Baltimore Sun: Johnny fought Moore's cuts to disability self-directed care

Governor Moore’s budget cut the Developmental Disabilities Administration for the second year in a row — and Johnny refused to sit quietly while Maryland’s most vulnerable families took the hit. He went to Salisbury, stood with Eastern Shore disability advocates at the rally, and named exactly what was happening.

This is the part of the budget Annapolis hopes nobody is paying attention to. Self-directed care — the program that lets families with developmentally disabled loved ones build supports around the person, not around the agency — keeps getting chipped away from the inside through bureaucratic maneuvers most people will never see. The result lands in real homes, on real families, in real counties on the Shore.

Johnny called it out as bureaucratic trickery and made clear that the parents, siblings, and caregivers showing up at the Salisbury rally have every right to be frustrated, angry, and suspicious. They’ve earned that frustration. He’s helping them carry it back to Annapolis.