28 Facts About Michael Peroutka

Michael Anthony Peroutka was born on 1952 and is an American far-right politician, lawyer, and neo-Confederate activist from Maryland.

Michael Peroutka was the Republican nominee for Attorney General of Maryland in 2022, and was the Constitution Party candidate for president in 2004.

Michael Peroutka is known for his pro-secessionist views, and has said that he is "still angry" that Maryland did not join the Confederacy in the Civil War.

Michael Peroutka attended Loyola University Maryland and the University of Baltimore School of Law.

Michael Peroutka was the chairman of the Constitution Party of Maryland and a member of the executive committee of the Constitution Party National Committee.

Michael Peroutka's running mate was independent Baptist minister Chuck Baldwin.

Michael Peroutka gained support from many paleoconservatives, and was endorsed by the America First Party and Alaskan Independence Party.

Michael Peroutka was endorsed by the League of the South and supported by a group called "Southerners for Michael Peroutka".

Michael Peroutka accepted the endorsement from the League at their 2004 national convention.

Kentucky Republican politician Matt Bevin's support for Michael Peroutka's candidacy was used in a 2013 attack ad by opponent Mitch McConnell.

Michael Peroutka is a Christian nationalist who holds views outside the mainstream of US political discourse, even within the modern Republican Party.

In 2012, the Montgomery Advertiser reported that Michael Peroutka was the single-largest donor to Roy Moore's 2012 campaign for the Alabama Supreme Court, having contributed $50,000 of the total $78,000 received by Moore until December 31,2011.

Michael Peroutka is a former board member of the League of the South, a neo-Confederate organization that is classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.

Michael Peroutka was a member of the group's board of directors from 2012 to 2014.

Michael Peroutka declined to disavow the group during his 2022 campaign for Maryland attorney general.

Michael Peroutka's supporters collected enough signatures to get his name approved as a write-in candidate in Georgia for the 2008 presidential election.

In February 2014, Michael Peroutka switched his voter registration from Constitution Party to Republican and filed to run for a seat on the Anne Arundel County Council as well as a seat on the county's Republican Central Committee.

Michael Peroutka won the seat on the Central Committee, becoming an official representative of the Republican Party in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

Michael Peroutka won by 38 votes over Maureen Carr-York to become the Republican nominee in the November 2014 general election.

Michael Peroutka won in the general election with 53 percent of the vote and a margin of victory of nearly 1,900 votes over his Democratic opponent.

Michael Peroutka's district covered Severna Park, Millersville, Arnold, and Broadneck.

In February 2022, Michael Peroutka filed to run for Attorney General of Maryland.

Michael Peroutka ran on a platform in which he prioritize what he called "God-given, constitutionally-protected rights" over state and federal laws, specifically those on abortion and same-sex marriage.

Michael Peroutka pledged to take legal action against Governor Larry Hogan and local health officers for actions they took to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Michael Peroutka won the Republican primary on July 19,2022, with 55.0 percent of the vote over his challenger Jim Shalleck.

Michael Peroutka's victory made him one of several extremist candidates nominated by the Republican Party in 2022.

Michael Peroutka was defeated by Democratic US Representative Anthony Brown in the general election on November 8,2022.

In May 2014, Michael Peroutka, acting on behalf of the Elizabeth Streb Michael Peroutka foundation, a charity he and his brother Stephen established and named after their mother, donated an Allosaurus skeleton to the Creation Museum, a 70,000-square-foot museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, that promotes the pseudoscientific young Earth creationist explanation of the origins of the universe put forth in Biblical literalism.