term impact of APG layoffs is to slow down the local economic engine, and reverse the economic impact of BRAC on Harford/Cecil county. That can’t be a good thing for anyone, Fed employee or not.
The cuts should begin with the support contractors. The whole purpose of a support contract is to augment the regular workforce in times of need. Contractors actually cost the government more than a government worker. When the need diminishes, the support contractors should be the first to go. Contact your representative and make this point clear. Government workforce is intended to provide the corporate memory. Contractors provide a vital role in augmenting that workforce only. If Aberdeen was foolish enough to give any of it’s functions over to an all contractor workforce, then they were simply being idiots. And it was against the law.
We should try and elect well-qualified virgin politicians who seek to hold office in order to affect change. Why not check out Larry Smith at larrysmith4congress.com? We as citizens have a responsibility to learn about each and every candidate we have the opportunity to elect. Making assumptions that incumbents, who don’t ever want to leave office or long term politicians who hold office after office after office really need a permanent vacation. Fresh faces have fresh ideas…..
Elsie the ignorant fool says “Harford County subsidized by big corporations and the government — and the county gets zilch!”
These hotels pay Harford County property taxes at a commercial rate and if they charged a room tax it wold be levied on the person who rents the room.
It’s exciting news to hear that a formidable candidate like Nancy Jacobs would throw her hat into the ring to challenge Dutch ‘take your land for private gain’ Ruppersberger. Calling her a career politician is laughable since anyone who knows her remembers that she ran the indoor tennis center, was always active in the local churches and took in battered women before. If career community involvement is a sin then she’s damned, most of us view that as a positive and it seems to show in her endorsements.
I just hope she doesn’t get squashed by the liberal establishment that seems so afraid of losing that they will say and do anything to win. Go Nancy!
I’m for anyone who ran against and beat Art Helton