Neil Parrott Running for Congress in [2022]

Republican Neil Parrott running for Congress in 2022

Republican Neil Parrott is running for Congress in Maryland’s 6th Congressional District in 2022.

Parrott lives in Hagerstown and represents District 2-A in the Maryland General Assembly.

He was first elected to the state House in 2010.

Neil Parrott Launches 2020 Congressional Campaign

In 2019, Mr. Parrott attended the Maryland Republican Party fall convention.

He told several Republicans who attended the convention that he would announce his congressional candidacy in Garrett County.

Details About Neil Parrot’s 2020 Congressional Campaign Kickoff

Sure enough, Parrott’s first public announcement came at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, at “The Welcome Gazebo” in Oakland.

The Garrett County Republican Central Committee announced Parrot’s campaign launch on its Facebook page.

“I think it’s fair to say we were quite surprised when he said he was going to announce in Oakland,” said Fred Fox, secretary of the Garrett County GOP.

Fox said Parrott told him that he planned to jump into the Republican congressional primary in September 2019.

Mr. Parrott did not respond to a request for comment about his intentions to launch a congressional campaign.

Neil Parrott Background 

Neil Parrott took office in 2011.

District 2-A voters re-elected Parrott in ’14 and ’18.

In 2008, Parrott and others launched the Hagerstown Tea Party.

MDPetitions.com

In 2011, Mr. Parrott founded MDPetitions.com, a Maryland-based referendum petitioning nonprofit.

MDPetitions.com was a registered 501(c)(4).

The organization drafted several referendum petitions to place conservative initiatives on Maryland’s November general election ballot.

In 2012, MDPetitions.com collected enough signatures to place three initiatives on the November ballot.

  • Maryland In-State Tuition Referendum, Question 4
  • Maryland Redistricting Referendum, Question 5
  • Maryland Same-Sex Civil Marriage Referendum, Question 6

The petitions failed. 

Neil Parrott’s petition organization tried placing the “Fairness for All Marylanders Act of 2014” on the ballot as a referendum.

That effort also failed.

Marylanders have rejected every petition Neil Parrott has brought to the ballot. 

Neil Parrott Political Positions 

Neil Parrott identifies as an evangelical Christian, which shapes his approach to public policy.

He has fought against expanding reproductive rights for women and has fought to deny rights to LGBTQ+ Marylanders.

Parrott is a supporter of former U.S. President Donald Trump.

In 2019, Neil Parrott walked lockstep with national Republicans and opposed the impeachment inquiry into Mr. Trump.

The United States House of Representatives eventually impeached Trump over his September 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Trump asked Zelensky to dig up political dirt on Joe Biden.

Zelensky refused.

The rest is history.

The U.S. Senate did not convict Trump, and Trump remained in office until Mr. Biden defeated him in the November 2020 presidential election.

Neil Parrott is not on record as accepting the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The U.S. House of Representatives impeached Mr. Trump in January 2021 for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection.

Trump is the only U.S. president in history impeached twice.

Congressional Redistricting 

In November 2018, a three-judge federal panel unanimously threw out the 6th District’s congressional map in a long-running partisan gerrymandering case.

Two days after the ruling, Parrott announced the formation of his congressional exploratory committee.

In June 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that federal courts are not appropriate venues to resolve partisan gerrymandering.

The Court remanded the gerrymandering cases to the lower courts, with instructions to dismiss the suits.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is a staunch opponent of partisan gerrymandering.

Hogan expressed his disappointment with the Supreme Court’s decision at the time of its rulings.

In 2022, the Maryland General Assembly redrew the state’s congressional and state legislative districts.

Parrott’s 2022 Congressional Bid 

In 2022, the 6th district will be newly competitive.

General Assembly Democrats redrew the state’s congressional maps to fairly reflect the political makeup of Maryland’s eight congressional districts.

Mr. Parrott is one of six Republicans competing for the 6th District’s Republican nomination.

Maryland’s 2022 primary election is July 19.

Democrat David Trone has represented the 6th district since 2019.

Trone was re-elected in 2020 and is running for re-election in 2022.

In the 6th District’s 2022 Democratic primary, David Trone faces no serious competition.

Parrott and Trone are expected to face off against one another in Maryland’s general election.

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