Special Session Should Be “Special”

A Republican in the Maryland General Assembly spends three months in Annapolis struggling against a supermajority of Democrats. In a special session, Republicans are returning to the state capital for another round of likely defeats.  This time the topic is redistricting at a called session the first week of August.  House Minority Leader Jason Buckel told WBAL Radio that Republicans will nonetheless argue their case with vigor…

“If you want to have something as extraordinary as a special session – that’s the reason it’s called special – we don’t do it very often, we should be doing it for real issues and real emergencies that face the majority of Marylanders today.”

Delegate Buckel gave examples of issues that citizens would discuss at the special session.

“They’d be talking about their energy bills. They’d be talking about suspending the gas tax, even if it’s for 30 days, 60 days, if it saves you twenty bucks, fifty bucks, a hundred bucks at the pump over 30 to 60 days.”