GOP Maryland AG hopeful is pro-secession and believes all public education is a communist plot: report
By: Brad Reed
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Even though Maryland is a deep blue state, it does have a history of electing more moderate Republicans such as Gov. Larry Hogan .
However, Vice News reports that a prospective GOP nominee for Maryland attorney general does not fit anything close to the Hogan mold.
Specifically, the publication notes that Maryland AG hopeful Michael Peroutka is a former board member of the neo-Confederate League of the South who says he's "still angry" that Maryland was not able to secede during the American Civil War.
Additionally, Peroutka believes that LGBTQ marriage and abortion should be outlawed for going against "God's law," and he has also criticized the entire concept of public education as a communist plot whose goal is to "transform America away from a Christian worldview."
As if that weren't enough, Peroutka has also vowed to investigate Hogan's efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 over the last two years by implementing mask mandates.
“What happened was so notorious, it was so blatant, so obvious,” he said this past March at an anti-mask rally. “A constitutional God-fearing attorney general of Maryland can do something about that. He can empanel grand juries, he can bring prosecutions against the people who violated your rights.”
Peroutka was once a fringe figure in right-wing politics, but establishment Republicans in Maryland fear that the GOP base has grown so radicalized that it could nominate him for attorney general.
Maryland Republican strategist Doug Mayer, for one, tells Vice News that Peroutka's nomination would spell disaster for the GOP in the state.
"I think he probably has a better chance at building a time machine and traveling back and actually fighting in the real Civil War than becoming Maryland's attorney general," he said. "Unfortunately for normal Maryland Republicans who are running, having someone like him on the ticket would do nobody any favors."
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Whackadoo...
You are being way to kind.
That's funny.
Does this moron really think he stands a chance in hell of getting elected?
When a lived in MD there was one town that had kkk people. I hope it is better now. It was in Gamber.
Oh, I'm pretty sure rural Maryland isn't all that different from rural PA. Last time I was home I saw confederate flags flying. I asked my mom why would people fly those things when we were on the right side of the Civil War. She just called them morons
I had a girlfriend that lived in Gamber. I had to drive through there and pick her up. Everyone thinks of MD as mostly moderate yet in the rural parts there were some real rednecks.
God fearing...
I always have to laugh at that. Like one is suppose to quiver in fear of God...
Well he's partially correct. It is a plot to transform America away from his fucked up dystopian version of America that think temporary mask mandates are a violation of one's rights, but banning abortion or same sex marriage isn't.
It seems their rights consist of telling other people how to live.
Get this from here in Maryland
This is from something I get called the Ellicott City Patch
MD GOP Senate Candidate Made False Police Report: Sheriff
A Republican candidate for U.S. Senate made a false police report about child sex trafficking, the Harford County Sheriff said.
Detectives said an employee of the business, Ryan Dark White — also known as Dr. Jon McGreevey, 54, of Baltimore, which is the name under which he appears on primary election ballots as a candidate for the Senate — is the source of the trafficking report.
White was charged Friday with making a false statement, according to a news release from the Harford County Sheriff's Office.
On April 13, detectives with the Harford County Sheriff's Office were told child sex trafficking was occurring at an adult bookstore in the 3000 block of Pulaski Highway in Edgewood.
The information given to investigators claimed an older adult man was in the business with a girl about 10 to 12 years old, forcing the child to perform sexual acts on male customers.
The sheriff's office said no formal report was filed by anyone who claimed to witness such an incident. The investigation determined at no time were any sex acts performed or offered by any of the people in the business as reported by White, the news release said.
On July 15, detectives arrested White without incident. He is charged with making false statements to a law enforcement officer and false statement of the commission of a crime and existence of a condition imminently dangerous to public health and safety.
Ryan Dark White — also known as Dr. Jon McGreevey, 54, of Baltimore — is a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate who has been charged with making a false police report, according to the Harford County Sheriff's office
"It is shameful that a candidate for public office would make up such a story and use it to further his own political agenda" said Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler in a release. "Fearmongering and antagonism caused wasted time and energy by our personnel, whose time would have been better served protecting the citizens of Harford County, instead of investigating lies."
He looks like a winner....
I read this earlier. Just make shit up to further themselves with the extremists.
He sounds pretty mainstream for today's gop...
Exactly.
Those are pretty much core tenets of right wing religious conservatives. If he was running in any Red State he'd likely have a pretty good chance of winning because he clearly lives in the same delusional backwards alternate conservative universe that many in the GOP call home.
The good news is that voters oppose the gop's culture wars and are turned off by the fringe candidates the gop base nominates!
That is partially true JBB, remember we have MTG and Bobart and a few others that fit the ''totally fucking wacko'' mold.
Sadly, there are about a third of Americans who support these whackos which is about 60% of the Republican party. In deep red States they are often 60% of the voters in those States and thus we do get, as Kavika mentions, whackos like MTG and Bobart.
Also, it's a sad truth but the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and there aren't any squeakier wheels than right wing conservative Christians constantly proclaiming themselves victims. Victims of a secular society, victims of a war on Christians, victims of a war on Christmas, victims of not being allowed to discriminate against 'sinners', victims of a public school that isn't pushing their doctrines anymore, victims of being stripped of their right to coerce public school athletes to publicly pray along side their conservative Christian coaches, victims of being stripped of their right to strip women of their right to privacy and bodily autonomy. And because they are constantly whining and claiming victimhood they tend to get the most attention. And there is a fairly large group of low info folk outside the right wing Christian conservative extremists who hear then claiming persecution and think "Well I don't want to be persecuting Christians, let's hear them out...".