LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS® of Anne Arundel County, MD VOTERS’ GUIDE 2018 PRIMARY ELECTION Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Polls Open 7 AM / Close 8 PM

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Early voting dates: June 14 - June 21, 10 AM - 8 PM

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Republican and Democratic Primary Election Candidates:

Maryland Statewide Races

Governor/Lt. Governor ...... 4 Comptroller ...... 8 Attorney General ...... 9

Federal

Senator ...... 11 Representative District 2 ...... 19 Representative District 3 ...... 22 Representative District 4 ...... 24 Representative District 5 ...... 25

Maryland General Assembly

Senate Legislative District 21 ...... 28 Senate Legislative District 30 ...... 29 Senate Legislative District 31 ...... 30 Senate Legislative District 32 ...... 31 Senate Legislative District 33 ...... 31

House of Delegates Legislative District 21 ...... 33 House of Delegates Legislative District 30A ...... 37 House of Delegates Legislative District 30B ...... 39 House of Delegates Legislative District 31A ...... 41 House of Delegates Legislative District 31B ...... 42 House of Delegates Legislative District 32 ...... 44 House of Delegates Legislative District 33 ...... 47

Anne Arundel County

County Executive ...... 52 County Council District 1 –7 ...... 53 Circuit Court Judge ...... 61 State’s Attorney ...... 63 Clerk of the Circuit Court ...... 64 Register of Wills ...... 65 Judge of the Orphans’ Court ...... 65 Sheriff ...... 66

Party Central Committees Legislative District 21 ...... 68 Legislative District 30 ...... 68 Legislative District 31 ...... 69 Legislative District 32 ...... 70 Legislative District 33 ...... 71

Nonpartisan Primary Election Candidates:

Board of Education Councilmanic District 1 ...... 72 Councilmanic District 4 ...... 73 Councilmanic District 5 ...... 74 Councilmanic District 7 ...... 76

Voting Information and FAQs ...... 78

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GOVERNOR DUTIES: The Governor is the chief executive officer of Maryland and appoints judges to the state courts and the heads of statewide departments. The Governor also makes other appointments as provided by the Maryland Constitution or by law and proposes the annual operating and capital budgets to the legislature. The Governor may veto legislation passed by the legislature. SALARY: $180,000 per year. TERM: Four years, limit of two consecutive terms. HOW ELECTED: Elected statewide as a team with the Lt. Governor.

LT. GOVERNOR DUTIES: The Lieutenant Governor assists the Governor and is elected jointly on a ballot with the gubernatorial candidate. The Lieutenant Governor fills the office of Governor in case of death, resignation, or disability and carries out specific duties assigned by the Governor. SALARY: $149,500 per year. WEBSITE: see Maryland Manual Online (https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/html/mmtoc.html) Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of Governor? BUDGET: What are your priorities for the state budget, particularly regarding education and transportation? REDISTRICTING: What changes, if any, do you support in the process for drawing congressional and legislative district lines in Maryland? ENVIRONMENT: What are the most significant environmental challenges and how will you address them? DISCRIMINATION: What policies will you support to address discrimination based on race, gender, religion, disability, or poverty? HEALTH CARE: What are the most significant health challenges facing Maryland and how will you address them? OTHER PRIORITIES: What are your priorities on issues not covered by the other questions?

infrastructure to create jobs, provide equity and Republican Candidates reduce congestion. Republicans may vote for no more than 1. REDISTRICTING: I would support the creation of Larry Hogan / Boyd K. Rutherford a non-partisan, independent body to draw Campaign Website: w w w .LarryHogan.com legislative and congressional district maps after Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ each census. Non-partisan redistricting ensures LarryHogan that no political party can rig the system. “Safe Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ LarryHogan districts” can lead to a decrease in voter Campaign Instagram: participation, limit voter choice and reduce the instagram:@LarryHogan incentive to have meaningful debate and conversations. No response received by deadline. ENVIRONMENT: I have brought a world class environmental program to the county, which now Democratic Candidates leads the state in waste diversion and recycling. As Democrats may vote for no more than 1. governor, I prioritize innovative environmental Rushern L. Baker III / Elizabeth Embry policies to make Maryland a leader in clean energy, Campaign Website: www.rushernbaker.com and create jobs across the state. I will announce Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ my comprehensive "Baker Green Print for BakerforGovernor Maryland" soon to address climate change, sea Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ rushernbaker level rise, and Bay restoration. Campaign Instagram: instagram.com/ DISCRIMINATION: I will work to strengthen the bakerforgovernor/ relationship between law enforcement and the Campaign Email: [email protected] community and provide resources to forgotten Campaign Phone: (240) 714-3964 communities through my Transforming QUALIFICATIONS: I am the only candidate who Neighborhoods Initiative to increase racial and has served as County Executive of Prince George’s income equality across the state. My Equity for County, leading one of Maryland's largest Women Initiative is a comprehensive plan to make jurisdictions and in the Maryland House of MD a national leader in gender equality by Delegates. I have also served as the executive championing economic empowerment and security director of a non profit organizations that recruited for women. and trained teachers to work in schools with HEALTH CARE: In the county, we reduced diverse populations and urban problems. uninsured and underinsured residents by over BUDGET: Education and transportation funding will 50%. However too many Marylanders are still be my top two spending priorities as governor. Our facing exorbitant healthcare prices and are public schools are the heart of our communities uninsured. We need to ensure the broadest and must be fully funded. As one of the most possible access to affordable health care by densely populated states, we need a governor who improving access, reliability and affordability. We makes strategic investments in mass transit need to stabilize health insurance market against

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the attempts made by Trump to undermine the Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ BenJealous ACA. Campaign Instagram: @BenJealous OTHER PRIORITIES: Marylanders are sick and Campaign Email: [email protected] tired of Big Money in politics. I've introduced a Campaign Phone: (904) 891-1843 campaign finance reform proposal that will 1) QUALIFICATIONS: At 35, I was named the prohibit direct campaign contributions from youngest-ever President & CEO of the NAACP. In corporations and PACs 2) establish a statewide my role there I advanced a strong, progressive public financing system for Maryland state agenda across the board. In Maryland these candidates; 3) require Maryland Super PACs to achievements were recognized in 2013 when I was contribute a portion of their total expenditures to named Marylander of the Year for my pivotal roles fund the public financing system. in abolishing the death penalty, passing the Maryland DREAM Act, helping pass marriage equality, and expanding voting rights. Ralph Jaffe / Freda Jaffe BUDGET: We don’t have a money problem when it Campaign Website: comes to education, we have a priority problem www.fedupwithcrookedpolitics.com and we need a governor who is willing to make Campaign Email: [email protected] education a number one priority. We will fully fund Campaign Phone: (410) 602-1811 our schools and make sure lottery and casino QUALIFICATIONS: Political science teacher since revenues finally supplement education funding. We 1964. Taught in public and private sectors. Leading need a plan for transportation that will revive the a movement which started in 2002 and is an Red Line and provide dedicated funding for the DC evolving process to get rid of corruption in MD Metro. govt. and replace it with true ETHICAL reform. My REDISTRICTING: I believe that Maryland should website, fedupwithcrookedpolitics.com documents lead the fight on redistricting reform in a fair and everything non-partisan manner that does not indefinitely BUDGET: Stop wasting taxpayer money on public hand control of the House of Representatives to education and transportation programs that don’t Republicans. Redistricting compacts such as the work. Invest the saved money in public police one passed by the Maryland legislature and vetoed departments and public schools. by Hogan are a fair solution to increase the REDISTRICTING: Because of unscrupulous, accountability of Congress to the voters and reduce unethical practices of politicians in power for last gerrymandering. 50 years, it’s an impossible task. Until we get ENVIRONMENT: My vision in regards to the ethical politicians who care about their constituents environment brings together the economy, civil rather than themselves district lines will be unfair. rights, and public health. I will build on the surge ENVIRONMENT: We need ethical politicians who of clean energy jobs and put our state on a path to will work together on the complicated 100% clean energy well before 2050 and reverse environmental issues. They need to arrive at Trump’s attempts to kill the progress we’ve made compromises that will be fair to both sides. on cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay. Bill McKibben, DISCRIMINATION: I would convene assembly of Friends of the Earth Action, and 350.org have all religious leaders from churches, synagogues, and endorsed my campaign. mosques throughout MD - mission to generate DISCRIMINATION: I’ve dedicated my life to specific set of recommendations for improving race service and I have a long track record of securing relations - recommendations which would be put progressive victories in our state. Growing up as into operation immediately. Also implementation of the child of a biracial Maryland couple who were my TUTOR-MENTOR TEAM PROGRAM. forced to leave the state in order to legally marry, HEALTH CARE: A program is needed that ensures Marylanders know I’ll stand up to Trump’s hateful every patient has choice of doctors and at same attacks on our environment which time gives the poor and elderly good medical disproportionately harms marginalized insurance without exorbitant premiums. A panel of communities and his attacks on our public schools. distinguished private citizens should assemble and HEALTH CARE: Premiums have risen by double formulate recommendations that will be fair to all digits year after year, 300,000 Marylanders don’t and implemented immediately. have healthcare, and the cost of prescription drugs OTHER PRIORITIES: Crime problem - More forces families to choose between mandatory life police officers needed in metropolitan areas of expenses and prescription drugs. I support MD,especially in Balto. City (1000 police officers Medicare-for-All at the federal level but with no short) Treatment of elderly in nursing homes - Law hope for progress there we need Medicare-for-All requiring 6 to 1 ratio of patients to nurses’ aides at the state level to provide quality, affordable needed. Public education - Implementation of my healthcare for all. TUTOR-MENTOR PROGRAM OTHER PRIORITIES: I’m the only candidate for governor who has released comprehensive plans Ben Jealous / Susan Turnbull on criminal justice reform, the opioid epidemic, Campaign Website: benjealous.com seniors, Medicare-for-All, and police reform. I am Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ releasing my plans for education, the environment, benjealous/ and the economy soon and you can all see the

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progressive priorities I will enact as governor at policies to end discrimination. benjealous.com. HEALTH CARE: Healthcare is a human right. I will be the strong leader Maryland needs to address our most significant health challenges - ensuring James Hugh Jones, II / Charles S. Waters that all Marylanders have broad access to No response received by deadline. affordable, high-quality health care and prescription drugs, and finding solutions to the Kevin Kamenetz / Valerie Ervin opioid epidemic by providing fast, effective relief Candidate died after ballots were printed. for those suffering from addiction and a new focus

on prevention and treatment. Rich Madaleno / Luwanda Jenkins OTHER PRIORITIES: Other priorities include Campaign Website: building a strong economy with good-paying jobs www.madalenoformaryland.com and fair taxes, and continuing my effective Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ advocacy of gun violence prevention laws, such as richardmadaleno/ the assault weapons and bump stocks ban. I Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ richmadaleno strongly support public financing of state elections Campaign Instagram: @richmadaleno and getting big money out of our politics. I am the Campaign Email: ONLY candidate for Governor who is participating [email protected] in public financing in Maryland. Campaign Phone: (240) 669-8990 QUALIFICATIONS: My experience serving the Alec Ross / Julie C. Verratti people of Maryland in the State Senate and the Campaign Website: alecross.com House of Delegates for the past sixteen years Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ Alec4MD/ uniquely prepares me to be Governor. I have an Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ AlecJRoss extensive record of public and community service Campaign Instagram: @alecjross and accomplishment, and hold leadership positions Campaign Email: [email protected] in the General Assembly, as Vice-Chair of the Campaign Phone: (410) 989-6143 Senate Budget & Finance Committee, and as a QUALIFICATIONS: I have spent my entire career member of the Kirwan Commission on Education. in public service. I came to Maryland as a public BUDGET: My key budget priorities are investments school teacher and went on to the highest levels of in education -- such as the $200 million dedicated federal government working on innovation and to funding recommendations to improve education technology. I believe that our government needs and opportunity for all Maryland children in this leaders who will push for new solutions in a year’s budget -- as well as long-term sustainable constantly changing world. Talent is everywhere in transportation, such as securing $178 million for Maryland but opportunity is not, and we can the Baltimore Metro and $167 million for the DC change that. Metro. I will be the Governor who funds these BUDGET: The proper funding of our education priorities. system, especially resetting the formula through REDISTRICTING: I support redistricting reform. I recommendations by the Kirwan Commission, is support establishing a nonpartisan Redistricting the single most important budgetary concern for Commission to prepare and adopt decennial our next governor. Regarding transportation, I will redistricting plans for congressional and legislative prioritize use of state money for multimodal districts in Maryland. Each congressional district transportation solutions like mass transit and multi should consist of adjoining territory; be compact in -use roads - not just on highway widening projects. form; and be of substantially equal population, REDISTRICTING: We need to make the giving due regard to natural and political modification of Congressional districts a process boundaries. conducted by independent commissions that rely ENVIRONMENT: The most significant on the fairness of mathematics rather than the bias environmental challenges are to protect and of politics. We also need to look into ways to de- continue to be an active steward of the polarize our politics, like open primaries and Rank Chesapeake Bay and to address climate change Choice Voting. These are simple steps and will and its impacts. As governor I will protect, defend bring more competition into our politics and more and improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay, choices for voters. one of Maryland’s abundant natural treasures. I ENVIRONMENT: My administration will prioritize will reduce harmful emissions and increase our cleaning up and preserving the Chesapeake Bay by reliance on renewable energy sources. participating in regional and statewide conservancy DISCRIMINATION: I will set the tone at the top, programs. We will make Maryland the center of the a strong and effective leader who will stand up green economy and provide funding for against racism, bigotry and discrimination. environmental innovators by establishing a Whether the fight for freedom to marry or to statewide Maryland Green Bank. Conservation and combat discrimination in housing and employment, innovation should go hand in hand and Maryland is I have championed equal rights. Building on my the perfect place to make it happen. achievements in human rights, criminal justice, DISCRIMINATION: There are practical ways we voting rights and social justice, I will implement must address discrimination, but it starts with a set Page 6 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Maryland Statewide Governor/Lt. Governor of values. Our leaders should work to bring people including solar and wind. I will also work to get together, not divide them. And they must take more cars off of our roads and onto cleaner, mass strong stands against things that conflict with transit lines. those values of openness, and move our state in a DISCRIMINATION: Along with my Lt. Governor, positive direction. As governor, the values of Brandon Scott, I will work to create an Office of openness and inclusion would be first and foremost Equity that will be charged with ensuring that all in my leadership. state agencies complete gender, racial, religious, HEALTH CARE: Without universal health disability, and income assessments of their coverage, we are denying quality of life to many in services, programs, employment, and contracting our state and increasing costs for everyone. First, practices. In addition, the office will direct agencies we need to protect and preserve the best parts of to create action plans to address the findings of the ACA. We also need to add a public option these assessments. through Medicaid so that everyone in Maryland has HEALTH CARE: As Governor, unlike Larry Hogan, access to quality, affordable health care. And we I will stand up to federal Republicans’ efforts to need to fight to keep the costs of prescription repeal the ACA and protect Marylanders. On the drugs low. federal level, there is also a movement to OTHER PRIORITIES: I am especially focused on implement a national single payer system, which I the “rise of the rest” and how we empower more support. At the state level, I do not think we have people from more zip codes to compete and the scale necessary to properly institute a single succeed in the industries of the future. This is a payer system. holistic issue, and my administration will be OTHER PRIORITIES: I will also focus on growing focused on the many issues - like education, job the economy and making it fairer for all creation, support for small business, and inclusive Marylanders. I will work to make our communities innovation - that will create opportunity for all safer and to restore the community’s trust in law Marylanders in a changing economy. enforcement. And, I will focus on protecting our environment by targeting ambitious standards for our RPS, investing in energy storage technology, Jim Shea / Brandon M. Scott and getting more people off the roads and onto Campaign Website: JimShea.com mass transit infrastructure. Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ sheaforMD/ Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ SheaforMD Krish O'Mara Vignarajah / Sharon Y. Blake Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Website: Campaign Phone: (443) 322-2123 www.krishformaryland.com QUALIFICATIONS: Over the course of my career, Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ I have led large public and private organizations krishformaryland across the state. For four years, I served as Chair Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ krishformd of the University System of Maryland – the state’s Campaign Instagram: largest public entity. I also served as Chair of the Instagram:@krishformaryland Central Maryland Transportation Alliance, the Campaign Email: [email protected] Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, and the Campaign Phone: (404) 433-2627 Empowerment Baltimore Management Corporation, QUALIFICATIONS: I am a lifelong Marylander, and my law firm, Venable LLP. who has lived the American Dream--going from a BUDGET: In my budgets, education and basement apartment on the Baltimore City/County transportation will be my top two priorities. As line and attending Maryland public schools to Governor, in my first legislative session, I will pass serving as Michelle Obama's Policy Director at the legislation that includes some of the policies I know White House & Senior Advisor to Sec. of State we need in education – from universal pre-K Hillary Clinton. I've led complex organizations, through increased compensation for our teachers. multi-billion dollar budgets & initiatives in Transportation will be my second priority, and I will education, healthcare, & creating jobs. focus on mass transit options that moves people BUDGET: Education is my absolute top priority. As across the state. the only candidate who attended Maryland public REDISTRICTING: I support forming a bipartisan schools (K-12), I am committed fully funding our and independent commission to advise the schools, guaranteeing Pre-K, closing the Governor during the process of drawing achievement gap, expanding STEAM education congressional and legislative district lines in opportunities, & providing free community college Maryland. As Governor, I will also work diligently and retraining. I will restart Baltimore's Red Line to implement changes to the system to make it and invest in transportation solutions that cut more transparent and accountable to the people. commute times in half. ENVIRONMENT: Our way of life and our economy REDISTRICTING: Gerrymandering and unlimited is strictly tied to our environment. The largest dark money are the greatest threats to the health challenges include ensuring that our water is safe of our democracy. I support independent experts to drink, our air is safe to breathe, and the drawing district lines in Maryland using transparent Chesapeake Bay is healthy. I will push for a shift processes/formulas to ensure fairness. At the same more completely towards renewable energy, time, I will work regionally on solutions to ensure Page 7 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Maryland Statewide Governor/Lt. Governor

that our good government actions in Maryland do improve accessibility. not adversely affect the overall balance of power in HEALTH CARE: Healthcare is a human right. We the U.S. House will provide universal, affordable healthcare ENVIRONMENT: Saving the Chesapeake Bay, through a state-run public option to ensure reducing air pollution, and acting on climate coverage for the 350,000 Marylanders without change will be my top priorities. For the Bay, we insurance and to help those that can’t afford their will reduce water pollution at it's source, improve current coverage. We will confront the opioid crisis the Bay's resilience, & hold upstream states by increasing access to overdose reversal agents & accountable. We will reduce air pollution from our expanding drug treatment options. We will reduce transportation and power sectors by investing in gun violence in communities. clean energy (offshore wind, solar, etc), energy OTHER PRIORITIES: As we advance all of our efficiency, & public transit. important policy priorities here at home, we must DISCRIMINATION: Discrimination has no place in also defend our fellow Marylanders from the society. We will build an inclusive government that attacks coming out of President Trump's White reflects the full diversity of Maryland to end it, House. We must stand up and defend immigrant because discrimination increases when diverse rights, civil rights, Muslim rights, gay rights, voices are excluded from decision-making. We will reproductive rights, workers’ rights, Dreamers’ guarantee 3-months of paid family leave, ensure rights, & public health. We must also protect equal pay for equal work, end sexual harassment, thousands of federal jobs from budget cuts. attack systemic racism, prosecute hate crimes, and Comptroller

DUTIES: The Comptroller is the financial officer of Maryland, responsible for collecting, managing and planning for revenue to support the state budget. The Comptroller collects and administers Maryland taxes on income (both personal and corporate), retail sales, motor vehicle fuel tax, tobacco, beer, wine and liquor, and estate tax. The Comptroller serves on the Board of Public Works along with the Governor and the state Treasurer, who is appointed by the General Assembly. SALARY: $149,500 per year. TERM: Four years, no term limit. HOW ELECTED: Elected statewide. WEBSITE: see Maryland Manual Online (https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/html/mmtoc.html). Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of this office? REVENUE SYSTEM: What policies will you implement to improve the efficiency and fairness of the collection of Maryland taxes? BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS: As a member of the Board of Public Works, what criteria would you use for evaluating contracts and capital projects that are subject to approval by that Board? OTHER PRIORITIES: Please describe any other priorities you have for this office?

Republican Candidates REVENUE SYSTEM: I will update information Republicans may vote for no more than 1. systems statewide, for usability and security, and promote tax credits and other incentives for energy Anjali Reed Phukan star, solar panel, and other efficiency products and Campaign Website: services. I also will reduce interest and penalties mscomptroller.weebly.com for people who are being proactive & voluntarily Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ reporting additional income the state would mscomptroller normally not have time to audit; coming clean Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ should never be penalized. mscomptroller BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS: I want spending to Campaign Instagram: MsComptroller be more spread across Maryland, for all to enjoy Campaign Email: [email protected] the amazing nooks and crannies of our beautiful QUALIFICATIONS: I believe the top tax collector, state. Safety is my number one priority in public auditor & maintainer of the public general ledger works - safe roads for motorists, law enforcement, should be proficient in accounting. I am a certified cyclists, pedestrians, and our delicate environment. public accountant, legally licensed to practice The ethics and prior history of contractors public accounting in Maryland. I also have an MBA completing projects in time, safely, and within in finance & another masters degree in information budget should also be considered. systems. I have private, federal & state work OTHER PRIORITIES: I also think it is unfair to experiences in financial management systems, tax, tax retirement income. If we remove it all together accounting & audit. we would increase our property and sales tax base, Page 8 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Maryland Statewide Comptroller

hence bring up our net revenues. Lastly, I will REVENUE SYSTEM: Our main focus continues to increase transparency across the comptroller be processing tax returns accurately and office, not just in the general ledger, but also in efficiently. We have improved our agency’s how the state audits and comes to final resolution responsiveness to taxpayers and reduce call wait with tax payers. I will loving enforce the law times. In my agency, tax fairness is a top priority. equally for all. We continue to embrace innovative ways to make sure that everyone is paying their fair share. Democratic Candidates Moving forward, I will continue to build upon the Democrats may vote for no more than 1. tremendous progress we have made. Peter Franchot BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS: As a BPW member, Campaign Website: w w w .franchot.com I am proud to be a strong fiscal watchdog for Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ Maryland’s working families. I have advocated peterfranchot against single-bid contracts, fought for the Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ peterfranchot inclusion of more Minority and Women-owned Campaign Instagram: w w w .instagram.com/ contracts in the procurement system, and have peterfranchot worked in a bipartisan fashion to instate reforms to Campaign Email: [email protected] our state’s previously broken procurement process. Campaign Phone: (443) 254-6000 OTHER PRIORITIES: If elected to another term QUALIFICATIONS: As Maryland's independent as Comptroller, I will continue to provide the fiscal watchdog, I’m proud of my record of independent leadership that Marylanders expect achievement and results that I’ve delivered for and deserve this office. I will fight for policies and Maryland taxpayers since I became Comptroller in priorities that grow our economy, safeguard our 2007. Thanks to initiatives that we have fiscal future, and protect the financial well-being of implemented, and the hard work of the dedicated working families and small businesses. public servants in our agency, ours is regarded as the most efficient and effective Comptroller’s Office in the nation. Attorney General

DUTIES: The Attorney General is the chief legal officer of Maryland, providing legal advice to the Governor, the legislature, and all State departments, boards and most commissions. The Attorney General represents the state in all cases that relate to the Governor, the General Assembly, and most state agencies. The office also has responsibilities for consumer protection, civil rights, medical and investment fraud, and the juvenile justice system. SALARY: $149,500 per year. TERM: Four years, no term limit. HOW ELECTED: Elected statewide. WEBSITE: see Maryland Manual Online (https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/html/mmtoc.html) Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of this office? ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE: What steps will you take to improve the efficiency and fairness of legal processes in Maryland? LITIGATION: When should the Attorney General join lawsuits relating to federal regulations or corporate misconduct? DISCRIMINATION: What policies will you support to address discrimination based on race, gender, religion, disability, or poverty? OTHER PRIORITIES: What actions will you take to address other issues, such as domestic violence, human trafficking, substance abuse, and protection of consumers?

Republican Candidates Republicans may vote for no more than 1. QUALIFICATIONS: I am a former state and Craig Wolf federal prosecutor, counsel to the Senate Judiciary Campaign Website: w olf4ag.com Committee, business leader and decorated Soldier/ Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ Veteran. I have also been a volunteer EMT/Rescue craigwolf4ag Diver. I have a history of public service and Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ Wolf4AG management. I believe the AG should focus on Campaign Instagram: w olf4ag public safety, not politics and partisanship and Campaign Email: craig@w olf4ag.com should focus on issues of importance to all Campaign Phone: (202) 415-6732 Marylanders regardless of party.

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ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE: The Attorney QUALIFICATIONS: I have served as Maryland's General should be focused on balancing the need Attorney General for the past three years. Prior to to enforce the laws and ensure public safety while being elected Attorney General, I was Chair of the ensuring due process for all Marylanders. The AG Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, where I should lead by example by being ethical, avoiding sponsored many laws that now protect Marylanders conflicts of interest and making sure that all voices and our state including the law prohibiting oil are heard before weighing in on a particular case, drilling in the Chesapeake Bay, the Maryland while at the same time vigorously enforcing the Recycling Act and the Maryland Firearm Safety laws of the state. Act. LITIGATION: With respect to federal regulations, ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE: Among the the Attorney General should weigh in only when many steps that my office has taken to improve there is a compelling state interest, a sound legal the efficiency and fairness of the legal processes in basis and a determination that the case can be Maryland is our fight for and achievement of won on the merits. Those decisions should not be reforming the cash bail system, which jailed people based on political considerations. With respect to in our state simply because they were poor. I will corporate misconduct, the AG ensure respect for continue to work with the legislature to find and the law and hold corporations fully accountable for invest in strategies that increase public safety and misconduct. recidivism. DISCRIMINATION: There is no room in this state LITIGATION: The Attorney General should join for discrimination based upon race, gender, lawsuits relating to federal regulations or corporate religion, disability or poverty/class. The Attorney misconduct when there is evidence that the people General should be vigilant to ensure that our laws or state of Maryland have been or will be adversely are respected and people are treated equally. effected. OTHER PRIORITIES: As a prosecutor/counsel to DISCRIMINATION: In 2015, my office was the the Senate Jud. Comm., I focused on domestic first in the country to issue guidelines to all law violence/sexual exploitation/trafficking. The AG enforcement agencies prohibiting profiling based should make protection of the most vulnerable a upon race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual priority. The opioid crisis in Maryland needs preference, etc. We published a study of leadership from the AG to bring together the law discrimination against LGBT citizens that was cited enforcement, public health and recovery by the Supreme Court in its historic Obergefell communities to find appropriate solutions. decision. We have penalized and shut down Consumer protection must be a priority as well. industries that prey on the poor. OTHER PRIORITIES: Over the past three years my office has achieved hundreds of millions of Democratic Candidates dollars of settlements and judgments from Wall Democrats may vote for no more than 1. Street Banks, Predatory Lenders, Automakers, Brian E. Frosh Tobacco Companies, and Polluters who sought to Campaign Website: w w w .brianfrosh.com injure or defraud Marylanders.My office is working Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ with the multi-state investigation of opioid BrianFrosh manufacturers. If re-elected, I pledge to remain Campaign Email: [email protected] the People's lawyer & continue our efforts. Campaign Phone: (240) 479-9788

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Duties: U.S. Senators make laws along with the members of the House of Representatives, ratify treaties, and conduct investigations on issues of national importance. The Senate confirms Presidential appointments. How Elected: Elected statew ide. In 2018, Maryland voters will elect one of our two Senators. About one-third of the 100 members of the Senate is elected every two years. Senators must be at least 30 years old, have been citizens of the United States at least 9 years and be residents of the state they want to represent. Term: Six years. Base Salary: $174,000 per year. Website: https://www.senate.gov. Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of this office? HEALTH CARE: What changes in federal healthcare policy do you advocate and why? DISCRIMINATION: What policies will you support to address discrimination based on race, gender, religion, disability, or poverty? ECONOMIC POLICY: What policies will you support to strengthen the national economy, such as those affecting international trade, taxes, labor rights, and infrastructure? IMMIGRATION: What changes, if any, will you support in immigration policy? ENVIRONMENT: What are the most pressing environmental challenges and how will you address them? OTHER PRIORITIES: What other issues are priorities for you?

Republican Candidates compromised with American companies being Republicans may vote for no more than 1. hacked by foreign countries. Our energy grid infrastructure is also at risk and should be priority Tony Campbell of the national government. Campaign Website: IMMIGRATION: National Sovereignty is www.campbell4maryland.com connected to the ability of a country to protect its Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ borders. I support enhancing our border security campbell4maryland.com through a variety of means including building a Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ campbell4md border wall and increased border agents. I am Campaign Email: against current policies of the diversity lottery and [email protected] chain migration. I am against a pathway to QUALIFICATIONS: I have 30 years of citizenship for undocumented people. I would government and non-profit experience. I served on support permanent residency status. a Congressional staff and as a presidential ENVIRONMENT: In Maryland, a pressing appointee at Social Security Administration. As a environmental challenge is the dredging of our former Army officer, I understand national security waterways. Maryland is unique in the amount of issues as well as the need for sound foreign policy waterways we have and the need we have for a based on our national interest. I have real world partnership with the US Army Corps of Engineers. experience and academic knowledge which is As your next United States Senator, I will work to necessary to serve in the US Senate. fully fund dredging projects to make sure our HEALTH CARE: I advocate for an end to beautiful Chesapeake Bay is environmentally ObamaCare. The national government should not healthy. be in the business of mandating health care OTHER PRIORITIES: Advocating Success, not coverage. A possible change I would be in favor of subsistence. The American Dream has been not is looking at providing block grants to states from possible for a lot of Marylanders. As your next the national government to try to solve the opioid United States Senator, I want to promote a vision epidemic. Another change in health policy would be of economic success. I believe limited government to allow Veterans to go to any hospital to get the intervention is important so people can build a care they need. legacy of wealth creation to pass onto their DISCRIMINATION: The Constitution of the children and grandchildren. United States guarantees liberties for citizens so they are equal under the law through the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Chris Chaffee Education Reform is one of the most pressing Campaign Website: issues which can help to eliminate discrimination in www.chrischaffeeforussenate.com our country. I support School Choice initiatives for Campaign Email: all parents to send their children to the schools of [email protected] their choice. Campaign Phone: (410) 474-5629 ECONOMIC POLICY: I am against raising taxes. I QUALIFICATIONS: I am an American, son of a support a balanced budget amendment. I am in Veteran, son-in-law of a Veteran, a brother-in-law favor of bi-lateral Fair Trade policies. Keeping to a Veteran. These men not only fought for my America Secure is a key focus of my campaign for freedom but yours as well. I am husband, father, US Senate. Our cyber infrastructure is severely father-in-law grandfather, Catholic, coach, union Page 11 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Federal U.S. Senator

worker, state worker, business owner, volunteer, Campaign Phone: (410) 519-7281 and a lifetime Maryland resident.. All of these QUALIFICATIONS: I believe our Founding Fathers experiences have given me the insight necessary intended for Congress to compose of multiple to represent Maryland. backgrounds of people—business persons; HEALTH CARE: I would advocate getting the scientists; educators; civil leaders; government government out of Healthcare.Healthcare should workers & private citizens; each a life experience. be turned over to private industry. This will create I’m prepared for office because I embody diversity jobs in the private sector and would lower the price through a range of life challenges. I put principle of health care. It is also expensive, but using over politics & party loyalty, and my motto is “be volume or cooperatives to buy blocks of coverage the change you seek”. in large numbers would drive down the costs. The HEALTH CARE: Making CHIP/PACE permanent & current administration had made a start with legislating a single-payer co-pay/free market important policy changes system for PCIP by increasing FICA 1% & keeping DISCRIMINATION: Discrimination in any form is 3.8% surtax on capital gains; amending the ACA harmful, detrimental and offensive. There are cost-sharing reduction payments toward numerous additional brackets including age. It Ambulatory Care Centers; legislate Medicare drug extends from employment, finance, insurance, price negotiations; focus on a balanced hospital banking, and real estate. We should have a Zero Charge Description Master. To do so will be closest tolerance policy. to making healthcare a right. ECONOMIC POLICY: Under the current DISCRIMINATION: Strengthen Trans protection/ administration we have taken large steps to public prejudice, healthcare & endocrinologists; improve our economic policies. The tax reform, focus on school to prison, Summer Slide, reduce cancelling NAFTA ,Tariffs across the board Juvenile CJS/Adult CJS recidivism; emphasis on especially on steel and aluminum, the re- gentrification; disabled ‘needs’ earmarks allowance; negotiation of current trade deals, repealed net efficiency in entitlement programs; vocational neutrality law. We need to train our workers from schooling; advocating sex ed. & business ed. Pub. trades which include welders to cyber security Sch. changes; emphasize discrimination/racism/ using American workers first. sexism; cordial understanding. IMMIGRATION: We need a border wall, or a ECONOMIC POLICY: Three stand. deductions: fence, a means of stopping the flood of illegal’s $18k (earners under $24k), $12k and $6k; stand. crossing into the United States. Security along our deduction on overtime pay; legislating top dollar border is vital to the safety of all Americans. corps. shareholders foot 40% bottom tier People should not live in fear of illegals, gang employees pay (i.e. Wal-Mart’s); Corp. tax 21%; members, drug dealers and sexual offenders close S & C Corp. ‘pass through’ loopholes; 5% jumping over our border. The current number of federal sales tax; progressive tax rates; fair illegal people who are in our country proves what employee benefits (sick, family & medical leave); we have currently isn't working support $1.0T+ infrastructure spending. ENVIRONMENT: Pollution, land management, IMMIGRATION: Minimum H1-B visa changes; urban sprawl, waste disposal, over population, merit based immigration; deter/modify birth water sacristy and pollution and deforestation tourism; full-proof bio-metrics data system; support these are the most pressing environmental DACA; ITIN/DACA-esque lottery/pathway to challenges today. I feel the development of a citizenship; border defense-drones, patrols, filtration device to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus structures; NAFTA renegotiation/prisoner transfers; in the Chesapeake Bay, our oceans and our foreign aid negotiations Latin America & Mexico/end streams is imperative. Good management Mexico City Policy & allow remittances; expedite programs are in place but need to be followed up deportation of criminal aliens. on. ENVIRONMENT: Global Warming, Climate Change, OTHER PRIORITIES: The most urgent priority for drought, sea level rise & (plastic /CO/runoff) me is school safety. We need to allocate the funds pollution: Variable Renewable Energy (VRE)—wind, to make fundamental changes to our schools. In solar, nuclear power & natural gas; grey-water the private sector employees have to badge in and system mandates (CA, NM, AZ, TX & NV); beach out. This not only ensures the safety of the fill, jetties & tidal breaks; recycling & waste mgnt. confidential information in the business, but the reforms; hybrid/electric/Flex Fuel Vehicles [E83 employees working there. There needs to be ethanol](clean coal alcohol fuel conversion + bio armed resource officers in all schools to protect our fuel + diesel); aquaponics. children, they are our future OTHER PRIORITIES: State chartered bank/bank account: portfolio—student & business loans/ grants; entitlement program recipient accounts; Evan M. Cronhardt local infrastructure grants; Outlaw ‘Payday’ loans & Campaign Website: evancronhardt.com check cashing services; Legalize Cannabis; Protect Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ Dodd-Frank/CFPB; End ‘Right to Work’ laws; EvanCronhardtforU.S.Senate Universal Basic Income; Small business: tax Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ reform/incentives; Women/Minority businesses; EvanCronhardt Pub. Ed. & tuition; Ntl. Def. & Cyber Sec. 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Nnabu Eze John R. Graziani Campaign Website: nnabueze.com Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ grazianiforsenate/ Nnabu-Eze-for-US-Senate-1767960576843833/ No response received by deadline. Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Phone: (443) 316-1334 QUALIFICATIONS: In Information Technology to Christina J. Grigorian implement or upgrade a system we gather Campaign Website: information, analyze the information, present the www.grigorianforsenate.com findings before a solution is implemented. I will use Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ this same strategy to analyze national issues such grigorianforsenate as immigration, social justice and gun control that Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ both parties have been kicking down the road with grigoriansenate opposing views to ginger their base. Campaign Email: HEALTH CARE: I would advocate for a Patient [email protected] Centered Healthcare system which involves Campaign Phone: (301) 525-3610 listening to, informing and ensuring that patients QUALIFICATIONS: I am a first-generation values guide all clinical decisions. My wife Chioma American who is a mother, a wife, and a lawyer Eze a nurse and other doctors heavily influenced who has practiced for almost 22 years. While my view in healthcare. The healthcare raising my three children, I have also counseled professionals shared the view that when patients financial institutions related to compliance with are treated with dignity and respect they tend to state and federal regulatory requirements. I taught recover from their illness quicker. Sunday school for 11 years and am an active DISCRIMINATION: I know that you can not volunteer in protecting the gardens and grounds at legislate an end to discrimination but government the Washington National Cathedral. is a critical site for struggle and change. I would HEALTH CARE: Greater attention should be given support legislation that would require public/ to eliminating waste in our healthcare system, private bodies to have regard to the need to which represents over 30% of healthcare spending. eliminate discrimination, advance the equality of Providers must be incentivized to deliver efficient opportunity and the financial consequences of care while maintaining quality, and we must re- noncompliance are made real. engineer the way care is delivered (e.g., best ECONOMIC POLICY: I will continue to support practices that rely on data and analytics to identify President Trumps campaign promise to simplify the the most efficient way of delivering healthcare tax code and lowering the marginal income tax services)/ rates. When tax rates are reduced people will be DISCRIMINATION: Discrimination in any form is motivated to work, save and invest which will help anti-American and has no place in our society. It is strengthen the national economy. our responsibility, as an informed electorate, to IMMIGRATION: Immigration is one of the ensure that Americans of all races, genders, lingering issues that both parties do not have a abilities and religions have access to good jobs, desire to resolve because they can use immigration quality schools and a healthcare system that meets to ginger their base during election cycles. I would their needs. If I become Maryland's next U.S. support securing our borders (terrorists have senator, I will work tirelessly to end all forms of indicated an interest in the past to enter through discrimination. our southern borders) but establish a program of ECONOMIC POLICY: Maryland needs to look providing Guest Workers with a path to forward to high-growth industries and develop citizenship. policies that attract those businesses now. For ENVIRONMENT: When scientists told us last year example, there is a revolution coming to the there would be a solar eclipse we believed them automotive industry in connection with self-driving and most of us went out to buy solar viewing vehicles. Maryland should become the glasses. The same scientists also tell us that "incubator"for these technologies and create humans are the biggest contributors to global economic incentives to attract those high-growth warming but some of us do not believe them. I businesses that will be the future's "job creators." would support economic policies that would change IMMIGRATION: Immigration reform remains a the price of goods or activities to influence the bottleneck to our country's growth, security and choices made by people/businesses. prosperity. A bipartisan solution must be devised OTHER PRIORITIES: I will support common to determine the status of those currently in the sense gun control with universal background United States illegally. Once a solution is achieved, check, a ban on high capacity magazines and the United States Congress must decide our military style assault weapons . The NRA states country's immigration policies, not federal agency that "Guns don't kill people, bad people kill people" officials or others who unilaterally impose their own but we should not easily give bad people access to political agenda. guns. ENVIRONMENT: Climate change is the single greatest environmental challenge our country faces. We must use a combination of market forces and tax incentives to develop alternative sources of Page 13 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Federal U.S. Senator

energy, such as solar, wind and wave energy. And and fines. I will work for one rule for everyone not we must develop students who have the technical 20 different rules. There is a reason that the education to make Maryland a magnet for these contents of your wallet are called "your money". I industries. Fostering these businesses will benefit will respect that notion. future generations. IMMIGRATION: We are a nation of legal OTHER PRIORITIES: As the holder of a master's immigrants. My ancestors followed the rules and degree in education, I am passionate about obeyed the law. They recognized that "American" considering innovative ways to make our was not a place but an attitude with a place. What educational system for dynamic and forward- defines "American" is our attitude. We hold our thinking. Students must have experiences that will head up. We walk in like we own the joint. We look allow them to excel in the classroom, the lab and people in the eye. We speak our mind even if you in the art room. And we must reward classroom don't like it. American newcomers must be legal teachers who inspire in teh classroom and foster because that's the way it's done students' academic and artistic passions. ENVIRONMENT: If trash or garbage is in the street when it rains it will wind up in the ocean. Trash, garbage, unused items left to disintegrate Albert Binyahmin Howard are around old industrial areas, abandoned homes, Campaign Website: and heavy commercial areas. Tons of stuff wind up www.HowardForMaryland.com in sewers heading to Baltimore's harbor and then Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ the ocean. Sewage plants can be the worst. @binyahminhoward America has to stay on top of this because we have No response received by deadline. to. Little things count. OTHER PRIORITIES: I really believe the Senate Bill Krehnbrink session is far too long. Congress needs to begin Campaign Facebook: Bill Krehnbrink earnestly in January and depart for the year before Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ July 4th. Every other week is a week off. Congress CoachforPOTUS has more holidays than it deserves while doing less Campaign Instagram: work than is needed. The single biggest item of BillKrehnbrink4USSenate business Congress needs to perform for the Campaign Email: country is to create an annual budget. America has [email protected] had no budget for 9 years. Campaign Phone: (410) 733-3432 QUALIFICATIONS: Before I was a teacher I fixed Gerald I. Smith, Jr. bulldozers, tractors, and plant equipment. I am a Campaign Website: Class A mechanic. If it rotates I can fix it. I became www.humanrightssupport.com a teacher of History & American Government so I Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ created lesson plans to have my audience gismithjr understand not only what happened in the past but Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ geraldismithjr why it happened. Senators should create and Campaign Instagram: www.linkedin.com/ in/ preserve the Republic & History. As a proud Coppin gerald-smith-51496458 graduate I am prepared. Campaign Email: [email protected] HEALTH CARE: Prior to Obamacare problems with QUALIFICATIONS: I had an outstanding military healthcare or prices could be taken to the Maryland career in many leadership roles. I work very well Insurance Commissioner...and solved. Governor, with others and listen to all sides before making your Delegates, and Senator could also leverage a decisions. My decisions are based on facts vs. solution if necessary. Now, the two Senators from politics. I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine Oregon and the entire complement of Texas which has given me a very good understanding of Congressman are required to adjust / modify the other cultures. Also lived in Germany for over 3 benefits, premiums, or authorizations of anything. years while serving on active duty military. Living Current plan is too much. overseas is an import DISCRIMINATION: When we find discrimination HEALTH CARE: The goal of the Affordable Care it must be addressed quickly. In the Senate it is Act was to ensure all Americans received health important to have 59 other Senators on your side coverage. I believe in the goal but the to reach a solution. The next Senator must implementation of the Affordable Care Act led to communicate effectively with other Senators to drastic price increases for all Americans. If an elicit help and speed toward discovering solutions individual mandate was not required then many which will work. A working solution is key because healthy uninsured individuals would have probably most law breakers don't give a hoot what the law not purchased healthcare. Nobody likes higher says or what words are on paper. prices and nobody likes mandates to p ECONOMIC POLICY: As a Senator I pledge not to DISCRIMINATION: While serving on active duty pick economic winners. As a former business in the military the Department of Defense has a person I know the hassles of making payroll every zero tolerance policy for discrimination & week. I still flinch when I hear tales of cost harassment therefore I would have the same overruns, hostile bureaucratic interactions, fees, policy. Many laws currently exist to protect Page 14 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Federal U.S. Senator

individuals and I would ensure employers are with provision that these debtors can never charge adhering to the law. If laws need to be again. Banks write off these losses as tax credits. strengthened then I would do everything to The entire nation gets to start over with a clean propose new legislation in protecting individuals slate thereby. from discri IMMIGRATION: I support the President. Deport ECONOMIC POLICY: I’m a proud supporter of all illegal, undocumented aliens ASAP. Build the President Trump and believe strongly in his agenda Wall on the Mexican-US border. Outlaw all and policies which are based on his campaign sanctuary territories within the US: cities, towns, slogan “Make America Great Again”. The tax plan colleges, etc. Enforce all our laws regarding the that was signed by President Trump will create above. economic growth therefore I will always be for less ENVIRONMENT: I believe in both global warming taxes. Individuals spend their money more wisely and climate change, but I disagree with the and efficiently than the gov’t will. When I was in President's lessening of environmental standards to the Peace Corps from 1997 to protect our Chesapeake Bay. I would restore those IMMIGRATION: I fully support President Trump’s necessary standards. immigration policies. I would add temporary visas OTHER PRIORITIES: Disarm both North Korea for farm workers and other areas that may need and Iran of ALL nuclear weapons now, and prevent temporary workers. all other countries from obtaining any such so as to ENVIRONMENT: Unless we fuel up the spaceship prevent a nuclear World War 3. Prevent political, we need to take care of our beautiful planet. I will social, and racial 2nd Civil War here at home. listen carefully to the environmental experts and work closely with the internationally community in finding solutions. The U.S. cannot address Brian Charles Vaeth environmental challenges or financially afford to Campaign Website: www.vaethforgov.com resolve environmental issues by itself. Global No response received by deadline. competition puts us on a level playing field therefore the costs must b Democratic Candidates OTHER PRIORITIES: I will listen to the people of Democrats may vote for no more than 1. Maryland and work endlessly in resolving their issues. Therefore the people of Maryland's Ben Cardin priorities will be my priorities. I will have an open Campaign Website: w w w .bencardin.com door policy and will publicly post on my Senate Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ bencardin website the status of each issue presented (names Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ will be kept confidential). Nobody will fight harder BenCardinforMD in resolving issues. Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Phone: (443) 865-7290 QUALIFICATIONS: In the Senate, I fight every Blaine Taylor day for the issues of concern to my fellow Campaign Website: none Marylanders, promoting policies, legislation and Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ programs that help our local and regional blainetaylor economy, encouraging public safety and supporting Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ none public health. My success navigating the Small Campaign Instagram: none Business, Environment & Public Works, Finance Campaign Email: [email protected] and Foreign Relations committees allow me to Campaign Phone: (630) 401-0576 effectively continue my advocacy for Marylanders. QUALIFICATIONS: Vietnam combat veteran; HEALTH CARE: Health care is a human right. We careers in journalism, public relations, advertising, should have seamless quality health care from pre- Capitol Hill press secretary for Congress, four natal to death that is affordable without sacrificing winning PR political campaigns at local, State, and quality and basic protections. Congress must Federal levels 1974-78, '90, '92; prodigious restore the payments to insurers that have helped researcher keep premiums in reach for millions. I have long HEALTH CARE: Single payer National Health supported a public option in the health exchanges Insurance for all citizens only, no illegals; ban all that would increase competition, put patients first assault rifles and high-capacity magazines, raise and lower costs. firearms purchasing age from 18 to 21, start DISCRIMINATION: Bills I have authored or complete informational universal background cosponsored include: the End Racial and Religious checks. Profiling Act, a resolution to remove the deadline DISCRIMINATION: I support all such laws for the Equal Rights Amendment, the Democracy currently in effect dealing with all of these aspects, Restoration Act, The Equality Act of 2017 and the and whatever else is deemed necessary and Paycheck Fairness Act. I continue to support prudent when I take office. legislation to protect our LGBT students and adults. ECONOMIC POLICY: Repeal NAFTA. Support the I support an increase in the federal minimum President on what he's doing in these areas. wage. Introduce legislation for a one-time credit card ECONOMIC POLICY: We should modify our tax debt forgiveness program that wipes out all debt code to truly target middle-income and working Page 15 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Federal U.S. Senator

families, help small businesses & make smart this issue exists. We must define and obligate investments in infrastructure & green technologies. ourselves to the work of addressing these issues Investments should address income inequality & by clearly expressing their impacts, the raising wages. We need trade agreements that generational results and solutions. These include level the field for our workers, including robust & greatly increasing visible programs and funding for enforceable labors rights, environmental provisions cultural education & training. & anti-corruption provisions. ECONOMIC POLICY: I believe with the best IMMIGRATION: I support bipartisan, trained and highest skilled workforce, we position comprehensive immigration reform, but Congress the nation to drive all areas of the economy. We must first pass legislation to permanently protect know that by investing in our youth, this will drive Dreamers. We need a legal pathway to residency all economic policy. No cost college with room, for TPS recipients. We don’t need a wall but we can board, meals, childcare & healthcare is an strengthen technology and other border security. investment in the long-term success of our We must stop President Trump’s proposal to slash citizens, their families, our communities, our nation legal immigration, break up families and mostly and economic vibrancy. close America’s doors to refugees. IMMIGRATION: DACA represents a way forward ENVIRONMENT: The president’s unwillingness to to ensure we are providing a path of citizenship to confront climate change. I will fight for federal many of the folks that are already here and doing resources that compel this administration to invest, great things in our country. We need to look at our especially in clean air, clean water, renewable immigration policy in the perspective (1) as the energy and public transit. We’ve seen success with foundation that built this nation (2) our enduring funding for the Chesapeake Bay. If the Trump legacy of inclusion and multiculturalism. I would administration will not take steps necessary to build on that foundation with a strong focus on protect our environment, we must encourage national security. states to continue their work ENVIRONMENT: Global warming continues to OTHER PRIORITIES: Opioid addiction and abuse challenge the national in increasingly sever ways. is a public health crisis. We must fight it head on From farming, to managing storm response, we with every available resource at all levels of need strong advocates that support the science government. Our drug laws must be smart, fair and work to ensure this critical issue is codified and and rational, and treat addiction as a disease that supported by sound policy. requires treatment. We should improve access to OTHER PRIORITIES: Innovation HUB. Establish evidence-based treatment centers, promote expansive private/public coalitions between prevention education methods, and provide industry, finance and market leaders to create a support for those in or seeking recovery. series of programs to develop ideas into thriving innovative Maryland based companies. Create a dynamic environment that entrepreneurs can Erik Jetmir engage with teams of talented and innovative Campaign Website: w w w .ErikJetmir.com business leaders. Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ erik.jetmir Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ ErikJetmir Chelsea Manning Campaign Instagram: youtube.com/ channel/ Campaign Website: xychelsea.is/ running UCIQBAz5R5IHd288qiGUsmOQ Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ xychelsea Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Instagram: xychelsea87 Campaign Phone: (888) 509-9979 Campaign Email: QUALIFICATIONS: Erik Jetmir was born in 1967, [email protected] grew up in Harlem and the Bronx in New York. Erik Campaign Phone: (301) 910-7172 is the son of a Korean War veteran who became a QUALIFICATIONS: I have been homeless. I spent Baptist minister in Harlem, his mother is from the summer of 2006 living on the streets of Albania and met his father while attending college. Chicago. I have been to war. I enlisted in the He spent the last 6 years on active duty with the military as an intelligence analyst in 2007, and United States Navy, most recently as part of the served in Iraq in 2009-10. I have been to prison. I Navy Cyber Warfare Group Six team at NSA. spent seven years in prison, one year in solitary HEALTH CARE: Health Insurance has an impact confinement, and four seeking trans-related on all Americans and represents challenges that healthcare. These experiences provide incredible directly affect all communities. A single-payer insight into our policies health insurance program with a strong mandate HEALTH CARE: Free healthcare for all. No (backed by incentives) to innovate and root out conditions or questions asked. No one should be waste insures a system that addresses the entire denied free healthcare for any reason. No one population. The key is to mandate and fund should be afraid to seek healthcare based on who incentives to innovate all processes and ensure they are, how much money they have, or what waste is addressed at every level. their "legal" status is. DISCRIMINATION: Building inclusion & making DISCRIMINATION: Work toward dismantling the change that addresses gender, race, religion, police, the military, the vast surveillance state, and disability & social class requires that we first accept the prison systems. These systems carry out Page 16 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Federal U.S. Senator

discriminatory policies on a vast scale, such as strong targeted laws, but going after the core mass incarceration of people of color, detention economic reality is key to change. and deportation of immigrants, and the implicit ECONOMIC POLICY: I reject Trickle Down. I support of incumbent businesses and the wealthy. taught incoming hires at USAID about the Basic The combined effect of the policies is a vast, Human Needs approach to development. We need gradual ethnic cleansing that in the US as well. My book: Graceful Simplicity: ECONOMIC POLICY: Universal basic income for the philosophy and politics of that alternative all. Advanced automation is making the vast American dream lays out a detailed policy agenda majority of all jobs becomes obsolete. We need to and a philosophical grounding. transition our economy away from an outdated IMMIGRATION: I go with the Statue of Liberty, expectation of people working endlessly, to one of give me your wretched. Like the Jews on the St. people thriving and living life. Louis who went back to Europe and died in the IMMIGRATION: Abolish the Immigration and Holocaust. Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. Abolish the ENVIRONMENT: Key is to live modestly, as the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agency. Provide Quakers understood in the 1800's. Our polling of full rights for all immigrants. No bans, no walls, no Democrats in maryland show 70% want a new borders at all. formulation of the American dream, modest ENVIRONMENT: No greenwashing of the police, income, security and time and energy to do what is military, and intelligence agencies, or the corporate most important in life (not at the office). world. Phrases like "environmentally friendly," and OTHER PRIORITIES: Bread and Roses is my "zero carbon" often offset the environmental campaign -- Roses are never talked about. I believe damage of policies to the most vulnerable in Beauty as a human right. And against Ben communities. We need to prepare the low-lying Cardin, I'm fighting for a just solution to the Israeli and coastal areas for the damage that global Palestinian conflict and avoiding war with Iran. warming and rising sea levels are already bringing. OTHER PRIORITIES: Change the conversation. Bring new visions, and new ideas into the political Richard "Rikki" Vaughn discourse. We are not limited to the system we Campaign Website: www.rikkivaughn.com have. We can have a world without prisons, Campaign Facebook: RikkiVaughn without borders, without the vast powers of a Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ RVSenate2018 President, and a world where we can all live and Campaign Instagram: Rikki_Vaughn thrive. Campaign Email: [email protected] QUALIFICATIONS: For growing up in working class household in Baltimore to working my way up Marcia H. Morgan from a McDonald’s employee to receiving my MBA Campaign Website: marciahmorgan.com and becoming husband, father, business owner, No response received by deadline. and restauranteur life experiences have given me the tools to become a solid and accountable US Senator for the great state of Maryland. I have a Jerome "Jerry" Segal fluid understand of the needs of people throughout Campaign Website: www.segalforsenate.org the spectrum of Maryland life. Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ HEALTH CARE: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Segal4Senate needs to be strengthened. My belief is a single- Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ jeromesegal payer ACA would be better for businesses and Campaign Instagram: instagram.com/ provide better services to tax-payers. Reduce Cost segal4senate for Prescription Drugs. Work with Companies to Campaign Email: [email protected] Reduce and Monitor Sales of Opioids. Get more Campaign Phone: (240) 491-7533 federal monies to screen packages for opioid QUALIFICATIONS: all your questions are deliveries. Decriminalizing cannabis and removing it answered in great detail on my campaign website from being a Schedule 1 drug. www.segalforsenate.org I apologize for this, but I DISCRIMINATION: The most important cure to am lurching from one campaign crisis to another - inequalities in race and poverty is to have good PHd. Philosopher, MPA as well 4 year on Hill, 10 paying jobs. But, we need to go further to fully years in USAID, 20 years at School of public address systemic inequalities to include the disabled affairs. founded the Jewish Peace lobby 29 year with upgrades to education, higher education, ago etc. housing, transportation, criminal justice, and HEALTH CARE: Medicare option for all. Access to healthcare must all be addressed. For healthcare solid and affordable coverage is a human right, and criminal justice complete decriminalization of especially is a wealthy society. marijuana is necessary. DISCRIMINATION: I favor a guaranteed job or ECONOMIC POLICY: There are three major retraining for any American able to work. policies I’ll support on day one to strengthen our Employment in decent jobs (higher minimum wage nation’s economy: support for to decriminalization + variable earned income tax credit = living wage of marijuana leading up to billions of dollars of income level is the way to cut through most of the potential federal tax revenue, new labor laws that impact of discrimination and poverty. We also need support current workers and the growth of unions in

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new industries like tech, and a national by despair. I will support fair policies that improve infrastructure upgrade bill. lives. IMMIGRATION: Immigration laws in the US IMMIGRATION: Dreamers are Americans! This should be changed to: 1 allow children of country was built on the backs of men and women immigrants who were born outside of the US, but who worked for low wages to help their children live raised in the US (Dreamers) should be allowed to better lives. Deportation and family division is not stay in the US; 2 misdemeanors and small crimes the answer. Congress must continue to create laws by immigrants should not warrant deportation; 3 to protect Dreamers and families. I will only support deportations should apply to those who commit changes that create better opportunities for violent crimes in the US and will be subject to individuals and families. imprisonments 4 open doors to asylum seekers ENVIRONMENT: Environmental issues are often ENVIRONMENT: Upgrades in the infrastructure of linked to health issues in low-income and middle- Maryland to improve and protect the environment class communities. We must ensure all individuals for our children and families. Continue to support have their basic needs met by supporting effort to ban on Fracking in Maryland, while supporting provide clean air and water. Additionally, farmers green initiatives in Western Maryland. Let’s Grow need to support to maintain toxic-free farms to Solar in Maryland. Solar is our largest single produce quality food. energy supplier in Maryland, but we can do more. OTHER PRIORITIES: Educational equity, disability Replace Lead Pipes in areas with lead in water. rights, domestic violence law reform, food OTHER PRIORITIES: Fund procurement insecurity, poverty and human rights issues are also opportunities for MWOB/MBE/MWBD in Maryland. very important to me. Fund organizations of color committed to fund entrepreneurial and STEM education. STEM Education for Early Learners. 3 Pre-K and 4 Pre-K Lih Young Programs. More monies in STEM programs and Campaign Website: w w w .vote-md.org STEM Elementary and High Schools. Invest in Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ Smart Schools – more Tech in Schools. Extensive DR_LIH_YOUNG background checks on gun sales. More federal Campaign Email: [email protected] dollars for HBCU's. QUALIFICATIONS: Reformer/advocate/activist. Promote fairness/freedom/justice/peace; productivity/accountability/cost-effectiveness. Debbie "Rica" Wilson Identified “socio- economic-political- election- Campaign Website: www.politicalbank.com/ media- budget- legislation- system problems”; local find-candidates/debbie-wilson - global; testify/recommend to officials, law Campaign Email: w [email protected] enforcement, 3 branches. TV programs producer QUALIFICATIONS: * Life experience has speaker; field/studio. Expertise, commitment: prepared me to serve my country. I am dedicated intensive/extensive/diversified civic services to equality, fairness, and justice. As a mother, HEALTH CARE: Support single-payer healthcare by disabled African-American woman, and concerned government, affordable health care. Our health care citizen, I am committed to what is in the best system should not be controlled by for-profit interest of American citizens. Moreover, I work to corporations. To improve quality, affordable health improve lives daily through Brown Girl Wellness, care for all as a fundamental right and should be Incorporated. I founded Brown Girl to make a achieved by the government. Medical costs should positive difference for families. not be shifted onto other programs (e.g., Medicare HEALTH CARE: A universal healthcare system and Medicaid beneficiaries). Promote productivity, would benefit all Americans. Yes, Medicare should accountability be available to every American regardless of DISCRIMINATION: Equal protection, non- income. A universal healthcare system is essential discrimination; employment/business/activities; to ensure every citizen has access to quality rights/homes/vehicles/resources/ reputation/ healthcare. Quality healthcare is a human right. freedoms/ affiliation, environment; document, Moreover, job status should not determine access evidence. Equal pay, sick paid leaves. Prosecute to care. “official misconduct-government gang- MURDER- DISCRIMINATION: As a disabled African- FRAUD- CRIME- INJUSTICE NETWORKS" operation; American woman, I know how discrimination feels. threat/coercion/victimization; physical/mental/ I will support practical policies that promote financial/medication/litigation/levies/ foreclosures diversity and inclusion regardless of race, gender, ECONOMIC POLICY: Prosecute/eliminate " official religion, disability, or poverty. I will continue to misconduct-government gang-MURDER-FRAUD- support policies that oppose discrimination. CRIME-INJUSTICE NETWORKS" operation, unjust/ ECONOMIC POLICY: Economic inequality impacts false/misleading practices; private-public; 3 every American. Elected leaders must continually branches, local-fed- global, inc. non-profit, think seek solutions to eliminate economic disparities in tanks. Protect people/families/ businesses: lives, middle-class and low-income communities. By rights, reputation, assets, vehicles, resources. providing transparent solutions regarding trade, Promote productivity, public interest, cost-benefits, taxes, labor and infrastructure, access to viable social needs, budget constraints. change will help American communities suffocated IMMIGRATION: SUPPORT: Comprehensive

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Duties: Representatives make laws along with the members of the Senate, and may conduct investigations on issues of national importance. Laws that impose taxes always begin in the House of Representatives. Representatives can recommend that the Senate remove from office a public official accused of a crime. Term: Two years. Base Salary: $174,000. How Elected: Elected by voters in each congressional district. Maryland has eight of the 435 Representatives, based on the state's population in the 2010 Census. Website: https://www.house.gov. Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of this office? HEALTH CARE: What changes in federal healthcare policy do you advocate and why? DISCRIMINATION: What policies will you support to address discrimination based on race, gender, religion, disability, or poverty? ECONOMIC POLICY: What policies will you support to strengthen the national economy, such as those affecting international trade, taxes, labor rights, and infrastructure? IMMIGRATION: What changes, if any, will you support in immigration policy? ENVIRONMENT: What are the most pressing environmental challenges and how will you address them? OTHER PRIORITIES: What other issues are priorities for you? District 2 Insurance Lobby/Paid Politicians) have destroyed our health care system. Both my parents and two of my siblings were surgeons, and they spoke Republican Candidates about how different the practice of medicine had Republicans may vote for no more than 1. become. Healthcare is more about profiting even Liz Matory before Obamacare. But Socialized Medicine is NOT Campaign Website: lizmatory.com the answer. Individuals must have options. Free Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ the market. Stabilize pricing. LizForCongress DISCRIMINATION: There are very few policies Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ that can address any lingering discrimination that LizForCongress exists in our society. We have many laws on the Campaign Instagram: instagram.com/ books already. We just need enforcement. My lizforcongress/ concern is that we are in a "cry wolf" scenario. We Campaign Email: [email protected] have become desensitized to real issues. What we QUALIFICATIONS: I'm a former Democrat turned need is 1) a stronger appreciation for our God Republican! I have had several career, educational, given potential and 2) respect for each other to and life experiences that will help us better prepare express that potential. for our country's future. In addition to my law and ECONOMIC POLICY: We have lost our economic business degrees, I have worked to find equity in ladder. We must free the market place from access to resources, communication, and truth. As burdensome regulations and taxes that favor the congresswoman, I will fight to make sure that our powerful incumbents that lobby congress to protect congress represents the people first and not special their market share. When innovative companies interest. form and grow, citizens and families benefit. I HEALTH CARE: Crony capitalists (BigPharma/ support temp tariffs for some industries to help

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rebuild our nation's economy, address currency IMMIGRATION: The whole immigration system manipulation, intellectual property theft. needs to be overhauled to improve the immigration IMMIGRATION: Immigration policy is the process as well as handling of those who are constitutional responsibility of Congress. I'd push currently undocumented. to enforce the laws that exist on our books and ENVIRONMENT: I'm most concerned about water support local and state governments who work to supplies and water quality and ensuring we protect the safety and security of their citizens, like prevent disasters such as Flint. We need better 287(g). I would support full funding of border protections on water sources as well as updating enforcement and perimeter strengthening, increase the infrastructure for delivering water as well as criminal penalties for drug and human traffickers removing sewage. and gang violence. OTHER PRIORITIES: I'm interested in a national ENVIRONMENT: Conservative and conservation firearms license to have better controls on come from the same root "conserve". Whether for purchases and trades of firearms. our republic or our lands, it is a personal virtue not a government mandate to conserve our natural resources as it is for our nation. We have very Mitchell J. Toland, Jr. strict environmental laws already on the books that Campaign Website: w w w .mitchformd.com need fair enforcement. We should allow regions to Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ mitchtjr give guidance who have lived off the land for Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ generations. mitch_toland_jr OTHER PRIORITIES: We have to emphasize Campaign Email: [email protected] American citizenship and national sovereignty. Our Campaign Phone: (410) 709-8065 Country is exceptional and Americans have every QUALIFICATIONS: As a political activist over the right to defend it from enemies both foreign and past decade, I felt a need to get more involved and domestic. We need to protect our civil liberties, take the message of liberty and Constitutional 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 10th. End government government to the people of my district. I hold a overreach and encroachment into the lives of B.A. in Economics and Business and spent the first private citizens. We must protect the Right to Life. five years following graduation working at two CPA Honor our service members and families. firms.I have the knowledge to promote a strong economic plan in Congress leading to economic opportunity for all. Hubert Owens, Jr. HEALTH CARE: I believe every citizen should have Campaign Website: www.hubertowens.com the ability to receive the care that they need at an Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ affordable rate. Unfortunately, unconstitutional hubertowens government interventions in health-care over the No response received by deadline. decades have driven up the cost of coverage and decreased competition within the marketplace. The federal government has no authority here and we Mark Shell should allow free markets to improve and reduce Campaign Website: the cost of care. www.shellforcongress.com DISCRIMINATION: There are already countless Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ laws on the books regarding this issue. However, mark.shell.7140 contrary to popular opinion I believe this has Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ resulted in more tension between various groups of shell4congress people and is the antithesis of a free society. I Campaign Email: personally am opposed to all forms of [email protected] discrimination against any and all parties, but do QUALIFICATIONS: My experience includes not believe individuals should be forced to interact manufacturing, banking/finance, and public sector with anyone on private property. (USDA and IRS). I also possess three master ECONOMIC POLICY: The economy can perform degrees covering IT, Business, and Finance. best when it allows individuals to voluntarily HEALTH CARE: Healthcare needs to be more interact and exchange goods and services free of affordable with better access - everyone should government intervention of any kind. A free have healthcare coverage. Prescription medication economy where the government doesn't provide costs are too high and that also needs to be bailouts to failing companies, and pick winners and addressed. losers in the marketplace. Government should DISCRIMINATION: My primary focus in this area reduce taxes to a minimal level. This would provide is pay equality as well as setting a fair and the best opportunity for all Americans. equitable living (minimum) wage. IMMIGRATION: The process of becoming a ECONOMIC POLICY: Need to reduce taxes on citizen is extremely burdensome, expensive, and income, improve labor rights through living wages, time consuming. We should encourage immigration actively negotiate trade agreements. Enact tax as a means of advancing our society and bringing legislation to repatriate income from large skilled individuals into our workforce.We should corporations. Simplify all tax laws. Please see page 19 for description of office and questions posed. Page 20 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Federal U.S. Representative

reform the process of becoming an immigrant to ECONOMIC POLICY: Education is the best way make it more streamlined, and make sure that any that we can strengthen our economy. We generally changes ensure that those currently waiting in line have failed to match industry needs with remain at the front of the line educational training. There is no reason why if ENVIRONMENT: Republicans have a reputation of Maryland needs software developers that we can't not caring about the environment, but in my case have software development coursework in the last that couldn’t be further from the truth. I believe we two years of high school. Graduating students do need to care for the environment, regardless of could start a good paying job straight out of high what we are being told is occurring. We should all school. do what we can to ensure we leave the planet a IMMIGRATION: We must protect our borders. cleaner place than was left to us. The truth of the That being said, we must also be sensitive of those matter is that the largest polluter on the planet is women fleeing extremely violent and abusive government environments in Central America. We must provide OTHER PRIORITIES: We sit over $20 trillion humanitarian aid for those seeking asylum while at dollars in debt, and that is without accounting for the same time increasing pressure on those the unfunded liabilities of the future such as Social Central American governments to ensure their Security.We must stop taxing our citizens, inflating safety. All illegals with jobs and without a criminal our currency, and borrowing money from countries record should get a green card. such as China, only to hand it over to dictators and ENVIRONMENT: What is best for business isn't countries hostile towards the United States. All always best for our environment. Rolling back foreign aid should be suspended until further clean energy regulation is not the answer. We debate by Congress. must continue to push forward on green technology, to become a leader in the world in green energy. Our Chesapeake Bay is under attack

District 2 by those wanting to slash federal cleanup money to Democratic Candidates $0. I will fight to fully fund the cleanup effort. Democrats may vote for no more than 1. OTHER PRIORITIES: Increasing the minimum wage to a living wage is the single best thing we Jake Pretot can do for the American people. Earning a living Campaign Website: www.jakepretot.vote wage would mean parents would not have to work Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ 2 and 3 jobs to keep a roof over their head and jakepretot/ food on the table. It would also mean that parents Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ jake_pretot would be home with their children after school. Campaign Instagram: https:/ / Those working and receiving food stamps would no www.instagram.com/jakepretot/ longer need food stamps. Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Phone: (240) 583-0766 QUALIFICATIONS: I pride myself on being an C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger innovator and someone who thinks outside the Campaign Website: normal box. Over the past 25 years I have been www.dutchforcongress.com assigned the tough jobs of putting out fires and Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ solving problems. My vast experience in multiple dutchrupp industries from military to telecommunications and Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ private sector to government consulting means I Call_me_dutch can handle pretty much anything that is thrown at Campaign Email: me. [email protected] HEALTH CARE: Our country made significant Campaign Phone: (410) 252-2505 progress with the ACA. Women who now buy QUALIFICATIONS: I have served in public office insurance on their own are no charged more than for nearly 30 years, including eight terms in men for health insurance. Before ACA, roughly 35- Congress, where I have developed a reputation for 60% of women's insurance covered contraceptives. supporting bipartisan, common sense legislation. I Now most plans provide contraception coverage am an expert in national security issues and without cost sharing. I have spoken with many leverage my role as an Appropriator to ensure the breast cancer survivors who say the ACA saved Second District gets its fair share. I have also built them from bankruptcy. one of the best casework teams in the country to DISCRIMINATION: The push for privatization of serve my constituents. our schools is what concerns me. We combat, we HEALTH CARE: There is no question the overcome discrimination through understanding Affordable Care Act is imperfect, but repeal is not and exposure. Our public schools are the best way the answer. We need to maintain its consumer to bring children together of different race, gender, protections and the individual mandate. I think we religion, disability and socio-economic status. Our should consider a “public option” and allowing public schools often provide breakfast for students Americans to buy into Medicare at a younger age. I who would normally go hungry. would also support expanding the exemption for Please see page 19 for description of office and questions posed. Page 21 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Federal U.S. Representative

small businesses to reduce costs for many HEALTH CARE: We should be able to buy American employers. insurance across state lines. ' This would increase DISCRIMINATION: There is no place in our competition and keep prices low. society for discrimination of any kind. That’s why I DISCRIMINATION: One thing more education on support ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment and these subjects. People have to stop making passing The Equality Act. I recently fought efforts everything about race. That's like crying wolf when to undermine the Americans with Disabilities Act, there is no wolf. as another example. Raising the minimum wage ECONOMIC POLICY: I support the corporate tax and improving our education system would go a cuts. America has one of the highest business tax long way toward closing the wealth gap. rate in the world. Cut taxes that would incentivize ECONOMIC POLICY: I believe the middle class bus- nesses to bring the money home and needs to make more money, which is why I expand. support extending tax cuts for the working class – IMMIGRATION: We don't need any new laws. We not just the wealthy – as well as a minimum wage just need to enforce the old ones. increase. Robust “Buy American” provisions and ENVIRONMENT: We should be good stewards of workers’ rights will also help strengthen the middle the planet. All nations should do their share of the class. I support investing in infrastructure to create heave lifting equally. We have to stop running jobs, as well as tax incentives for small business. around like chicken little screaming, " the sky is IMMIGRATION: I support the bipartisan, falling". Scare tactics never works. We must throw comprehensive immigration reform package out the Paris Accord . It was totally unfair to the passed in the Senate in 2013, which included USA. protections for Dreamers. We must work to secure OTHER PRIORITIES: We must continue to build our borders with a 21st century “wall” of our military in terms of cyber capabilities. We must technology and manpower and to deport illegal also update our failing infrastructure . immigrants who have committed violent crimes. We should target businesses who knowingly hire illegal immigrants at the expense of American Rob Seyfferth workers. Campaign Facebook: Facebook.com/ ENVIRONMENT: The progress we have seen in robseyfferthforcongress the health of the Chesapeake Bay is in jeopardy: Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ tw itter.com/ the Administration has proposed eliminating the robseyfferthforcongress Chesapeake Bay Program and others have No response received by deadline. proposed removing core Clean Water Act protections for polluted streams, rivers and District 3 tributaries in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. As an Appropriator, I will fight for full Bay funding as Democratic Candidates well as these dangerous regulatory changes. Democrats may vote for no more than 1. OTHER PRIORITIES: Both national and economic Adam D. DeMarco security remain top priorities for me: we must Campaign Website: www.electdemarco.com make sure we are prepared for the threats of Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ tomorrow, like cyber attacks and nuclear weapons. demarco4rep/ Congress needs to stop the partisan bickering and Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ adamdemarco find ways to create jobs and help businesses grow. Campaign Instagram: w w w .instagram.com/ Locally, we must provide communities with the adamdemarco/ resources they need to address the opioid epidemic Campaign Email: [email protected] and gun violence. Campaign Phone: (443) 478-3141 QUALIFICATIONS: My professional experience as District 3 an Army Officer, federal consultant, small business owner, and non-profit leader give me a robust and Republican Candidates broad understanding of the challenges and Republicans may vote for no more than 1. opportunities we currently face. Whether it be Charles Anthony security threats, job creation, healthcare solutions, No response received by deadline. or education reform, I have spent my entire working in these realms and am best prepared to lead on these vital issues. Thomas E. "Pinkston" Harris HEALTH CARE: We must continue to fight for the QUALIFICATIONS: I have a BS degree and two Affordable Care Act and ensure that every Master Degrees which gives me a well rounded American is able to attain quality and affordable education. I studied Economics at Hopkins. I'm healthcare. I believe that healthcare is a universal retired from my own financial services business. So right for every American, and in the country with I know how to jobs are created and how our the most advanced centers for medical research economy works. and innovation, I will fight to make universal

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healthcare a reality for every American. Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans. I am the DISCRIMINATION: A policy and program that I Executive Director for a nonprofit helping veterans. have unveiled is my 21st century jobs program to I am the best qualified and strongest advocate for ensure that marginalized members of our veterans and the military running for the third communities are able to attain and retain new 21st district. century jobs. In Baltimore, much of the crime we HEALTH CARE: Eradicate Opioid Addiction: This is face is due to the lack of living and family wage a real problem! As a cybersecurity guy, there are paying jobs in our city. I am also advocating for a ways which we can apply technology and big data complete review of our criminal justice system to stop the sale of illegal prescription opioid at the across our district. point of sale. Available technology can help identify ECONOMIC POLICY: We live in a 21st globalized corruption with Medicare and other federal and economy and as such we must operate like one. state programs saving taxpayers millions (billions However, I believe that fair trade and protecting at the national level). jobs is not mutually exclusive. I will fight to ensure DISCRIMINATION: Legislative action and public that our current trade agreements not only are leadership! The first step is to acknowledge the fair, but equitable for our economy. We also need gravity of the problem. Education is always key to ensure that our transportation infrastructure, for and it must start at home at a very young age. We people and cargo, meets the demands of our 21st must build better relationships between century economy. communities and law enforcement, particularly in IMMIGRATION: As great grandson of an Italian low-income communities and how we educate immigrant, I firmly believe our country was community members regarding the legal remedies founded by immigrants. The variety of cultures and for discrimination. ethnicities is what gives our United States ECONOMIC POLICY: Improving infrastructure and strength. Call it amnesty, call it common sense, I productivity: Our national infrastructure is aging believe that all DACA dreamers deserve citizenship. and much should be spent to maintain our road I also believe that we must reform our current networks; electrical grids and water systems. immigration policies to allow immigrants an easier Productivity ensures gainful employment for as path to citizenship. many people as possible to provide for those who ENVIRONMENT: The most pressing have trouble providing for themselves. environmental challenges we face are posed by IMMIGRATION: For the pass, Congress has failed people who refuse to believe in science. While we to come to an agreement on immigration - this is can argue positions and beliefs, you can't deny unacceptable! We must provide a path to data. I will address these challenges and ensure citizenship to Dreamers and other eligible our beloved lands and waterways are protected by immigrants so that these future citizens can move being a vocal proponent and supporter of the on to continue being productive members of various science foundations that fight for climate society. Only strong bipartisan support for change regulation on a daily basis. comprehensive immigration reform will allow us to OTHER PRIORITIES: An issue that is a priority to move forward as a country. me is ensuring that our current service-members ENVIRONMENT: Climate change (is a global and and veterans have adequate and responsive care local challenge) - water rising levels are a threat to not only now, but in the future. Our country has our coastal industry. This an all hands effort and asked a small military fighting force to shoulder the the we can only remain committed to push for burden of over 17 years of war, and it is our more common sense legislation at the federal and responsibility to ensure that they have every state level to help reduce or completely eliminate available resource to support them for the rest of the emission of greenhouse gases. their lives. OTHER PRIORITIES: Veterans and Military: We need to make Maryland more attractive to military retirees and veterans. The Department of Defense John Rea contributes $29 billion a year to Maryland's coffers No response received by deadline. but personnel working at these facilities usually live across state lines. We want them to stay in Eduardo Rosas Maryland, buy homes here and spend their money Campaign Website: Under Construction on our local economy. Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ eduardorosasforcongress/ John Sarbanes Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ Campaign Website: www.johnsarbanes.com Ed4Congress_MD3 Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ jsarbanes Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ JohnSarbanes Campaign Phone: (240) 388-0397 Campaign Instagram: w w w .instagram.com/ QUALIFICATIONS: I bring over 30 years of johnsarbanes/ combined federal government experience; public Campaign Email: [email protected] service as a Commissioner with the Maryland Campaign Phone: (410) 847-9556 Veterans Commission and as a Member for the Please see page 19 for description of office and questions posed. Page 23 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Federal U.S. Representative

QUALIFICATIONS: Prior to entering Congress, I had nearly 20 years of experience in the private, District 4 public and non-profit sectors. I worked with the MD Republican Candidates State Dept of Education, represented non-profit Republicans may vote for no more than 1. hospitals and senior living providers and championed efforts to protect consumers and George McDermott ensure fair treatment in the workplace. This Campaign Website: prepared me well for the diversity of issues one www.georgemcdermott.com must manage as a member of Congress. Campaign Facebook: George HEALTH CARE: I am a strong supporter of the McDermott@Facebook Affordable Care Act and have opposed every Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ NO attempt to repeal or defund this important law. Campaign Instagram: NO That said, improvements could be made to further Campaign Email: lower costs and expand access to care for all [email protected] Americans, including passing legislation to help Campaign Phone: (301) 996-9577 stabilize health insurance markets, provide QUALIFICATIONS: I come from proud a family premium rate relief for working Americans and to that has been involved with public service for as address the nation’s opioid epidemic. long as I can remember. I want to work for you. DISCRIMINATION: There is no question that our We need to create more living wage jobs, improve laws and governing practices continue to permit our schools, and make public safety - especially and sometimes encourage discrimination against getting guns off the streets, a top priority. With racial and ethnic minorities, the disabled, the poor nearly a decade of government experience, I know and other minority communities. We need to end what it takes to find solutions, navigate the racial profiling in our law enforcement, prohibit complicated governmental gender pay disparities and ensure low- and HEALTH CARE: Obama care was a disaster from moderate-income Americans have equal the beginning ill-conceived ill investigated and opportunity to achieve the American dream. deceptive than its nature with the cover story of ECONOMIC POLICY: To combat growing trying to help of small fraction of uninsured parties economic inequality, we need to focus on economic this debacle has ruined far more families in policies which grow the middle class. These include America that it will ever while making the ending tax breaks for the corporations who ship corporate healthcare industry and drug industries American jobs overseas, investing in national wealthy.unfortunately recent changes have only infrastructure, and raising the minimum wage. No made matters much worse American who works full time should have to worry DISCRIMINATION: we have seen great changes about their economic security. in the last decade in the government's policies IMMIGRATION: I support a policy that considers towards discrimination including race-based, both national security and economic interests, as gender, and ethnic based discrimination you still well as the need to provide a fair, legal and have a long way to go our system set up where humane framework for people who want to come those with wealth, power and authority still to America. I support a solution for our nation’s flagrantly disregard and disrespect the principles of DREAMERs, a focus on punishing employers who our found fathers the old boys network still knowingly hire undocumented workers, and a discriminates indiscriminately. practical approach to addressing undocumented ECONOMIC POLICY: it appears our current workers currently in the country. leadership has sent a message to the world by ENVIRONMENT: There is no question the most restructuring the tax laws to benefit only the pressing environmental problem is climate change. wealthy, engaging in a war against labor and labor The government must act. We can invest in clean unions, engaging recklessly in trade wars which I energy technologies; cap and reduce greenhouse fear will have a devastating effect on our economy. gases; require utility companies to generate In the administration is more concerned about a energy from renewable sources; develop $50,000,000,000 wall and infrastructure our states capabilities to capture and store carbon emissions; and nation which is not wise. and advance smart grid technologies so electricity IMMIGRATION: My past record has always been is delivered efficiently. proper immigration policies build a strong nation. OTHER PRIORITIES: One of my top priorities However in the past corporate America has used continues to be ending the reign of big money in immigration policies to benefit the bottom line our political system. For too long, special interests while discriminating harshly against those they have used our broken campaign finance system to import for cheap labor even during this election corrode our institutions of democracy, blocking cycle the current administration only wishes to progress on the issues that matter most to fulfill campaign promises while turning the nation Americans. That’s why I introduced the into a isolationist state Government By the People Act to return power to ENVIRONMENT: Environmental policies can only the people and fix our democracy. be addressed when the United States works with other nations around the globe to reduce toxics

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admissions work to clean up our respective nations United States economy. The taxes paid will help water supplies and through long-term planning by with fixing our infrastructure with building state-of- responsible environmentalists and legislators. Our the-art public transportation as well as lowering current administration does not want to work healthcare costs. towards any of these goals separating us from the IMMIGRATION: I believe we have in place right rest of the world. now a very strong immigration policy that is now OTHER PRIORITIES: Our legal system is a being implemented. The National Guard is now shambles it's cloaked in secrecy laws have been being employed to protect our borders. We can not changed without without the consent of the people allow so many immigrants, especially illegal turning all law in this nation over to international immigrants to enter the United States. Our jurisdiction and our legislators and judges are now Country's infrastructure, healthcare and economy operating fictitiously underPRIVATE MERCANTILE can not support the millions of people that want to CORPORATE COURTS outlined under Title 8, 22 & live here. 28 USC which in December 26th 1933 49 Statute ENVIRONMENT: We need to restrict the products 3097 Treaty Series 881 (Convention that we import from other countries that don't have any environmental regulations in place as with China. We are definitely moving in the right

District 4 direct here with alternative sources of energy with Democratic Candidates solar and wind power. Fossile fuels we use today is Democrats may vote for no more than 1. not unlimited amount. It's projected that we will have used all the oil and gas in the world around Anthony G. Brown the year 2068. Campaign Website: www.anthonybrown.com OTHER PRIORITIES: My Top priority is the War Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ on Drugs. We are now in a drug epidemic with the anthonybrown.maryland abuse pf opioids abuse in this Country that is Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ effecting almost every family in every State. From anthonybrownmd4 the poor to the rich, many have fallen. 116 people. Campaign Email: info@anthonybrow n.com According to the U.S. Department of Health and Campaign Phone: (240) 743-8760 Human Services, that's how many people died, per No response received by deadline. day, from opioid-related overdoses in 2016. That is unacceptable. District 5 Johnny Rice Republican Candidates Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ Republicans may vote for no more than 1. johnnyriceforcongress/ William A. Devine III Campaign Email: Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ [email protected] bill.devine.50 Campaign Phone: (240) 241-2724 Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ studlydevine QUALIFICATIONS: I have 25 years of Christian Campaign Email: [email protected] Volunteer Ministry work in W.Africa for 2 years as a Campaign Phone: (410) 946-4547 Bible teacher in Ghana at a UN Refugee Camp ; QUALIFICATIONS: Even though I am basically a Liberia, Nigeria, India & Churches/Ministries, 2 political outsider seeking office, I have served as Christian TV stations, TBN, and TheCrossTV. My an elected official as a Councilman with the Town Mission is on Capitol Hill to lift up Jesus & Prayer in of Capitol Heights. I also campaigned for a seat on America and expose the Atheistic/ Anti-Biblical the Prince Georges County Council. Unlike many Agenda of the Democrat Leaders / Democrat Party. other candidates seeking office, I have lived my HEALTH CARE: Want to work with Dana entire life in the great State of Maryland. Growing Rohrabacher and Corey Booker to legalize up in the Town of Capitol Heights was a great Cannabis/Marijuana to be legalized Federally as a experience for me. Homeopathic Medicine & for Responsible 21yr old HEALTH CARE: I believe that all Americans should Adult usage, which studies have shown is a much be able to afford the best healthcare available for safer alternative medicine. Websites advocating & the entire family. Regards of income or educating are: https://www.mpp.org/issues/ employment, everyone should be able to have the medical-marijuana/ ; same healthcare as provided to the U.S. www.marylandcannabispolicy.org/ ; Congress. www.marylandnorml.org . DISCRIMINATION: I support a policy of DISCRIMINATION: Will promote Jesus's absolutely NO Discrimination, especially in the teachings of Loving our neighbor as ourself & workforce period. forgiving our enemies, those who have offended. ECONOMIC POLICY: It's basic Economics 101, Matthew 5 And support current Anti-Discrimination Lower Taxes and Higher Employment. Better laws on the books, which great American leaders paying full time jobs is very important to the pushed for, such as Pres. Lincoln; Dr Frederick Please see page 19 for description of office and questions posed. Page 25 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Federal U.S. Representative

Douglass, my biggest hero; & Dr. Martin Luther free of charge, whether you’re guilty or not. How King . Promote Biblical Truth that Everyone is can we not provide affordable or free healthcare Equal as God has ordained Galatians 3:28 for our citizens? I will fight to ensure every citizen ECONOMIC POLICY: Support Pres Trump's be provided affordable health care or free, when Economic; Trade; Taxes; policies. Support putting you cannot afford it. Health care should be a Tariffs equal , Fair Trade, as Peter Navarro, human right. Trump's Trade Policy Advisor, to resurrect DISCRIMINATION: As I did while on active duty Industries , destroyed by Bad Trade deals of in the military and as I do now as a Contract Clinton, Bush Sr&Jr, Obama, NAFTA, China, Program in the Department of Defense, I will Mexico, 800 Billion trade deficit Ross Perot warned continue to support policies that deter acts of millions of jobs lost. Support No Tax increases discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex Pledge led by Grover Norquist group/book. orientation, gender, disability, and age. I will also IMMIGRATION: My solution to DACA/DREAMERS support policies that provide reasonable NO AMNESTY CITIZENSHIP! NO accommodations for disability citizens. WELFARE! CANNOT STEAL ELECTIONS for ECONOMIC POLICY: We need to scale back some DEMOCRATS! LIFETIME GREEN CARD which gives of our foreign aid and military interventions to free RESIDENCY /WORK PERMIT . NO FAMILY CHAIN up more money for use at home for infrastructure MIGRATION. Only for Illegals physically here. STOP (roads, bridges, schools) and health care. We need LEGAL IMMIGRATION until 2020!!! NO more to also raise the minimum wage based on the cost ILLEGALS /GREEN CARD HOLDERS on WELFARE of living where one resides to allow individuals and (75% currently). Must make Welfare illegal. E- families to at least purchase the basics of food, VERIFY required for ALL EMPLOYMENT . shelter, transportation costs, and entertainment to ENVIRONMENT: Promote Hydro Electric power as enjoy life. The Safest, Cleanest Energy source, should build IMMIGRATION: First, truly secure our borders to more Hydro Electric Dams with the goal to replace stop the flow of additional undocumented all other Unclean Energy sources, especially immigrants for security reasons. We’re a sovereign Nuclear Power Plants, which all should be shut country governed by laws. Crossing the border down ASAP, as 80% are leaking contaminating illegally is a violation of U.S. Immigration Laws. I Water supplies. Also replace Coal. Goal to have support undocumented immigrants that are 100% Hydro Power, as Norway has 98%. Clean up already here having a pathway to citizenship after Chesapeake Bay with Oyster project. background checks, paying fines, and going OTHER PRIORITIES: Disagree w/Pres Trump on through the official process. the Military budget. Would push to decrease the ENVIRONMENT: Clean drinking water is one my Military budget by 25% +(not Military service pay), top environmental concerns. Water is a necessity rather the Billions wasted on Neverending spending for us to survive. Waste products and industrial on Weapons; Nuclear; etc. Cutting the Military runoffs negatively impacts our drinking water. We Budget , provide Fed Funding $1 Trillion need better enforcement of Best Management Infrastructure, keep SocialServices STRONG. Stop Practices in reducing pollutants in our water. I Military invasions, for Defense. Cut NASA/CIA/ worry about greenhouse gas pollution and will push NSA/FOREIGN AID/UN, except Israel. for continued fueled efficient vehicles. OTHER PRIORITIES: CONGRESS: Advocate for and introduce legislation for term limits. Some

District 5 Members are so focused on themselves and Democratic Candidates staying in Congress for life that they lose sight of Democrats may vote for no more than 1. the needs and issues of the people they represent. You, we the people, will be welcomed through the Dennis L. Fritz door of our office on Capitol Hill, not the corporate Campaign Website: www.DennisLFritz.com lobbyist, trying to make money off from us. Campaign Facebook: Dennis-L-Fritz Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Phone: (301) 399-3456 Steny H. Hoyer QUALIFICATIONS: I am a retired Air Force Chief Campaign Website: Master Sergeant who served his country for nearly www.hoyerforcongress.com 28 years on active duty. Throughout my military Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ career I was a servant of the people. The last 10 hoyerforcongress years of my military career I advocated for and Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ stenyhoyer represented over 100,000 service members and Campaign Instagram: none their families. Since 2008, I have been a top Campaign Email: [email protected] advocate in DOD advocating on behalf of Wounded Campaign Phone: (301) 464-5710 Warriors and their families. QUALIFICATIONS: Throughout my tenure in HEALTH CARE: HEALTH CARE FOR ALL: If you are Congress, I have been an effective and bipartisan accused of a crime and cannot afford a lawyer, leader who works to deliver results for my you’re provided a court appointed public defender constituents. Economic development continues to Please see page 19 for description of office and questions posed.

Page 26 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Federal U.S. Representative be one of my top priorities and I am proud to have skilled workers, and end tax loopholes that helped create and save 23,000 jobs. I remain encourage companies to ship jobs overseas. I dedicated to ensuring all Marylanders have access began a listening tour to update the agenda. to middle class opportunities. IMMIGRATION: When President Trump ended the HEALTH CARE: The Affordable Care Act has Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) provided thousands of families in Maryland with program in September 2017, he left hundreds of quality, affordable health care. Rather than thousands of hardworking young people twisting in undermining the law, Republicans in Congress and the wind. DREAMers know no other country than President Trump should work with Democrats to America, and it reprehensible that Congress has improve the law, and ensure the affordability of not come to a consensus on reinstating the DACA insurance and access to quality care. program.It's past time for Congress to pass DISCRIMINATION: Throughout my career in comprehensive immigration reform. Congress and the Maryland Senate, I have taken a ENVIRONMENT: The most pressing challenge is leading role in supporting legislation that ends the Trump Administration’s actions to eliminate discrimination. I was the primary House sponsor of and undermine environmental protection and its the Americans with Disability Act, was instrumental denial of climate change. I have been a strong as Majority Leader in repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell supporter of protecting our water, air and land. and passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, OTHER PRIORITIES: I will continue to protect support legislation for equal pay and fought for our military installations like Pax River, Indian voting rights. Head and Webster Field, and federal facilities as ECONOMIC POLICY: I launched the Make It In well as continue to advocate to bring the new, America plan, to focus on boosting a declining consolidated FBI Headquarters to Prince George’s American manufacturing sector. Since then, 19 County. I will also remain an advocate for our bills have been signed into law, including nation’s federal employees who keep our food safe, legislation to cut taxes and provide loans for small keep planes in the air, and protect our country and businesses, speed up the patent process, train serve our people.

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DUTIES: State Senators and Delegates represent residents in each legislative district in the Maryland General Assembly. The General Assembly enacts laws, raises revenue through taxes and fees, and appropriates funds for all state agencies in an annual budget. The General Assembly may propose amendments to the state Constitution for ratification by the voters. The Senate also confirms the Governor's appointments of judges and the heads of certain government agencies. SALARY: $50,330 annual base. TERM: Four years, no term limit. HOW ELECTED: The state is divided into 47 legislative districts, and each district elects one State Senator. WEBSITE: http://mgaleg.maryland.gov Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of this office? REDISTRICTING: What changes, if any, do you support in the process for drawing congressional and legislative district lines in Maryland? ENVIRONMENT: What are the most significant environmental challenges and how will you address them? DISCRIMINATION: What policies will you support to address discrimination based on race, gender, religion, disability, or poverty? EDUCATION: What education policies would you support and how would you fund them? HEALTH CARE: What are the most significant health challenges facing Maryland and how will you address them? TRANSPORTATION: What are your transportation priorities and how should they be funded?

District 21 correction - to assure equal opportunity for all by de-centralizing the excessive top-down Republican Candidates administrative control to create more direct citizen Republicans may vote for no more than 1. accountability for quality and value at the Lee Havis grassroots level. Campaign Website: havisforsenate.com EDUCATION: I favor a policy of greater Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ grassroots, citizen accountability for education, havisforsenate such as de-centralizing its top-down control, to Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ patriotvoting allow more direct control from parents and local Campaign Instagram: instagram.com/ school districts. More funding is not needed, but a havisforsenate more uniform, objective per-pupil state-wide Campaign Email: [email protected] funding formula to reduce spending based on Campaign Phone: (240) 481-1566 special political considerations. QUALIFICATIONS: As a private educator and HEALTH CARE: The main challenge in healthcare civic and political activist for most of my adult life, is to bring higher quality and more affordable I am well acquainted with the problems of services. Needed is ready access to a free-market, government in Maryland, especially in the competitive system of health insurance, that important field of education. This experience has supports individual choice of doctor, health plan allowed me to study solutions that will correct and services. Other reforms are needed as well, problems and improve government to make it such as limit on claims for "pain and suffering" to more accountable to citizens, especially in such reduce the cost of insurance required for medical critical areas as public education. practice. REDISTRICTING: I favor a non-partisan TRANSPORTATION: Transportation priority is to commission with mandate to draw district lines reduce traffic congestion and improve the network that are concise and contiguous to communities of roads and highways. Funding should be through and population centers that are bound together by a dedicated tax on gasoline, whose revenue is not such criteria as jurisdictional boundaries such as used for other purposes. Maintaining an efficient, towns, cities, and counties and economic centers of affordable public bus system should be included as activity. a high priority as well; along with reducing traffic ENVIRONMENT: The major physical environment congestion by limiting intensity of development. concern and challenge in Maryland is care for the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries - to main a Democratic Candidates clean quality of water that eliminates pollution Democrats may vote for no more than 1. from wastewater drainage due to excessive, uncontrolled human activity. The main challenge is Jim Rosapepe at the Conowingo Dam, to clean up the sledge Campaign Email: backup that overflows into the headwaters of the [email protected] Bay. QUALIFICATIONS: - Member, House of Delegates DISCRIMINATION: Cause of all forms of (1987-97) - Member, State Senate (2007-current) discrimination comes from low-quality, defective - Regent, University System of Maryland (2001-06) education of youth. Improving public education is - US Ambassador to Romania (1998-2000) therefore the main focus of attention to assure Page 28 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. General Assembly State Senator

REDISTRICTING: National or regional agreement legislature, will do even more. Teaching of of nonpartisan districting. Aristotle's virtues needs to return to our schools. I ENVIRONMENT: - Climate change: switch to will protect aid to the disabled and their caregivers renewables - Clean up Chesapeake Bay: including our disabled veteran restoration of pollution runoff and protection of sea EDUCATION: I find too many of our increases in life - Overdevelopment of open space: protect education funding go to administrative jobs; I will open space from development and support smart continue to fight for funds to go directly to the growth classrooms and our teachers. I will help teachers DISCRIMINATION: - Increasing minimum wage - by demanding more planning time for teachers and Protect the Affordable Care Act - Support the NOT forcing them to use new books or curriculum Maryland Attorney General going to court to every year or two. These ideas let the teachers protect Marylanders' rights teach; they save costs and puts those savings in EDUCATION: - Increased State school aid - the classroom. Progressive tax policies - Reducing school HEALTH CARE: We are still on course to have a overcrowding with more modern construction severe physician shortage in our state. I will bring methods - Expand career and technical education back the Doctors Caucus and the Physicians HEALTH CARE: - Trump Administration attacks on Advisory I formed as a Delegate and make health insurance - Pass laws protecting health Maryland more physician friendly. I will support an insurance in Maryland exchange that allows purchasing of tailored TRANSPORTATION: - More transit, particularly personal plans across state lines and end the MARC, Metro, and Purple Line - Combination of monopoly of few insurer options in our state. This gasoline, corporate, and other taxes method lowers cost's to consumers. TRANSPORTATION: Maryland has seen an increase in road improvements under Governor District 30 Larry Hogan but a future governor could easily Republican Candidates return us to once again to poor transportation Republicans may vote for no more than 1. funding. I support a true lock box on transportation funds that cannot be reversed. The next big phase Ron George of road work is on our aging bridges and we must Campaign Website: rongeorge.us be ready. I also will fight for existing funds to end Campaign Facebook: @rongeorgeUSA gridlock on District 30 Peninsulas Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Phone: (443) 841-4951 Democratic Candidates QUALIFICATIONS: I have lived 47 years total in Democrats may vote for no more than 1. what is District 30, from south county to Annapolis. Sarah K. Elfreth I have worked every level of job here during that Campaign Website: www.sarahelfreth.com time. 27 years as owner of Ron George Jewelers, Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ taught courses to youth on virtue, volunteer to sarahforsenate several charities, raised six children here. I have Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ served 8 years hear as the State Delegate, elfreth4senate concentrating on constituent service dealing with Campaign Instagram: every category of concern Instagram:@sarahforsenate REDISTRICTING: I was the lead sponsor of the Campaign Email: [email protected] Independent/bipartisan commission bills for QUALIFICATIONS: I’ve spent over a decade creating fair districts in 2013 and 2014 when I working hand-in-hand with the General Assembly served as a Delegate. I also lead the successful while at the National Aquarium, the USM Board of petition to get it on the ballot in 2014. I would Regents, and the University of Maryland working to even suggest that Judges should draw them, build stronger public schools, protect the Bay, and swearing an oath to creating a non-partisan grow our economy. I've spent my personal time as solution. a passionate advocate for the community: serving ENVIRONMENT: My personal concerns to address on the board my community association and include Conawingo Dam, as the sludge affects the President of our Democratic Club. Bay; Oyster Restoration, and I will continue my REDISTRICTING: An open, free, and fair idea with the Navy of bringing wind energy to democracy is a tenant of who we are as a People. Greenbury Point. I have built a coalition on each of A crucial element to that process is maintaining these issues. We are preparing plans on these and voting districts that accurately represent the we will present our plans at the start of the 2019 community. I support non-partisan redistricting as session. a tool to protect the integrity of our democracy. DISCRIMINATION: I support Charter Schools, ENVIRONMENT: The Bay is our greatest natural school tutors, and Community Center after-school resource, our economic engine, and key to our way tutoring and a return of trade schools to rise of life. As your Senator, I will help increase oyster minorities up, fight poverty. I fought human populations, invest in clean energy jobs, and fight trafficking in NYC in the late '70's and in the to protect our forests and critical areas. I'm proud

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to be endorsed by both the Sierra Club and the partisan data is outlawed except to help with Maryland League of Conservation Voters and will remediation. work with local environmental leaders in the ENVIRONMENT: We must restore the Chesapeake Senate. Bay and combat climate change. I support DISCRIMINATION: Discrimination – based on strengthening the Forest Conservation Act and race, sex, religion, disability, income, or age – is creating a developer funded offsets policy for new unacceptable in all forms. While we've made pollution loads. I will facilitate Maryland’s tremendous progress over the past decades, we participation in greenhouse gas reduction must do more to address discrimination by agreements like the U.S. Climate Alliance. Let’s ensuring Maryland's Hate Crimes law is even restore our fisheries, protect our wildlife, and stronger. We must also work to improve the preserve our beloved Chesapeake Bay. inclusion of tolerance, empathy, and anti-bullying DISCRIMINATION: We all know what it feels like education in public schools. to be excluded. Some know much deeper, even EDUCATION: As a proud product of public fatal forms of discrimination. I support expanding schools, I believe that every child deserves access the education and outreach mission of the to a high-quality public education. As your Senator, Maryland Commission on Civil Rights. I support I will be committed to expanding technical and programs that will educate all Marylanders, both career education to prepare kids for 21st century young and old, about existing anti-discrimination jobs, increasing teacher salaries to keep laws and why they were enacted. Meanwhile I will experience in our classrooms, and investing in facilitate even better legislation. universal pre-kindergarten. I'm proud to have been EDUCATION: I support increased public school endorsed by MSEA. funding for teacher pay, teaching environments, HEALTH CARE: Access to affordable, quality and early childhood education programs in healthcare is a fundamental right. We need to alignment with Kirwan commission findings using make sure our healthcare system works for all the Education Trust Fund. I support improved Marylanders. As your Senator, I will work to school safety and curriculum reform. When we implement Medicaid buy-in options, invest in teach our children how to recognize all forms of community-based healthcare, remove the barriers hate and oppression, inside and outside and expand access to substance abuse treatment, themselves, we empower them to choose and expand home healthcare services that allow compassion. seniors to age in place. HEALTH CARE: It is time to pass single-payer TRANSPORTATION: District 30 is a bedroom legislation and to treat addiction as a medical community with a majority of workers commuting condition, not a crime. Administrative waste and outside of the district every day, particularly to insurance profits are killing our people. I support Baltimore City and Washington, DC, and currently, the Healthy Maryland Act for single-payer there are not enough reliable and clean methods of Improved Medicare for All right here in Maryland. mass transportation available. As your Senator, I We will fund this legislation and provide health care will work to increase rapid transportation projects with the fortunes that are squandered by the that better connect residents to job opportunities. current system. TRANSPORTATION: Maryland needs a long range transportation plan to include public transportation Chrissy Holt expansion for all our human needs, including Campaign Website: w w w .chrissyholt.com transportation for work, court hearings, doctors Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ appointments, and social services -- funded by chrissy4senate/ people getting to work and generating taxable Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ income. All this is how together we can create chrissy4senate healthy people, healthy communities, and a Campaign Instagram: chrissyforsenate healthy environment. Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Phone: (410) 570-0242 QUALIFICATIONS: As a leader I know listening is how we find out what people need. Raising a child District 31 denied insurance at birth I learned to persist. As a Republican Candidates negotiator I know precise language fuels reform. Republicans may vote for no more than 1. For 30 years I have served on teams. This taught me to engage colleagues and fight for the common Bryan W. Simonaire good. I will listen to constituents, speak out for Campaign Website: w w w .simonaire.com justice, legislate with clarity, and vote with No response received by deadline. conviction. REDISTRICTING: I support the creation of an independent redistricting commission. In addition Democratic Candidates to the Federal mandates concerning population and Democrats may vote for no more than 1. race, we must ensure communities of interest are Scott Harman preserved, practices which favor or disfavor parties No response received by deadline. or incumbents are prohibited, and the use of Page 30 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. General Assembly State Senator

promote safe, dependable mass transit. Or our District 32 road congestion will not improve. Republican Candidates Republicans may vote for no more than 1. District 33 Maureen Bryant Republican Candidates No response received by deadline. Republicans may vote for no more than 1.

Edward R. Reilly John Grasso Campaign Email: [email protected] No response received by deadline. Campaign Phone: (410) 533-2271 QUALIFICATIONS: Seven years as an Anne Democratic Candidates Arundel County Councilman and then 9 years as a Democrats may vote for no more than 1. Maryland State Senator. Just retired after 43 years as a sales represtative for Nationwide Insurance. Pamela Beidle REDISTRICTING: Non Partican citizens Campaign Website: w w w .pambeidle.com commission who will respect natural boundries, Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ delegate- communities of interest, current political pam-beidle boundries. Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ PamelaBeidle ENVIRONMENT: How to find the most effective Campaign Email: Pam@P ambeidle.com way to clean up the Bay. Current programs are still Campaign Phone: (443) 424-2632 relativelly ineffective. QUALIFICATIONS: After serving two terms on DISCRIMINATION: There are plenty of laws in the County Council and three terms in the House of place to address these issues. They are making Delegates, I believe that I am well prepared to be incremental advances. Discrimination continues to the Senator to represent District 32. exist because of individuals who don't respect REDISTRICTING: I support a non-political others. We need as leaders to show others the commission to draw redistricting lines. respect they deserve and hold individuals and ENVIRONMENT: Fracking, drilling for oil, institutions accountable for their actions. sediment from the Conowingo Dam into our Bay, EDUCATION: Gov. Hogan continues to set aside improving the condition of the Chesapeake, are all record amounts of money to be allocated to areas we have addressed on the Environment and education. In Anne Arundel County, County Transportation Committee. We need to continue Executive Schuh is allocating ever increasing our work to protect Maryland and specifically amounts of the County Budget to education. We protect the Bay. I will continue to support our need to hold school boards, principles and elected environmental community on their issues. bodies, city and county, accountable for their DISCRIMINATION: In the past three terms my efficient application. votes have reflected my support for opposing HEALTH CARE: The high cost of health care is discrimination. I noticed that you did not include causing many families to go without coverage. The Sexual Orientation on the list. Policies should not recent report in the Evening Capital indicated that discriminate against citizens for any of these 400,000 less people are covered by insurance in reasons. 2018 thank last year. We recently passed a stop EDUCATION: In a non-partisan vote the House gap measure in the Senate to keep insurance and Senate just supported funding for the Kirwin premiums subsidized for the 2019 Budget year. T Commission to improve our education policies and TRANSPORTATION: My transportation priority is the Knott Commission to improve how we fund the additional bay bridge crossing. Gov. Hogan has school construction and renovation. We will pay for allocated Five Million dollars to the an envirmental these policies by finally putting the Casino impact study to try to identify the location of a new revenues in a "lock box." That constitutional bay bridge. It has to have the least enviormental amendment will be on the General Election ballot. impact and most logical location to improve traffic HEALTH CARE: The most significant challenge is flow which is continuing to increase. the change in Federal Funding for health care. Maryland reached insuring 94% of the population. HB1792 passed in 2018, supports the health Democratic Candidates insurance market stabilization by collecting 2.75% Democrats may vote for no more than 1. from hospitals, which benefit from patients having Eve Hurwitz health insurance. We need to continue to educate Campaign Website: w w w .evehurw itz.com our under served populations on prevention. Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ TRANSPORTATION: In the current term I served voteforeve as Chair of the Motor Vehicle and Transportation Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ evehurwitz Policy Subcommittee. I sponsored HB1468 to assist Campaign Instagram: w w w .instagram.com/ employers with transporting employees to job evehurwitz/ centers. This grant will allow transportation for Campaign Email: ask@evehurw itz.com employees that do not have access to public Campaign Phone: (410) 989-1186 transportation. Maryland needs to do more to

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QUALIFICATIONS: As a combat veteran and the EDUCATION: Our schools in AA County are sole female aviator in my squadron, I know how to suffering - temporary classrooms that were never excel in a male-dominated environment. While in meant to be used for decades, teacher salaries that the military, I also adjudicated administrative are well below that of surrounding counties, and boards and non-judicial punishment. As a business funding shortages. I will track down gaps in the owner in the accounting field, I am adept at budgeting process, like the Educator Trust Fund. corporate finance and best practices. I am also a We need to vote yes on the referendum in mother of five, an active community volunteer, and November that will send all casino money to a legislative activist. schools as was originally promised. REDISTRICTING: Fair districting is an essential HEALTH CARE: The opioid addiction is one of our aspect of the democratic process and allows true greatest challenges. We need to treat addiction as representation to occur. Gerrymandering only a disease, not a crime. Studies have shown that benefits those already in power and further pharmaceuticals are the most common gateway disenfranchises minorities and marginalized drug to opioid use and addiction. We need to stop communities. Districts should be cohesive in terms overprescribing pharmaceuticals and reform our of their needs, concerns, and geographic health care system to one that treats patients with boundaries, and should be drawn by an a more holistic and less invasive approach. More independent, nonpartisan commission. beds are also crucial. ENVIRONMENT: 1) The Chesapeake Bay is TRANSPORTATION: I believe that public deteriorating due to runoff, pollutants, and waste transportation is deficient across the county and and must be protected. 2) Developers must be entire state. This needs to change, as many held accountable for the impact they have on the communities, which are often already environment. 3) We must ban EPS foam, which is marginalized, largely rely on public transportation NOT recyclable and poisons sea and plant life. 4) I in their day to day lives. In order to grow our will implement business recycling programs to put economy and help Marylanders take care of their a stop to the millions of pounds of recyclable families, we must expand the public transportation material that end up in landfills. infrastructure and make it more accessible. DISCRIMINATION: We must address the pay gap, which harms women, minorities and other underrepresented communities. Transparency in salaries is one way. Another is legislation to mandate equal pay for equal work. We can also address discrimination for Marylanders by implementing paid family leave, which just passed for state employees. Disabled and marginalized children in our schools need support and compassion.

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DUTIES: Delegates share responsibility with State Senators for enactment of the State’s laws as provided for in the Constitution of the State of Maryland. This includes the approval of all state taxes and the spending budget for all state programs. SALARY: $50,330 annual base. TERM: Four years, no term limit. HOW ELECTED: There are three Delegates for each of the 47 Senate districts for a state total of 141 Delegates. Most of the Delegate districts are three-member at-large districts, but some areas of the State have a district subdivided into three single-member districts, or a one single-member district and one multi-member district. WEBSITE: mgaleg.maryland.gov Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of this office? REDISTRICTING: What changes, if any, do you support in the process for drawing congressional and legislative district lines in Maryland? ENVIRONMENT: What are the most significant environmental challenges and how will you address them? DISCRIMINATION: What policies will you support to address discrimination based on race, gender, religion, disability, or poverty? EDUCATION: What education policies would you support and how would you fund them? HEALTH CARE: What are the most significant health challenges facing Maryland and how will you address them? TRANSPORTATION: What are your transportation priorities and how should they be funded?

EDUCATION: The standard advice usually given to District 21 high school graduates is this: go to college. That’s not a bad choice, but it’s also not the only choice. Republican Candidates Vocational schools offer students the opportunity Republicans may vote for no more than 3. to learn in an incredibly career-focused Chike Anyanwu environment with hands-on learning, industry Campaign Website: professionals teaching courses, and sometimes www.citizensforchike.com built-in internships or co-ops. A typical Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ citizens undergraduate education is almost For chike HEALTH CARE: I believe that the most significant Campaign Email: [email protected] challenge to healthcare is how to maintain value- Campaign Phone: (443) 220-7030 based as opposed to volume-based healthcare. I QUALIFICATIONS: I served as a Community believe that quality always counts. However, as we Representative for former Delegate Don Dwayer, move toward value-based healthcare, quality care Jr., where I worked with the constituents in the becomes more important than ever because now it minority neighborhoods to understand the affects revenues. community needs. This helped to craft bills in the TRANSPORTATION: As a former employee of House of Delegates to the needs of the WMATA and also a current employee of MTA, I communities. I also served as the Deputy have biased love for the transit systems. I believe Campaign Manager for Charles Lollar as a that if we are able to convince the populace to Candidate for the Federal House of keep their cars at home and ride the buses and Representatives, District 3. trains, we have several benefits - we reduce REDISTRICTING: The people of Maryland deserve pollution and we keep our cost of driving cars low. the benefits of redistricting reforms. I therefore, We must have a dedicated funding for better fully support the Governor Hogan's proposed funding mechanism legislation to create a non-partisan redistricting commission to draw a congressional and legislative Richard Douglas boundaries. Campaign Email: [email protected] ENVIRONMENT: The most significant Campaign Phone: (202) 257-7110 environmental challenges are pollution, We never QUALIFICATIONS: After 36 years here and two want to be like China or other growing countries. Senate bids, I understand Maryland from end to We need to improve our transit systems and rural end. Having been a Senate lawyer, I understand buses so that many people can enjoy riding transit the danger of an unresponsive, apathetic than driving their cars. We also need to teach legislature. As a veteran of Iraq and submarines, I about environment to our children and clean our value teamwork and a sense of duty. As a small rivers and the Bay. businessman, I have confronted numerous DISCRIMINATION: In this day and age, we Maryland barriers to individual economic security. I ought to be ashamed that we are still talking about want to remove them. discrimination. I will pursue every means REDISTRICTING: Maryland's bizarre legislative necessary that nobody is discriminated against map is often used by career politicians to excuse base on race, sexual orientation, gender, religion, incompetence, indifference, and failure. But that disability, or poverty. map, however bizarre, is no obstacle to motivated Page 33 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. General Assembly State Delegate

legislators willing to unite around solutions to the concerned for the future of his own two children, most important problem facing thousands of have driven me to advocate for progressive causes Marylanders: fundamental economic insecurity. such as paid sick leave and environmental Solving that problem depends on political will, not protection. a legislative map. REDISTRICTING: I support redistricting overseen ENVIRONMENT: A key challenge is the apathy of by an impartial, non-partisan committee. elected officials over the human cost of ENVIRONMENT: Climate change is the greatest remediation. Baltimore's storm water consent challenge facing not only our state, but the entire decree, for example, is a massive unfunded federal country. I was proud to be the original primary mandate. Paid for by high water bills and the rain sponsor of the Clean Energy Jobs bill, which tax, it forces the elderly and poor into tax sale. increased Maryland's renewable portfolio Baltimore is a slow-motion Flint, but Maryland's standards, and to sign on to legislation this session General Assembly and U.S. congressional that would've mandated a 100% renewable energy delegation don't seem to notice. standard. I also believe we need to enhance and DISCRIMINATION: Discrimination is a update our Forest Conservation Act consequence of economic insecurity. The key to DISCRIMINATION: My record speaks for itself on ending discrimination is to eliminate economic this issue. I was an original sponsor of marriage insecurity by unleashing Maryland's latent equality in Maryland, I have supported affordable economic potential. Maryland has the human housing mandates, including properties around the capital and favorable geographic position required Purple Line, and I have been a consistent advocate to compete with or overtake any state in the nation for women and minority business enterprise. economically. It only lacks the will. EDUCATION: I will use my leadership position as EDUCATION: Abraham Lincoln learned to read the Vice Chair of the Education Subcommittee to and write without a computer or a classroom. fully implement the recommendations of the Kirwin Today, basic requirements for learning, whether in Commission and fix the funding adequacy gap for public or private schools, are the same: poor students across the state of Maryland. motivation, parental involvement, trained and well- HEALTH CARE: Disproportionate power vested in paid teachers, and a secure learning environment. private insurance companies and unaffordable I will use my voice and General Assembly vote to health care plans caused by federal instability are support these fundamentals. the greatest threats to Maryland health care. We HEALTH CARE: The most significant health need to continue doing everything we can to shore challenge facing Maryland is a General Assembly up the Affordable Care Act at the state level. which has lost its bearings on controlled dangerous TRANSPORTATION: We should prioritize our substances like marijuana. The downstream effects limited transportation funds and invest in existing of a General Assembly on the wrong side of this mass transit resources. In fact, I was proud to co- issue will be catastrophic for sectors of Maryland sponsor dedicated funding for WMATA this past society least able to defend themselves. The session. Additionally, we need to invest in and General Assembly must firmly combat drug use, expand Rt. 175 in Anne Arundel County. not enable it. TRANSPORTATION: To move PEOPLE, I would support all feasible mass transit options, road, rail, Matt Dernoga and metro. To move CARGO, Maryland must Campaign Website: www.mattdernoga.com seriously explore approaches like short sea Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ shipping. I would also like to know more about mdernogaD21 CSX's justification for withdrawing support for Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ mattdernoga enlargement of the Howard Street tunnel, as the Campaign Email: [email protected] project promised increases in cargo flow (and new Campaign Phone: (240) 473-3764 jobs) from the Port of Baltimore. QUALIFICATIONS: I have been an environmental activist for over ten years, with experience advocating for state laws to produce more clean Democratic Candidates energy and reduce pollution. I also served as a Democrats may vote for no more than 3. policy analyst in local government for 7 years, helping to draft and pass legislation. My skills as Ben Barnes both an organizer pushing for change and policy Campaign Website: analyst working to enact change will suit me well in benbarnesfordelegate.com the Maryland General Assembly Campaign Email: REDISTRICTING: I support requiring [email protected] compactness, maintenance of communities of Campaign Phone: (703) 470-7369 interest, and accounting of political boundaries for QUALIFICATIONS: Most relevantly, my 12 years Congressional Districts. Many states, including of experience as a Delegate with a proven track Maryland, include these some of these rules for record of progressive accomplishment. However, state districts. However, our Congressional my life experiences as the son of a single mother Districts are out of whack because they lack these in a working class family, and now a father Please see page 33 for description of office and questions posed. Page 34 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. General Assembly State Delegate safeguards. I think these changes are politically Annapolis (2003-2010) before being elected to the feasible. Prince George's County Council. I am in my second ENVIRONMENT: Climate change, the Chesapeake term and currently chair the Health, Education & Bay, and pollution threats to public health. We Human Services Committee. must replace coal with clean energy, and put a REDISTRICTING: Legislative redistricting based moratorium on natural gas plants. We need to on the 10-year Census should be a non-partisan protect forests from development and better process. I support creation of a redistricting regulate agricultural pollution to restore the commission every 10 years by the Governor, Chesapeake Bay. We need to better staff our through executive order, so membership is agencies to enforce air and water pollution balanced and it must adhere to the state’s Open violations, with focus on environmental justice. Meetings Act. That requires advertising meetings, DISCRIMINATION: We need to expand statewide posting agendas and minutes, and being as anti-discrimination policies. Currently race, gender, transparent as possible to maximize public trust. religion, sexual orientation, and disability (from ENVIRONMENT: The most significant what I have read) are covered. However, source of environmental challenge we face is climate change. income (for example possessing a Section 8 My environmental record on the Council earned me housing Voucher) is not a statewide protection. an endorsement by the Sierra Club. As a delegate, I With respect to persons with disabilities, we need will push the state to divest its holdings in fossil to better enforce ADA requirements to ensure fuels – including its pension funds -- and I will work access is provided. to enact legislation adopting a 100% clean energy EDUCATION: I support improving teacher pay, standard (wind, solar and ocean tidal) by 2035 reducing class sizes, rebuilding our failing school DISCRIMINATION: Maryland has strong anti- infrastructure, and expanding after school discrimination laws in employment, housing, and programs for youth. Three revenue sources I would public accommodations. However, I believe the support are increasing the cigarette tax, requiring state should consider expanding the definition of the casino money to go to education, and public accommodations to include schools since that eliminating the estate tax cut for millionaires that is where transgender students are the most was passed in 2014. vulnerable to harassment. Legal Aid organizations HEALTH CARE: The most significant health need more funding to provide low income people challenges I see are rising obesity and diabetes with the representation they need. rates, and increased health insurance costs on the EDUCATION: Maryland has the highest median MD Health Exchange. We need to stabilize the household income in the country and could afford to health exchange in the short run, and move to dedicate more to K-12 education. Maryland should universal health care. We also need to improve spend more money per pupil, hire more classroom school lunches and restrict access to sugar-added teachers and add more paraprofessional support beverages for youth in order to address increasing staff, media specialists and school counselors. I obesity and diabetes rates. support treating the Education Trust Fund as a TRANSPORTATION: I will prioritize investments lockbox and dedicating casino revenue on top of the in mass transit and improved pedestrian access baseline school budget. over road expansion. We need to support Metro, HEALTH CARE: The most significant health expansion of the MARC Camden Line, and greater challenges Marylanders face are obesity, caused in bus transit with the Regional Transportation part by the lack of access to fresh foods, and a Authority. For Anne Arundel County, several severe shortage of mental health providers. We residents have expressed to me a desire for more must improve nutritional quality of school meals walk-able and bike-able communities, with access and improve access to Farmer's Markets. I will from homes to shopping centers and parks. sponsor legislation providing loan forgiveness to MD medical students who choose psychiatry and stay in the state to practice. Mary A. Lehman TRANSPORTATION: My single transportation Campaign Website: priority would be to expand funding for bus service. marylehmanfordelegate.com Bus service is the most affordable mode of public Campaign Facebook: transportation, but the lack of connectivity both @marylehmanfordelegatemd21 within and between jurisdictions, and the unreliable Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ and limited service on nights and weekends makes MaryALehman1 it inefficient. The state needs to better balance its Campaign Email: transportation spending between highways and [email protected] transit. Campaign Phone: (301) 664-3935 QUALIFICATIONS: I have had two careers, both of which have prepared me to be an effective James E. McDowell Jr. delegate. I was a journalist for 15 years (1987- Campaign Website: jamesmcdow ell.org 2002), including three on Capitol Hill, then worked Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ as a legislative aide including three years in JMcDowell4D21

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Campaign Email: jemcdow [email protected] Joseline Pena-Melnyk Campaign Phone: (518) 269-2455 Campaign Website: joselinepenamelnyk.com QUALIFICATIONS: I am the Co-owner of Bridge Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ Stone Consultants, I have 17 years in education as Joseline.Pena-Melnyk a teacher in Title I schools, administrator and turn- Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ jpenamelnyk around specilaist, recovering lost funding due to Campaign Email: [email protected] non-compliance, restructuring failing SPED Campaign Phone: (301) 213-3604 programs. Advocate for disadvantaged families. I QUALIFICATIONS: I am experienced and have also worked as a Paralegal reseaching and effective. I was the first in my family to go to writing briefings for attorneys in family courts. college and I grew up with my mother who worked Annapolis is broken. in a factory and as a hotel maid. Earlier in my REDISTRICTING: I support a plan that is more career, I worked as a prosecutor, a defense inclusive of community transparency and attorney, and as an advocate for abused and collaboration that includes the voters opinions and neglected children. I understand the struggles of is fully inclusive removing the essence of ordinary people and I am committed to public Gerrymandering. Lines should not be drawn to service. favor 1 candidate and make it impossible for a fair REDISTRICTING: I have co-sponsored various election. Courts need to review past and current bills to eliminate gerrymandering, most recently redistricting and reverse any changes that HB 1022. That bill would have limited disenfranchise the voters. gerrymandering congressional districts by requiring ENVIRONMENT: Obviously the The Chesapeake each district to consist of adjoining territory that is Bay is everyones talking point and should remain compact in form, and of substantially equal to be fully funded to reverse and restore our population. It also requires that due regard should wildlife. But I would like the conversation with be given to natural boundaries and the boundaries funding to address the displacement of our wildlife, of political subdivisions. moratoriums on corporate chicken farms, in/out of ENVIRONMENT: Sustainable growth is our most state pollutants with their infustructure whose significant challenge. Meeting the needs of our emissions impact our air/water and quality of life citizens and the global community while protecting DISCRIMINATION: As the only AA male in this the earth and its species for future generations is race whose been asked to wait or run for school the challenge of our generation. We can act locally board instead. I believe it is my responsibility to be by controlling greenhouse gas emissions, smarter a reckoning voice for others, who are in any transportation and land use planning, and by minority or majority status that has or will taking the needed steps to protect the Chesapeake experience undue stress from others. I have dealt Bay from pollution. with this in other sectors during my career with DISCRIMINATION: I co-sponsored and voted for tact and will bring the same integrity and grit to same-sex marriage legislation, fought to protect this office. transgender people when they are looking for EDUCATION: I support the balanced oversight of housing, employment and applying for credit, and all Maryland schools, our teachers and co-sponsored Maryland's Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay administrators rights to fair negotiations. Funding Act. This session I co-sponsored and voted to ban 21st century green, safe and community conversion therapy. I also worked to oppose bail stakeholder schools that promote academic provisions that unduly burden the poor who often excellence with college and career options for all cannot afford bail. students. EDUCATION: We should continue to implement HEALTH CARE: Access to quality/adequate care in the Kirwan Commission recommendations, both rural and inner cities, better mental health including improving teacher recruitment, getting options for families, reducing long travel times by more resources to students in low-income schools, building facilities at an affordable cost to families to and expanding career and technical education address non-emergency concerns in the programs. We need to allocate enough funding community. We need quality/reliable transportation from the general budget, and allocate all the systems, more incentives for licensing workers and state's casino proceeds to education (the Lockbox better housing options when they reside in those referendum). communities. HEALTH CARE: Maryland families are being hit TRANSPORTATION: To continue and further hard by rising health insurance costs. I co-chaired enhancing programs for clean air on our highways the ACA Workgroup that developed legislation to and roadways that reduce carbon pollution, prevent further excessive premium increases. We increase vehicle charging stations that do not place passed a bill that would create a reinsurance the burden on tax payers alone. Also ensuring we program that will allow insurance companies to are careful not to privatize all parking in Maryland curb premium increases and stabilize the individual as others states and enforcing zoning to keep insurance market. A fee on the insurance commercial vehicles out of neighborhoods. companies pays for the program.

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TRANSPORTATION: Maintaining Metro's aging EDUCATION: I support budget-responsible funding infrastructure requires more money, but the transit of public education, focused on programs & policies agency is the only major subway system without that have proven to be successful. Education should dedicated funding. The General Assembly passed help students reach their potential as productive legislation to provide additional funding of $167 citizens with a vested interest in their own future & million a year on condition that Virginia and the in the well-being of our entire community. We must District contribute the same or more. Highway emphasize CTE as well as traditional academic maintenance is important too and we need to fully tracks. I also support merit pay. Casino $$ are key. fund the highway user fund. HEALTH CARE: We must support and enhance resources for behavioral & mental healthcare, including the programs and facilities for treating Brencis Smith opioid abuse & addiction. Governor Hogan and Campaign Website: brencisformaryland.com County Executive Schuh have made these areas a No response received by deadline. priority, and I would want to push forward with the momentum of their initiatives. District 30A TRANSPORTATION: Prioritizing Maryland's transportation issues depends on geography. Republican Candidates Challenges & solutions for the lower eastern shore Republicans may vote for no more than 2. differ from those along the I-95 corridor & suburban B. Darren Burns beltways-and those in western & southern Campaign Website: Maryland. For the Annapolis-Baltimore-Washington www.DarrenBurnsforDelegate.com triangle, rail alternatives should have been Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ embraced long ago. We should continue to explore Darren-Burns-for-Delegate-1697754066958493/ them. Transportation $$ must stay "on task." Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Phone: (410) 279-4938 Chelsea Gill QUALIFICATIONS: Anne Arundel County native; Campaign Website: raised my family in Annapolis; spent my www.chelseagillfordelegate.com professional life in this area. As an attorney who's Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ worked on public education & construction Chelsea-Gill-119702848599573 legislation, I'm familiar with law-making. I No response received by deadline. understand how to balance policy goals with constituents’ interests & when another law isn't necessary. 23 years working with public schools Bob O'Shea gives me insight into how government works. Campaign Website: w w w .boboshea.com REDISTRICTING: I support redistricting reform in No response received by deadline. Maryland as proposed by Governor Hogan, and I would have voted in favor of the Redistricting Doug Rathell Reform Act of 2018. The redistricting process must Campaign Website: www.electdougrathell.com be submitted to an independent, nonpartisan Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ commission. Particularly in Maryland, Republican electdougrathell voters and communities have been abused by the Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ electdoug dominant party, to the point of de facto Campaign Instagram: @electdoug disenfranchisement. This must end. Campaign Email: [email protected] ENVIRONMENT: We must renew bi-partisan Campaign Phone: (443) 305-9230 commitment to & investment in the region’s public No response received by deadline. infrastructure, including our natural resources. Beyond geography, this area's very identity is inextricably linked with the Chesapeake Bay and Democratic Candidates the Severn, Magothy, & South Rivers. This means Democrats may vote for no more than 2. matters affecting the health & use of our waters Aron Axe will always be important. Maryland must take the Campaign Website: www.axefordelegate.com lead on protecting our waters. Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ DISCRIMINATION: Policies that strengthen axefordelegate protection of women from domestic abuse & other Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ forms of violence, as well as harassment; that axefordelegate ensure women, minorities & all citizens enjoy equal Campaign Email: rights & opportunities in our community and [email protected] throughout our country; and that promote the Campaign Phone: (410) 212-7339 ability of woman-owned & minority-owned QUALIFICATIONS: I spent 25 years in uniform as businesses to participate in government projects a Marine officer, which included 10 operational that renew our aging public infrastructure. deployments into complex environments. I've Please see page 33 for description of office and questions posed.

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reinforced my professional experience with Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ rigorous academic study at the Naval Academy, SpeakerBusch Georgetown School of Foreign Service, and Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ speakerbusch Harvard Kennedy School analyzing decision- Campaign Email: [email protected] making at all levels of government, accross a Campaign Phone: (410) 573-5000 broad spectrum of federal, state, and local issues. QUALIFICATIONS: I work each and every day to REDISTRICTING: Safe, gerrymandered districts ensure that every person in our community and in contribute to polarized politcs by forcing candidates our State is heard and that their values are to compete for the extreme end of their party in represented in the work of the State legislature. I primary elections. We need to the follow the believe it is important to work to bring people leadership of the five states that have already together - regardless of background - to make a established independent redistricting commissions better future for Annapolis. It has the highest and redraw our districts to represent communities honor of my life to represent my hometown in the without bias toward political advantage for one legislature. party or the other. REDISTRICTING: I have always been clear that ENVIRONMENT: The most significant we need a national solution from the federal environmental challenge is our propensity to kick government on redistricting. The General Assembly the can down the road to the next generation to passed legislation for a five-state compact for address the causes of global warming and to redistricting, however Governor Hogan vetoed that mitigate its effects. I will support legislation to legislation. reduce our carbon footprint, protect our forests, ENVIRONMENT: We have made good progress convert to renewable engergy sources, protect the towards cleaning up the Bay and expanding bay, prepare for sea level rise, and regulate renewable energy opportunities in MD. Expanding common-sense growth. solar, wind and other renewable options; DISCRIMINATION: There is no room for broadening investment in natural oyster and discrimination in our workplaces, schools, or aquaculture programs; and curbing the effects of community. I will support legislation to encourage climate change and greenhouse gas emissions will equal representation in our public offices, fair labor be priorities for next term. practices, a living wage, and subsidies to support DISCRIMINATION: One of the most important the creation of opportunities for our most things we do in the legislature is to ensure that vulnerable. everyone has access to a quality healthcare EDUCATION: We need to pay our teachers a system, a good education and a job to support competitive salary with adjacent school districts. their family: regardless of orientation, race or We need to resist Betsy DeVos's failed school gender. Equal rights is my top priority. I have choice initiative and her drive to privatize our prided myself on being an inclusive leader in the schools. This starts with resisting candidates who House of Delegates, naming one of the most support the deregulation of public charters schools, diverse leadership teams in the history. which drives special needs/ESL/average students EDUCATION: I look forward to leading our state’s out and creates white flight from our public efforts next term to increase investments in career schools. technology education, early childhood and STEM HEALTH CARE: The repeal/replace/roll back of programs focused on getting more women & Obamacare and Medicaid/Medicare federal minorities in these fields. One of the things that we subsidies will have to be answered by replacement need to immediately fix from the Kirwan funds at the state level to keep from kicking Commission initial report is that the poorest hundreds of thousands off of healthcare. This will students in our State are not getting the resources be extremely challenging as we attempt to make they need. up close to $3 billion in education funding shortfalls HEALTH CARE: This year, we fended off at the same time. This will require leadership and Washington's attempt to undermine Maryland’s compromise at all levels. health care system in the short -term but still have TRANSPORTATION: We need to connect more work to do. We need to find ways to Annapolis with Baltimore and Washington D.C. incentivize Marylanders to sign up for health through affordable, effective options to enable our insurance; look for ways to lower the rising costs community to take advantage of opportunities in of health insurance for middle class families; the region. This should be funded through a improve access for women's health and clamp combination of federal, state, and county dollars. down on rising prescription drug costs. We also need to encourage our local governments TRANSPORTATION: I have been disheartened to create a more walkable, bikable community and that Governor Hogan has undone much of the work reduce the presence of cars downtown. that the legislature did over the past ten years on broadening mass transit solutions in Maryland. This is an important policy that we need to work to Mike Busch expand for people to get to work and to school. Campaign Website: www.speakerbusch.com Prioritizing these projects in our CTP is the first important step to expanding mass transit. Please see page 33 for description of office and questions posed. Page 38 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. General Assembly State Delegate

Alice Cain are to increase affordable, accessible mass transit. Campaign Website: alicejcain.com For us to achieve supportive living conditions in Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ MD, our residents need to have access to good AliceJCain/ jobs providing living wages AND affordable living Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ ALICEJCAIN conditions. Too often these two are exclusive of Campaign Instagram: instagram.com/ one another. We need an expansion of adaptable alicejcain/ bus services and fixed transit options between No response received by deadline. metropolitan areas.

Mary Reese District 30B Campaign Website: www.reesefordelegate.com Republican Candidates Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ Republicans may vote for no more than 1. reesefordelegate Seth Howard Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ Campaign Website: sethfordelegate.com Reese4Delegate Campaign Facebook: sethfordelegate Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ QUALIFICATIONS: I grew up in Maryland, sethfordelegate graduated from the United States Naval Academy Campaign Email: [email protected] and served honorably. I have experience in Campaign Phone: (443) 831-9508 building coalitions and relationships to solve QUALIFICATIONS: As a life long Marylander, complex problems despite tight budget constraints, current small business owner, home owner, bureaucratic red tape and difficult personalities. I veteran and family man I have brought a wide am working for our district to change disruptive variety of ideas and life experiences to Annapolis. flight paths into BWI and will continue to work to As a sitting delegate, I have been honored to have enhance our quality of life. had the opportunity to sponsor, co-sponsor and REDISTRICTING: I support fair redistricting in support many pieces of legislation that will have a Maryland. direct and positive effect on our communities, ENVIRONMENT: It is critical that we stop the loss businesses and working families. of our contiguous forest, preserve our green space REDISTRICTING: I absolutely support and tree canopy. I support a ban on styrofoam and redistricting and the creation of a non-partisan single use plastics that pollute our waterways, redistricting commission. I spoke at the town hall ocean and are ingested by wildlife. We need plans meetings (Laurel Police station) that were held to to curb development and to promote green gain public input pertaining to the composition and infrastructure with plans for climate change, rising standards of selection for the independent re- sea levels and the unique threats we face as a redistricting body. I publicly made several coastal community. suggestions that I believe would keep our re- DISCRIMINATION: I will support all policies that redistricting efforts fair and balanced. will effectively help end discriminatory practices. I ENVIRONMENT: I am proud to have co-sponsored support marriage equality, environmental justice and voted for legislation that will re-classify water for all, policy to stop gun violence, protections for purity as a primary reason for considering Bay women and immigrants, and policies to create restoration and clean up projects. This will help supportive living conditions that break cycles of ensure that our older communities in the critical addiction, crime and violence. areas with failing septic tanks will get the funding EDUCATION: I will work to ensure that we receive they need to take corrective measures. I was also the funding we need in our district and that funds proud to vote for SB610 - Forest Conservation Act are spent to promote equal opportunity for all Policy (TF) students in our public schools. Vocational and trade DISCRIMINATION: I was looking forward to skills should be championed and we must ensure supporting Hb1695. This bill specifies that, for our students will receive living wages. School purposes of the hate crimes laws, the term nutrition programs can exceed requirements and “deface” includes to affix, erect, or place a noose support our farms with local and organic produce or swastika on. Unfortunately, the bill did not come and proteins. to the floor for a vote this year. . HEALTH CARE: As the federal government EDUCATION: I supported the Fix the Fund Act— continues to chip away at our Affordable Care Act, This bill would ensure that all revenue raised into I am focused on expanding our access to the Education Trust Fund from casino gaming preventative care and progression towards a single actually increases school funding. We must ensure payer system in Maryland. I will support initiatives that funding promised for education and or to provide rehabilitation and supportive living increased teacher salaries is not diverted for conditions to help break the longterm epidemic of special projects or to balance the budget. addiction, including opioids, that we face. Marylander's voted for the casino money to go to TRANSPORTATION: My transportation priorities education, let's keep it that way. Please see page 33 for description of office and questions posed. Page 39 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. General Assembly State Delegate

HEALTH CARE: The Rising cost of health of health and pollutants. care is negatively affecting our Maryland families. DISCRIMINATION: Consciousness raising and To help address this concern I voted to support diversity training should be mandatory for public HB1795 - Establishment of a Reinsurance Program employees, officials and teachers. Ugly incidents at This emergency bill requires the Maryland Health schools must be dealt with by law enforcement Benefit Exchange to submit a State Innovation where appropriate, but also with education for Waiver application for a federal Section 1332 understanding. Discipline--consistent for all. waiver to establish a program for reinsurance. Employers need education on making the TRANSPORTATION: Transportation infrastructure workplace welcoming and fair to all qualified. Equal is vital to the success of our businesses, schools, pay for equal work. Respect is key. working families and communities. I am honored to EDUCATION: We have some excellent teachers, support Gov. Hogans roads initiative. The funding but keeping them can be a problem if salaries are for these initiatives is in the Trans Trust Fund not high enough for a level of income (TTF), which can no longer be raided thanks to the commensurate with their education and bi-partisan actions of the legislature in 2015. I was responsibility. We need more money for school proud to vote to stop the misuse of the monies in construction so schools do not have trailers outside the TTF for years. Public money should go to public schools. Education is an investment in our future. All four year olds need preschool education. Tom Walters HEALTH CARE: Keep Maryland health insurance Campaign Website: votetomw alters.com choices strong and affordable with reinsurance to Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ stabilize health insurance costs. Children’s health votetomwalters.com insurance program funded. Mental health care Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ needs to be strengthened and school personnel @votetomwalters.com need training to refer troubled students. Elder care No response received by deadline. facilities monitored. Opioid problem needs treatment facilities for addicts and law enforcement Democratic Candidates efforts for dealers. Democrats may vote for no more than 1. TRANSPORTATION: There is tension between more roads and encouraging over-building and Susan Cochran more car traffic. In rural areas, services like ride Campaign Website: susancochran.com sharing and small van pick up need to be Campaign Facebook: susan4delegate incentivized. More park and ride. Bicycle trails. Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ Safety improvements to local state roads. Future susan4delegate projects: A new bridge across the Bay, location Campaign Instagram: NA TBD. Interconnected mass transit. These projects Campaign Email: suzanw [email protected] would need federal contributions. Campaign Phone: (410) 703-9957 QUALIFICATIONS: BA, M.A.T. in biology, University of Vermont. Juris Doctor, George Mason Mike Shay University School of Law. High school and Campaign Website: www.ElectMikeShay.com community college science teacher. Lawyer. Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ Environmental activist. Land Stewardship chairman MikeShayforDelegate/ for South River Colony Conservancy, and advocate Campaign Email: [email protected] to Keep South County Rural. Board, Growth Action Campaign Phone: (301) 922-4044 Network. Good government advocate. President, QUALIFICATIONS: Over the years I have started League of Women Voters of Maryland. 5 businesses and non-profit organizations in our REDISTRICTING: Redistricting should be in the community, and given countless hours of volunteer hands of an independent commission appointed work on issues we care about. My achievements, every ten years to draw the congressional and successes and awards (including a resolution from legislative lines. The districts should be compact, the MD Senate and House) are available to see at contiguous and of substantially equal population. www.electmikeshay.com and I have first hand No more gerrymandering should be done to experience working with our local government on accommodate certain legislators or to favor one behalf of our communities. party. This process will be more equitable and give REDISTRICTING: I have worked on local voters more power. councilmatic redistricting and I would support ENVIRONMENT: Climate Change and a Healthy concepts that have more common sense and less Bay are the two biggest challenges. We need to politics. adopt a high percentage of clean renewable energy ENVIRONMENT: Smart growth and citizen to keep CO2 out of the air where it adds to climate planning is the first step to overcoming our warming. We need to keep nitrogen and environmental challenges. I'm a founding member phosphorus and sediment out of the Bay. Healthy on the leadership board of South Arundel Citizens forests will help by absorbing CO2 and holding soil for Responsible Development. For the last 25yrs

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we have been stopping inappropriate development Third Congressional District is an example of our and saved over 750 acres of important lands in our need for redistricting. area. I will continue to fight inappropriate ENVIRONMENT: Ensuring the future security of development and promote smart growth. our limited supply of drinkable fresh water is my DISCRIMINATION: Healthy communities first priority. Second is protecting our existing understand and support their diversity. Simply put, forests, wetlands and agricultural lands. We must the issue of diversity should not be a partisan limit MDE NPDES permits to reduce pollution of our issue. I am running against an incumbent that has water supplies. We must enforce existing MD voted against equal pay for equal work. I will NPDES permits for compliance violations. We must whole heartedly support all policies and legislation adhere to existing Forest, Critical Area and that support diversity and equality. Agriculture legislation. EDUCATION: I support the 7 areas of revenue DISCRIMINATION: I would propose, support and enhancement by the Teachers Association that oppose the following legislation: Support livable includes additional taxes on high income minimum wage. Support measures to eliminate individuals, corporations, cigarettes and lockbox food insecurity. Support equal pay for women. gaming. This would provide needed revenue for the Propose MD Public Schools report discrimination maintenance of our schools and making sure the violations, under Title IV of the the Civil Rights Act. needs of our 88,000 school aged children are met. Oppose Conversion Therapy for LGBTQ youth. I believe teachers pay should also be in line with Oppose immigrant detention and exile. Oppose the neighboring jurisdictions. Discovery Doctrine. HEALTH CARE: The opioid crisis is among the EDUCATION: Include meditation, breathing and largest current health challenge affecting Maryland. yoga instruction. Mandate Civics, Civil Rights, I believe that pharmaceutical companies that Consent and Birth Control instruction. Require MD knowingly market, and doctors that over-prescribe Public Schools to report discrimination violations, these dangerous products should be held under Title IV of the the Civil Rights Act. Update responsible. Their accountability should be what American and International history to include provides the increased services for mental health, Sovereign Nation's Discovery Doctrine takings. rehabilitation and community outreach. Fund through public-private partnerships and the TRANSPORTATION: Much of the District I am Education Trust Fund. running in (30 B, most of South County, including HEALTH CARE: Access to affordable health care Mayo and parts of Edgewater) is underserved by for all is the most significant challenge facing public transportation. Our district has a Marylanders. I will support and sponsor legislation demonstrated need for more access to public that ensures health care is accessible and transportation. I will support an efficient and affordable for all Maryland residents regardless of affordable solution to rollout on a trial basis to their ability to pay. meet this need. TRANSPORTATION: Maryland's future transportation initiatives must be dependent upon renewable energy. We could fund our Carmen Skarlupka transportation programs through federal grants Campaign Website: carmenskarlupka.com that converting existing fleet and infrastructure to Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ support and promote fossil fuel-free transportation. Carmen4Delegate/ We should offer incentives for fossil-free vehicle Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ ownership and use, and support vehicle and ride carmen4delegate sharing programs statewide. Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Phone: (443) 964-9252 District 31A QUALIFICATIONS: I know first hand to listen to the needs of constituents, review funding priorities Republican Candidates and allocations, and negotiate solutions that fit our Republicans may vote for no more than 1. goals and objectives. As a military Veteran I've Brooks Bennett faced seemingly immovable and hostile situations Campaign Website: www.brookslbennett.com that were resolved amicably. As a business leader, Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ my hands-on experience in international BrooksLBennett agreements means I am a successful advocate for Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ my District's needs. brookslbennett REDISTRICTING: I fully support redrawing Campaign Instagram: instagram.com/ Maryland's congressional and legislative districts. I brookslbennett also support designating a totally nonpartisan and/ QUALIFICATIONS: I learned leadership and or independent commission to perform this task. It vision during my time in the Army in both is imperative that Maryland's districts follow a operational and strategic positions. I served as a normative process and behavior that results in member of the 75th Ranger Regiment and cohesion and equity for constituents. Maryland's deployed twice to Afghanistan. I hold a bachelor’s Please see page 33 for description of office and questions posed. Page 41 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. General Assembly State Delegate

degree in Criminal Justice and a Masters in Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ Business Administration. I work in the private delegatekipke sector where I focus on results and working Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ kipke through bureaucratic barriers. Campaign Instagram: w w w .instagram.com/ REDISTRICTING: An independent group should delegate_kipke/ be in charge of establishing congressional and Campaign Email: [email protected] legislative districts. Politicians should not be in the Campaign Phone: (410) 591-9535 business of picking their voters and should be QUALIFICATIONS: As the House Republican taken out of this process as we have seen how it Leader I've been one of Governor Hogan's has been abused for partisan gain. strongest allies in the General Assembly. I have ENVIRONMENT: So much of Maryland depends on extensive experience in the private sector, the Cheasepeake Bay. It is so vital to many sectors especially related to manufacturing. In the of the Maryland economy that its health and community I have consistently worked to solve prosperity should be relevant to everyone. I will problems and help people. This year I received a welcome partnering with scientific and ecological public service award from the House of Delegates communities on joint private/public ventures to for my bipartisan work to pass good public policy. strengthen the Bay. REDISTRICTING: I'd like to see the Governor's DISCRIMINATION: I will always be in support of independent commission bill pass, I've any legislation that echoes the Equal Protection cosponsored it each year. Also I believe districts Clause of the 14th Amendment. should be drawn evenly and fairly. I'd also like to EDUCATION: I support the continued growth of see all House of Delegates be single member charter schools within our state. These are funded districts. by using current school taxes and would bring ENVIRONMENT: We've made great strides to about competition in our educational system. More better conserve our resources and clean up our school options will give power to families, students, environment in recent years. We need to continue and teachers in having the ability to chose what is to support Bay Restoration including holding our best for them while holding bureaucrats in the federal representatives accountable for their role in school systems accountable. funding Chesapeake Bay clean up. HEALTH CARE: The opioid epidemic is the most DISCRIMINATION: Maryland has made great significant health issue of my lifetime. At the user strides in this area as well. I voted to modernize level, we need stiffer penalties for dealers and the state code to improve the definition of hate those caught abusing. To get at the root cause of crimes this session. the issue, we need to go after doctors who are EDUCATION: I continue to advocate for school over-prescribing medications that create the choice for low income student in neighborhoods addictions. Lastly, we need to make sure we have with poorly performing schools. the infrastructure in place to support those seeking HEALTH CARE: We need to ensure our individual recovery. health insurance market is stable so that TRANSPORTATION: No response received by individuals can afford health insurance. We passed deadline. legislation in 2018 to help with this but likely need to do more. We also need to take another look at underlying health costs like the rising cost of Democratic Candidates pharmaceuticals. Democrats may vote for no more than 1. TRANSPORTATION: We need to more adequately Ned Carey fund local roads and continue supporting Governor Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ Hogan's transportation agenda that fixes the top nedcarey31A transportation priority in every area of our state. No response received by deadline. John R. Leopold District 31B Campaign Website: johnleopold.com Campaign Email: [email protected] Republican Candidates Campaign Phone: (410) 255-4477 Republicans may vote for no more than 2. QUALIFICATIONS: 20 years serving in the Brian Chisholm Maryland House of Delegates: a proven record of Campaign Website: building bipartisan coalitions and enacting www.chisholmformaryland.com legislation of substance, such as panhandling Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ prohibition, property tax relief for seniors and chisholmformaryland/ radium reduction in residential wells. Prompt and No response received by deadline. effective constituent service. REDISTRICTING: sponsored legislation to establish a nonpartisan, independent redistricting Nicholaus R. Kipke commission, which the League of Women Voters Campaign Website: w w w .kipke.com testified in support of. Support single-member

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districts, which will help reduce the cost of political attributes that my time in the military, as well as campaigns. Challenged Gov. Glendening's my personal and professional life have afforded me redistricting plan in court in 2002 and won, to obtain. overturning a blatantly partisan plan with non- REDISTRICTING: I am wholeheartedly opposed to compact districts. politicians picking their voters. The Constitution ENVIRONMENT: protecting neighborhoods from gives state legislatures the authority to draw special interest zoning changes that aggravate political districts, the state legislature also has the traffic congestion and environmental degradation. authority to hand that duty to an independent Will sponsor legislation that provides incentives to commission. Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, counties that make sensible land use decisions that Montana, and Washington use independent limit growth to areas already served by commissions--so should Maryland. infrastructure, such as roads, schools and sewers. ENVIRONMENT: Climate change is undeniable. DISCRIMINATION: Support after-school The science is real--the effects are real. on the right programs and the enhancement of a program I course by requiring companies in Maryland to buy established at Anne Arundel Community College to more energy from sources such as wind turbines, help parents identify warning signs to help combat solar panels, and hydroelectric dams. As our suicide, drug abuse and racism. Currently serve on society, community, and technologies evolve, so the County Commission on Disability Issues and must our policies. This effort will only harness 25% served on the National Council on Disability. renewable energy by 2020. We can do even better. EDUCATION: Sponsored the first public charter DISCRIMINATION: We are not born to hate, we school law and will work to strengthen the existing are taught to hate--directly and indirectly. Equality statute. Support programs that enhance parental laws and policies must not only address involvement and individualized attention for at-risk discrimination, but act on erasing it from our students. Support stricter accountability culture. Equal opportunity; equal pay for equal requirements when additional education funding is work; equal benefits; higher wages for the working appropriated. Favor budgetary support for Science, families; affordable healthcare for all; and any Technology, Engineering and Math programs. other policies that can bring about equality to our HEALTH CARE: Support budgetary assistance for friends and neighbors. mental health programs, especially the EDUCATION: We must: invest in public school identification of psychological problems in young resources, infrastructure, and maintain per-capita children caused by the trauma of physical and student funding equal regardless of the child's zip mental abuse. Fought for the protection of code; not discriminate or disenfranchise our Special residents from unhealthy toxic wastes in our air Education students by failing to provide the medical and water and will continue to do so. or educational care they require; hold politicians TRANSPORTATION: Led the fight in the and casino industry responsible for general fund Legislature in 2003 and 2004 to establish a lockbox mandates that were promised to fund our schools. for the Transportation Trust Fund. Counties have HEALTH CARE: Health care is a right for all. I still not been repaid for funds raided to help support a Single-Payer system. Prescription drug balance the state budget, and I will continue to prices are less affordable than ever before, and fight for more road improvements to address the issues within the Individual Health Insurance backlog. Market financially placed on those who require it unfairly. Legislation must be passed to work towards making sure every Marylander has the David Therrien health and medical needs they require regardless of No response received by deadline. financial status. TRANSPORTATION: Improving our infrastructure; Democratic Candidates investing in the MARC, Metro, and AMTRAK, and Democrats may vote for no more than 2. High Speed Rails; providing safer pedestrian walkways and increasing bike paths and lanes. The Harry E. Freeman local, state, and federal government has a Campaign Website: www.harryefreeman.com responsibility and major financial stake in Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ revitalizing and improving our transportation Harry4Maryland/ system. Our people, roads, economy, and Campaign Instagram: https:/ / environment will benefit from transportation www.instagram.com/harry4maryland/ focuses. Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Phone: (240) 374-8778 QUALIFICATIONS: As an U.S. Army Veteran, I Karen Patricia Simpson have been provided a unique experience in service Campaign Website: www.karen4maryland.com to others. Leading soldiers; having empathy Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ towards others; analyzing situations at every level karen4maryland of risk and creating solutions; and willing to Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ sacrifice personal interests so others may gain are karen4maryland

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QUALIFICATIONS: Hello! I am Karen Simpson. I Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ am a Maryland native. I love Maryland. I am a PattyEwingForDelegate/?ref=br_rs domestic violence survivor who has become a Campaign Instagram: Instagram: #MeToo champion for women and children. I am a Pattyewing4delegate Maryland public servant with extensive experience No response received by deadline. working with State government to enact policies that help Maryland families. REDISTRICTING: Both parties gerrymander and Tim Walters it has to stop. Our constituents deserve fair Campaign Website: www.waltersfor32.com representation. Voters should choose their Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ representatives—not the other way around. waltersfor32/ Maryland needs an independent bi-partisan Campaign Email: commission that uses mathematical equations to [email protected] determine districts. Campaign Phone: (443) 848-6291 ENVIRONMENT: Unawareness is at the core of QUALIFICATIONS: As a retired Navy Explosive every environmental debate—many people do not Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technician I perform know what causes environmental problems or how problem identification and resolution in extremely to solve them. Public awareness campaigns, like high stress scenarios. Since retirement I have been the don’t be a litter bug campaign, must be part of a Program Manager of programs valued at $200M. all environmental protection legislation to ensure I am responsible for cost, schedule, performance every generation understands how to protect our and risk of my projects and meet budgets, and land, water and air. execute contracts successfully. This is exactly what DISCRIMINATION: Maryland’s most vulnerable we need in the legislation. citizens will always be my focus. My goal is to REDISTRICTING: This is about fairness in our provide opportunity, equality, and fairness to electoral process and neither party should everyone in our community. As a Delegate, I would dominate through unfair boundaries. We need to sponsor and support legislation that is proactive redistrict and follow a fair process that does not and intentionally responds to discrimination based equate to law makers picking their constituents on race, gender identity, sexual orientation, vice constituents electing their leaders. I would like religion, disability, or poverty. to see single seat districts. My district is a prime EDUCATION: I am a graduate of Maryland public example; we are not fairly represented in the schools. Our children deserve a good education in current structure. a safe environment. Our teachers deserve fair pay ENVIRONMENT: We must balance growth, for their investment in our future. Education should development, infrastructure needs and be our top budget item. We need to collaborate environmental needs. D32 is over developed losing with our higher education communities and local green space, creating hard surfaces that impact businesses to invest in our children. our storm water system. We need smart execution HEALTH CARE: My daughter has Crohns disease. of improvements and ensure all people who impact She requires infusions 8 times a year to help her the bay are doing their part (our PA and NY live a normal life. Her treatments cost over neighbors). our neighbors provide a large $15,000 each. No one should be a paycheck away percentage of our Bay pollutants. We need to from going broke because they get sick. I will engage them. sponsor and support legislation that provides DISCRIMINATION: This is a heart issue. It starts affordable and accessible healthcare for everyone. with respect and supporting open dialogues that TRANSPORTATION: Public transportation is vital are scary. We must focus on what unites us and is to our economy and environment and must be common. We are Americans, Marylanders and expanded—more people will use and fund the humans first. I believe churches, community metro if gets them to where they need to go. centers and neighbors are the areas to create change. It starts with understanding we are not islands individually but part of communities that District 32 exist to take care of each other. EDUCATION: We must focus on meaningful Republican Candidates change not just adding money. We must allow Republicans may vote for no more than 3. parents to have the ability to hold schools and teachers accountable through school choice, Mark E. Bailey vouchers, tax dollars that follow the student, etc. Campaign Website: electmarkbailey.com We need to cut all of the overhead in our school Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ systems in order to provide teachers what they ElectMarkBailey/ need to be successful. Be more student/teacher No response received by deadline. focus as the start point in all analysis. HEALTH CARE: Access is critical in this discussion and should be the start point. We need to increase Patty Ewing consumer options through cross state lines options, Campaign Website: w w w .pattyew ing.com Please see page 33 for description of office and questions posed. Page 44 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. General Assembly State Delegate

tort reform, and increased tax credits to assist students, instructors and staff. I support policies doctors in making the decision to be doctors. We that ensure a safe environment for both. With need competition to decrease prices. Insurance respect to funding, I support utilizing the "lock that costs too much or the deductible is never met box" on casino funds for education. Education is a is not insurance. We need more effective priority for the betterment of our society and I governance. believe in fully funding public education. TRANSPORTATION: D32 is a hard hit area due to HEALTH CARE: Based upon my reading and over development and BRAC. We need to repeal listening to health care professionals or resource the road kill bill and reestablish priorities and providers, drug addiction and mental health are budgets aligned with growth. The road kill bill is a two main challenges facing Maryland. I hope to formulaic approach that is lazy and ineffective. We introduce and/or support bills that would decrease must make informed and hard decisions. Citizens our numbers of overdoses and deaths due to these know what they need and should be engaged in two areas. The government must equip providers, this process. likewise providers must adhere to their duty of care. TRANSPORTATION: I commuted from downtown Democratic Candidates DC for many years and more often than not, I took Democrats may vote for no more than 3. public transportation. It is best for our Patrick Armstrong environment, but it must be reliable. I support Campaign Website: upgrading public transportation systems to attract votepatrickarmstrong.com more users and decrease the need for government Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ funding. With this said, I do not support the Maglev FriendsOfPatrickArmstrong or Hyperloop. I would prioritize current upgrades. No response received by deadline. Mark S. Chang J. Sandy Bartlett Campaign Website: Campaign Website: www.sandybartlett.com www.delegatemarkchang.com Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ sandy4delegate markchang2014 Campaign Email: Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ [email protected] marksoochang Campaign Phone: (301) 502-6675 QUALIFICATIONS: As a member of the House QUALIFICATIONS: My work and life experience Appropriations Committee, I have experience in has prepared me to serve others: *Attorney with making fiscal decisions on the $44.5 billion practice in trademark and copyright law *Adjunct operating and $1 billion capital budgets that affect Professor at AACC *Elected twice to AA Democratic all Marylanders with regards to healthcare, Central Committee *Mother, wife and community education, economic development, public safety, activist *Board member of organization to help environmental stewardship, transportation, and people with disabilities *Former leadership infrastructure. I chaired the Anne Arundel County positions within sorority, NAACP, boards and Capital Budget Subcommittee for 2 years. Maryland Bar REDISTRICTING: I support a transparent REDISTRICTING: I support changes that are redistricting process that consists of an drawn in equity based upon a neutral formula. independent commission with input from residents ENVIRONMENT: Climate change and the to set the congressional and legislative district preservation of our natural resources are some of boundaries in Maryland. the most significant environmental challenges. I ENVIRONMENT: Throughout my entire first term, will address them by supporting legislature that I have received a 100% rating by the Maryland improves our utilization of our natural resources League of Conservation Voters each consecutive and decreases waste. Regulation waste and our year for my strong record on protecting the lack of renewable energy sources is problematic. environment and investments in renewable energy. Laws cannot do more harm than good to our Preserving and investing in open space and environment. recreational areas in our communities is a priority DISCRIMINATION: As an attorney and part-time that I have consistently supported. professor, I am very aware of discrimination issues DISCRIMINATION: Sadly, as we reflect on the and it has no place in our society. The scars of 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin discrimination are slow to heal and break the spirit. Luther King, Jr., incidents of racism are prevalent I support policies that empower all people and in our schools and community that have caused especially those who have a history of past trauma to children and adults. During this past discrimination. I support policies that anticipate legislative session, I was the lead sponsor on and prevent discrimination. legislation to make it a criminal offense to place EDUCATION: As a part-time educator, and nooses and symbols of hate on properties to mother, I am keenly aware of the challenges of our intimidate classes of people.

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EDUCATION: During this past legislative session, I a devastating impact on populations here in voted for the 21st Century School Facilities Act Maryland. Therefore, I support a commitment to which provides $400 million in school construction. invest in renewable energy and expand our use of Through an ammendment that I offered on this renewables to 50% by 2030. budget bill, an additional $10 million is allocated DISCRIMINATION: We live in the wealthiest for school safety. In total, I voted for $41,600,000 state in the wealthiest nation in the history of the in school safety funding. Investing in cyber, world, yet 20% of our children will grow up in apprentice training, and higher education are poverty. We also continue to suffer from systemic needed. racism that sustains a cycle of poverty. We must HEALTH CARE: Maryland has the best healthcare enact policies that end the system of oppression, delivery sytem in the world, and I will continue to help working families improve their lives, enable all vote for funding for University of Maryland Medical our children to pursue their dreams, and ensure Center Shock Trauma and investments in all other equality for all. hospital systems. I will continue to vote for EDUCATION: We are facing a nearly $3 billion legislation to lower healthcare and prescription shortfall in education funding across Maryland, and drugs premiums. Access to healthcare for all the situation is even worse in some schools due to individuals is an important legislative priority to an unequal funding formula. We must support our me. public schools and ensure every child receives a TRANSPORTATION: Northwest Anne Arundel quality education that prepares them to succeed in County is one of the most economic vibrant areas the 21st century. of Maryland, and investments in roads is a high HEALTH CARE: Health care is not a luxury, it is a priority to meet the demands of the growth. basic human right. Yet today we see our national Expansions in public transportation are also needed elected officials dismantling the Affordable Care Act to help relieve congestion and provide access for and moving us backward on health care policy. We underserved communities to economic cannot stand idle while hundreds of thousands of opportunities. The Transportation Trust Fund needs people in our state lose their health care or fall into to be dedicated for the transportation needs. bankruptcy due to medical bills. It is time to provide guaranteed health care to all Marylanders. TRANSPORTATION: We cannot afford to invest in Jenese Jones massive transportation infrastructure projects that No response received by deadline. will never pay for themselves and that provide little to no benefit to our residents who will bear the Derek Kent greatest burden from their undertaking. Instead, I Campaign Website: w w w .derekkent.com will pursue improvements to local transportation Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ infrastructure that will have an immediate and DerekKentMD/ measurable impact on people’s daily lives. Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ DerekKent Campaign Email: [email protected] Mike Rogers Campaign Phone: (443) 877-5683 Campaign Website: Votemikerogers.com/ QUALIFICATIONS: I have fought for our country Campaign Facebook: VoteMikeRogers/ overseas in the military and for our communities Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ MikeJRogers4 here at home. I’ve worked for the American public Campaign Email: [email protected] in the Senate and marched on our streets for the Campaign Phone: (301) 317-8873 rights of the residents of Anne Arundel County. QUALIFICATIONS: As a retired Army Colonel Those experiences have taught me both how to with 29 years leading organizations around the work within our political system, and to coordinate world, I served my country and now and ready to with civil organizations outside of government to serve my community at the state level. I have bring about real change. been active in my church, a director in my home REDISTRICTING: Politicians should not choose owner’s association, a youth football coach, and their voters. Gerrymandering undermines high school PTSA President. I believe all of these democratic representation, denies communities experiences uniquely qualify me to serve as a state their voice, and erodes faith in our democratic delegate for my district. systems. Fairness must be an underlying principle REDISTRICTING: Congressional and legislative of our democratic system. Therefore, I support districts should be continguous based on a review tasking a neutral commission with the drawing of by a bipartisan commission. district lines, with a simple up or down vote in the ENVIRONMENT: Climate change is real. I support General Assembly. tough emission standards and investment in ENVIRONMENT: Less than 5 miles from Glen sustainable energy resources that create jobs for Bernie stand two outdated coal-fired power plants the local economy. that consume about 4.8 million tons of coal each DISCRIMINATION: I will support policies similar year. These plants pollute our water and air, and to those used by the military services which contribute to climate change that is already having address and denounce discrimination based on

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race, gender, religion, and national origin. I will healthcare for everyone but we need more money support legislation to create opportunities for those for treatment of opiod and drug use, and with disabilities and programs to support moving affordable care for all citizens of the state. people out of poverty. TRANSPORTATION: My transportation priority is EDUCATION: I would support programs which to stop Maglev, ensure our roads are safe for all close the archievement gap and increase teacher citizens of the state and ensure funds designated pay and provide teacher incentive pay for high for transportation are used in the way they were performers and especially those working in title meant for. one schools. I would use casino money which is supposed to be earmarked for education.

HEALTH CARE: Affordable healthcare for all District 33 citizens. We should a baseline level of healthcare Republican Candidates for everyone. It’s also important to provide Republicans may vote for no more than 3. treatment and education programs for drug addition. Tom Angelis TRANSPORTATION: I think we need to focus on Campaign Website: tomangelis.com creating a transportation system which connect all Campaign Facebook: tom angelis members of the community both bus, and rail. Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Phone: (410) 279-9852 QUALIFICATIONS: As a former high school Theodore Sophocleus instructor in Baltimore City, police sergeant in Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ Washington, D.C., college educator, and District32Team/ businessman, I am in an excellent position to Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ address the issues of our county. I have District32Team maintained the position of Director of Recreation Campaign Email: [email protected] and Parks in the county, hold a real estate license Campaign Phone: (410) 850-4978 in Maryland, and was a legislative aide in the U.S. QUALIFICATIONS: I know my district and the Senate enabling me be an effective legislator. people I represent. I live in the community, my REDISTRICTING: Genuine redistricting in the children and grandchildren live in the community, county and state is badly needed and I support Public Safety, Administration, education, and the honest nonpartisan redistricting. This could be well being of my constituents have been a priority effective with the establishment of a nonpolitical since taking office. authority comprised of astute citizens. Attention REDISTRICTING: Fair and equitable boundaries should be given to realistic geographic boundaries, to all parties with clear, distinguished sensibility. population movement and centralized density. With ENVIRONMENT: My stand on the state of our this a better degree of fairness should result. environment and the need to preserve our bay ENVIRONMENT: Since I am so conflicted as to the along with pollution has been the same for over 20 true challenges in our environment, I welcome years. I have been fortunate enough to be more definitive information. However, with regard endorsed and supported by the Environmental to the local government I strongly suggest that Organizations and vote to maximize their efforts. appropriate planning and zoning be addressed to DISCRIMINATION: Coming from immigrant ensure the most positive impact possible. To parents, I learned early in life to appreciate regulate our environs in an effective manner is everyone based on their ability and no other essential to the well being of the populace. factors. I have worked in very diverse DISCRIMINATION: Discrimination in any capacity communities, learned and help improve all and on any level is totally unacceptable. When challenges for over 40 years in the community. I discovered discrimination should be addressed and have served on may boards and Comittee's, corrected immediately. This action should be taken working to pass several anti-discrimination bills. by the government, and by all segments of the EDUCATION: I have worked and voted to make society. Anything less should not be tolerated. college affordable to everyone by keeping tuition EDUCATION: Education is a key component of my cost under control. I have worked within our career and life. I have been privileged to have had primary and secondary units to assist each child to many positions in the public, private, and college get the best education. I have worked with environments as an instructor. I vigorously support employers to create apprenticeship programs education accountability while engaging a prudent viable and timely. I will continue to work through approach in the employment of resources for the my committee to secure all funding necessary to classroom. This action must be supported in all support education. aspects of academic endeavor. HEALTH CARE: As a retired pharmacist I see each HEALTH CARE: Of the multitude of issues in and every day the challenges my constituents face Maryland the most immediate of concerns is the regarding healthcare. The cost, access, timely and illegal drug crisis. Because this may be both a efficient treatment and transportation when criminal issue with regard to the providers of illegal necessary. Maryland will continue to support drugs and a health issue for the drug user, the

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society must be willing to face this crisis in both having them covered by health plans. I support the arenas. efforts of loca TRANSPORTATION: Transportation challenges TRANSPORTATION: I believe that Maryland vary regionally, but a solution for our society as a needs to invest in the repair - and maintenance of result of technology is home and satellite - its existing roads and bridges. We need to fix employment. In each case the employee travels far what we have - including buses and light rail - less usually than commuting to a work site and this before we commitment to the development of assists in alleviating vehicular traffic. This in additional modes of public transportation. addition to public and private business transportation will lessen the burden of excessive highway traffic. Michael Edward Malone Campaign Website: malonefordelegate.com Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ Stacie MacDonald delegatemichaelmalone Campaign Website: Campaign Email: www.electstaciemacdonald.com [email protected] Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ Campaign Phone: (443) 454-1769 macdonaldfordelegate/ QUALIFICATIONS: My experience in the House of Campaign Email: Delegates these past four sessions has taught me [email protected] how to successfully prepare and pass legislation Campaign Phone: (410) 777-8664 including making home invasion a crime of violence QUALIFICATIONS: I am a Maryland business which passed during the 2017 session. I have also owner and have been a legislative counsel/ learned to work with others to make bad bills attorney. I am self-funding my campaign, refusing better and to pass significant legislation to improve donations from special interests, developers, etc; I Maryland for all. will answer only to my constituents. From my vast REDISTRICTING: I support the Governor's House experience, I know how to get bills passed in a Bill 356 as a co-sponsor. Furthermore, I introduced legislature. I bring fresh solutions to old problems House Bill 1022 with 63 co-sponsors calling for and can devote 100% of my time to getting things Maryland’s Congressional districts to be drawn so done. that each district would be “of adjoining territory, REDISTRICTING: I support the creation of a non- be compact in form, with due regard given to partisan, independent body to draw legislative and “natural boundaries and the boundaries of political congressional district maps after each census. This subdivisions.” process needs to be taken out of the hands of ENVIRONMENT: The health of the Chesapeake partisan politicians. Bay and promoting forests within Maryland ENVIRONMENT: I am self funding my campaign continue to be significant environmental challenges so that I won't need to listen to special interests for Maryland. I supported forest conservation by that want harmful development. The state needs to voting for House Bill 766 which requires the state take a roll in protecting its natural environment by to study appropriate changes regarding forest limiting development to avoid harm to the Bay. cover and tree canopy in the state. As most know, DISCRIMINATION: Focusing on fairness and maintaining forests within Maryland promotes income equality would help to address clean air and water. discrimination. Make Maryland a destination for DISCRIMINATION: I support legislation that business. As of now too many job creators are discourages discrimination. By way of example, I either fleeing the State or not coming here at all. supported Senator Astle’s legislation (SB 528) We must reduce regulations, offer incentives to all which would prohibit a person from committing businesses in the form of tax reductions and not certain acts against another person or group just to the chosen few such as the most recent tax because of another person’s race, color, religion, package that was offered to Amazon. gender, disability, or sexual orientation. I also EDUCATION: I support increased funding for supported unsuccessful House Bill 1695. education across the board. I also would like to see EDUCATION: I supported Governor Hogan’s our teachers pay increased so that we are budget which provided historic levels of funding for competitive nationally. I would also propose K-12 education and unprecedented $6.5 billion introducing legislation to increase the State’s which is above and beyond the spending formula contribution to teachers retirement as well as required by the legislature. Future educational exempting teacher’s pensions from Income Tax. initiatives will be aided by the passage of Senate HEALTH CARE: Using free market solutions that Bill 1122 which I supported. empower citizens to select the health care they HEALTH CARE: The most significant healthcare want. I would also add that veterans should be challenge facing Maryland is the rise of health care given access to the healthcare facility of their costs. I supported House Bill 1795 which was a choosing. It is my goal to increase access and measure to curtail skyrocketing premiums for availability of healthcare for all. I will also work to approximately 150,000 Marylanders and to prevent increase the availability of generic drugs as well as the state’s health care market place from

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collapsing. competition and cost savings. TRANSPORTATION: My transportation priority is TRANSPORTATION: My priority is roads. 90% of to improve transportation throughout the state and the money in the Transportation Trust Fund comes in particular, Anne Arundel County. A step in the from taxes and fees on motorists while 59% of the right direction was the passage of House Bill 807 money goes to mass transit. The legislature just (Transportation-Highway User Revenues/ voted to take more. I am dedicated to building and Distribution) which I voted for. The bill creates a maintaining roads including restoring state formula by which local governments will receive highway user funds to counties to improve our additional highway user dollars. roads. Transit users should shoulder more of the cost of transit.

Tony McConkey Campaign Website: w w w .leg33.com Connor McCoy Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ Campaign Website: TBD DelMcConkey/ Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ mcconkey connor.mccoy.58511 Campaign Email: mcconkey@w riteme.com Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ Campaign Phone: (410) 544-0957 therealmccoy943 QUALIFICATIONS: 16 year incumbent delegate, Campaign Instagram: N/ A with service on the Environment & Transportation Campaign Email: Committee (2003-2006), Judiciary Committee [email protected] (2007-2010), and currently on the Appropriations Campaign Phone: (410) 841-4549 Committee (2011 - pres). Elected by fellow QUALIFICATIONS: As a student, my recent delegates to serve as Vice Chair of the Anne experience going through the Maryland public Arundel Delegation (2013-2014), and ranking education system and interactions with state member on Appropriations (2012- pres), leading universities gives me insight on the current status the Republican efforts on the budget the last 7 yrs. of our district's schools. My current life experience REDISTRICTING: I strongly support electing and age provides me with a unique perspective on members of the House of Delegates from single current/potential issues relating to, but not limited member districts, and I support Governor Hogan's to, technology, drugs, school safety, college tuition plan to set up an independent non-partisan and the job market. commission to draw the lines for both Congress REDISTRICTING: I personally believe them to be and the state legislature. fine as-is, but if new information were to come to ENVIRONMENT: I think continuing progress on my attention I would gladly review that data and cleaning the Bay is the most important goal. In possibly reconsider my position. addition to the program in place I would accelerate ENVIRONMENT: The single biggest environmental progress on oyster re-establishment, which I think issue our state faces is the Chesapeake Bay and its is key. I would move forward with the introduction water quality. I would have to review current of the Asian oyster to help speed clean up. programs and the budget towards them. I would DISCRIMINATION: I think sufficient laws are in gladly support efforts to improve existing programs place to prevent and punish the many forms of or implement new programs. discrimination. I would support additional funding DISCRIMINATION: I believe that we currently for more enforcement of those laws where have the appropriate laws in place for a citizen to necessary, but I think overall the state and be adequately protected or supported. I believe counties have done a good job in prosecuting that much of the discrimination issues we currently discrimination. face are from the economic circumstances an EDUCATION: With the state constitutional lockbox individual might find themselves in. There are I think the state is stepping forward to adequately obviously exceptions, but they should be dealt with fund our 24 school systems, the state now has to using existing laws on a case-by-case basis. set up guidelines and best practices for school EDUCATION: I strongly support the introduction systems to better management the money they of local news and politics into schools. As a will now be receiving. Anne Arundel County Public student, I largely had to find out all the information Schools is in the top 10 of all school districts, IN for running and state politics by myself with no THE NATION, in money spent per pupil on prior knowledge from our education system. I also "administration". strongly support introducing trade skills and HEALTH CARE: The hospital assessment is a state schools to high school students as college might tax on healthcare of $350M which drives up costs not be the best choice for everyone. for everyone and needs to be repealed. Obamacare HEALTH CARE: No comment. I am familiar with is collapsing and an additional $380M tax passed federal law, but need to do research on state law. this year to prop it up will only make things worse. TRANSPORTATION: This to me is by far the most We need to eliminate Obamacare, reduce important category. I am in strong support of mandates and allow Marylanders to buy insurance improving or passing new legislation to improve plans across state lines to introduce more our existing infrastructure. I am also in strong

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support of increasing spending on successful, including the use of preferred pronouns in schools existing programs. Another important issue of mine and gov. offices for trans and gender non- is the Bay Bridge and traffic. We need to have a conforming persons, a permanent ban on solution in the upcoming years to improve the conversion therapy. I also support an expansion of current summer traffic situation. affordable housing and housing assistance indexed by the local market value and decriminalizing the use of recreational marijuana to allow for the Sid Saab expunging of misdemeanor drug charges Campaign Website: w w w .sidsaab.com EDUCATION: We have to lock box our casino Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ revenue to ensure funds are bridging the gap saabfordelegate between counties to attract and retain educators Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ SidSaab and support staff, and to invest in recruiting No response received by deadline. mental health staff for middle and high schools, establish a more autonomous classroom for Jerry Walker educators. I will reinvest in vocational training, Campaign Website: www.jerrywalker.org destigmatizing and gender-specifying career Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ education by partnering with businesses. jerryw74 HEALTH CARE: Rising cost of healthcare is a top Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ jerryw74 concern for voters. We have to take a No response received by deadline. comprehensive approach to address the cost of prescription and generic drugs, to allow pharmacists authority to make cost saving District 33 recommendations, and to stabilize the markets, Democratic Candidates and expand preventative care which ultimately Democrats may vote for no more than 3. saves money. I will work to expand preventative care to include dental, vision, and wellness Heather Bagnall education. Campaign Website: heatherbagnall.com TRANSPORTATION: Public transportation, Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ sidewalks, bike paths and green streets are my HeatherBagnallForDelegate transportation priorities. Many of our older Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ communities lack a public access option. We also HBagnall4MDDel have decreased the catchment area for school Campaign Email: buses and increased traffic because we lack safe HeatherBagnallforDelegate@gmail walk/bike paths in many communities. I would Campaign Phone: (800) 207-9428 expand the Reforestation Act to plant trees in QUALIFICATIONS: Working in non-profits, a under-served urban areas and along highways. training ground for improvisation and creative problem solving, where you often do everything with almost nothing, and working in arts education Tracie Cramer Hovermale and arts administration, helping children and adults Campaign Website: develop empathy while working on communication www.traciehovermale.com and team-building has given me a unique ability to Campaign Facebook: Facebook.com/ frame an argument and work in coalition utilizing hovermalefordelegate the strengths of a team. Campaign Instagram: @hovermalefordelegate REDISTRICTING: I support a trans-state coalition Campaign Email: between our Governor and the Governors of other [email protected] gerrymandered states to create a non-partisan Campaign Phone: (410) 798-1147 third party to create fair districts. However this QUALIFICATIONS: I’ve always relied on a must reach across state lines, much like the collaborative approach when seeking solutions coalition on gun reform which was initiated by the while in the workforce or as a community state of New York, and the coalition we have for volunteer; it’s the only way to find sustainable maintaining the integrity of the Chesapeake Bay. solutions. I bring people together from all sides ENVIRONMENT: Maintaining and strengthening and with hard work and tenacity stay engaged until the health of the Chesapeake Bay is an ongoing a solution is found. Given my background in challenge. We have a major issue with antibribery and ethics; I pledge my commitment to deforestation and storm water runoff and must transparency and ethics as your legislator. hold ourselves accountable to the 1:1 replacement REDISTRICTING: This challenge extends well ratio as defined by our Reforestation Act but would beyond Maryland. Nationwide districts have not extend reforestation beyond the district to utilize been drawn to ensure that every person’s vote and revitalize urban areas with green spaces as counts. It is critical to America that redistricting be well as a green streets initiative. done across the country based on common sense DISCRIMINATION: I support policies of inclusion boundaries and designed so that all citizens are

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represented equitably. promote or impede financial growth for Maryland ENVIRONMENT: Maryland must prioritize to families. reduce greenhouse gas emissions by embracing REDISTRICTING: I would support a non-partisan, renewable energy, returning to smart growth independent body to draw legislative and development and investing in science and congressional district maps after each census. technology to determine efficient use of limited ENVIRONMENT: Reducing greenhouse gases, resources. Limiting impervious surfaces and forest increasing Maryland’s renewable energy portfolio decimation is needed to minimize runoff and and protecting the Chesapeake Bay. These protect our waterways. We must collaborate with challenges require a commitment at from every other states in the region to find solutions. level of government which we have not seen DISCRIMINATION: Discrimination against any because of a misconception that there is a tradeoff person relative to education, housing, the between economic growth and the environment. workplace, medical services, banking or the legal Educating people that healthy environment means system prevents our society from being its best a healthy economy will advance good policies. and cannot be tolerated. We must ensure policies DISCRIMINATION: Dealing with these issues already in place are enforced consistently and work requires a holistic approach to overcome the together to strengthen policies shown to be underlying drivers of discrimination. A fair and ineffective and to identify new policies to fill gaps. level playing field in the workplace in terms of pay EDUCATION: Our future is dependent on children and benefits, access to adequate housing, social developing into critical thinkers and problem services, child care, adult daycare, education, solvers who can lead into the future. We must health care, legal services, financial services, provide the framework and foundation so all can transportation and a more equitable criminal reach their full potential by funding the public justice system would be a start. system first and by providing early childhood EDUCATION: Early childhood education, highly services and competitive compensation for qualified, properly paid teachers, college and teachers. We also must support affordable and career ready pathways, more resources for at-risk accessible workforce retraining options. kids and better governance and accountability. HEALTH CARE: Given the situation with federal Increased funding for projects and restoring health care policy Maryland must be a leader and budget cuts which occurred this year are a start continue to move forward with the work done in but the Fix Fund Act, and the Kirwin this area. Aging, economic disparities, changes in recommendations on funding formulas will further the work environment and increasing costs have direct where the money should come from. left many people to choose between medical care HEALTH CARE: Affordable and quality health care and other necessities. We are better than this and for all Marylanders. We need to protect Maryland’s must continue as a state to work for affordable insurance markets from federal action through healthcare for all. initiatives like health insurance down payment TRANSPORTATION: A reliable and efficient plans. Requiring more transparency for major drug transportation system is necessary for economic corporations in price setting. Reducing or growth and quality of life. Funding to maintain eliminating financial incentives to doctors for Metro and light rail is crucial. We need to evaluate prescribing drugs and pursuing lawsuits for price expansion of bus routes and passenger and freight gouging. train capacity. Public transportation options are TRANSPORTATION: A safe, efficient and critical to reduce emissions and traffic. When economical transportation systems that reaches available, we must work to secure Federal both rural and urban communities is essential for infrastructure funding. economic growth. Neighboring states are implementing transit programs that reduce congestion, pollution, and improve economic Pam Luby development in their communities. Maryland needs Campaign Website: w w w .pamluby.com to do the same by investing in an integrated Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ transportation infrastructure that serves all of lubyfordelegate Maryland. Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ lubyfordelegate Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Phone: (410) 349-7128 QUALIFICATIONS: I have a very diverse professional background with firsthand experience with many of the issues that come before the General Assembly. As a business women and attorney, I worked for fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organizations, state government, and owned my own business. I understand the economic drivers and workplace realities that

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Duties: As the chief executive officer of Anne Arundel County, the County Executive provides direction to all county departments, upholds county laws, and proposes plans, programs, budget, policies and legislation to the County Council. Salary: $142,000. Term: Four years; limited to two full consecutive terms. How Elected: Elected countywide. Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of this office? CHALLENGES: What are the greatest challenges facing Anne Arundel County? AFFORDABLE HOUSING, DEVELOPMENT AND LAND USE: What changes, if any, do you support in the county's policies and/or procedures related to housing, zoning and land use?: REPRESENTATION: How will you engage diverse communities throughout the county in providing input to guide policy decisions? COMMUNITY RELATIONS: There is a current countywide initiative whose mission is to "fight hatred and promote understanding." What specifically will you do to support this or related initiatives? OTHER PRIORITIES: What other issues will be your priorities during your term of office?

Republican Candidates citizen commissions are the most diverse in County Republicans may vote for no more than 1. history and reflect the make-up of our County with Steve Schuh 22% minorities. Campaign Website: w w w .steveschuh.com COMMUNITY RELATIONS: My administration Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ created the Anne Arundel United initiative, and I electsteveschuh am proud of its achievements thus far. These Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ conversations and issues are critical, and I will electsteveschuh continue to fund the program and to provide the Campaign Instagram: @electsteveschuh human and other resources needed for the Campaign Email: [email protected] program to grow. Hatred has no home in our Campaign Phone: (410) 255-6323 County. I will do everything in my power to create QUALIFICATIONS: I have served as Anne a jurisdiction that is safe and open to all. Arundel County Executive since 2014. I am a OTHER PRIORITIES: Other priorities include lifelong Anne Arundel County resident and small cleaning our waterways and other quality of life business owner. I know the County, its people and initiatives. My administration will invest $250 what they care about. First as a State Delegate million in 300 waterway clean-up projects over the and now as County Executive, I have proven next six years. This is the largest such effort in experience in constituent service, the legislative County history. Other quality of life improvements process, and working with others and creating include bike trails, boat ramps, swimming beaches, coalitions to get things done. roads, parks and improving our roads and CHALLENGES: Our top challenges are to: 1. infrastructure. Intelligently manage our lands and waterways. 2. Democratic Candidates Uplift people with challenges, particularly those Democrats may vote for no more than 1. who suffer from homelessness and substandard housing, lack of job skills, the challenges of old age Steuart Pittman and addiction. 3. Reduce overcrowding in schools Campaign Website: PittmanForPeople.com and accelerate school construction. 4. Encourage Campaign Facebook: PittmanForP eople economic growth and job creation by moderating Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ taxes, fees and regulation Steuart_Pittman AFFORDABLE HOUSING, DEVELOPMENT AND Campaign Email: info@P ittmanForP eople.com LAND USE: I am committed to smart growth and Campaign Phone: (240) 452-1035 preservation and support the current mix of 51% QUALIFICATIONS: I have run businesses and rural/protected and 49% developed/developable nonprofit organizations for 33 years. I operate a land. I support small area plans, and more public south county farm that has been in our family for notice and increased public engagement. I am for eight generations and Retired Racehorse Project, a policies that create healthy housing markets to national non-profit that is responsible for retraining moderate home prices, and my administration has and rehoming thousands of horses each year. I entered into new P3 agreements to redevelop our spent nine years as a community organizer, public housing communities. helping local groups to influence decisions made by REPRESENTATION: We increased the County’s their elected officials. engagement with diverse communities by creating CHALLENGES: Our greatest challenges are fiscal. a Hispanic & Immigrant Affairs Officer, Minority My opponent, the incumbent county executive, has Outreach Officer, and the Anne Arundel United used taxpayer-funded development subsidies to program. We initiated Spanish language TV, radio, promote growth, but failed to adequately fund the website and mail communications. Our cabinet and schools, public safety, or infrastructure to serve

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the growing population. We need to engage the development requires creativity, and that rarely public in the budget process and give them the comes from rooms full of rich, white men. data to make wise choices about how their money COMMUNITY RELATIONS: Arundel United was a is spent. good idea that never took hold. It was perceived as AFFORDABLE HOUSING, DEVELOPMENT AND a political move from the top down, rather than a LAND USE: I oppose the county executive’s community-driven effort. My administration will decision to do our next General Development Plan invite community leaders to make without an update of our 16 Small Area Plans. We recommendations on how to move forward against need input from those communities and we need to the divisiveness and racial intolerance that persists enforce the GDP so that development is limited to in our schools and communities. I will follow their areas where it has community support. Our service lead, but I will not be silent. economy requires that we create affordable more OTHER PRIORITIES: We spend too much time in housing opportunities in the county. traffic. After nine years of waiting, we will have a REPRESENTATION: Having worked in Latino, Transportation Master Plan when I take office in African American, and low income white 2019. I will work with federal, state, and regional neighborhoods of Chicago and Des Moines, I partners to implement that plan aggressively. We appreciate diversity. County boards, commissions, must also convene community and business and high-level staff positions will have far more leaders to address poverty, addiction, and mental women, more ethnic minorities, and more health. New strategies to embrace the most geographic diversity than exist today. Good policy vulnerable among us empower us all.

County Council

Duties: The County Council is the elected legislative body of the county and is vested with the lawmaking power thereof, including all such powers as may heretofore have been exercised by the General Assembly of Maryland and transferred to the people of the county by the adoption of the county charter. Base Salary: $38,760 increasing 2% annually to $41,133. Additional stipends for Chair and Vice Chair. Term: Four years; limited to two full consecutive terms. How Elected: Elected by the qualified voters of the councilmanic district in which the member resides, during the same election year as members of the General Assembly. Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of this office? LEGISLATIVE GOALS: What local legislation will you seek to sponsor, support, oppose or overturn? AFFORDABLE HOUSING: What are your views regarding the supply of affordable housing in the county, and measures to increase and relocate affordable housing options for county employees and residents? REPRESENTATION: How will you engage diverse communities within your district in providing input to guide policy decisions? COMMUNITY RELATIONS: There is a current countywide initiative whose mission is to "fight hatred and promote understanding." What specifically will you do to support this or related initiatives? OTHER PRIORITIES: What other issues will be your priorities during your term of office? District 1 Rain Tax, which the incumbent fully supports and Republican Candidates has repeatedly voted to maintain; - support the Republicans may vote for no more than 1. County's voter-enacted Tax Cap and will work to Kimberly McCoy Burns insure that your tax dollars are spent intelligently, Campaign Website: kimforcouncil.com effectively and fairly; - sponsor legislation to Campaign Facebook: Friends of Kim Burns require accountability and demand openness in the Campaign Email: [email protected] zoning and development process; - oppose, vote QUALIFICATIONS: I have a lifetime of experience and fight against MAGLEV. serving as an advocate, in both law and in the AFFORDABLE HOUSING: District 1 is a great legislative setting. I know how government works place to live. People work hard to be able to afford and how to get things done. I understand how to to live here. Unfortunately, when it comes to work with others to build a consensus to achieve government-subsidized housing, it is also the area results. District 1 needs and deserves an that always seems first in line for programs to experienced advocate, for a change, who can get move people into Anne Arundel County from other substantial things done and fix the problems and areas. "Affordable Housing" must stop being a concerns we face in our communities. function of zip code and it is past time for the LEGISLATIVE GOALS: I will: - vote to end the entire county to take on the burden.

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REPRESENTATION: I will work to bring people increase the number of senior house to eliminate together, regardless of their "community." The the wait list that exist for the population. term "diverse communities" is used to divide REPRESENTATION: I have held several people and pull them apart. What District 1 needs community sessions to help educate and receive is for all our residents to work together. We should input on pending legislation. I spend several work together to build stronger neighborhoods and weekends a month working various communities to schools. Unlike the incumbent, I want to bring us gauge conditions and needs of the area. I often together; not divide us with artificial labels. reach out to community leaders and ask for input COMMUNITY RELATIONS: There is nothing on gaps within the county. I also have a core team "current" about a mission to build trust and that is comprised of diverse leaders that I connect understanding among people in our community. with for advice. The people of District 1 have a long and strong COMMUNITY RELATIONS: I proposed the proven history of working together to help and resolution that initiated this conversation to deal support each other regardless of economic and with hatred and worked with the administration to social factors. What is required is a Councilwoman create the Anne Arundel United. I have held to build on these efforts; not a Councilman whose several meeting with groups to have this effort words and actions seek to divide us by groups. lead and driven by the community. I've given OTHER PRIORITIES: Development is swallowing personal testimony when it comes to the effects of up District 1 - traffic, built-over green space and bias and hatred. similar problems are deeply felt in our OTHER PRIORITIES: During the next term, I neighborhoods. There must be a balance between would like to focus on continuing the efforts I growth and maintaining what is left of the charm began during this term. In addition, I would like to and simple good life that has always been a part of focus efforts to improve the Brooklyn Park area our communities. I will fight to protect our area and push the administration to enhance and before it becomes just another paved-over increase the number of public safety officials so we suburban sprawl on a map. I oppose MAGLEV. can combat the opioid addiction and crime associated with it.

Democratic Candidates Democrats may vote for no more than 1. District 2 Sarah Lacey Republican Candidates Campaign Website: www.votesarahlacey.com Republicans may vote for no more than 1. Campaign Facebook: fb.me/ Tom Gardner sarahforcouncildistrict1 Campaign Website: trgardner.com No response received by deadline. Campaign Facebook: tom gardner for county council Pete Smith No response received by deadline. Campaign Website: www.votepetesmith.com Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ Democratic Candidates CouncilmanPeteSmith Democrats may vote for no more than 1. Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ PeteSmithMD Campaign Email: [email protected] Candy L. Fontz Campaign Phone: (443) 773-2606 Campaign Website: CandyFontz.com QUALIFICATIONS: With 20 years as an enlisted Campaign Facebook: FriendsofCandyFontz and officer in the United States Marines and 5 Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ CFontz years as the current Councilman, I am fully Campaign Email: prepared to fulfill the duties of this office. Our team [email protected] has spent the last term working for every citizen. Campaign Phone: (410) 760-2093 In addition, I have started community programs to QUALIFICATIONS: I've been an active aide neighborhoods that have been under served. community leader for 20+ years. I was appointed LEGISLATIVE GOALS: During this term, I by former County Executive Laura Newman as the campaigned on and supported efforts to ensure our Community and Constituent Services Liaison for education system received necessary funding the northern portion of Anne Arundel County, as above MOE, public safety grew to address the well as the Community Liaison for Delegates Ned needs of our communities, and small businesses Carey and Mark Chang. I am known for my were competitive and setup for success. During the determination to find resolutions and my ability to next cycle, I would focus on efforts to combat work side-by-side with government and residents. crime and economic gaps caused by poverty. LEGISLATIVE GOALS: Legislation should be AFFORDABLE HOUSING: I have sponsored and based on feedback from constituents rather than supported legislation for working for housing within personal opinions of an elected official. There are our county. Quality and affordable housing is in portions of Code that are outdated or need need and our county should continue to promote clarification. I would update the Animal Control access to these products. I would also fight to portion that addresses reclaiming an animal during

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a situation with extenuating circumstances. I will also interested in focusing on the planning that support bills that benefit our Police, Corrections, goes into the General Development Plan/ Small and Fire divisions. area plan process. AFFORDABLE HOUSING: Affordable housing is AFFORDABLE HOUSING: It is clear that AACo almost non-existent in our county and severely does not have enough Affordable/Workforce restricts residency for many. We must work on housing. We need to review the current barriers responsible growth within the area by reviewing within county laws that make it difficult to increase the current Code as it relates to residential zoning, workforce housing especially in areas that are also and consider offering density bonuses to in need of revitalization. The lack of affordable developers. This will result in county employees housing was identified in the last General and residents having the ability to live in quality Development plan and should be a focus in the neighborhoods at a reasonable cost. next GPD/Small Area Planning process. REPRESENTATION: It is the job of good REPRESENTATION: I am committed to holding government to reach out directly to our town hall style forums but it is paramount to communities to better learn their concerns and attend local community association meetings and suggestions for improvements. I would continue to events on a regular basis to ensure on going attend community meetings, host round-table engagement. I have forged positive relationships in discussions during times when most residents are my district with veteran's groups, community able to attend and at locations that are in their associations, PTAs, etc. I will continue to build immediate neighborhood when possible, and upon these relationships to ensure everyone has a continue speaking with residents on a one-on-one voice. We must listen first. basis. COMMUNITY RELATIONS: I am committed to COMMUNITY RELATIONS: Racism and hatred the mission behind this initiative. The County have no place in our county. I pledge to be actively Council must ensure our laws promote equality and involved in events and activities that spotlight the equity. We must also work to increase open and positives of our minorities, racially and multi- honest dialogue through public forums that bring culturally. I will support initiatives that bring diverse groups together with the goal of promoting diverse groups together for the betterment of all. I understanding. There are good examples of these will champion legislation that continues to improve types of community events around the country like diversity through inclusion and understanding. "The Longest Table". OTHER PRIORITIES: We must address ongoing OTHER PRIORITIES: 1. Bolster compensation issues with zoning enforcement, specifically in the within our public sector; fire, police, teachers, northern portion of the county. Current thinking is public works, etc. 2. Ensure that funds are that these are nuisance issues and aren’t moved allocated for the 12 priority schools in the Old Mill/ through our court system because they are a low Glen Burnie clusters 3. Work to improve intra- priority. A Zoning Officer, assigned to the District 2 county public transportation 4. Create a responsive area, would be able to address and resolve the constituent service program 5. Craft land use laws issue through persistence rather than the legal that ensure strong environmental stewardship channels, in most cases. District 3 Allison Pickard Campaign Website: www.allisonpickard.com Republican Candidates Campaign Facebook: AllisonPickard for Republicans may vote for no more than 1. County Council Dana Smallwood-Friia Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ Campaign Facebook: dana smallw ood friia allison_pickard No response received by deadline. Campaign Instagram: AllisonM.Pickard Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Phone: (240) 281-8052 Nathan Volke QUALIFICATIONS: My professional experience in Campaign Website: nathanvolke.com the private, public, and non profit sector working Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ votevolke with services for the elderly, my community Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ nathanvolke involvement and higher education provide me a QUALIFICATIONS: As a litigation attorney over unique perspective that lends itself well to County the last seven years, and having interned for Council. My service on the AACo Board of legislators at the county (Councilman Ron Dillon), Education and School Board Appointment state (Delegate Nic Kipke) and federal level Commission exemplifies my ability to represent my (Senator Ben Cardin), I have seen first-hand what District with integrity. makes an effective advocate and legislator. Be well LEGISLATIVE GOALS: When elected, I will focus -prepared. Listen more than you talk. Ask relevant my energy to bring county resources and revenues questions. Do not compromise your core beliefs. to my district. I am committed to crafting LEGISLATIVE GOALS: Taxes: Minimize the tax legislative policy and incentives that will bolster burden on families & retirees. Spending: Modernize revitalization to the greater Glen Burnie area. I am government services & give our county employees

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the tools they need to perform their jobs more AFFORDABLE HOUSING: Many of our public efficiently. Development: Ensure that any new service employees can’t afford to live in the development is measured, transparent & carefully county. I would like to see developers set aside considered based on intensive community outreach some units for those who work hard to make our & input. county safe and educate our children. We would AFFORDABLE HOUSING: This is one of the most need to develop policies and guidelines for expensive counties in the country to live. I believe affordable housing. continued efforts to reduce our taxes would help REPRESENTATION: Community outreach has lower that cost. More economic prosperity would always been very important to me. I hosted also put more money in people’s pockets to live. I outreach events at local libraries and public spaces want to make sure that our taxes, spending and during my time on the school board where citizens economic prosperity benefit everyone in our county could come and ask questions and share concerns. not just the well-to-do. I plan to do similar events when elected to the REPRESENTATION: It is crucial to hear from the Council. people affected by new policies before they are COMMUNITY RELATIONS: Fighting hatred and enacted. One new way I'd like to engage the promoting understanding needs to start in our community is to offer open meetings at local coffee communities. A collaborative county-wide effort is shops around the district where constituents can a good start, but I will work to get the business sign up to discuss issues they care about. I would community, faith-based organizations, schools, also like to do more with online surveys to hear HOA’s, recreation groups and others together from directly from constituents. my district to have open dialogue and brainstorm COMMUNITY RELATIONS: Hatred has no place in solutions. our county as I firmly believe we are called to love OTHER PRIORITIES: The General Development one another. To begin to understand one another plan is a key issue. I want to ensure that we have so that we can love one another, it’s my belief that reached a diverse group of citizens for input. we must start by listening to each other. So, as Implementing into the GDP were applicable parts simple as it may sound, I want to listen first and of the small area plans. hear from those in our community who feel they have been left out or not represented. District 4 OTHER PRIORITIES: Healthcare: My son’s recent birth and extended hospital stay reminded my wife Republican Candidates and I just how important and expensive healthcare Republicans may vote for no more than 1. can be. I want to make health insurance more Torrey J. Snow affordable for families. Public Safety: Increase Campaign Website: www.snow4liberty.com resources for public safety, including hiring more Campaign Facebook: snow 4liberty18 police and fire personnel. Illegal Immigration: Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ Enforce our laws. snow4liberty18 Democratic Candidates Campaign Instagram: snow4liberty18 Democrats may vote for no more than 1. Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Phone: (443) 599-9178 Debbie Ritchie QUALIFICATIONS: My education, as well as Campaign Website: personal experience has given me significant www.electdebbieritchie.com comfort in engaging and connecting with people Campaign Facebook: Friends of Debbie Ritchie from all backgrounds. I spent nearly every Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ ritchie_debbie weekend volunteering in underserved Campaign Email: [email protected] communities, since I was a teenager. I also made Campaign Phone: (443) 424-2018 the transition from being an educator to a QUALIFICATIONS: I am a Registered Nurse, professional systems analyst. My entire job focus recently retired from the Department of Veterans was crafting and maintaining sound policy and Affairs. I also volunteered as PTA president at processes. Jacobsville Elementary, President of the county & LEGISLATIVE GOALS: My primary legislative goal state PTA, a 21st Century Education Foundation will be to approve a General Development Plan that board member, and VP of the Board of Education. I our residents are informed about and comfortable graduated from Emerge Maryland in 2017. with. I'm also committing to look for ways to LEGISLATIVE GOALS: I would like to see reduce the burdens and obstacles that prevent our legislation and budgets that addresses the residents from taking action to address local following: • Competitive compensation for our challenges. Finally, I will work to ensure that the public servants (police, fire, educators, corrections, pay for our educators and law enforcement have etc.) • Better infrastructure and public greater priority in budgets. transportation • Increased recreational AFFORDABLE HOUSING: After meeting directly opportunities • Smaller class sizes in our public with representatives from the Housing Commission schools • Re-purposing empty commercial spaces • of Anne Arundel County, I am convinced that we Being good stewards of our waterways and parks are on a positive path. We have strong local

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advocacy, and wise leadership. I would like to see housing. I feel we need to do a better job of the county council raise awareness to the creating policy and initiatives to support more resources that help residents achieve housing affordable housing for our teachers, police, independence. There are opportunities to invest in firefighters, and those in need. I have worked hard programs that support this goal. to advocate for residents in need and have been REPRESENTATION: I believe very strongly in the successful in matching resources for those who citizen statesman model. Not everyone needs to be need it. experts on politics, but everyone should have a REPRESENTATION: Currently I hold town halls trusted friend who is. I already actively seek out and community meetings throughout the year. This these leaders and organize small-group meetings has been very helpful in allowing me to be in touch where they can connect with those who manage with all voters in the community. In some cases I policy. I then encourage these leaders with also have visited homes of constituents that strategies and tips to engage their own spheres of contact me about concerns. I frequently use social influence. media to engage and involve the local community. COMMUNITY RELATIONS: I have found that it is COMMUNITY RELATIONS: As leaders it is best to step beyond the paradigm of "town halls". important that we lead by example. I have always Rather, I seek to make myself available in a involved youth in my campaigns or have them variety of settings, such as parks, libraries, and volunteer in my office. In addition, it is important community events. I believe our libraries and parks that we promote charity and common will play a key role in connecting people directly to understanding in our community. Each year I hold one another. I actively encourage and support a community football game that benefits a charity people who seek face to face dialogue with those in our community. Attendees include a range of who embrace different ideas. diverse families that come together for a common OTHER PRIORITIES: My primary goal is to give cause. our residents the confidence that they can not only OTHER PRIORITIES: I support greater understand their local government, but that they transparency in our local government. In the last can play an active role in improving it. I will invite election, voters supported my charter amendment community stakeholders to participate in county requiring the County Executive to hold public council proceedings and assure them that they are meetings, before he introduces the budget. I plan not only heard, but valued for their work in our on continuing efforts to engage citizens and involve community. them in local government. I also want to make sure that our teachers, police, and firefighters are District 4 adequately compensated.

Democratic Candidates District 5 Democrats may vote for no more than 1. Republican Candidates Andrew C. Pruski Republicans may vote for no more than 1. Campaign Website: www.andrewpruski.com Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ Amanda Fiedler votepruski Campaign Website: www.voteforfiedler.com Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ Campaign Facebook: amandafiedler andrew_Pruski (candidate page) Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ QUALIFICATIONS: As the former Four Seasons amandafiedler Community Association President, member and No response received by deadline. President of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education, and now currently my first term as a Michael Anthony Peroutka County Councilman, I have bring a wealth of Campaign Website: peroutkatownhall.com experience to run for a second term. In addition to No response received by deadline. the aforementioned positions, I am also a former High School Social Studies Teacher and Eagle Scout. Democratic Candidates LEGISLATIVE GOALS: Within my first term on Democrats may vote for no more than 1. the County Council I lead the effort to pass Dawn Gough Myers numerous pieces of legislation including for Campaign Website: www.votefordawn.com veterans, small business, schools, and greater Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ transparency in government. My goal is to continue votefordawn my efforts to support our schools, public safety, Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ voteformyers and protect the environment. In particular I also Campaign Instagram: @votefordawn think we need to address the affordable housing Campaign Email: gap in Anne Arundel County. [email protected] AFFORDABLE HOUSING: Anne Arundel County QUALIFICATIONS: I have worked for the State of clearly has a shortage of affordable and workforce Maryland as a budget and finance expert for

Page 57 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Anne Arundel County County Council almost 20 years. I have a law degree and an MBA, QUALIFICATIONS: As a former Education Law and over the course of my career as a public attorney I have significant experience reading and servant, I’ve drafted legislation, studied and interpreting laws. As such, I am well prepared to implemented environmental, fiscal, education and create laws. My current work as a public school smart growth policy, and ran complex government teacher has provided me valuable insight into the programs. needs of youth and families of our county and it LEGISLATIVE GOALS: I would bring fiscal has honed my ability to be a resourceful and responsibility to the county budget. Specifically, I'd tenacious multitasker. ensure that education funds are spent in the LEGISLATIVE GOALS: I want to create a budget classroom and on teachers where they have the that better supports our schools. Classes in AACPS highest impact-not on expanding administration. I have grown too large and teacher compensation is would also address the dangerously low funding for not competitive. I would also create legislation that our first responders, which is putting emergency adds more teeth to zoning laws while slowing services at risk. Lastly, I would slow development growth. As the County Council updates the General to sustainable levels. Development Plan, I want to ensure that it builds AFFORDABLE HOUSING: The supply of on the community input and the previous small affordable housing in the county is inadequate. area plans. Teachers, Firefighters, Police Officers, and other AFFORDABLE HOUSING: Housing in Anne public servants struggle to afford housing in the Arundel County is expensive. As developers profit county. Many residents do, too. Few existing handsomely from building in our county, we must programs adequately address the issue, and one encourage, incentivize, or require them to provide has been used to benefit gambling interests affordable housing if they also want to profit from instead of helping citizens afford housing. This is high-end projects. We are also fortunate that an important issue that needs better solutions. several nearby counties have successfully REPRESENTATION: I will engage diverse expanded affordable housing through policies that communities by talking with community leaders, can serve as models. having frequent opportunities for community REPRESENTATION: Engaging diverse meetings, and being accessible. communities is best accomplished through COMMUNITY RELATIONS: I would ensure this communication and listening. In many cases the initiative has the proper resources, attend events, communication will mean attending neighborhood and encourage the County Executive to effectively meetings, listening to community members, or implement the program. listening to community leaders. By emphasizing OTHER PRIORITIES: Our quality of life is being doorknocking in my campaign, I have already impacted by ever expanding development. Our spoken with hundreds of people and attended schools are overcrowded and underfunded, our meetings in all different parts of District 6. traffic is gridlocked, our first responders strained, COMMUNITY RELATIONS: First, I will speak up and our environment is suffering. Our communities when I observe racism or bias or when a county cannot afford to have any more poorly planned policy or practice unfairly impacts one group. I will development foisted upon us. I also believe that work to amplify diverse voices so that all the County has to do more to encourage the viewpoints are considered when creating new creation of good jobs with benefits. policy. Finally, I will work with the Board of Education to ensure that they are creating a safe District 6 learning environment for all students and fully responding when incidents of hate occur. Republican Candidates OTHER PRIORITIES: My other priorities include: Republicans may vote for no more than 1. 1) Increasing support for addiction recovery programs to stem our opioid and other addiction Michael Christman problems, 2) removing Anne Arundel County’s 287 Campaign Website: (g) program, 3) expanding our pedestrian and www.electmikechristman.com cycling infrastructure, 4) securing competitive Campaign Facebook: Mike Christman for compensation for county employees, including first County Council - Dist 6 responders, and 5) expanding protections for our No response received by deadline. LGBTQ neighbors.

Democratic Candidates Democrats may vote for no more than 1. Scott MacMullan Campaign Website: www.electscottmac.com Lisa Brannigan Rodvien Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ Campaign Website: lisarodvien.com electscottmac/ Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ smacmullan friendsofLisaRodvien/ Campaign Instagram: electscottmac Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ LisaRodvien Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Phone: (443) 494-9775 Campaign Phone: (240) 441-2674

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QUALIFICATIONS: I’m qualified to represent the Campaign Email: people in District 6 because of my extensive [email protected] community involvement and service to District 6. Campaign Phone: (443) 994-9591 Notably, I’m on the Mayor’s Transition Team. Since QUALIFICATIONS: From leading the successful 5 I clerked for the former head judge of Anne -year effort for a Crofton High School to serving on Arundel County, The Honorable Nancy Davis- numerous boards, to graduating from Leadership Loomis, I’m an attorney with a solid foundation of Anne Arundel, I have thoroughly learned how Anne working with the Code of Anne Arundel County. Arundel County works. I've attended or watched LEGISLATIVE GOALS: A pressing issue for the every County Council and Board of Education County Council is the General Development Plan. meeting over the past four years and will be fully This plan needs to have complete transparency and prepared on day one. it needs to have teeth. I will build coalitions and LEGISLATIVE GOALS: I will support fiscally fight to fund our schools for our children. The responsible and conservative budgets. I will oppose opioid epidemic has ravaged our County. We need tax and fee increases and push to use surpluses to to invest in first responders and long term better fund our public safety and first responders. I treatment solutions. I will fight and advocate for will fight to keep South County rural. stormwater restoration projects. AFFORDABLE HOUSING: As Anne Arundel AFFORDABLE HOUSING: As someone who County grows, affordable housing should grow as cannot afford a house in my District, this is well. Having affordable housing for our workforce is especially important to me. In the early 2000s the a key ingredient in retaining those workers. Too Council effectively repealed any meaningful often we lose county teachers, police officers, and affordable housing legislation for the county. I fire fighters to nearby jurisdictions that offer more have sat with members of the Anne Arundel affordable housing and better pay. County Affordable Housing Coalition and I am REPRESENTATION: Accessibility. A good elected committed to advocating for affordable, working official is one who takes the time to listen to every class and lower-income housing. constituent's concerns and help where he or she REPRESENTATION: Engaging diverse people in can. Getting out into the communities that make their actual communities has been, and will always up the district and will be impacted by legislation is be, important to me. I am a former member of the vital to making policy decisions. Input, positive or Annapolis Human Relations Commission--which negative, helps a legislator shape policy. has the mission of ending discrimination and giving COMMUNITY RELATIONS: All people are created everyone a fair & equal opportunity, and I am a equal and it is through communication with one current member of the Bates Legacy Center. Every another that we build respect and understanding. day in my practice I represent and advocate for We must tear down the barriers that divide us and diverse clientele. work together to make our county a better place COMMUNITY RELATIONS: I would support more for all of us. I will lead by example. initiatives and events that bring our community OTHER PRIORITIES: Fighting the heroin and together. Further, I would support legislation that opioid epidemic will be one of my highest priorities. strengthens the state hate crime statute. Finally, I Better managing growth and development while would take a vocal lead on speaking out against keeping our revenue streams growing will also be a hate in our county. We must not just have focus. I will fight to maintain term limits and work initiatives for lip service; we must actually roll up to lower our property taxes and fees. our sleeves and get into the community to fight hate and promote understanding. OTHER PRIORITIES: I would advocate for a Jessica Haire memorial for those that died at the Crownsville Campaign Website: State Hospital (established as Maryland’s Asylum WWW.JESSICAHAIRE.COM for the Negro Insane) and are buried at the patient Campaign Facebook: Jessica Haire for Anne cemetery. I would work with Janice Hayes-Williams Arundel County Council on this matter. I want to continue to push for Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ rundjessie diverse representation on the Anne Arundel County No response received by deadline. School Board and in our County offices. Democratic Candidates Democrats may vote for no more than 1. District 7 James Kitchin Republican Candidates Campaign Website: www.jameskitchin.com Republicans may vote for no more than 1. Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ james.carl.kitchin Jonathan Boniface Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ james_kitchin Campaign Website: Campaign Instagram: @james_kitchin www.jonathanboniface.com Campaign Email: Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ [email protected] bonifaceforcc Campaign Phone: (410) 562-1345 Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ JBonifaceD7

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QUALIFICATIONS: Most of my career I have REPRESENTATION: As a public policy researcher, been a high school teacher and I currently work as I have been trained to always think about how a public policy researcher at UMBC. These each policy decision affects every stakeholder – experiences have prepared me to prioritize including the diverse communities of my district. I investments in education and to make sure that will hold bi-monthly town halls in which I will listen the council’s decisions are grounded in data, based to the views of community members and will on the most recent scientific evidence, and always directly reach out to community leaders in regards are in the best interest of the public. to legislation that directly affects their stakeholder LEGISLATIVE GOALS: My top legislative goal will group. be introducing campaign finance reform. Second, COMMUNITY RELATIONS: I would participate in will be to reform the way we do development as this initiative’s activities. But also, I believe that we the current system decreases our quality of life and need to make sure the county’s policies are strains our budget at the same time. Third, will be consistent with these stated goals. We are actively to make sure that our schools, police, and fire involved in programs that, I believe, negatively departments are adequately staffed and that these affect our Hispanic communities and we have an public servants are paid competitively compared to anti-LGBTQ resolution still on the books. We need surrounding counties. to change this. We also need to have an empathy AFFORDABLE HOUSING: We need more curriculum in our schools. affordable housing. The waitlists for both HCAAC OTHER PRIORITIES: We need to continue our units and Housing Choice Vouchers are much too focus on addressing the opioid crisis, especially by long. We also need to expand our view of providing a higher number of beds in treatment affordable housing to include options that allow our facilities. I think that our schools need to do a public servants to live in our county. I would better job preparing our students for careers that support inclusionary zoning ordinances as well as don’t require a college degree. We should prioritize looking to provide housing allowances for public using local workers to complete county servants that live here in Anne Arundel County. construction projects by removing the ban on Project Labor Agreements.

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DUTIES: Judges preside in the Circuit Court, which is a trial court that hears major civil cases and more serious criminal cases, such as those requiring a jury trial. Circuit Courts also may decide appeals from the District Court and certain administrative agencies. SALARY: $154,433. TERM: Fifteen years; no term limit. Mandatory retirement age of 70 years. HOW ELECTED: The state is divided into 8 Judicial Circuits. The General Assembly determines the num- ber of judges in each circuit and county. When there is a vacancy, the Governor appoints a qualified per- son to fill the office. Each newly appointed Circuit Court judge then must stand for office at the first elec- tion that occurs at least one year after the vacancy happened. One or more other qualified members of the bar may also run to fill the vacancy. All candidates run on both the Democratic and Republican pri- mary ballots. Questions Qualifications: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of this office? Discrimination: How can the courts address discrimination based on race, gender, religion, disability, or poverty? Court Needs: What are the greatest needs of Maryland’s court system and how can these be addressed?

Candidates Appeals, and the Court of Appeals) for more than a Voters may vote for no more than 1. decade and in cases ranging from personal injury Claudia Barber to minor criminal matters, small estate Campaign Website: settlements, contract disputes, collections, and claudiabarberforjudge.vistaprintdigital.com more. I have represented parties on all sides and Campaign Email: [email protected] am respected by my peers. Campaign Phone: (301) 206-2166 Discrimination: While justice is blind and all Qualifications: From 2005-2016, I served as an people should enjoy equal protection under the administrative law judge for the District of law, promoting programs that provide expanded Columbia Office of Administrative Hearings. I access to various court-based services, programs, received top performance evaluations. Many and educational resources (legal aid, self-help decisions were affirmed on appeal. I also have over clinics, the Office of the Public Defender, ADR, 17 years of legal experience conducting jury trials diversion programs, etc.) is vital to ensuring that and representing clients in state and federal courts parties can navigate the legal system as prepared in both civil and criminal cases. Rarely did I have a and informed as possible. backlog of cases. Court Needs: Efficient management of crowded Discrimination: During my tenure as a jurist, I dockets is one of the continual challenges facing participated in many educational programs the court system. Electronic case management is presented by the National Judicial College faculty already in use in AA Co. and continues to be involving implicit biases in the judiciary. The last implemented statewide. ADR and related programs course, The Neurosicence of Decision-Making, to resolve matters before trial should be expanded focused on all biases. This should be mandatory for as much as possible. Specialized case management judges. Every judge must be cognizant of real and tracks can also be expanded to improve efficiency perceived biases we have based on race, gender, in more areas. poverty, and disabilities. Court Needs: The greatest needs of Maryland's Mark W. Crooks court system are maintaining a fair and inclusive Campaign Website: w w w .markcrooks.com jury system and judiciary. When the state fails to Campaign Facebook: keep fair-minded jurists on the bench, litigants and @friendsofjudgemarkwcrooks the citizenry lose. When inequities are recognized Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ in the courts, they must be immediately rectified. judgemarkcrooks Another concern is restorative justice for those Campaign Instagram: incarcerated for crimes that are no longer a crime. @friendsofjudgemarkcrooks Campaign Email: Robert W. Burton [email protected] Campaign Website: w w w .ElectRobBurton.org Campaign Phone: (443) 808-4731 Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ Qualifications: I am an incumbent judge FriendsforRobBurton appointed after a lengthy peer evaluation and Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ nomination process. I have presided over civil, RobBurton4Judge criminal and family law hearings and trials. I spent Campaign Email: [email protected] my legal career as a state and federal prosecutor Campaign Phone: (410) 279-3772 investigating and trying over 2000 cases. I am the Qualifications: I have been trying cases in all only military veteran and lifetime public servant on levels of the Maryland judicial system (District the court. I was born in Maryland and I am Courts, Circuit Courts, the Court of Special committed to AA County.

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Discrimination: As a judicial candidate Personal injury, contracts, real estate, civil rights, campaigning to retain my seat on the bench, I immigration, malpractice, etc. are some areas must not be beholden whatsoever to any political handled by me (not all). party or faction. To the contrary, I must maintain Discrimination: Strictly enforcing our laws no platform. Instead, I must be a thoughtful, against discrimination is the best way to combat patient fair and impartial jurist to ALL persons. As I this unlawfulness. Taking statistics and history have demonstrated, a judge must not be intimately into consideration when discrimination influenced by personal bias, but should strictly lawsuits are filed is critically important since such apply the law EQUALLY. prevents viewing discrimination in a vacuum. Court Needs: AA County requires a military Disparate impact is inseparably connected to veterans court in Circuit Court. Honorably disparate treatment. Being cognizant of what has discharged veterans deserve a robust court occurred helps immensely. dedicated to addressing the special needs of Court Needs: (1) Diversity is needed. A diverse former servicemen/women who now find court is a responsive court, i.e., responsive by themselves in harm’s way. These courts are proven incorporating those whose tax money pays for the to reduce recidivism, cost taxpayers less money court and whose community frequents the court. and turn lives around. We must also expand our (2) Fair sentencing is needed. The imbalance drug treatment court to combat the opioid crisis. regarding race and socio-economic status is well documented and shameful. They are best addressed by diversifying the court and monitoring Annette DeCesaris judges' sentencing practices. Campaign Facebook: Annette DeCesaris for Judge Campaign Email: Nevin L. Young [email protected] Campaign Email: Campaign Phone: (301) 890-6200 [email protected] Qualifications: My experiences have prepared me Campaign Phone: (410) 710-9622 for the duties of the office of Judge for the Circuit Qualifications: I am a graduate of St. John's Court for Anne Arundel County because I College in Annapolis, and the George Washington understand that, from my almost 18 years as an University Law School. I have practiced law in attorney involved in litigation and mediation, a Annapolis for 13 years in a broad range of cases Judge is to be an impartial and respectful listener both civil and criminal. I have far more courtroom to the facts presented and then apply the laws to experience than most of the other candidates. I said facts so as to reach the best decision possible. also came to the law later in life and know what it Discrimination: Courts can address discrimination is like to work at a career outside the law, unlike of any sort by ensuring that all people have fair some other candidates. and equal access to the Courts. Discrimination: A judge should never decide Court Needs: The greatest needs of Maryland's cases based upon any of these factors, and must court system is equal access to the court system always be careful to question whether bias might by all people. This can be done by Judges be creeping into a decision making process. Access encouraging pro bono, self-help centers and similar to justice will remain an important challenge in no-cost access programs. It can also be done by terms of ensuring that even the poorest citizens waiving filing fees. The Courts can also provide have adequate legal representation. Judges should equal access by getting involved in community always be careful to guard the rights of all those outreach programs. before them. Court Needs: The Courts are in the process of updating to electronic filing throughout the State of Kathleen Elmore Maryland, and that will be a great benefit once the Campaign Website: electkathleenelmore.com system becomes more familiar and the flaws in No response received by deadline. implementation have been addressed. However, we do a poor job in ensuring that pro se litigants Rickey Nelson Jones and other persons have access to court information Campaign Website: w w w .rrnj-justiceforall.com and scheduling equal to the access afforded to Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ attorneys. RNJ.Justice.For.All/ Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ RNJjustice4all Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Phone: (410) 462-5800 Qualifications: My experience as a diverse, multi- state, attorney focusing on Civil Law, Criminal Law, Administrative Law, and Appellate Law gives me broad knowledge of the law. I have represented the corporation earning millions and the low- income person facing 10 years imprisonment.

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DUTIES: The State’s Attorney's office serves as the county's chief law enforcement agency, prosecuting all criminal cases. The State's Attorney heads a team of prosecutors, victim advocates, case managers, investigators and other administrative staff. In addition to seeking justice in criminal cases, the State's Attorney's office provides training to lawyers, promotes fairness and ensures access to the criminal jus- tice system, fosters professional relations with judges and attorneys, educates the public about criminal justice issues, and seeks to further the efficient use of criminal justice resources. SALARY: $170,518 TERM: Four years, no term limit. HOW ELECTED: Elected countywide. Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of this office? INITIATIVES: What new programs or improvements will you seek to implement in the State's Attorney's office? PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION: What steps will you take to ensure non-discriminatory implementation of prosecu- torial discretion? OTHER PRIORITIES: What other issues will be your priorities during your term of office?

Republican Candidates teaching about drug misuse, teen dating violence, Republicans may vote for no more than 1. on-line safety, cyber-bullying, and peer leadership Wes Adams & mentoring. Long term crime prevention requires Campaign Website: www.electwesadams.com consistent presence & messaging with youth. Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ Kathy Rogers Wes-Adams-for-States-Attorney- Campaign Website: 274344579408593/ www.electkathyrogers.com Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ wesadams2018 kathyrogersforstatesattorney/ Campaign Email: W [email protected] Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ QUALIFICATIONS: I am a prosecutor with over KathyRogers2018 20 years of experience in multiple jurisdictions in Campaign Instagram: N/ A Maryland. I have a proven record of success Campaign Email: prosecuting, teaching and managing prosecutors, [email protected] and building partnerships between law Campaign Phone: (443) 994-9714 enforcement and the community at large. I am a QUALIFICATIONS: 1. I was a prosecutor in this recognized expert in homicide prosecutions, DNA county for 28 years. I supervised the Child Abuse and cell phone forensics and a leader in innovative and Sexual Offense Units. I also successfully criminal justice initiatives. handled the most challenging murder cases. I INITIATIVES: We improved technology, training served as a Deputy State’s Attorney, supervising & administration in the office, creating a foundation over 100 people in 3 different physical locations. for our Intelligence Based Prosecution program. INITIATIVES: 2. I will take politics and politicians Going forward, we established the STING Unit, out of the Office. I will devote resources to fighting hired gang experts and analysts to harness and the opioid epidemic in courtrooms, which is where coordinate data to identify and prosecute the prosecutors should be focused. I will seek to have persons driving crime in the County. Our forfeited drug money returned to the Office as innovative Safe Stations Partnership has led to opposed to the county general fund to add 12% decrease in opiate ODs in 2018. additional resources. PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION: I will continue PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION: 3. It is to demand that my prosecutors evaluate cases important for prosecutors to use their discretion based on individual facts, impact on the victim and impartially in handling their cases. In order to community at large, basing sentencing ensure discretion is being applied in a non- recommendations on the nature of the crime, the discriminatory manner, I will institute a State sentencing guidelines, the offenders' criminal comprehensive training program. Additionally all history & any pre-sentence investigations. attorneys will have meaningful supervision and Additionally, we seek input from impacted & evaluations. My administration will be responsive disenfranchised groups for fair sentencing to the public we serve. recommendations. OTHER PRIORITIES: 4. I will bring integrity to OTHER PRIORITIES: In addition to the State’s Attorney’s Office. There will be no need improvements in training, case prep and for ethics legislation to be introduced regarding the prosecutions, my office will continue to focus on conduct of the Office under my leadership. I will crime prevention. In the past 3 years we have refocus the Office on prosecution, not politics. We made over 150 appearances in local schools will fight for victims of crime and justice for the county’s citizens.

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Democratic Candidates prosecution teams to work with neighborhoods & Democrats may vote for no more than 1. police. I will restore community outreach programs Anne Colt Leitess to help citizens avoid becoming victims of crime. I Campaign Website: Anne Arundel Anne.com will prosecute drug dealers bringing opioids into Campaign Facebook: Anne Colt Leitess for our county & expand treatment options for non- Anne Arundel State's Attorney violent offenders. Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION: The current annecoltleitess S.A. ended formal training of prosecutors in 2015 Campaign Instagram: Instagram and the result has been disastrous. A large number @annecoltleitess of cases are dropped or lost daily in the courts Campaign Email: [email protected] because the prosecutors are ill-prepared to handle Campaign Phone: (443) 343-2180 them. I will resume the formal training that existed QUALIFICATIONS: I've dedicated my career to in the office for more than 25 years. The prosecuting crime and keeping AA County safe. My foundation for ethical, non-discriminatory practices reputation as a fair, ethical and professional is professional training and guidance. prosecutor resulted in the county judges appointing OTHER PRIORITIES: My priority is restoring the me to replace the retiring State's Attorney in 2013. office to an effective team that seeks justice for I am running to regain that office. Currently I victims of crime in a professional, ethical & fair manage a team of 15 attorneys committed to manner. I will stay on budget, unlike the current seeking justice for victims of domestic violence, S.A. who overspent $1million dollars of tax payer sexual and physical assault. money while the county lacks funding for opioid INITIATIVES: I will restore the gang task force to treatment & schools. I will never play political partner with schools & county agencies to disrupt & games with our families' safety or with the rights of prevent gang activity. I will form community citizens. Clerk of the Circuit Court

DUTIES: The Clerk of the Circuit Court issues certain licenses and performs various court duties, includ- ing filing, docketing, and maintaining legal records; recording documents that involve title to real estate; and collecting related fees, commissions, and taxes. In this process, the Clerk's Office collects and dis- tributes funds. Under the Clerk are the Courtroom Clerks and six departments: Civil and Family Law; Criminal; Juvenile; Land Records; Licensing; and Trust, Adoption and Appeals. SALARY: $114,500 TERM: Four years; no term limit. HOW ELECTED: Elected countywide. Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of this office? PRIORITIES: What will be your goals and priorities during your term of office?

Republican Candidates notification and restitution. We lead the way in Republicans may vote for no more than 1. increasing our use of IT and data management to better our services, accuracy and support for Doug Arnold victims of crime. I will do everything possible to Campaign Website: DougArnold.net ensure we have safer communities in Anne Arundel Campaign Facebook: facebook/ County, provide equitable access to justice and I'm DougArnoldCampaign dedicated to serving you. Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ DougArnoldAACo Campaign Instagram: @DougArnoldAACo Bonnie A. Shepke Campaign Email: [email protected] No response received by deadline. Campaign Phone: (443) 305-9487 QUALIFICATIONS: I have 27 years of court Democratic Candidates management experience. We support families in Democrats may vote for no more than 1. wonderful ways like adoptions, wedding ceremonies, and passport applications. I work to Scott Poyer keep our communities safe. We issue warrants and Campaign Website: P OYERFORCLERK.COM commit guilty parties to jail the same day ordered Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ by the court. We protect the rights of victims of PoyerForClerk violence to gain restitution. I will serve you with Campaign Email: [email protected] fair, equitable and accessible justice. Campaign Phone: (410) 573-1592 PRIORITIES: I am committed to expanding QUALIFICATIONS: The Clerk of the Circuit Court services and ensuring that victims of crime obtain serves as the chief administrator of the county’s

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circuit court system. I have over 30 years of Clerk’s Office on goals such as: • Partnership with experience in Federal law enforcement and public other offices to eliminate the backlog of 11,000 safety. As a Senior Executive with the Federal unserved warrants; • Service to the public such as government I was responsible for operations increased family services to victims of domestic performing similar duties as the Clerk’s Office but abuse, which more than doubled in Anne Arundel on a larger scale, and I earned many awards for County in five years; and, • Innovation such a service and innovation. simplifying the process for issuing business PRIORITIES: I will increase the focus of the licenses.

Register of Wills

Duties: The Register of Wills serves as clerk to the Orphans' Court, assisting the public with administrative processes concerning estates of deceased persons. The Register collects Maryland inheritance tax on estates and probate fees; maintains all records of wills and estates of deceased persons, and safeguards wills of living persons. Salary: $114,500. Term: Four years; no term limit. How Elected: Elected countywide. Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of this office? PRIORITIES: What will be your goals and priorities during your term of office?

Republican Candidates order system. Outreach programs created to Republicans may vote for no more than 1. inform clubs & civic grps regarding estates. PRIORITIES: Maintenance of a well trained, Lauren M. Parker knowledgeable, compassionate, computer savvy Campaign Website: www.laurenparker.org staff guaranteeing you efficiency & virtually no Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ waiting time. Transitioned to paperless to save the voteLaurenParker public supply & storage costs. Preparing plan for Campaign Email: [email protected] making all ROW services to be Cloud based & Campaign Phone: (410) 370-9907 available to public. Prepping estate paperwork E- QUALIFICATIONS: Drafted Wills & Trusts for 25 filing project. Continued excellence thru caring yrs as atty- no job training needed-12 yrs public service & experience. experience as Register- Achieved 3 perfect State Legis. Audits-Staff & I work together to exceed Democratic Candidates public expectations-public satisfaction rating Democrats may vote for no more than 1. 99.24% & Atty. Satisfaction rating 95.73%. Joseph J. Janosky Created website for public for Case info & online Judge of the Orphans’ Court

Duties: Three judges comprise the Orphans' Court. Orphans' Court is the county's probate court, and also has jurisdiction over guardianships of minors. The Court supervises the handling of estates of people who have died (with or without a will) while owning property in their sole name. Orphans' Court judges are responsible for making sure that only appropriate payments are made from estate assets. Salary: $29,000 Term: Four years; no term limit. How Elected: Elected countywide. Qualifications: Must be a U.S. citizen and resident of the county for at least one year immediately preceding election. Anne Arundel County does not require Orphans' Court judges to be lawyers. Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of this office? DISCRIMINATION: How can the courts address discrimination based on race, gender, religion, disability, or poverty? COURT NEEDS: What are the greatest needs of the Orphans' Court and how can these be addressed?

Republican Candidates Republicans may vote for no more than 1. Nancy Phelps Campaign Email: Maureen Carr-York [email protected] No response received by deadline. QUALIFICATIONS: I was first elected in 1998, & Carl George Holland previously appointed Chief Judge by Governor No response received by deadline. Hogan. I maintained the Orphans' Court within Page 65 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Anne Arundel County County Offices

budget with fiscal responsibility. I have consistently have been useful in becoming an effective judge by served on the bench with professionalism, integrity carefully considering the facts and writing effective & compassion for the families' of the deceased. I case decisions. have knowledge of estate & probate matters. DISCRIMINATION: The Orphans' Court serves Previously, I was the President of the MAJOC and the families of those who have experienced the received numerous citations. death of a loved one as the Personal DISCRIMINATION: I believe that court matters Representative opens an estate and works to should not be influenced by discrimination in any distribute the assets of the decedent. With regard way. I understand the importance of truth and to discrimination, all heirs, interested parties, and fairness in the courtroom, and make it my priority legatees are treated equally under the law and this to treat everyone fairly. subject is not an issue that is a consideration in the COURT NEEDS: The Orphans' Court needs to administration of an estate. maintain dedication to resolving probate matters COURT NEEDS: The Orphans' Court is a court of expeditiously, fairly and effectively. I will always the public for family members seeking the proper have the interests of the citizens of Anne Arundel adjudication of an estate for the deceased. There County first. Public awareness of the Orphans' are no specific needs of the Orphans' Court that Court and estate planning for the family deserve need to be addressed. immediate attention.

Democratic Candidates Alan Rzepkowski Democrats may vote for no more than 1. Campaign Facebook: @Friends Of Alan R Campaign Email: [email protected] Vickie Gipson QUALIFICATIONS: As a Judge of the Orphans' No response received by deadline. Court, I am completing a 4-year term of office and my experience has grown with regard to serving Torrey Jacobsen, Jr. the public in this important role for family Campaign Email: [email protected] members who have are going through the estate No response received by deadline. process. My business and professional experience Sheriff

Duties: The County Sheriff's office is responsible for enforcing the law, providing security for the courtrooms and operating the county jails. The sheriff carries out court orders, delivers summonses, deals with protective orders and other injunctions, and executes bench warrants. Salary: $128,064 (2014 figure; current year N/A) Term: Four years; no term limit. How Elected: Elected countywide. To be eligible for the office of Sheriff, a person must be at least twenty-five years of age and must have been a County resident for at least five years immediately preceding election. Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of this office? TRAINING: What plans do you have to enhance the training of deputies and other staff? OTHER PRIORITIES: What other issues will be your priorities during your term of office?

managing over 100 employees, with a total of 38 Republican Candidates consecutive years in law enforcement, to include Republicans may vote for no more than 1. retiring after 23 years from the police dept as a Ron Bateman captain. Campaign Website: sheriffbateman.com TRAINING: I have implemented the first ever Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ advanced active shooter training in the courthouse sheriffronbateman to better ensure the safety of everyone who enters Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ the Circuit Court building. My training includes BATEMANSHERIFF state of the art special weapons and tactical Campaign Instagram: training,first aid, legal issues, court security, INSTAGRAM:SHERIFF_RON_BATEMAN handcuffing, and non-lethal weapons training. My Campaign Email: [email protected] training unit is staffed with SWAT trained personnel Campaign Phone: (443) 623-1779 OTHER PRIORITIES: I have pitched a new idea QUALIFICATIONS: I have been the Sheriff for 12 to the Chief Judge of all District Court judges in years, having been elected 3 times after earning Maryland, which was accepted and received, to the trust and confidence of the people. My reduce the growing number of Failure To Appear experience far exceeds the other candidates as it warrants. This idea calls for the courts to text relates to managing a 9 million dollar budget, reminders to people of their court date, time and

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location. The Chief Judge agrees this will reduce effectively lobby for additional resources that will the number of FTA's and is piloting this innovation enhance the effort to improve the skill level of all in Anne Arundel County. employees. OTHER PRIORITIES: Restoring the image of the Sheriff's Office is critical. The public and the those Jim Fredericks who provide resources, will better support a Campaign Website: department they trust and respect. Improve overall www.JimFredericksforSheriff.com safety for the residents of our county; modernizing Campaign Facebook: Jim Fredericks for the safety of the courts, assist the P.D. with school Sheriff safety, & more effective methods of reducing a Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ large number of outstanding warrants for people Fredericks2018 who fail to appear. Campaign Instagram: Instagram Jim Fredericks for Sheriff Campaign Email: Beth Smith [email protected] Campaign Website: Campaign Phone: (410) 703-2896 www.BethSmith4Sheriff.com QUALIFICATIONS: 26 years of AA County law Campaign Facebook: BethSmith4Sheriff enforcement leadership and administrative Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ beth4sheriff experience to correct the outstanding warrant and Campaign Email: court security issues in the Sheriff's Office. I have [email protected] command & management experience in Personnel, Campaign Phone: (443) 333-6613 Media Relations, Technology, Purchasing, QUALIFICATIONS: Sergeant US Army, Honorably Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Discharged Graduated 1st in Class, Federal Bureau Organized Crime. My integrity, honesty and of Prisons Graduated 2nd in Class, Police Academy accountability are key to success in office. Retired Lieutenant of AA Co Sheriff's Office Created TRAINING: Currently, deputies are not properly 1st Sheriff K-9 Unit Co-Developed 1st Victim trained in modern law enforcement best practices Witness Protection Plan Developed supervised regarding use of technologies in warrant service, Children's Visitation Program Developed programs and response theories for active shooter. These are to assist Senior Citizens 1st female ever to be top training priorities to ensure safety of deputies promoted to Lieutenant in the performance of their duties, and the general TRAINING: I will enhance training in court house public frequenting the Circuit Court in Annapolis. building security to include court rooms, prisoner Current practices are obsolete and out of touch. lock up, prisoner transportation, & common areas OTHER PRIORITIES: #1 Warrant Reduction - used by the public. Strengthen Deputies expertise With nearly 12,000 un-served warrants in Anne in handling domestic violence situations to include Arundel County, this reduction must begin the service of peace/protective orders. I will ensure immediately by implementing modern leadership that both Deputies & Civilian staff are efficient in and practices. #2 Addressing Failed Audits that the processing of all legal documents. uncovered gross administrative oversight issues OTHER PRIORITIES: It is a priority to secure the regarding failed or improper collection of fees, and, court house by adding Deputies & K-9. I plan on failures regarding reporting of hours for a federal making proficient the processing, collection of fees, grant for child support enforcement. & service of all legal documents. I will streamline all landlord/tenant issues to include evictions. I will install a checks & balances system for accounting Damon Ostis of all fees collected. I will restore the child support Campaign Website: damonforsheriff.com unit to meet & exceed all Federal/State guidelines. Campaign Facebook: damonforsheriff2018 Campaign Email: [email protected] Campaign Phone: (443) 453-4297 Democratic Candidates QUALIFICATIONS: I have 31 years of law Democrats may vote for no more than 1. enforcement and investigative experience, 10 years of business experience and decades of James Williams community service consisting of coaching and Campaign Website: mentoring our community's youth in sports and www.jameswilliamsforsheriff.com mission. I have a masters degree in Criminal Campaign Facebook: James Williams For Justice and have worked and formed relationships Sheriff all over the world. I believe that these skills and Campaign Email: experiences will transfer very well to our county. [email protected] TRAINING: I have been an instructor at the Campaign Phone: (301) 399-1348 Federal Law Enforcement Training Center for basic QUALIFICATIONS: I am a retired command and advanced programs and have been loaned to officer from a large police department. During my the State Dept. to instruct the national police of 27 years in Public Safety, 24 of which with the several other countries. This experience will allow police department, I've gained extensive me to communicate with our training staff and to experience in the leadership, administration, and

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management of a diverse, progressive agency. My understanding of persons with mental disabilities current employment as a deputy has allowed me to and how to provide better services. gain experience with the daily operations of the OTHER PRIORITIES: I will reduce the number of Sheriff's Office. open warrants by working to eliminate the need for TRAINING: I would implement training to help new warrants, i.e., better public transportation to sheriff personnel to better understand and those who do not have a vehicle. Better public communicate with diverse cultures. Enabling transportation will provide the ability to attend deputies to communicate with citizens whom court so citizens are less likely to receive a warrant English is not their primary language, will help to for failing to appear. Domestic violence issues and strengthen community relations. I would also reforming the Sheriff's Office will also be top require additional training to enhance the priorities. Party Central Committees

Duties: The county central committee sets local party policy, assists local candidates and chooses representatives to the state central committee. The state central committee, in turn, sets the state party’s policies, assists statewide candidates and selects Maryland’s representatives on the national party committee. The national party committee sets the rules for nominating candidates for President and assists candidates for federal office. In Maryland, party central committees fill vacancies in state and local offices when a member of the party resigns or dies in office. Salary: None. Term: Four years. How Elected: Elected in the June primary by party members residing in the legislative district. Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of this office? NOMINATING THE PRESIDENT: What changes, if any, should be made in the party’s process for nominating a candidate for President? PARTICIPATION OF UNAFFILIATED VOTERS: What steps will you take to appeal to voters outside the party, such as opening the party primary to unaffiliated voters? PRIORITIES FOR PARTY: What are your priorities for the party? FILLING VACANCIES IN OFFICE: What criteria will you use when considering candidates to fill a vacancy in the General Assembly or other office?

District 21 would invite them to candidate events and trainings -- an educated electorate is crucial. Republican Candidates However, I believe the purpose of the primary is to Members of this party may vote for no more than 1 have party members decide who will represent their party on the ballot in the general election. Scott W. DiBiasio Unaffiliated voters can already vote in the primary

No response received by deadline. for unaffiliated races like school board, but

James Rim shouldn't be voting to narrow the field for R/D No response received by deadline. races. PRIORITIES FOR PARTY: I would like to see the Democratic Candidates local democratic party do more to identify and Members of this party may vote for no more than 1 prepare candidates 2-3 years out and provide more funding for challenging races. Stacy Korbelak FILLING VACANCIES IN OFFICE: I would Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ consider their experience, availability to serve korbelakcentralcommittee/ (time commitment), reputation in the community, QUALIFICATIONS: I have served as the District and evidence of past service. 21 representative to the AA County School Board for 6 years, the MD Association of Boards of Eric Stanton Masten Education Legislative Chair for 2 years, & the No response received by deadline. President of the AA County Democratic Women for the past 18 months. I have built relationships with District 30 elected and appointed officials at the local, state, and federal level that will benefit the central Republican Candidates committee. Members of this party may vote for no more than 3 NOMINATING THE PRESIDENT: I would like to see the elimination of the superdelegate system. Chelsea Gill PARTICIPATION OF UNAFFILIATED VOTERS: I No response received by deadline. Page 68 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Anne Arundel County Party Central Committees

Judi L. Gordon Eileen Hoover Campaign Facebook: Judi Gordon Campaign Facebook: Eileen Hoover No response received by deadline. No response received by deadline.

Colin Nickerson Brooks Schandelmeier No response received by deadline. No response received by deadline.

Democratic Candidates District 31 Members of this party may vote for no more than 3 Republican Candidates Dylan Andrew Behler Members of this party may vote for no more than 3 No response received by deadline. Alex Fakeri Thea Boykins-Wilson No response received by deadline.

Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ Corine Frank voteBoykinsWilson/ Campaign Website: w w w .corinefrank.com Campaign Email: [email protected] No response received by deadline. QUALIFICATIONS: For 31 yrs., I have worked to advance the core principles of the Dem. Party. Faith Loudon From educating on candidates, policy and voter Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ registration to raising funds for candidates who faithloudoncampaign/ stand for these same principles. These experiences No response received by deadline. have allowed me to advance to the Director of Civic Engagement for 2 non-profit organizations Democratic Candidates serving over 20,000 Marylanders. This office will Members of this party may vote for no more than 3 allow me to expand this reach. NOMINATING THE PRESIDENT: The process Christine Davenport No response received by deadline. does need to change. Change should begin with choosing, educating and empowering convention Neal W. Duiker

delegates -- allowing them to represent the No response received by deadline. interests of their regions while also having a freer Robert Haynes hand to change their minds -- building new No response received by deadline. coalitions, compromises and unity within the party. Another idea is to make the primaries and Dawn Merino caucuses proportional rather than winner-take-all. QUALIFICATIONS: I have lived in the district PARTICIPATION OF UNAFFILIATED since 1995. During that time I have been active in VOTERS: Although I believe that mobilization the community. I have worked on several efforts to get every registered Democrat out to campaigns, Michael Gilligan, Shirley Murphy, Janet vote is most important, we are living in a time Owens, as well as several Judges campaigns. I when we need a greater diversity of voices in the have worked at the polls for several candidates. I political process. Therefore, we must promote have a keen interest in current events and greater participation not have obstacles like closed politics. Primaries to discourage voters. I am running to NOMINATING THE PRESIDENT: We must offer a skilled diverse voice for my party in South carefully examine the role of Super delegates at Anne Arundel Co. the convention. Voters votes matter and many felt PRIORITIES FOR PARTY: 1. To uphold the that their vote did not matter because of the principles of the Democratic Party in my own manner in which super delegates votes were cast. personal example of service and commitment to It seems that delegates to the convention should the citizens of our community, while supporting be obligated to vote for the primary winner for the and developing more like-minded and progressive district that they represent. candidates . 2. Strategize with other Central PARTICIPATION OF UNAFFILIATED VOTERS: I Committee members for the best way to develop have concerns regarding open primaries. There are and duplicate ourselves in others. 3. To organize too many strategies that can be used to influence efforts to get every registered democrat out to the election. I favor a closed primary. vote PRIORITIES FOR PARTY: We must register more FILLING VACANCIES IN OFFICE: 1. Examine voters and then get them to the polls. We need to background and experience, looking for have a strong platform. We need to dispel the respectability, skill, leadership ability. 2. Seek the notion that we are the tax and spend party. We opinions of others who have had 1st hand have to restore people's faith in government. interaction and experience with their ability. 3. FILLING VACANCIES IN OFFICE: The candidate Collaborate with Central Committee members to must be qualified for the office. They must have evaluate whether their background aligns with some experience that makes them suited for the Party principles, ensuring all citizens are equal job. They must have the time to commit to the before the law and have equal access to legislative office. We need people of diverse backgrounds with processes diverse experiences to adequately represent all residents of the state. Page 69 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Anne Arundel County Party Central Committees

FILLING VACANCIES IN OFFICE: Choosing a District 32 replacement to fill a vacancy is a sacred duty Republican Candidates placed upon elected officials who must educate Members of this party may vote for no more than 3 themselves to the desires of their constituents. I strongly believe that this process must be fair, Hubert Owens, Jr. unbiased, and free of back room deals. Campaign Website: www.hubertowens.com Appointments should always reflect the will of the Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ voters as they are going to be subject to the votes hubertowens and actions of the official once in office. No response received by deadline.

Michele Speakman Quincy Bareebe No response received by deadline. Campaign Website: w w .QuincyBareebe.com Campaign Facebook: quincybareebe David P. Starr Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ pbareebe Campaign Facebook: @DavidStarrBOE Campaign Email: No response received by deadline. [email protected] Campaign Phone: (240) 461-4447 Democratic Candidates QUALIFICATIONS: I have always been an active Members of this party may vote for no more than 3 member in any community i join, I started a church that would bring people together or help Patrick Armstrong people in different ways. I believe with all my Campaign Website: involvement in the community and being a www.votepatrickarmstrong.com business owner which puts me in a position to Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ interact with people daily, I will strongly build the FriendsOfPatrickArmstrong central committee. Central Committee our duties is Campaign Email: to get democrats elected in office. [email protected] NOMINATING THE PRESIDENT: n/a QUALIFICATIONS: I studied politics for 15 years PARTICIPATION OF UNAFFILIATED VOTERS: I and worked on many campaigns. As a Health Policy believe all voters should be qualified to vote. I also Analyst, I know how policies are created. My job plan to involve the immigrate communities to focuses on saving taxpayer money. I understand become more active and register them to vote, we business, having been a manager at two major have been organizing voter registration and we retail chains. I know the value of hard work, managed to be successful in the ones that we have climbed the ranks from cashier to management, held. I plan to bring in more people to the party. and trained other managers. My experiences make Be a voice to the side of the immigrate me the perfect fit for this office. communities for the democratic party. NOMINATING THE PRESIDENT: The process of PRIORITIES FOR PARTY: To fundraise for the nominating a candidate for president should be party To bring more people to the party To updated. Our current rules allow the Democratic increase the number of voters in the Democratic Party to essentially tell each state when to hold Party To make sure democrats are elected in 2018 their primary or caucus, creating a wild calendar in FILLING VACANCIES IN OFFICE: N/A which some states are valued over others. Delegate apportionment is also different depending Emil Yaw Donkor on the state. We need a more clear-cut approach No response received by deadline. to choosing a candidate. Andrea Muriel Jones-Horton PARTICIPATION OF UNAFFILIATED No response received by deadline. VOTERS: Some states such as New Hampshire hold open primaries. I understand that each party Elizabeth Ysla Leight feels it is their right to choose, from among their Campaign Email: members, who will lead their party. However, this [email protected] process simply is no longer working. I support Campaign Phone: (301) 725-7173 open primaries, in which unaffiliated voters are QUALIFICATIONS: I have lived in Anne Arundel allowed to choose to participate in a party's County for 25 years. For 13 years I wrote a weekly primary election. column for the Maryland Gazette that brought me PRIORITIES FOR PARTY: The Democratic Party in contact with businesses, my neighbors and the has tremendous potential. The underlying values community at large. I attended school and and policies that make up the core of the party are community events and witnessed changes in the in line with the vast majority of Americans. The community, the County and State. I can represent party must do more to advocate for itself and its District 32 because I listened as residents told me core values. Too often the party is off message. what is important to them. Too often independent minded voters feel they are NOMINATING THE PRESIDENT: We have many not welcome with the Democrats. We must do voters who identify as independent. Many are more outreach to bring in new voters. young voters who represent our future. We need to maintain diversity and inclusion in the Party so that

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everyone has a voice and an role. I support the both grow the party and strengthen the causes Democratic Party and believe we more closely align that we support. with the needs and concerns of the young and FILLING VACANCIES IN OFFICE: The main diverse voters who don't currently identify with a criteria that I would use for filling vacancies would political party. be preparedness for the given office. For me, PARTICIPATION OF UNAFFILIATED VOTERS: I having prior knowledge of Anne Arundel County would invite unaffiliated and disenfranchised voters and a track record of local community service are to learn about issues important to Democrats and also prerequisites that I consider necessities for to join the discussion on topics that impact any elected office. everyone, like safety in schools. In some cases, this may mean removing barriers to participating in District 33 the discussion, including language barriers. I'm one person who feels comfortable asking, "What's on Republican Candidates your mind?" Members of this party may vote for no more than 3 PRIORITIES FOR PARTY: My priorities reflect core Democratic values-- a strong public education James P. Appel system and safety in our communities. Campaign Facebook: James-Appel-for- FILLING VACANCIES IN OFFICE: Vacancies in Republican-State-Central-Committee- office should be filled by individuals who have 135071886535970/ served and represented the community through Campaign Phone: (443) 837-7962 their activism. Consideration should be given to QUALIFICATIONS: I have served on the Anne those who reflect and connect with the community Arundel Central Committee since 2007 and have they wish to serve in elected office. An extensive experience with local politics, fund understanding and knowledge of the legislative raising and brand awareness through my terms on process and policy is important as well. the committee. NOMINATING THE PRESIDENT: I would like to Don Rau see a Nationwide primary day. Still use weighted Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ system for states based on size, but have them all DonRauD32AACDCC/ on the same day. Campaign Email: [email protected] PARTICIPATION OF UNAFFILIATED Campaign Phone: (410) 370-1076 VOTERS: Parties should pick their candidates. QUALIFICATIONS: I currently serve as a member Changing your voter registration to vote in a of the Executive Board (Secretary) of the Anne particular primary is fast, easy and free. If voters Arundel County Democratic Central Committee and chose not to register for a particular party, they I have served as an aide in the Maryland General should not be allowed to vote for that party's Assembly for the past seven years. These candidate. experiences have given me a clear understanding PRIORITIES FOR PARTY: Small, more efficient of Anne Arundel County politics and the workings government, lower taxes, and better funding for of the Anne Arundel County Democratic Central education and public safety. Committee. FILLING VACANCIES IN OFFICE: Professional NOMINATING THE PRESIDENT: While the and personal experience, publicly stated views on presidential nominating process is imperfect, I do issues and ability to serve their constituents. not support radically changing the way that the party selects the presidential nominee. The only Susan McConkey significant change to the process that I would No response received by deadline.

support would be increasing transparency for the Anne Elizabeth Rutherford selection of “superdelegates.” Campaign Facebook: anne rutherford district PARTICIPATION OF UNAFFILIATED 33 central committee member VOTERS: While increased electoral participation is No response received by deadline an important goal, the job of the Anne Arundel County Democratic Central Committee is to Democratic Candidates promote the Anne Arundel County Democratic Members of this party may vote for no more than 3 Party and its candidates. It is my belief that the best way to appeal to voters outside the party is to Chuck Cook share the value-filled message of the Democratic Campaign Facebook: Party and its support of working people and those @chuckcookforannearundel in need. No response received by deadline. PRIORITIES FOR PARTY: My main priorities for the Anne Arundel County Democratic party would Alexandra Matiella Novak be increasing voter registration and voter turnout No response received by deadline.

throughout the entirety of the county. Reaching Noah Stewart out to all voters and promoting the inclusiveness Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ @Noahstew1 and “big tent” nature of the party would be ways to No response received by deadline.

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Background: Legislation was enacted in 2017 changing the Anne Arundel Board of Education from an appointed to an elected body, and eliminating one adult Board position. Implementation of the new structure begins in 2018 with the election of four Board members, who will serve a six-year term. Three previously-appointed members will remain in office through 2020. In 2020, three Board members will be elected to a four-year term, and in 2024, all seven adult Board positions will be on the ballot. Duties: The duties of the Board include, but are not limited to, the following: selecting and appointing the Superintendent of Schools; appointing personnel; continuous appraisal of the educational and ad- ministrative management of the school system; communicating and meeting with community members, staff and students; ratifying collective bargaining agreements; adopting policies, budgets, and courses of study; establishing school boundaries; making decisions on facility, procurement and financial mat- ters; and deciding appeals. Base Salary: $8,000 per year. Term of Office: Six years if elected in 2018, four years thereafter; limited to two consecutive terms. How Elected: Elected by the qualified voters of the councilmanic district in with the member resides. Qualifications: The Board is comprised of seven adult members, and one student member who serves a one-year term. Members must be residents of Anne Arundel County; elected members must reside in the councilmanic district they represent. The student member is selected by the Chesapeake Regional Association of Student Councils (CRASC), and is a regularly enrolled senior-year student of good charac- ter and in good standing in a public county high school. Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your educational background and experience prepare you for the duties of this of- fice? PRIORITIES: What issues will be your priorities during your term of office? AREA OF NEED: What do you consider the greatest area of need in our county's public education system, and how do you propose to address it? QUALITY OF EDUCATION: What steps do you support to ensure an equivalent quality of education for students in every Anne Arundel County public school? COMMUNITY RELATIONS: There is a current countywide initiative whose mission is to "fight hatred and promote understanding." What do you see as the role of the Board of Education in supporting this or related initiatives? COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Do you favor county-funded financial assistance for non-public schools? Please explain why or why not.

District 1 Candidates Voters may vote for no more than 1. Candace C.W. Antwine Campaign Website: candacecwantwine.com sound accord that builds trust-relationships within Campaign Facebook: candace antw ine the schools and our communities. Campaign Email: QUALITY OF EDUCATION: I recently reviewed [email protected] the Anne Arundel County Public School's strategic Campaign Phone: (443) 698-8789 plan over the next few years. Let's start there and QUALIFICATIONS: I'm a mom with a child be willing to adjust, as necessary. https:// attending two Anne Arundel County Public Schools. www.aacps.org/Page/1690 I am also a disabled U.S. Navy veteran with over COMMUNITY RELATIONS: The Board of 20 years of service to my country and Education serves to oversee the established community. I am prepared to humbly and educational infrastructure of the public school effectively serve others, especially the students of system. The educational models and curricula in Anne Arundel County Public Schools. our schools already do these things. It is PRIORITIES: Optimizing safe learning is critical. important that when hatred and misunderstanding Anything that disrupts safe learning in our schools are introduced, action is taken to correct should be addressed and eradicated. Hate actions complications. like inciting violence, bullying, sexual assault and COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC racism are intolerable. I plan to get them out of SCHOOLS: Yes. Non-public Anne Arundel County our schools! schools should be able to request and receive AREA OF NEED: Protecting our students and availaible funding from the County. However, there preserving safe learning are great needs in our should prioritization based on need. There should county's public education system. I am already also be a separate budget for non-public schools. addressing it. However, I plan to work with the The public school system is already greatly rest of the board to ensure we take actions with a financially constrained.

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Sidney A. Butcher Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ District 4 sidney.butcher.581 Candidates Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ SidButcher Voters may vote for no more than 1. Campaign Email: [email protected] Melissa Ellis QUALIFICATIONS: As the only candidate for Campaign Website: District 1 that has been vetted and approved by www.votemelissaellis.com the Anne Arundel County School Board Campaign Facebook: Melissa Ellis for Anne Appointment Commission. I have been working on Arundel County Board of Education - District 4 these issues since I joined the Board in February Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ 2018. As an attorney I have worked with children votemelissaboe and teachers during my career as a prosecutor. I Campaign Email: [email protected] have also worked with contracts, legal issues and Campaign Phone: (410) 923-4598 acted as a mediator to resolve issues. QUALIFICATIONS: I earned a BA in Psychology PRIORITIES: 1. Teachers morale - reducing at UMBC focusing my studies and research classroom sizes and pay 2. Educating AACPS experience on child development. I homeschooled parents- making sure they are armed with the our four children with the goal of using a whole information to address their child's needs. 3. child approach to their education. With three of our Addressing Achievement Gap in AACPS 4. Special children now in public school, I want to bring this Education - Making sure the IEP teams and parents experience to all students in our county. I of special education kids have the resources constantly study best educational practices and necessary for those kids to thrive. know we can and must do better. AREA OF NEED: We need more money in our PRIORITIES: My top priority will be to comb school budget, AACPS wants a quality education for through the budget and look for inefficiencies and all students but lacks the necessary funds. I plan misguided priorities. There is much evidence of to work with the County Executive, County Council outdated and low-tech systems as well as and other board members to figure out a plan to unrealistic academic demands that are driving too get more money directed towards the school much of our manpower to central office to the system. detriment of our students. Then we must make our QUALITY OF EDUCATION: 1. Fully-Funded the case to county government to fund our schools to budget 2. Forums across the County to assist and the level that is needed. educate parents 3. Working with other elected AREA OF NEED: Our resources must be focused officials to make sure education is main priority 4. within our schools, not central office. It was not the Creating an environment that attracts and retains curriculum that failed our under-achieving teachers to Anne Arundel County 5. Cultural students, it was their support system that failed. Awareness - educating students, employees and We must adequately staff our schools and engage community greater community support to lift all students to COMMUNITY RELATIONS: The role of BOE achieving their greatest potential. When their basic should be to provide a platform for all physical and emotional needs are met, students administrators, teachers and students to become will succeed. more aware of implicit bias. We need to ensure QUALITY OF EDUCATION: We need adequate that implicit bias training is made available to staffing and greater community involvement, everyone involved in AACPS. This also includes including parents, businesses, and organizations, outreach to the various communities that AACPS to address the issues that stand in the way of serve. academic achievement for many students. I want COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC to bring back bonus pay to retain our most SCHOOLS: This is difficult question/issue, for effective teachers in our most challenged schools. several years the school budget has not been fully- Student population need must be a priority in funded and lacks the resources it needs. This determining which schools need the greatest money could be used to address issues within funding. AACPS. However, many families across the County COMMUNITY RELATIONS: We cannot deny the are not happy with their public schools and but lack role our schools play in the character development. the resources to send their children to private A greater partnership between schools and parents schools. Until we can fully fund the budget this is is needed in addition to our PTSAs, as well as more the best option. team-building and social-emotional skills exercises in our classrooms. This is not a political issue, but a practical one. Social skills do not have to be David P. Starr separate from academic skills and can be Campaign Facebook: @DavidStarrBOE developed in the same lesson. No response received by deadline. COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Financial assistance for students should only be in cases where our schools are unable to meet the needs of a disadvantaged student, which

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I believe is the current practice. For example, for a to no accountability standards for academics or student who has experienced trauma in the school. achievement. Public funds should be used to If managed effectively, I believe we have the educate EVERY child, and schools should be resources and ability in our county to make all of accountable to the public for how public funds are our public schools the best option for all students. being spent.

Julie K. Hummer Donna L. Rober Campaign Website: www.juliehummer.org Campaign Website: Campaign Facebook: Friends of Julie Hummer donnarober4schoolboard.org Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ Campaign Facebook: donnarober4schoolboard voteJulieHummer Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ donnarober Campaign Email: Campaign Email: [email protected] [email protected] Campaign Phone: (703) 727-1373 QUALIFICATIONS: • I am not an educator. I QUALIFICATIONS: I have a masters degree in have taught adults in specific areas during a nearly special education and five years experience 40 year government career. I am a mother, teaching students with learning and emotional grandmother, relative, neighbor and friend who disabilities. I am also the mother of five children sees and hears a lot of what is happening in and with five very different personalities and learning with our schools. Most importantly, I am a styles. Children have always been my focus, concerned citizen with a desire to be a member of especially the most vulnerable children. I bring the school board team, setting vision, goals and experience in education from the teacher, student, policies for our public schools. and parent perspective. PRIORITIES: Setting, enhancing and/or rewriting PRIORITIES: Improve delivery of social/emotional goals and policies to insure student success should support services by increasing personnel, be the priority of the school board. Recruiting and particularly in counseling, special education, & retention of quality teachers, increased vocational English language acquisition.Increase teacher/staff training, more accurate assessments of success, compensation to bring system into top third of school safety and increased funding are areas I school systems state wide. Develop collaborative believe should get a deeper look. relationships with the new & veteran county AREA OF NEED: I would like to gain an elected officials so that budgets are crafted to meet understanding of why Maryland schools have real needs of schools. dropped in national rankings and then try to set AREA OF NEED: We must provide adequate similar goals for AACPS to give our students similar social/emotional supports for our students. and successful educational outcomes. I would like Adequate funding has to be provided for the to see the school board partner with legislators to needed personnel such as school counselors, insure funding is made available to make the psychologists, social workers, and special improvements to accomplish this. educators. The Board must craft budgets that QUALITY OF EDUCATION: Understanding why include these resources,and then advocate with the the quality is not equal across jurisdictions is the county elected officials to see that these budgets critical first step in addressing this issue. Engaging are funded. families, especially in underperforming schools, is QUALITY OF EDUCATION: Resources must be an important component. Family/parental allocated in an equitable way, not an equal way. involvement is a major factor in school success and Equal means each child receives the same thing; I would like to work with the board to set a goal to equitable means each child receives what they encourage and fund that involvement. need. Many of our students come with greater COMMUNITY RELATIONS: The school board sets needs than others, whether due to poverty, lack of the vision, goals and policies for the school district opportunity,or limited English proficiency. We must based on the concerns and desires of the be committed to meeting the needs of each child constituents. In this case I would hope that, as a so he or she can achieve and succeed. team, the board could establish clear policy to COMMUNITY RELATIONS: The Board must address hatred and bullying issues. The publicly affirm and support positive actions within implementation of such a policy would fall on the our schools and communities. Members must educators, students, families and supporting speak out at Board meetings, in the community, & community. in schools against any forms of hate or intolerance. COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC Our students often are the leaders in promoting SCHOOLS: I am not in favor of using county funds kindness and understanding; members must for non-public schools. Our public schools have encourage & support their efforts & ensure they established qualifications for teachers, offer a are given the freedom to speak out. broad and varied curriculum – to include vocational COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC training and special education – and must accept SCHOOLS: No. Public schools are required to ALL students. Until and unless non-public schools teach every child, no matter their race, religion, or meet the same marks, I do not believe they should disability. Private schools do not have to accept receive public funding. every child, & unlike public schools, they are held

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with non-public partners, at both the K-12 and District 5 higher education levels. Candidates Voters may vote for no more than 1. Vincent Goldsmith Uju Elliffe Campaign Website: vincentgoldsmith.com Withdrew from race after ballots were printed. Campaign Facebook: VincentGoldSmithIII Campaign Email: Terry R. Gilleland Jr. [email protected] Campaign Website: w w w .terrygilleland.com Campaign Phone: (410) 834-1485 Campaign Facebook: terry.gilleland.aacps QUALIFICATIONS: As a community organizer Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ terrygilleland and consultant, I’ve spent the better part of the Campaign Email: [email protected] last 20 years helping organizations around the Campaign Phone: (410) 987-3039 country improve their outcomes. This includes QUALIFICATIONS: My entire professional career everything from leading the Anne Arundel County has been devoted to education. I currently serve as Literacy Council for 10 years to working with the State Director of Adult Education at the MD Fortune 500 companies. My breadth of experience Department of Labor and previously led will allow me to help develop solutions to improve multinational teams overseeing curriculum the outcomes for all AACPS students. development and both online and blended learning PRIORITIES: 1. Prioritizing education funding to solutions while at Laureate Education. I also taught spend more money in the schools on staff with as an adjunct faculty, teaching courses in direct pupil interaction. 2. Teacher recruitment, economics, entrepreneurship, and finance. training and retention so that we can have the best PRIORITIES: My priorities have been and will faculty in the country. 3. Improving community continue to be: 1) reducing class sizes to increase involvement and Board transparency so that student performance and reduce teacher workload, parents play a larger role in their kid’s education. 2) adding guidance counselors for student support 4. Improving the school experience and education needs, 3) reducing the construction and for ALL students. maintenance backlog with smart operational AREA OF NEED: We have two areas. First, we solutions, 4) increasing SROs and security need to find ways to improve the school experience measures, & 5) increasing responsibility, for ALL students. This means more focus on accountability, and transparency to taxpayers. students in the bottom two quintiles of evaluations AREA OF NEED: Increasing academic achievement for competencies and growth. Second, we need to remains paramount and will continue to be my work harder to keep our best teachers from being primary goal, should I be privileged to continue recruited away. This includes better pay and serving on the Board of Education. Research shows focusing on other areas conducive to retention like that smaller class sizes are an enabler of success professional development. and I will continue to advocate for additional QUALITY OF EDUCATION: Our funding goals teacher positions to support class size reductions. need to be focused on improving all schools to a QUALITY OF EDUCATION: AACPS excels with higher standard. Disadvantaged schools and programs of choice, which include magnet and students are most at risk and need the attention of signature programs. These programs, emphasizing the board. This includes strong leadership within 21st Century learning skills at the middle and high the school, providing for a school climate school levels, help students prepare for both conducive to learning, high quality teachers, college and workforce readiness to compete for improving the school and community relationship, both local and global opportunities. Expanding and effective classroom strategies. Triple E (Enhancing Elementary Excellence) to all COMMUNITY RELATIONS: AACPS is the central feeder systems is critical, as well. institution of Anne Arundel County, so while the COMMUNITY RELATIONS: The Board of solution has to start in the community, we have a Education should have a seat at the table to role to play in this. That includes facilitating discuss and propose solutions, but this needs to be conversations/workshops around empathy and a community-driven initiative that involves understanding within the community, as well as stakeholders from the community at-large. The school board efforts to make sure there is zero- Board and AACPS have taken a number of internal tolerance for expressions of hatred within the steps to remedy the issues within the schools, but schools by students, faculty or staff. additional efforts are needed, including student and COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC staff input on both awareness and enforcements. SCHOOLS: I oppose diverting public funds to COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC private schools. I believe public money should fund SCHOOLS: I am not aware of current county public education. Diverting money meant for public funding for non-public schools. I am a product of education makes little fiscal sense. Public funds AACPS and believe in our public school system. As create more value when aggregated and used for a state legislator, I supported state funding for the public good. The distribution of public funds to private and independent colleges and universities, private schools creates less value and drains and as a proud graduate of Loyola University needed resources from an already constrained Maryland (undergrad), I value the partnerships public school system. Page 75 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Anne Arundel County Board of Education Dana Schallheim District 7 Campaign Website: w w w .DanaforBOE.com Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ DanaforBoe Candidates Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ Danaforboe Voters may vote for no more than 1. Campaign Email: [email protected] Michelle Corkadel QUALIFICATIONS: I bring the right mix of Campaign Website: w w w .corkadel.com education, experience, persistence, and dedication Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook/ corkadel to successfully advocate for ALL AACPS students. Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ corkadel Highlights include an MBA, an extensive record No response received by deadline. working with diverse populations, and 30+ years of volunteer, activism, and advocacy experience. As an at-home mom, I will devote the time needed to Laticia Hicks close the gaps, develop meaningful policies, and Campaign Website: www.laticiahicks.com effect real change. Campaign Facebook: L Hicks For School PRIORITIES: My priorities include teacher Board 7 retention, establishing pay/working conditions for Campaign Instagram: laticiahicks all teachers, secretaries, and staff equal to their Campaign Email: [email protected] counterparts in surrounding counties, decreasing QUALIFICATIONS: My twenty plus years working class sizes, developing budgets that reflect actual in a Federal Correctional setting included time school needs, aligning school start times with serving as an Educational Services Program evidence-based research, and providing needed Manager, which required me to apply policy, fiscal oversight, including eliminating manage a budget, and have the type of vision transportation inefficiencies. needed to facilitate services more efficiently in a AREA OF NEED: Teacher and staff retention is a dynamic environment to address the needs and huge problem and requires re-focusing Board challenges of students from backgrounds often culture towards crafting budgets and policies that mirrored in the public schools. reflect actual school needs and fully supports ALL PRIORITIES: The issues that will be a priority teachers and staff. Fiscal oversight is needed to during my term in office include advocating for a close funding, program, and resource gaps sufficient school budget, retaining and recruiting between schools to ensure that, upon graduation, effective teachers, reducing class sizes, and ALL students will be adequately equipped to pursue adopting proactive polices to address the safety the path of their choosing. and well-being of all students in our district. QUALITY OF EDUCATION: All means ALL. Every AREA OF NEED: The public education system school must be placed on equal footing, including must have the ability to address the needs of all providing schools serving low-income communities students while providing educators with with the funding/resources equal to those that are appropriate resources to achieve that goal. We can generated by affluent schools with active PTAs/ begin to address those areas with a fully funded PTOs. Providing all schools equal programming, budget and by implementing the recommendations technology, renovations, and hiring/retaining the from the Kirwan Commission. We should work adequate number of teachers, staff, counselors, better with educators, community members and psychologists, etc. is my priority. business leaders to gain support. COMMUNITY RELATIONS: The board must QUALITY OF EDUCATION: I support the review develop/fully support policies and initiatives via and evaluation of resources within schools and continual parent/community education and across the school system to identify and address required age-appropriate programming at every disparities in resource allocation. This includes grade level focusing on multicultural and social improving the funding formula, adopting policies to justice education, culturally responsive learning, close the achievement gap, and proposing a compassion, celebrating diversity, practicing budget that adequately addresses student needs. empathy, and allows for open and safe discussion COMMUNITY RELATIONS: The BOE must support of issues surrounding culture, race and racism. the enforcement of policies and procedures that COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC protect all of our children from discrimination, SCHOOLS: I absolutely oppose ANY effort to direct harassment, intimidation, and bullying. The Board public school funding, in ANY way, to non-public must review the county’s discrimination policies schools. Directing funding away from public schools and complaint procedures to ensure that they are undermines their success and negatively impacts consistent with current laws and are fully graduation, crime, and unemployment rates, as implemented. well as property values. Non-public schools should COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC raise their own funding, via tuition and other SCHOOLS: If the public schools were adequately revenue streams entirely separate from public funded, then consideration could be given to funding sources. financially supporting non-public schools provided their agreement to adhere to the same accountability and reporting standards as the public schools. This includes transparency in admissions, curriculum, test results, and budget.

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Ray Leone recommends ratio of student to counselor of 250:1 Campaign Website: rayleonedist7.com QUALITY OF EDUCATION: I would strive to lower Campaign Facebook: w w w .facebook.com/ class sizes, giving teachers, and administrators the rayleone4BOED7 ability to concentrate on struggling students and Campaign Twitter: tw itter.com/ provide them necessary supports. To me this rayleoneboed7 means hiring more teachers and rethinking school Campaign Email: [email protected] construction to accommodate more classrooms. I Campaign Phone: (410) 956-8265 would also like to see an expansion of vocational QUALIFICATIONS: Veteran, US Air Force training to help more of our non-college tracked Electronics School, Wideband Communications, students. Base Intrusion Security Systems. Post Military I COMMUNITY RELATIONS: The Board of worked in Cable TV, repair, design and Education needs to work on policies that will make construction. I switched to retail in 2001 becoming it easier to address bad social behaviors and a Store and District Manager. These skills + 16 yrs promote programs that teach tolerance and good of PTA advocacy give me a unique perspective, character examples. Schools need to become being able to understand complex budgets, human places where good values are taught and resource issues, and solve real-world problems. demonstrated. Programs that involve parents in PRIORITIES: Reducing class size, addressing this process need to be made available and aging facilities, making schools safe for students encouraged. Board Members should be held to a and fixing the current teacher compensation high standard of ethics. issues. COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC AREA OF NEED: School Safety, We should SCHOOLS: I do not. As long as public schools are examine the programs that are making a difference still struggling with large aging school maintenance in schools; programs that teach tolerance, good backlogs and large gaps in paying teachers, it character examples, and safe ways to express would be difficult to justify. That does not mean emotion or anger. AACPS needs more school however that we keep asking for more money and counselors, social workers, and psychologists to not gain ground on the primary monetary issues deal with the increase of kids in our schools that that face the system, teacher pay and adding feel isolated and disconnected. The ASCA counselors being the most important ones.

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