Town Hall Alliance

St. Mary's Commissioner Larry Jarboe, who opposes spending $13 million on a new library in Leonardtown, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 at the joint hearing on legislative proposals, listened to Del. Tony O'Donnell express the view that the bank is empty in Maryland as the state faces a $3 billion budget deficit and that $300 million in more cuts are coming from the state for the current budget, meaning that counties will have more cuts made to their disbursements from the state for schools, roads and other expenses. 

Larry Jarboe has been elected to three terms as a St. Mary's County Commissioner.  He was first elected in 1994 as part of the first all-Republican Board in the history of St. Mary's County.  He served with fellow conservatives Chris Brugman and Francie Eagan in bringing about effective government which served the people of St. Mary's County.  That Board successfully held the line against higher taxes, enacting the Constant Yield for three out of four years, put a cap on income tax hikes and fully funded education at the same time. That Board proved that fiscal responsibility and providing for a growing county were possible.  The two liberal Republicans on the Board resisted every effort towards this goal, constantly voting to raise taxes.  Those two, Paul Chesser and Barbara Thompson, proved that liberal Republicans are no different than liberal Democrats and about as effective.  The 1994 Board left office with a $5 million surplus.  Jarboe lost his Republican primary to an effective campaign waged by liberal Republican Shelby Guazzo who went on to serve with four Democrats on the 1998 Board.

Jarboe learned from his 1998 primary defeat to take no voter for granted and ran a successful primary race in 2002 and defeated Guazzo for the GOP nomination.  He won the General Election that year against a well funded Democratic slate candidate.  Jarboe won again against a well-known Democratic developer in 2006 and continues to serve effectively as a St. Mary's Commissioner.  Jarboe has proposed cuts in unneeded spending to prevent tax hikes and has advocated a reorganization of county government to cut down the number of high paid department heads.   He has consistently argued for maintaining the Constant Yield to negate the increase in taxes by higher assessments. 

Jarboe has sought out effective and responsible candidates for the Town Hall Alliance to serve with him in the next Board.  By presenting this team Larry Jarboe is asking for voters to not only elect him to another term but to give him a team he can work with and who pledge in advance to holding the line on taxes and conducting open and honest government.

Jarboe operates the Charlotte Hall Lumber Company and he and his wife Carlene, who is a retired teacher, have two children, both of them Marines, and three grandchildren.

Larry Jarboe is a committed conservationist  who first got involved in public and civic activities by helping to form a citizens coalition to prevent the good old boy political system to approve a debris and stump dump at Huntersville on a tract of land with deep ravines which emptied into the creeks feeding into the Patuxent River.

Jarboe organized a grass roots campaign which allowed him to defeat the unbeatable incumbent Democrat Eddie Bailey in 1994. 

Larry Jarboe, who graduated from Millersville State University with a degree in Earth Space Science & a minor in Oceanography, is also an inventor and innovator who follows all new developments in alternative energy and has worked as a volunteer with a Great Mills High School student group to develop a race car run on clean energy.  He has organized an annual national event at Jarboe's Mill to highlight clean energy. 

As a conservative and small business owner, Jarboe has pushed for the county to contract it's country club facility at Wicomico Shores and get the county out of the bar business.  

In fact, there are so many instances of 4-1 votes on the current Board it is hard to believe that there are actually two Republicans on the Board.  For all of the above reasons, that is why Jarboe has worked hard to propose to the voters a team approach to electing a new Board of Commissioners and urges you to vote for the Town Hall Alliance --- the Official Ticket of Common Sense.