April Rose | |
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Member of the MarylandHouseofDelegates from the 5th district | |
Assumed office March 16, 2015 Servingwith Christopher Bouchat, Chris Tomlinson | |
Appointed by | Larry Hogan |
Preceded by | Justin Ready |
Personal details | |
Born | 1968or1969(age 54–55) Salisbury,Maryland,U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Children | 4 |
April R. Rose (born 1968 or 1969) is an American politician who is a member of the Republican Party who represents the fifth district in the Maryland House of Delegates. She has also served as the Assistant Minority Leader since 2021.
Rose was born in Salisbury,Maryland, [1] in 1968 or 1969. [2] She graduated from Arlington Baptist High School and attended Villa Julie College from 1986 to 1987. [1]
Rose worked as an underwriter for Countrywide Home Loans from 2001 to 2005,afterwards working as a licensed real estate salesperson for Main Street America Reality until 2008. She has worked as an IT recruiter for NMR Consulting since 2009. [1]
Rose first got involved in politics in 2002 as a member of the South Carroll Republican Club,eventually becoming its president. [3] She was also a member of the Carroll County Republican Central Committee from 2004 to 2010. [1] In 2008,Rose started working as an events coordinator for the Maryland Republican Party [1] before resigning after party chair James Pelura fired the party's executive director Justin Ready in July 2009,which sparked infighting between Pelura and members of the Maryland General Assembly that eventually ended in Pelura's ouster. [4] [5] In 2010,she became a communications coordinator for the Maryland Republican Caucus. [1]
In 2014,Governor Martin O'Malley appointed Rose to the Carroll County Board of Elections. [1]
Rose was appointed by Governor Larry Hogan to fill a vacancy left by state delegate Justin Ready,who was appointed to fill a vacancy in the Maryland Senate left by state senator Joseph M. Getty. [6] She was sworn in on March 16,2015, [7] and was elected to a full four-year term in 2018. [8] Rose was a member of the Health and Governments Operations Committee from 2015 to 2017,and has served in the Ways and Means Committee since 2017. [1]
During the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries,Rose said she initially supported Texas governor Rick Perry but supported Donald Trump once he became the Republican nominee,agreeing with his positions on fiscal issues and citing her distrust for Hillary Clinton. [9]
Rose is married and has four children. [1]
Rose self-identifies as "pro-life" and opposes euthanasia. [10] During the 2016 legislative session,she supported legislation to ban abortions past 20 weeks of pregnancy. [11] In 2019,Rose introduced an amendment to the state budget that sought to remove Medicaid funding for abortions,which was rejected in a 41-93 vote. [12] In March 2022,during debate on the Abortion Care Access Act,she introduced an amendment to reappropriate the bill's $3.5 million in funding for clinical training,which was rejected in a 41-85 vote. [13] In May 2023,after Governor Wes Moore signed a bill creating a 2024 referendum on codifying abortion access into law,Rose released a statement calling the bill "radical". [14]
During the 2018 legislative session,Rose supported legislation that would sentence people convicted of mass murder or killing a police officer to death. [15]
In July 2020,amid nationwide George Floyd protests,Rose organized a "Back the Blue" rally in Annapolis. [16]
During the 2021 legislative session,Rose said she opposed the Police Reform and Accountability Act,an omnibus police reform bill that repealed the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights and regulated the types of use of force police could use in arrests. [17]
During the 2016 legislative session,Rose supported legislation to limit standardized testing in kindergarten and ban testing in prekindergarten. [18]
During the 2019 legislative session,Rose introduced legislation that would allow computer science classes to qualify toward foreign language credits required for high school graduation. [19] In 2021,she introduced a bill that would count computer science classes toward math credits. [20]
In March 2020,Rose said she supported some of the policy items in the Blueprint for Maryland's Future,including its college and career readiness initiatives,but said that it would be "fiscally irresponsible" to move forward with it during the COVID-19 pandemic. [21] She also opposed tax increases to pay for the Blueprint reforms. [22]
In May 2020,amid the COVID-19 pandemic,Rose signed onto a letter asking the county health department to allow Carroll County Public Schools to have outdoor graduations. The county health department rejected the request,citing Governor Larry Hogan's executive orders. [23] In June,she participated in and spoke at a Reopen Maryland rally to call for the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions. [24] Rose has signed onto letters asking the Maryland State Department of Education to lift the county's in-school mask mandate, [25] calling it "unscientific". [26]
In January 2019,Rose said she supported solar energy,but opposed building solar farms over farmland. [27]
In May 2021,Rose expressed interest in removing the state-imposed restriction requiring Carroll County to preserve 100,000 acres of agriculture,saying that the land preservation limited county housing opportunities. [17]
In March 2007,Rose said she supported the Iraq War and criticized media coverage of the war. [2] In October 2016,she said she did not support allowing more Syrian refugees,arguing that the country should first support its homeless veterans. [9]
Rose supports the Second Amendment [8] and opposes gun control laws,arguing that they increase crime and make people less safe. She also supports legislation to make Maryland a "shall issue" state. [28] In July 2022,following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in New York State Rifle &Pistol Association,Inc. v. Bruen ,Rose signed onto a letter to the attorney general of Maryland asking him to address the issue. [29]
During the 2019 legislative session,Rose said she opposed legislation to raise the state minimum wage to $15 an hour,arguing that it would worsen competition between Carroll County and Pennsylvania. [30]
In March 2019,Rose said she supported Governor Larry Hogan's proposed redraw of Maryland's congressional maps—which saw Maryland's 6th congressional district redrawn to include Frederick and Carroll counties,thereby making it more favorable to Republicans. [31]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Susan W. Krebs (incumbent) | 9,566 | 31.0 | |
Republican | Haven Shoemaker (incumbent) | 8,811 | 28.5 | |
Republican | April Rose (incumbent) | 8,350 | 27.0 | |
Republican | David Ellin | 4,176 | 13.5 | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Susan Krebs (incumbent) | 39,236 | 30.9 | |
Republican | April Rose (incumbent) | 33,991 | 26.8 | |
Republican | Haven Shoemaker (incumbent) | 33,658 | 26.5 | |
Democratic | Emily Shank | 19,484 | 15.4 | |
Write-in | 516 | 0.4 | ||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | April Rose (incumbent) | 33,971 | 33.1 | |
Republican | Christopher Bouchat | 33,286 | 32.4 | |
Republican | Chris Tomlinson | 32,485 | 31.7 | |
Write-in | 2,872 | 2.8 | ||
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