47 ABC: Johnny called for affordability fight as 2026 session kicked off

Johnny arrived in Annapolis for the 2026 session and led with the one word every Eastern Shore family has been waiting to hear named out loud: affordability. Not “fiscal headwinds.” Not “household stress indicators.” Affordability — the electric bill, the property assessment, the grocery receipt, the price of staying on the Shore.

Maryland is way off course. Cost of living is climbing. State competitiveness is sliding. And the energy crisis driven by Annapolis’s own mandates keeps showing up on utility bills across Caroline, Dorchester, Talbot, and Wicomico Counties. Johnny didn’t come back to the Senate to manage decline — he came back to fight for relief.

This is the through-line Johnny keeps tracing back to the same source: the Democratic Supermajority writes the policy, ratepayers and taxpayers pay the bill, and Eastern Shore families end up squeezed from every direction. 2026 has to be different.