47 ABC: Johnny met Dorchester business owners ahead of $1.4B deficit session
Original headline: "Maryland Delegates Meet with Dorchester Business Owners"
What you need to know
Johnny joined the 37th District delegation in East New Market and did something Annapolis insiders too often skip — he sat down face-to-face with Dorchester business owners ahead of the 2026 session and listened. Not a press release. Not a roundtable photo op. A real conversation about what’s coming at them and what it’ll cost.
Maryland is staring down a $1.4 billion structural deficit for the second year in a row. The Democratic Supermajority will go looking for the money somewhere, and Johnny made sure Dorchester County understood the stakes: every tax decision in Annapolis lands somewhere, and “somewhere” has a name and a payroll in Cambridge, Hurlock, and East New Market.
This is the work that doesn’t always make the news — showing up before the session starts, gathering specifics from the people who actually run Eastern Shore businesses, and carrying their voice into the room where the decisions get made.
Verbatim excerpt
We're going into probably one of the most controversial sessions of my career and the General Assembly, which has been a wonderful honor. And there are a lot of big decisions that have to be made. For the second year in a row. We're facing a huge structural deficit. How are we going to fix that deficit?
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This is a summary published with attribution. Read the full article at 47 ABC (WMDT) (Brian Roche), originally published December 3, 2025.
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