I have known Johnny Mautz as a friend and colleague for many years. During that time I found him to be a valuable asset to St. Michaels and our surrounding coastal communities, working tirelessly and with integrity on our behalf as an advocate and business leader. Johnny is a devoted family man, and he owns the Carpenter Street Saloon here in St. Michaels. He is known to us all as an admired leader of our business community.
Let’s take a brief look at some of the things he has done on our behalf. As both a member of the House of Delegates and a local business owner, Johnny was instrumental in helping us navigate the very tricky waters of doing business during Covid. He became a sounding board for all area small business owners, kept us all, including me, updated on the myriad of daily changes and new rules regarding covid that we had to navigate. I called him personally many times and he was always immensely helpful. During a time when our Public Health Officials and government regulators had little help to offer us, when their only guidance was to shutter our businesses, Johnny helped streamline the rules to keep businesses open by implementing sectioned seating, mask wearing and hand sanitizing. He did this as a business owner, not as a politician or political hack.
Let’s consider a few more of his career highlights that illustrate just how valuable an asset Johnny has been for us:
- ✓ He helped secure $1 million from the Maryland Capital Budget for the St. Michaels Community Center in 2021.
- ✓ He was able to intervene in a state highway repair project that would have reduced the already heavily congested Route 33 from two lanes to one. Johnny was able to get the work switched from day to night, preventing unimaginable traffic jams that would have paralyzed the rest of the county.
- ✓ He campaigned to ensure the safety of our local waters by helping to lobby to retain the U.S. Coast Guard Station in our neighboring Oxford, MD when it was scheduled to close.
- ✓ He has been a leader and key advocate for the Shore in Annapolis.
- ✓ He led the effort to ensure broadband deployment in rural areas through a task force that
acquired and allocated millions of dollars to be invested in rural broadband connections.
- ✓ He led the charge to protect Easton Utilities and all of the Rate Payers in Easton from increased electric costs connected to new renewable mandates.
Johnny Mautz has always been open, candid, and straightforward about his work and his votes during his tenure in State Government, but my enthusiastic support is not based on state or national politics, but on all he has done for us locally. He has represented us well in Annapolis and it is in all of our best interests, local businesses and residents alike, to make sure he continues to serve us to help us ensure our future here in St. Michaels. Now we have the chance to solidify our future by making sure Johnny Mautz gets to “Move Up” to the State Senate.
Let’S Make That Happen!
Michael T. Morgan
St. Michaels
Jim Loretangeli says
I’m sorry, but opening a bar during the height of the COVID outbreak, was careless, and attributed to multiple closings, because the infection had spread within the establishment.
Secondly, renewable energy is mandatory, if we’re going to save the planet. The national Republican platform is to save Big Oil, and every intelligent voter knows that continuing down this path will eventually kill the planet, and our future generations along with it. Johnny is also pro-choice, anti-women’s rights, pro-gun, and totally against teaching “real” American history in schools. It’s a shame, that for a young politician, he thinks like an old uninformed conservative.