I so agree with you.

Joe explain to my how making the language we speak official ignorant. By the way my husband who is Hispanic born to a Spanish mother is Spain 100% supports English officially being the language so tell me how that is bashing Hispanic when some of them agree?

Don't believe in the local ecomomy impact BS as most illegal workers send most income back to their county to the relatives that are still there

Jack, please re-read what I said...Montgomery has more than 8 times the percentage of Spanish speaking people and with a million people, almost 100 thousand more Hispanic citizens, yet somehow their government doesn't seem to feel that English is being "threatened". I don't want or expect Carroll to ever become Montgomery. The problem is being exclusionary and this is indeed perceived very subtly as bigotry. As several have said here on Patch, if there is truly a concern about our American culture being overrun, as Rothschild has indicated, why not invest more in English speaking programs instead of promoting a policy that screams "immigrants are not welcome here". I'm quite aware that many illegals and legals send money back home and this is their right, but they also do many jobs that frankly even unemployed Americans won't do, which you may not want to admit This is especially true with certain trades and jobs that require little or no education (or English). The vast majority of these hardworking people pay taxes and educate their children to speak English, because of the opportunities it presents for their children to have a better life than them. They are not looking for us all to learn Spanish, but not having access to enough adult English classes certainly will make it more difficult for them to assimilate.

Joe, I do understand what you are saying but Montgomery is a terrible example to use. I go there frequently to visit our best friends and its not the community feel we have here, some but not all immigrants don't even try to assimilate. Our friends come here to visit us and always comment on how friendly and polite everyone is everywhere we go. That is absolutely not the case in Montgomery county generally speaking from my experience. I don't fear American culture being overrun I fear the sense of community I grew up with is disappearing as some of the people that come here have no interest in being part of our community, they want to live here with all the great benefits our country affords without becoming one with us. A country within a country is what some of them are building. I welcome them with open arms and am so tired of hearing bigot, racist, every time you disagree with someone. Yes many do the jobs others don't want to do but that's a tired excuse, they do many well paying jobs and have moved far beyond those jobs which is a credit to their work ethic. I'm tired of hearing how they're just farm hands and janitors they do many of the jobs people reading this perform.

I still don't understand this rage about a proposal so many say will do nothing. If that's true why are you all so against it? It defines a language standard to conduct business with, period.

"Commissioner Richard Rothschild, Unwavering Conservative Bigotry"

"a disturbing pattern of employment discrimination has developed...it is patently unacceptable to see American students driven-out of their home towns because they speak only English"...You couldn't possibly make something this ridiculous up on your own, so where do you get this stuff? Is it the John Birch Society or maybe some white supremacist hate blog like your pal Jim Simpson's? How about a dose of the truth here: well spoken college graduates cannot get jobs in their own home towns because there are no jobs that match their skills. Almost 70% of newly minted graduates are unemployed, not because they aren't bilingual, but because they have the wrong degrees and zero work experience. Our economy is adding jobs very slowly, but it will take years to assimilate the 6 million jobs that "W" presided over being lost (outsourced) while corporate CEO's and Wall Street printed money. Wake up! People are relocating to where the jobs are, which in case you didn't notice are in this geographic area. Just not in Carroll, because you and your ilk think that sprawling housing developments, Chick-Fil-A's and Royal Farms represent strong economic development ideas. You killed our airport's expansion, slashed $500,000 from the Econ. Dev. budget and killed a number of already budgeted projects, which would have enhanced our lagging infrastructure. You will likely continue to gut job training and flat fund our schools. You are not a good leader, conservative or not!

Oh good grief. Do you actually believe this? You don't have an agenda to further, do you Bonnie?

I agree Colleen. Pretty soon we will all have to learn Spanish instead of them learning English. My father immigrated here from another country...LEGALLY I might add, and he LEARNED ENGLISH! I think some of these naysayers should watch the movie "They Come To America". There are, indeed, college educated individuals who can not find employment in their own hometown because they do not speak Spanish. This is very prevalent in Florida and I'm sure other states as well. Check it out.

The resolution will ensure all government business continues to be conducted in English, and any future required translation is done at the expense of peititioners, not taxpayers.

- Commissioner Richard Rothschild.

I'm not sure that RR is correct about being able to pass along expenses for translation...it may be illegal under Federal laws. Worth checking into, but I have to go dust right now. This whole thing is a waste of time, money, emotion and just a political statement which an awful lot of taxpayers resent.

Rothschild, You speak in illusion here..why can't you provide some facts to back up the claim that Carroll might have to pay huge sums for possible future translators?
Very weak argument coming from a Commissioner....but maybe a little better than Shoemakers~"I don't want to have to push 2 anymore" boob statement.

Commissioner, how many of Carroll County's laws contain Latin legal terms? Looks like your plan will void a number of laws and contracts. Are you prepared to explain the expense of correcting that to county residents?