Baltimore Sun: Johnny delivered venison tax credit to feed hungry Marylanders

When grant funding for Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry started drying up, Johnny didn’t form a study committee — he went straight to Governor Hogan and delivered a $50-per-deer tax credit that kept Eastern Shore hunters filling church pantries and food banks across the Shore.

That’s a practical, common-sense Eastern Shore solution: take what hunters already do — feed their families and their neighbors — and make sure Annapolis doesn’t get in the way. The bill passed. Hogan signed it into law. Venison that would have gone to waste instead became meals for families who needed them.

This is the kind of small, specific fight that doesn’t make headlines in Baltimore but matters at every farm bureau meeting and church supper in Caroline, Dorchester, Talbot, and Wicomico Counties.