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House of Delegates Member · Legislative District 30B · Maryland · 2026 Primary
Members of the Maryland House of Delegates represent their local districts in the state legislature by proposing, debating, and voting on laws that impact public education, healthcare, and transportation. They work alongside the state Senate to pass Maryland’s annual budget and determine how tax dollars are allocated to community services and infrastructure projects. This office is vital because delegates shape the statewide policies and spending priorities that directly influence the daily lives of all residents.
View all candidates in this raceBlake Wintermute is a Maryland resident born and raised mostly in Maryland who now lives in the Shady Oaks Community just south of Galesville. He spent his childhood on the water sailing with family, lived in Wales on his grandparents' cattle farm after age eight, and spent five years sailing around the Caribbean while homeschooled following his ninth birthday. Wintermute attended Southern High for two years before boarding school, then Johns Hopkins University and Hamilton College where he studied Computer Science. He currently works as a technical consultant at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab helping federal government organizations design better systems. Running in District 30B of the House of Delegates, he states he is running to solve problems for all of Maryland while emphasizing housing affordability as the root driver of economic struggle.
Sources: Campaign website
Housing Cost is the Driver of Economic Struggle
The most effective thing we can do for all our problems is reduce the cost of housing. It is the root of all aspects of affordability.
For everything you purchase, it is made more expensive by the need to pay for more expensive than necessary housing for all the people involved in providing the good to you.
I want the government to empower everyone to live a good life, whatever that looks like to them.
We have issues that matter to us most, but the fundamental issues that risk our stability as a State, and as a Nation, are common across Maryland, and the country.
Source: votewintermute.org
Housing
Increase housing supply and decrease costs through mixed-use walkable neighborhoods, revitalizing small towns via removal of mandatory minimum parking requirements and up-zoning, plus renewing focus on historical architecture and beautification.
“Increase housing supply and decrease housing costs, setting up young people for richer, more engaged lives Build walkable neighborhoods with mixed use, facilitating community and designed for people Revitalize small towns through removal of mandatory minimum parking requirements and up-zoning Renew focus on historical architecture and beautification of our towns”
Taxation
Eliminate sales taxes, establish an $80k 0% income tax bracket, reduce real property tax on improvements, transition to land value tax to discourage speculation, and use taxation to disincentivize harmful behaviors.
“Eliminate sales taxes and establish a $80k 0% income tax bracket Reduce real property tax on improvements (don't get punished for improving your home or business) Transition tax burden to land value tax to discourage land speculation Use taxation to disincentivize behavior that harms the community (pollution, congestion, etc.)”
Transportation
Design roads with comfortable, legal, and safe speeds; build new train lines to open more housing and alleviate traffic; build more housing to avoid adding cars to the road.
“Road design speed should comfortable, legal, and safe New train lines to open up more housing and alleviate traffic Build more housing to avoid adding cars to the road The only solution to traffic is viable alternatives to driving”
Healthcare
Expand University of Maryland Medical School for affordable medical training, address Medicaid-private insurance issues with better federal solutions, and bolster state-sponsored mental hospitals.
“Expand the University of Maryland Medical School to provide an affordable path to become a doctor and decrease healthcare costs Medicaid is lining the pockets of private insurance companies on the taxpayer dime; we need a better federal solution Bolster state-sponsored mental hospitals”
Homelessness
Focus on housing rather than more homeless beds, with shelters and mental hospitals for people in need while transitioning people back into the community.
“No one deserves to sleep on the streets Homeless shelters and mental hospitals for people in need, with a focus towards transitioning people back into the community We have far more homeless than beds, but we need more housing, not more homeless beds Lower housing prices are THE ONLY underlying method to reduce and prevent homelessness”
Policing & Civil Rights
Focus police on protecting communities rather than traffic enforcement; decouple profit motive from policing; end civil asset forfeiture.
“Majority police focus should be on protecting and serving communities, not enforcing traffic laws Federal police are subject to local laws; we will not tolerate illegal behavior from ICE End civil asset forfeiture Decouple the profit motive from policing; no more policing for profit”
Economic Development
Increase negotiating leverage of workers and transition tax burden away from labor.
“The Declining Power of Labor Increase the Negotiating Leverage of Workers; Transition Tax Burden to Property Speculation”
“The most effective thing we can do for all our problems is reduce the cost of housing. It is the root of all aspects of affordability.”
Source“Taxes must be thought as more than simply a necessary evil. They are amongst the most powerful tool in a governments arsenal to affect change.”
Source“The only solution to traffic is viable alternatives to driving”
Source“Expand the University of Maryland Medical School to provide an affordable path to become a doctor and decrease healthcare costs”
Source“Police forces are publicly furnished organizations for which we allow to have a monopoly on legal violence. The cost of that privilege should be a significantly higher bar of expectation of honor, integrity, and conformation to the law.”
Source“Revitalize small towns through removal of mandatory minimum parking requirements and up-zoning”
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