“I intend to change all of that,” the one-term delegate from Frederick County said. “These are our freedoms; these are our rights. They can’t take them from us. This is how we protect ourselves.
With the riots that have happened, we should have something to defend our families with.”
He called for his supporters to donate to his campaign , and to bump up their outreach efforts to “crush the liberal wing of the party.”Cox, who was first elected to the Maryland General Assembly in 2018, is one of the most conservative figures in the state legislature. In the past year, he was the prime sponsor on bills seeking to restrict abortions; limit the governor’s authority in states of emergency; and require that schools provide parents information about the health and well-being of their children. Child welfare advocates argued that schools’ reporting on children could in some instances — including in child-abuse cases — expose children to additional harm.
Cox graduated from Regent University School of Law in 2006, according to his legislative biography. He was born in Washington and attended Walkersville Christian Family Schools, where he would later become a teacher. He has also worked as a real estate agent but now runs his own law firm, which sued Hogan over coronavirus restrictions and