Tony Oโ€™Donnell, Minority Leader of the Maryland House of Delegates and candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Marylandโ€™s 5th Congressional District, issued a statement from the floor of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.ย  Candidate Oโ€™Donnell is a Delegate in the Maryland Delegation to the Republican National Convention.ย  This will be his fifth national convention which is held every four years in various cities across the nation.

Oโ€™Donnell said, โ€œIโ€™m excited about being in Tampa and to vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as the respective Republican Presidential and Vice-Presidential nominees.ย ย  Tampa and the surrounding communities have opened their arms to the convention participants for a very important part of American political history.ย  The coming election will be about the future of this nation.ย  Will we be a nation of limited government with enduring greatness and prosperity or will we continue to slide into mediocrity and government handouts?โ€

Some of the themes to be highlighted in Tampa will be restoring Americaโ€™s economic greatness and the jobs this will create, creating a national energy policy focusing on North American energy independence, and reforming government overspending to diminish our crippling national debt.ย  Delegate Oโ€™Donnell is pleased to represent Maryland in this process at the RNC and will work to restore Americaโ€™s position as the economic leader of the world.ย  Itโ€™s time!