“Dear Next Contestant” …Steve Schuh’s 3% Solution

Dear Next Contestant –

Steve Schuh keeps talking about how he’s going to lower property taxes. And who doesn’t want lower taxes? He believes that’s somehow going to magically make our county more competitive with other counties when it comes to attracting new businesses and the jobs they’ll bring with them. Two things…

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Reason #3B NOT To Vote For Steve Schuh: He’s consistent, to a fault.

As you know if you’ve been following my series that gives Anne Arundel County voters reasons not to vote for Steve Schuh, I live in another Maryland county. In today’s mail, I received a mailer “By Authority: Maryland Democratic Senatorial Committee Slate” that is in opposition to Republican Gail Bates, a long-term Delegate who is running for state Senate.

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Reason #10 NOT To Vote For Steve Schuh: The Rain Tax.

Hi. Steve Schuh, sitting Delegate and Tea Party Republican candidate for Anne Arundel County Executive, voted for a tax to pay for the remediation of storm-water runoff. When it rains, some of the rain that lands on “impervious surfaces,” such as your roof or a shopping center parking lot, makes its way to the Bay. That’s not a good thing. We need to so something about it and so it was decided that there should be a special tax to pay for special projects that would protect Maryland’s greatest natural resource. So far, so good.

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Reason #9 NOT To Vote For Steve Schuh: He’s buying your vote.

If you don’t already know, Tea Party Republican candidate for Anne Arundel County Executive Steve Schuh is personally wealthy. Do I begrudge him that? Is it a reason not to vote for him? No. Of course not. I envy his success, financially speaking. Who wouldn’t?

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Reason #8 NOT To Vote For Steve Schuh: Steve’s points 2, 3 and 5.

Reason #7 had to do with the first of Steve Schuh’s 5 point plan to save Anne Arundel County by lowering property tax rates by 3%. Somehow, Steve believes that saving people $27.30 per year per $100,000 of assessed value will lure all manner of new employers to the county.

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Reason #7 NOT To Vote For Steve Schuh: 5 points, none of them sharp.

Tea Party Republican Candidate for Anne Arundel County Executive, Steve Schuh, has a 5 point plan. See the screenshot  from Mr. Schuh’s campaign website at the bottom of this piece. I have a one point response: “What?!”

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Reason #3A: The Anti-Hogan Mailer

Hi.  See the image below, at the bottom of this article?  It’s a scan of most of the back of a mailer I received today…  Paid for and by authority Maryland Democratic Party, Robert Kresslein, Treasurer.

My scanner couldn’t handle the whole page so this images is almost 2″ short on the left.  What you’re missing is a small picture of Larry Hogan, Republican candidate for Governor, and more of the assault rifle including some sort of sighting devise, I think.

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