Mark N. Fisher

Mark Nicholas Fisher (born August 3, 1962) is an American politician who represents District 27C in the Maryland House of Delegates, which covers parts of Calvert County.

[6] Fisher ran for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 27B in 2010, challenging incumbent Democratic legislator Sue Kullen.

[19] In February 2014, Fisher criticized Media Rights Capital, the production company behind House of Cards, for threatening to leave the state unless it was given millions of dollars in tax credits, calling it "ransom".

[22] During the 2016 legislative session, Fisher voted against a bill requiring employers to provide workers with seven days of paid sick leave per year, arguing it would cause restaurants to automate low-paying jobs.

[6] During the 2023 legislative session, Fisher introduced a bill to ban people or businesses associated with the Government of China from buying farmland in Maryland.

[26] During the 2011 legislative session, Fisher voted against Maryland's Dream Act, which provided in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants.

[30] In March 2020, Fisher voted against a bill that would prohibit stores from providing customers with plastic bags, calling it "Stalinist".

[32] In 2021, Fisher introduced a bill that would have prevented elected officials at the state and local level from using the government's electric vehicle charging stations without paying for it.

Democrats on the House Environment and Transportation Committee rewrote his bill to allow state employees and local elected officials free access to the charging stations for their personal vehicles.

[38] In May 2024, he signed onto a letter condemning the jury's guilty verdict in the Trump hush money trial, calling the ruling a "political prosecution from a kangaroo court and left-leaning prosecutor" that is turning the U.S. justice system into a "third world parody of law and order".

He later amended his bill to instead mandate a study on the future of the nuclear industry in Maryland, causing it to pass the House Economic Matters Committee by a vote of 20–1.

[45] During the 2023 legislative session, Fisher opposed the Trans Health Equity Act, a bill that would require the state's Medicaid program to cover gender-affirming treatment, comparing transgender healthcare to "child mutilation" and the book Brave New World, and calling it a violation of human rights.

Fisher in the Economic Matters Committee, 2023