Activists BRAD BOTWIN (right) and CHUCK FLOYD (left) discuss a new broader coalition to fight illegal immigration, Capital Alliance Against Illegal Immigration, at the June 12 Maryland Thursday Meeting.

On July 10, 2008, the Maryland Thursday Meeting will host its eighty-third** gathering in Annapolis.

In 2008, the Maryland Thursday Meeting is probing a variety of Maryland fiscal and values concerns. These include the profound consequences for prosperity and property rights of the recommendations of the Maryland Commission on Climate Change; the Maryland tax burden - - - from the state death tax to the just repealed computer-services tax to the proposed slots tax, and how the tax burden drives our entrepreneurs and tax-producers to other states; the attack of the Maryland Education Cartel on public charter schools; the Montgomery County Transgender Law and similar assaults on traditional values; the fiscal, civic, and cultural costs of making Maryland a magnet state for illegals; and homeland defense.

The Maryland Thursday Meeting is an invitational and off-the-record gathering of center-right activists and organizations across Maryland. Ours is one of around fifty such state center-right coalitions across the U.S.

Guests and newcomers can get a better understanding of what the Maryland Thursday Meeting aims to accomplish and our Rules of the Road by clicking here.

  • If you have not attended a Thursday Meeting before, and wish to come to the next one,

    OR
  • If you wish to make a presentation or an announcement on Thursday, July 10, first CLICK HERE and email us.

The Thursday Meeting does not promulgate any orthodoxy. Rather it is a center-right coalition seeking common ground and actionable items.

We begin promptly at 8 AM; doors open at 7:45 AM; the Thursday Meeting serves hot coffee and bagels.

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** The Thursday Meeting began its work on November 16, 2000 and is chaired by long-time taxpayer advocate Richard Falknor.
At the June 12 gathering, special guest MARK KRIKORIAN discusses his book The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal. Mr. Krikorian is director of the Center for Immigration Studies and a contributor to National Review Online.
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See PHOTOS from the June 12 meeting.

--SEE PHOTOS from EARLIER MEETINGS.

--See recent AGENDAS.
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KEY DOCUMENTS for the Center-Right:

--Votes on state spending. Operating budget click here and here; capital budget click here and here.

--Health-care reform. Click here.

--Housing crisis. Click here.

--Gun rights: Click here.

--Slots tax amendment. Click here.

--"Climate change" schemes. Click here and here and here. Also click here for Clough summary from May 8 meeting.

--Deconstructing mega-county taxes and spending. Click here.

--Conservatives and education: Click here.

ALEC: "Rich States Poor States." Click here.

--Multiculturalism and Cultural Marxism, William S. Lind. Click here.

--All special web documents.