For more than four decades, the annual J. Millard Tawes Clambake and Crabfeast in Crisfield has been a mid-summer endurance test, owing to sweltering heat, high humidity and the molten asphalt of the Somers Cove Marina. Not anymore.
Since returning in 2021 from a one-year absence, the Crisfield Chamber of Commerce’s signature event is now held in early autumn, to the delight of only everyone. So, while the feast remains the place to be for the powerful, the ambitious and the politically curious, it can also boast that it’s just a slice of heaven.
Tawes is a home game for Rep. Andy Harris (R) and his rival, former state Del. Heather Mizeur (D). Polls suggest that Republicans likely to take control of the U.S. House in January, an outcome that, according to Harris would mean that “America has a chance.”
The six-term lawmaker, a former state legislator who has never held a leadership post, said he would be in line to be chair of the House Appropriations Committee agriculture subcommittee if the GOP prevails. “This district depends upon agriculture,” he noted in a brief interview.
Mizeur slammed Harris for voting against the infrastructure measure that will upgrade the port in Salisbury, improve broadband service in rural communities, and modernize a water treatment plant. “He has been an absolute failure as a representative for our communities,” she said. “What I’m finding — in living rooms and boardrooms — is an enthusiasm for toning down the partisan rhetoric and turning up the problem-solving.”
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