Robin Ficker

Robin Ficker was born in Takoma Park, Maryland. Ficker served in the U.S. Army from 1960 to 1966. He earned a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1965, a graduate degree from American University, and a law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law. Ficker's career experience includes working as a real estate broker and farmer.[1]

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Campaign website

Ficker’s campaign website stated the following:

PROUD TO CALL MARYLAND HOME

Ficker is a lifelong Marylander. He grew up here. He raised his family here. He started a business here. He owns a farm here.

ARMY VETERAN FIGHTING FOR MARYLAND VALUES

He knows what it means to serve and is a veteran of the United States Army.

PUBLIC SERVANT STANDING UP FOR THE PEOPLE OF MARYLAND

He served in the Maryland legislature where he empowered voters throughout Maryland. The Democrats and Washington Post did everything in their power to stop Ficker, but he passed ballot initiatives including limiting property taxes and imposing term limits on county officials. Robin Ficker has fought for 25 such Amendments, which have received over 2.5 Million votes!

SMALL BUSINESS OWNER PUSHING FOR JOB GROWTH IN MARYLAND

Ficker has started and run successful businesses. He knows what it takes to create jobs, and what the government does to make that harder and harder every day.[11]

—Robin Ficker’s campaign website (2024)[12]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

A lifetime Maryland resident and former elected legislator, I have placed 25 ballot measures which received 2,537, 403 votes to pass Term Limits, property tax revenue increase limits, and to bar the trenching of sewage sludge and operating garbage dumps in residential zones. I spent the summers of 2020 and 2021 meeting residents of all 23 counties of Maryland and Baltimore City on the Ocean City Boardwalk. I have completed 40,000 in all Maryland courts, standing up for the rights of Marylanders, and have overturned 4 state/local laws in federal court, including one last year overturning durational and size restrictions on political signs on the Eastern Shore.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

To give every Marylander a fiscal stimulus every day by cutting the state sales tax 2 cents or $780 per year per household. No state has ever cut its state sales tax. Delaware, with which we share an 85 mile border, has no sales tax. This cut will send a nation-wide message that Maryland is business friendly..I will form a Jobs Strikeforce to visit large companies all of which have shunned Maryland while our Maryland Department of Commerce was sleeping. In the last few years Amazon, Apple, Facebook/Meta, Global Foundries, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Nucor Steel, Samsung, Taiwan Semiconductor, Tesla and Texas Instruments have built multi-BILLION dollar projects in other states, not Maryland. We’ll reverse Maryland’s passivity and failure to attract major employers.Keep schools open. It is inexcusable that Maryland ranked last of all the states in percentage of students participating in actual physical, non-virtual learning. Give parents a big say in whether students are safe, what they are taught, and whether they should be the victim of any mandates.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Taxes. Limit property tax increases. Of my 25 ballot questions, about 16 sought to limit property taxes. In 2008, we were successful in passing a requirement that a 9-member-council unanimous vote was needed to increase property tax revenues more than the rate of inflation. Every elected office holder in Montgomery County (all Democrats) opposed this question but it was passed by the voters. It stopped property tax increases for almost a decade. Peter Sepp, President of the National Taxpayers Union said, “Your victory is a national record to pass a taxpayer protection measure at the local level against such difficult odds.”

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To give every Marylander a fiscal stimulus every day by cutting the state sales tax 2 cents or $780 per year per household. No state has ever cut its state sales tax. Delaware, with which we share an 85 mile border, has no sales tax. This cut will send a nation-wide message that Maryland is business friendly.

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

I recommend the "Path to Power," a 4-volume work by Robert Caro.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

To give compassionate, efficient leadership.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

Perseverance, focus, honesty

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

Get the state up early in the morning, work throughout the day efficiently, and then rest and prepare for the next work day.

What legacy would you like to leave?

He was the best Governor Maryland ever had.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

I was 4 years old when I sat on my Dad's shoulders and watched Harry Truman's inaugural parade.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

I delivered the Washington Post newspaper to my residential paper route at 5 a.m. every morning--double paper weight on Sunday. I did this for 3 years in elementary school.

What is your favorite book? Why?

Maryland Travel Guide

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

The Gladiator

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

America the Beautiful

A governor is the top executive authority in his or her state. What does that mean do you?

As Harry Truman said, "The buck stops here." Someone needs to be the final arbiter. Thank goodness for someone who can make up his or her mind.

Governors have many responsibilities, which vary from state to state. Which of those do you personally consider the most important in your state?

To craft the budget. We have to provide the best services to the voters that we can, while living within our fiscal means, without raising taxes.

Different states require governors to have different degrees of responsibility for the state budgeting process. If it were your choice, what do you believe is the appropriate degree of gubernatorial involvement with this process in your state?

I would like to have strong control over the budgetary process because our state legislature is made up of people of the opposite party who don't seem too concerned with the pocket books of the taxpayers.

In most states, governors have the power to make line-item vetoes. If that is true in your state, what would be your philosophy for how and when to use this power?

I would veto expenditures that are of marginal benefit to the voters. No pork-barrel politics in Maryland.

What do you believe is the ideal relationship between the governor and state legislature?

Very friendly. Never make enemies. Disagree without being disagreeable. Work hard for the people of Maryland from sun-up to sunrise.

What do you love most about your state?

The smart, generous, friendly people,.

What do you perceive to be your state's greatest challenges over the next decade?

In the last few years Amazon, Apple, Facebook/Meta, Global Foundries, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Nucor Steel, Samsung, Taiwan Semiconductor, Tesla and Texas Instruments have built multi-BILLION dollar projects in other states, not Maryland. We must reverse Maryland’s passivity and failure to attract major employers. I will form a Jobs Strikeforce to visit large companies all of which have shunned Maryland while our Maryland Department of Commerce was sleeping.

Under what circumstances should the governor of your state be able to use emergency powers?

When there are true emergencies. Pandemics lasting 2 to 3 years are not true emergencies.

Campaign website

Ficker's campaign website stated the following:

Robin has placed 25 ballot measures which received 2,537,403 votes to approve Term Limits, Property Tax Revenue Increase Limits, and to keep sewage sludge trenching and garbage dumps from residential zones. Peaceful change is important!

Cut the Maryland Sales Tax 2 Cents or $780/yr/household making MD the first state to ever cut its sales tax.

Voters will get an annual fiscal stimulus and Maryland will get a business-friendly reputation.

They will fight gridlock to improve I-270, 495, 695, 81, 5, 219 and Bay Bridge Capacity.

Robin is the only Gubernatorial candidate who will spend the 3rd summer in a row this year on the Ocean City Boardwalk finding out what Marylanders are going through and how he can help them. Every 2 hours there he can meet folks from all 23 Maryland counties plus Baltimore City.

They will strive to double the clean electrical energy production at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Plant to 2 million homes, adding many Maryland jobs.

They will increase accessibility to the Governor's Mansion by holding a first come, first served, Open House at 6 am every Monday morning.

They will ensure swift endorsement for Chesapeake Bay pollution sources.

A clean, healthy Bay is essential!

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—Robin Ficker[13]