Senator Johnny Mautz · Republican · District 37
Serving as your State Senator for District 37 has been the honor of my life. If you'll allow me to continue the important work we've started, I pledge to keep fighting tirelessly for our Eastern Shore families, our watermen and farmers, and the values we hold dear. I'm asking for your trust and your vote in 2026.
Where Johnny stands
Eastern Shore families are already getting squeezed from every direction — energy bills that would make your eyes pop, property assessments going through the roof, and a new $2 billion payroll tax. I'm fighting to roll back the Climate Solutions Act mandates driving up your electric bill and to stop the next round of Annapolis tax hikes before they hit your paycheck.
Maryland went from a $5 billion surplus to a $3 billion deficit in three years — and it could hit $7 billion by 2030. We need a DOGE-style independent audit of every dollar of state spending. Eliminate the vacant funded positions, slow down the Blueprint, and stop treating Eastern Shore taxpayers like an ATM.
Policies that make sense in Baltimore don't work on the Shore. I stand up for watermen, farmers, small business owners, and rural families against one-size-fits-all mandates from Annapolis. The Bay, the boats, the farms, the small towns — that's what we're fighting to keep.
I support our sheriffs and police, oppose soft-on-crime policies, and fight for parental rights in education. Trade schools and apprenticeships — not Annapolis-imposed curriculum mandates. Keep violent offenders off our streets and politics out of our K-8 classrooms.
Carpenter Street Saloon · Est. 1979
A small business in the family since day one.
Meet Johnny
Lifelong Eastern Shore resident, attorney, and small business owner. Johnny operates the family-owned Carpenter Street Saloon in St. Michaels — running it since 1979.
Served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2015 to 2023 before being elected to the State Senate. Champion of watermen, farmers, and small businesses. Member of the Oyster Advisory Commission and the Aquaculture Coordinating Council. Lions Club. Elks Lodge. Sportsmen's groups. Same Shore, same priorities, every day.
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No Annapolis consultants. No D.C. ad agencies. The signs get printed local. The food at the harvest dinner is Russell Insley's BBQ. Your money pays the people who live, work, and vote out here.
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Contributions to Friends of Johnny Mautz are not tax-deductible. Maryland law limits individual contributions to $6,000 per election cycle.
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Knock ten doors. Make ten calls. Drop a yard sign at the farm or the boat ramp. One neighbor, one porch — that's how District 37 stays in friendly hands. They have the Annapolis machine. We have the Shore.
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