What do you call a lawmaker who breaks the law? Around our house, we call him Andy Harris and here lately it has become Andy “Loose Cannon” Harris! Poor Andy has always been a bit of a disappointment on the Eastern Shore with his glad handing facebook posts and his phony phone in town hall meetings that seem to always be stacked with “softball” questioners.
Andy’s voting record is less than stellar as well. I mean, what kind of a doctor votes so many times to eliminate affordable healthcare for so many people? What benefit do we get from his membership in the infamous FREEDOM CAUCUS, a group filled with wingnuts like Mo Brooks and Louie Gohmert? Not that long ago Andy showed us another side of himself when he wholeheartedly supported another wingnut named Judge Roy Moore in Roy’s ill fated run for a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama. Just what the heck did that race have to do with life on the Eastern Shore?
Most recently, Andy seems to have come a bit unhinged. On January 6th, the night that our Capitol was invaded by domestic terrorists, Andy tried a small invasion of his own on the floor of the House of Representatives when he seemed ready to physically attack a fellow congressman from the other party. His effort was nipped in the bud, but that very night Andy went on to vote to disenfranchise millions of voters that he disagreed with…not just once, but twice, in Arizona and Pennsylvania! Just what do those states have to do with Maryland’s Eastern Shore?
Now we hear from every mainstream media source in the country that the Congressman from Maryland, Andy Harris, got caught trying to bring a gun into the house chamber and is under investigation for committing this illegal act. I don’t know what drove him to attempt to bring his gun on into the House, perhaps he thinks he’s Marshall Matt Dillon. He isn’t, he is much more like a Deputy Barney Fife.
It is well past time that Andy depart for greener pastures, perhaps as house doctor at Mar-a-Lago. It is also well past time that we have a Congressman who knows what state his district is in, who knows what issues we are interested in, who understands what needs we have, and someone who can act like an adult while representing us in Washington, DC. That person is not Andy Harris!
Michael Estrella
St. Michaels
BOB KOPEC says
Michael –
You hit the nail on the head!
Mr. Harris has overstayed his welcome purportedly representing the Eastern Shore.
JT Smith says
Dr Harris’s behavior not only insults his District One constituents but also disgraces his profession. I would think the time has come for a complaint to authorities who license and discipline physicians in Maryland. I would surely not want to be administered anesthesia by a doctor so deficient in temperament and ethical restraint.
Rob Ketcham says
Hopefully Congressman Harris is serving his sixth term, and has said for years that six terms is enough!
He certainly acts that way too, most recently exhibiting very boorish behavoir—yelling at a colleague on the House floor, and being prevented from entering the House floor because he had a handgun!
Let’s send him back to Baltimore—he’s an embarrassment to those he “represents” on the Shore.
Hugh Panero says
I agree with your terrific letter to the editor. Thanks for writing what I and others have been thinking. I generally like my congressional representative to show emotional intelligence and mature judgement, which Harris has never shown. And now he thinks after an insurrection that left several people dead it was a good idea to first get into an altercation on the House floor and then bring a gun to his place of work days after his colleagues feared for their lives. He needs to go.
Barbara Cook says
I thought it was extremely interesting that these actions by Andy Harris were not covered at all, that I could find, in the Star Democrat, even though it was all over the national news. Our local representative and nothing in the local paper relating to his behavior.
Michael Davis says
As Mr. Estrella points out, Andy Harris acts as if he is above the law. In this regard, he is not different from his hero Donald Trump. Trump wants to be a dictator and Harris wants to help him. Neither of them belongs in a democracy.
As for the Star Democrat, Andy often appears on the front page. They republish his press releases without comment even when the press release contains lies. Other newspapers have called for Andy’s resignation given that he shows no respect for the law or democracy.
Andy should lose his medical license. He has spoken out concerning Covid-19 and his medial advice is similar to Mr.Pillow’s. He is against telling people to wear a mask, just like Trump, and he published advice that young women should delay taking the vaccine. Not young men. His medical advice comes right out of QAnon’s theory that the vaccine sterilizes women.
Go, Andy, Just Go!
Susan Gilbert says
JUST THIS PAST NOVEMBER, less than 3 months ago, 250,901 voters in Maryland’s 1st District elected Andy Harris to be their congressman for a sixth term. Perhaps, the Congressman’s most recent near-brawl with his colleagues and carrying a gun as he was headed into the House Chambers are viewed as mere acts of “boys will be boys”. Guns are fine when heading for the duck blind, but not so appropriate when heading onto the House Floor. Or so it seems to me.
What’s wrong with this man?
DeirdreLaMotte says
This stunt was done by Harris to stay relevant to the Fox News crowd. He is nothing in the Hill and he knows it. Harris needs the press and rural voters to stand by him after his ridiculous altercation with Rep.Conor Lamb…a man with the resume
and chops to be a major WDC power, unlike poor Harris.
We need not only a strong contender but, more importantly, a remaking of our gerrymandered district. Otherwise, Harris
is here to stay, UGH!
Gina Bell says
Wonderful article,Andy Harris seems to be going through a crisis, I think he needs mental health, I certainly wouldn’t want him to be administering anestheisa to me. Who voted for him? People who recognized the name and said yes.
MR RICHARD MARCHESIELLO says
Andy Harris is also a liar since he now indicates he will run for a seventh term, apparently because he needs more time to be a total embarrassment to his District and make those of us who reside therein a national laughingstock.
Willard T Engelskirchen says
So, what can we do? Many of us on the Eastern Shore own stock in many companies. We can email Shareholder Services for the companies we own and ask that they not give money – PAC or corporate money – to any politician who voted against certification of the election of now President Biden. We can hit them in the campaign chest.