[3] Delauter said that upon being elected county commissioner, he would recuse himself on voting on issues involving his company.
[1] Delauter aimed to make the county more business friendly by cutting taxes and fees, as well as simplifying the permit process.
[9] He ran on Frederick County's "Republican Conservative Team" slate with three other candidates, Blaine R. Young, Kirby Delauter, Billy Shreve and C. Paul Smith,[10] who all won.
[11] Delauter finished in fifth place, receiving 35,536 votes in the election and a seat on the five-member county board.
[13] Delauter was assigned to be a liaison to the Agriculture Business Council, Frederick Municipal Airport Commission, Retirement Plan Committee, Roads Board, Social Services Board, and the Solid Waste Advisory Committee.
[13] After he received the next county commission meeting's agenda at the end of each week, Delauter used Saturday and Sunday to review it.
He also had cited his wife as an example, noting that although she had attended college, she stayed at home for 18 years to care for their four children.
He supported implementing tax increment financing paid for by the developers that would improve the county's infrastructure.
To denote his unwavering commitment to fiscal prudence, Delauter paid the county $281.36 to cover around one-eighth the ceremony's cost.
[22] Delauter wrote a January 3, 2015, Facebook post addressed to then Frederick News-Post journalist Bethany Rodgers in which he said "Use my name again unauthorized and you'll be paying for an Attorney.
[23] Delauter characterized an earlier article from Rodgers as a "hit piece", saying he had told her not to contact him again.
[24] Viewed over 500,000 times within 24 hours, the editorial was noticed by national publications, causing #kirbydelauter to trend on Twitter.
[25] Delauter apologized for his Facebook posts, characterizing them as "wrong and inappropriate" and affirming that "[t]he first amendment is alive and well in Frederick County".
[25] In May 2015, County Executive Jan Gardner and Council President Bud Otis jointly introduced a law that would block a company like Delauter's W.F.
[32] In the Republican primary election, Delauter lost, coming in second place with 33 percent of the vote.