Always There for Us. On the Shore, in Annapolis, he Never Stops.

They keep reaching into your pocket. Johnny keeps fighting back.

A silly new fee on your tires. Higher costs to register your car. New taxes on professional services. Property assessments up double digits. A power bill that climbs every few months. None of it is an accident — it's the result of an Annapolis that spends first and asks you to pay for it later.

In 2025, Maryland enacted the largest tax increase in state history — $1.6 billion — and we're still staring down a $3 billion deficit. That's not a plan. That's a warning sign. The past few years have been rough on Eastern Shore families, and unless there's a real course correction in Annapolis, more tax increases are already on the way.

State Senator Johnny Mautz has one simple rule: before the government takes more of your money, it ought to prove it's not wasting what it already has. He's spent his time in Annapolis fighting tax hikes and fee increases that land hardest on Eastern Shore families, small businesses, and those on fixed incomes — and he's voted against the budget schemes that got us here.

The Shore can't afford four more years of Annapolis making everything more expensive. Johnny's fighting to change that — one vote, one bill, one budget at a time.

Your power bill keeps climbing. Johnny's got an actual plan to stop it.

Three policies are driving it. EmPOWER Maryland compliance costs get passed straight through to your bill. The Renewable Portfolio Standard pays out-of-state generators instead of building power here at home. And the Climate Solutions Act loaded on mandates without a plan for the citizens who pay for them.

Add in the reality that Maryland has lost energy generation plants and implemented regulations that have made it unfeasible to build newer, cleaner facilities. So as energy consumption continues to grow, our supply is dwindling… hence our energy crisis.

Johnny's plan isn't complicated. Freeze and roll back the mandates driving up costs. Vote against legislation that raises rates on ratepayers. And work directly with local utilities to bring clean, reliable, baseload power — starting with natural gas — to the Shore, where it's needed most.

This isn't about picking a side in a national energy debate. It's about a power bill citizens can actually afford, month after month, without wondering what's going to spike next.

Transportation isn't one-size-fits-all. The funding shouldn't be either.

More than half of Maryland's transportation dollars come from motorists — but only about a quarter of that money goes to roads and bridges, while more than half funds mass transit projects and systems on the Western Shore. Motorists – basically everyone on the Eastern Shore and rural Maryland, end up funding a wasteful mass transit budget, while our own roads and bridges continue to crumble.

Johnny's pushing to reform that funding formula so Shore infrastructure gets its fair share — and to invest in right-sized transportation options that work for rural riders, instead of a mass-transit model built for the other side of the bridge.

Every region should get back what it pays in. Right now, the Eastern Shore isn't — and Johnny's working to fix that.

The Shore doesn't vote like a Republican district or a Democratic district. It votes like the Shore.

That means judging people by whether they show up — for our watermen, our farmers, our teachers, our small businesses, our families — not by which party they belong to. It's a place where neighbors still wave from their trucks, where the water and the land aren't a talking point, they're a way of life.

Johnny works with anyone willing to do right by the Shore, and he pushes back on anyone who isn't — regardless of party. He's not in Annapolis to climb a ladder. He's there because this is home, and someone has to stand up for it.