In print soon

Today is a very busy day and evening for me, so I’m just going to write a quick reminder that on Monday you will have a reason to buy or check out the Daily Times website: I will have an op-ed in the paper.

It’s also worth pointing out that Charles Lollar has his announcement tour planned out and will be in the area Thursday morning and early afternoon – alas, I will likely be working when he’s here. He’s at Bay Country Bakery in Cambridge at 8, an unspecified location in Derlin at 10, and Salisbury University at 12:25. Surely I’ll get a little more detail as the events near. Maybe the Daily Times can cover it?

So look for the piece Monday, read it, and tell me what you think!

In print: Kratovil’s misleading ad returns to the airwaves

Yesterday my letter happened to make it into the Daily Times. Glad they held it until Sunday.

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Well, it looks like Rep. Frank Kratovil is up to his old tricks again. Fresh off putting out a commercial that was termed “misleading” by factcheck.org, he puts out another one making the same claim — that Andy Harris wants a 23 percent sales tax increase.

But what Kratovil and his Washington insider friends cannily leave out is that working families would see their take-home pay dramatically increase, thanks to the return of money now confiscated by federal backup withholding. Frame the question instead as one of wanting a 20 to 30 percent raise, and people would be lined up around the block to shout “where do I sign up?”

I’m wondering if life inside the beltway has changed Kratovil to be that much less trustworthy, or whether he’s just a pawn in a desperate attempt by the party in power and their associated special interests to stay in control.

If Kratovil, Pelosi and their big-government friends are this willing to use deceit and parsing of terms in order to stay in office, it leads me to wonder what they’re so afraid of. Sending Harris to Congress would be a good, conservative reflection of our 1st District — a district which soundly rejected the policies of President Barack Obama even before he was put into office.

And since when is having more control over your own money a bad thing?

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It’s worth seeing the letter online because there’s some interesting reactions to it so far. I put in my two cents lastĀ evening.