LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS® OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD VOTERS’ GUIDE 2018 GENERAL ELECTION Tuesday, November 6, 2018 Polls Open 7 AM/Close 8 PM

Verify voter registration: Three Ways to Vote! voterservices.elections.maryland.gov /VoterSearch VOTE EARLY Early voting centers are open from Check polling place: 10 AM to 8 PM, Thursday, October 25 voterservices.elections.maryland.gov through Thursday, November 1, 2018. /PollingPlaceSearch Vote at any of the following sites:

Odenton Regional Library Deadline to register to vote or 1325 Annapolis Road, Odenton 21113 choose/change party affiliation:* Tuesday, Oct 16, 9 PM Glen Burnie Regional Library 1010 Eastway, Glen Burnie 21060

Early voting dates: Severna Park Community Library 45 W. McKinsey Rd, Severna Park 21146 Oct 25 - Nov 1, 10 AM - 8 PM Roger “Pip” Moyer Recreation Center Deadline to request an 273 Hilltop Lane, Annapolis 21403 absentee ballot: Edgewater Community Library By mail or fax: Tuesday, Oct 30 25 Stepneys Lane, Edgewater 21037 By download: Friday, Nov 2 Crofton Community Library In person: Tuesday, Nov 6 1681 Riedel Road, Crofton 21114 AA County Board of Elections Contact Board of Elections: 6740 Baymeadow Dr, Glen Burnie 21060 (410) 222-6600 [email protected] VOTE ABSENTEE aacounty.org/elections Any Maryland registered voter may vote by absentee ballot. Go to aacounty.org/ Download PDF Voters’ Guide: elections and click on “Request an lwvaacmd.org/vg Absentee Ballot,” or call or email the County Board of Elections. Be sure to Contact LWVAAC: return ballot by stated deadline. [email protected] (443) 672-8270 VOTE ON ELECTION DAY Your local assigned polling place will be For election districts and open from 7 AM to 8 PM on Tuesday, up-to-date election and November 6, General Election Day. Your candidate information: polling place appears on the sample ballot mailed by the Board of Elections. VOTE411.org First time voters in Maryland should *Qualified citizens may register to vote at bring identification showing your current early voting centers. See the back cover address, such as a driver’s license. for more information. v. 3 PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 Table of Contents

Support Your Local League of Women Voters ...... 13

Maryland Statewide Races Governor/Lt. Governor ...... 3 Comptroller ...... 6 Attorney General ...... 7

Federal Senator ...... 9 Representative District 2 ...... 14 Representative District 3 ...... 17 Representative District 4 ...... 18 Representative District 5 ...... 20

Maryland General Assembly Senate Legislative District 21 ...... 24 Senate Legislative District 30 ...... 25 Senate Legislative District 31 ...... 26 Senate Legislative District 32 ...... 27 Senate Legislative District 33 ...... 28

House of Delegates Legislative District 21 ...... 30 House of Delegates Legislative District 30A ...... 34 House of Delegates Legislative District 30B ...... 35 House of Delegates Legislative District 31A ...... 37 House of Delegates Legislative District 31B ...... 38 House of Delegates Legislative District 32 ...... 40 House of Delegates Legislative District 33 ...... 44

Anne Arundel County Government & Judicial

County Executive ...... 49 County Council District 1 –7 ...... 51 Circuit Court Judge ...... 60 Judge in Court of Special Appeals ...... 60 State’s Attorney ...... 61 Clerk of the Circuit Court ...... 62 Register of Wills ...... 63 Judge of the Orphans’ Court ...... 64 Sheriff ...... 65

Anne Arundel County Board of Education District 1 ...... 66 District 4 ...... 67 District 5 ...... 69 District 7 ...... 70

Ballot Questions Statewide ...... 72 County ...... 74

Offices and candidates are listed in ballot order. These abbreviations are used:

REP = Republican Party DEM = Democratic Party LBT = Libertarian Party GRN= Green Party UNA = Unaffiliated WRI = Write-in

Maryland Statewide Governor/Lt. Governor 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

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?

Candidates Vote for no more than 1. named Marylander of the Year for my pivotal roles in abolishing the death Larry Hogan/Boyd K. Rutherford (REP) penalty, passing the Maryland DREAM Campaign Website: Act, helping pass marriage equality, and www.LarryHogan.com expanding voting rights. Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ BUDGET: As a businessman, I'll also LarryHogan make sure our transportation policies Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ also encourage economic growth and LarryHogan help to create good jobs. We don’t have Campaign Instagram: a money problem when it comes to instagram:@LarryHogan education, we have a priority problem No response received by deadline. and we need a governor who is willing to make education a number one priority. Ben Jealous/Susan Turnbull (DEM) We will fully fund our schools and make Campaign Website: benjealous.com sure lottery and casino revenues Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ supplement education funding. benjealous/ REDISTRICTING: I believe that Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ Maryland should lead the fight on BenJealous redistricting reform in a fair and non- Campaign Instagram: @BenJealous partisan manner that does not Campaign Email: [email protected] indefinitely hand control of the House of Campaign Phone: (904) 891-1843 Representatives to Republicans. QUALIFICATIONS: I’ve been a partner in Redistricting compacts such as the one a business or ran large advocacy passed by the Maryland legislature and organizations since I was 26 years old. As a vetoed by Hogan are a fair solution to businessman, I’ve helped to grow small increase the accountability of Congress to businesses in Maryland and across the the voters and reduce gerrymandering. nation. While leading the NAACP, I was ENVIRONMENT: My vision in regards to

Page 3 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 the environment brings together the government does to the people. economy, civil rights, and public health. I BUDGET: Shawn Quinn plans to will build on the surge of clean energy jobs drastically reduce the income tax within and put our state on a path to 100% clean his first two years of office. These tax cuts energy well before 2050 and reverse will be paid for by reducing the role of Trump’s attempts to kill the progress government in areas best handled by we’ve made on cleaning up the private-public partnerships. Shawn wants Chesapeake Bay. Bill McKibben, Friends of to achieve cost savings in education by the Earth Action, and 350.org have all leveraging technology throughout. This endorsed my campaign. includes everything from computers in the DISCRIMINATION: I’ve dedicated my classroom up to entire virtual schools. life to service and I have a long track REDISTRICTING: Shawn Quinn wants to record of securing progressive victories in give all citizens a voice at the state and our state. Growing up as the child of a federal level. Lines shouldn’t be drawn just biracial Maryland couple who were forced so that the party in power can stay in to leave the state in order to legally power. Take the power to draw boundaries marry, Marylanders know I’ll stand up to away from partisans and politicians. Draw Trump’s hateful attacks on our the lines algorithmically using fixed rules. environment which disproportionately This takes human bias away from drawing harms marginalized communities and his boundary lines as much as possible. attacks on our public schools. ENVIRONMENT: The health of the HEALTH CARE: As a businessman and Chesapeake Bay is the number one civil rights leader, I believe we have to environmental problem facing Maryland. It stop rising healthcare premiums and drug is our most important resource. The entire costs from bankrupting our families, small ecology of the state flows into and from businesses and seniors. As governor, I’ll the Chesapeake Bay. Shawn plans to go work for a Medicare For All system which after polluters directly. Individuals and will provide affordable care for all, help businesses polluting the Chesapeake Bay our small businesses grow, and provide or damaging the environment in any way more tools to stop pharmaceutical will be held financially responsible. companies from spiking drug costs on our DISCRIMINATION: Discrimination in any seniors. form is bad for all of us. When a person is OTHER PRIORITIES: Maryland’s not allowed to live to their full we all miss economy is ranked near the bottom for out of all of their possible achievements. this region and our wages are flat. As a There are already laws on the books to businessman, I know how to create good address discrimination. If somebody has paying jobs and I’ll ensure we get our an idea to improve an existing law or healthcare costs under control so that policy then Shawn will weigh the merits of families keep more money in their pockets each proposal individually. Every change and small businesses can grow. I’ll also will be looked at for its benefit to people. ensure more capital goes to entrepreneurs HEALTH CARE: The biggest health crisis instead of large corporations. Learn more facing Maryland and the nation is the at www.benjealous.com. opioid epidemic. People need help. People are scared to get help. They have seen Shawn Quinn/Christina Smith (LBT) what the government does to nonviolent Campaign Website: drug offenders. We need to completely www.citizen4quinn.com end the War on Drugs in Maryland. We will Campaign Facebook: turn the government into a partner www.facebook.com/ShawnQuinn instead of an enforcer. We will stop ruining Campaign Email: lives by people to prison over a chemical [email protected] or a plant. Campaign Phone: (443) 684-0924 OTHER PRIORITIES: Politics in Annapolis QUALIFICATIONS: Shawn Quinn has needs a cultural change. When Shawn lived a lifetime doing the types of jobs that Quinn is Governor, there will be no special real people do, not politicians. This gives favors. When Shawn Quinn is Governor, him a street-level view of life that he will make our legislature answer to the somebody only used to the “big picture” people every year. Not just every four will miss. Shawn served for twenty years years. Shawn Quinn will break the two- in the United States Navy. Shawn Quinn party agenda here in Maryland. Shawn worked in law enforcement for five years. cares what people think. People are more important than philosophy or politics or He has seen firsthand what an impersonal policy.

Page 4 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 Ian Schlakman/Annie Chambers (GRN) environment. The health of our Campaign Website: schlakman.com communities are top priority, & we’ll put Campaign Facebook: www.facebook.com/ an end to harmful activities by setting & IanSchlakman enforcing limits on pollution & Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ environmental use. We must set a goal ischlakman of fueling our needs through 100% Campaign Instagram: instagram.com/ renewable sources, & then put ischlakman Marylanders to work building the Campaign Email: [email protected] infrastructure we need to get the job Campaign Phone: (410) 996-4848 done. QUALIFICATIONS: I believe that people DISCRIMINATION: Our priorities of are no longer willing to limit their choices, creating a universal, single-payer health They want new leadership. I am a small system, free tuition to public colleges business owner and a community organizer. and universities, a basic income, and My running mate and I are people who see jobs guarantee are all designed to the need for new systems and a new vision address discrimination by giving for our economy. I envision programs that Marylanders the tools they need to be will make Maryland a national leader and I successful regardless of the privileges or will represent Marylanders who want to live lack of privilege they possess based on in a state that wants justice for all. their race, gender, religion, disability, or BUDGET: We'll create programs for the well wealth. -being of all Marylanders and create HEALTH CARE: The most significant universal, single-payer health care for all health challenge facing Maryland is Marylanders. We'll raise taxes on ending our existing model of employer- millionaires and use the new tax revenue based, private insurance & transitioning and invest in the well-being of all to a model in which health care is Marylanders. Public school funding should recognized as a human right. We will be allocated according to the needs of create a universal, single-payer health disadvantaged students, We’ll prioritize care system by funding adequate public transit over the construction of new medical care for every resident of roads. Maryland. We'll also fight to make sure REDISTRICTING: We support creating a our state produces clean & healthy non-partisan commission to draw energy. congressional & legislative district lines. OTHER PRIORITIES: From urban to Gov. O'Malley's defense of drawing rural areas we're hearing that residents Democrat-friendly districts in 2010 is a stain are concerned that in a wealthy state on Maryland’s commitment to fair elections. like ours basic services like schools and As a technology consultant I know how to fire departments are facing cuts. This is utilize resources to solve problems. We need why we're calling for a millionaires tax to an open dialogue on using technology & close our communities budget gaps. We data analysis to create fair legislative will continue to post our priorities to districts. www.schlakman.com/issues as ENVIRONMENT: Our largest environmental Marylanders continue to ask us to challenge is re-prioritizing the health of our respond to their top priorities.

Page 5 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

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 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.

Candidates businesses and our delicate environment. Vote for no more than 1. The prior history of contractors completing projects in time, safely, and within budget Anjali Reed Phukan (REP) should also be reviewed. Campaign Website: mscomptroller.com OTHER PRIORITIES: I think it is unfair Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ to tax retirement income. If we remove it mscomptroller all together we would increase our Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ property and sales tax base, hence bring mscomptroller up our net revenues. I will also increase Campaign Instagram: MsComptroller transparency across the comptroller office, Campaign Email: not just in the general ledger, but also in [email protected] how the state audits and comes to final QUALIFICATIONS: I believe the top tax resolution with tax payers. I will loving collector, auditor & maintainer of the enforce the law equally for all. public general ledger should be proficient in accounting. I am a certified public accountant, legally licensed to practice Peter Franchot (DEM) public accounting in Maryland. I also have Campaign Website: www.franchot.com an MBA in finance & another masters Campaign Facebook: degree in information systems. I have www.facebook.com/peterfranchot private, federal & state work experiences Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ in financial management systems, tax, peterfranchot accounting & audit. Campaign Instagram: REVENUE SYSTEM: I will update www.instagram.com/peterfranchot information systems statewide for usability Campaign Email: [email protected] and security, and promote tax credits and Campaign Phone: (443) 254-6000 other incentives such as energy star, solar QUALIFICATIONS: As Maryland's panels, etc. I also will reduce interest and independent fiscal watchdog, I’m proud of penalties for people who are being my record of achievement and results that proactive & voluntarily reporting additional I’ve delivered for Maryland taxpayers since income the state would normally not have I became Comptroller in 2007. Thanks to time to audit; coming clean should never initiatives that we have implemented, and be penalized. the hard work of the dedicated public BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS: I want servants in our agency, ours is regarded spending to be more spread across as the most efficient and effective Maryland, for all to enjoy the amazing Comptroller’s Office in the nation. nooks and crannies of our beautiful state. REVENUE SYSTEM: Our main focus Safety is my number one priority in public continues to be processing tax returns works - safe roads for motorists, law accurately and efficiently. We have enforcement, cyclists, pedestrians, improved our agency’s responsiveness to

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 Comptroller taxpayers and reduce call wait times. In the procurement system, and have worked my agency, tax fairness is a top priority. in a bipartisan fashion to instate reforms We continue to embrace innovative ways to our state’s previously broken to make sure that everyone is paying their procurement process. fair share. Moving forward, I will continue OTHER PRIORITIES: If elected to to build upon the tremendous progress we another term as Comptroller, I will have made. continue to provide the independent BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS: As a BPW leadership that Marylanders expect and member, I am proud to be a strong fiscal deserve this office. I will fight for policies watchdog for Maryland’s working families. and priorities that grow our economy, I have advocated against single-bid safeguard our fiscal future, and protect contracts, fought for the inclusion of more the financial well-being of working families Minority and Women-owned contracts in and small businesses. 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

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?

Candidates Vote for no more than 1. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE: The Craig Wolf (REP) Attorney General should be focused on Campaign Website: wolf4ag.com balancing the need to enforce the laws Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ and ensure public safety while ensuring craigwolf4ag due process for all Marylanders. The AG Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/Wolf4AG should lead by example by being ethical, Campaign Instagram: wolf4ag avoiding conflicts of interest and making Campaign Email: [email protected] sure that all voices are heard before Campaign Phone: (202) 415-6732 weighing in on a particular case, while at QUALIFICATIONS: I am a former state the same time vigorously enforcing the and federal prosecutor, counsel to the laws of the state. Senate Judiciary Committee, business LITIGATION: With respect to federal leader and decorated Soldier/Veteran. I regulations, the Attorney General should have also been a volunteer EMT/Rescue weigh in only when there is a compelling Diver. I have a lifetime of public service state interest, a sound legal basis and a and management. I believe the AG should determination that the case can be won on focus on public safety, not politics and the merits. Those decisions should not be partisanship and should focus on issues of based on political considerations. With importance to all Marylanders regardless respect to corporate misconduct, the AG of party. ensure respect for the law and hold 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 Attorney General corporations fully accountable for Safety Act. misconduct. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE: Among DISCRIMINATION: There is no room in the many steps that my office has taken this state for discrimination based upon to improve the efficiency and fairness of race, gender, religion, disability or the legal processes in Maryland is our fight poverty/class. The Attorney General for and achievement of reforming the cash should be vigilant to ensure that our laws bail system, which jailed people in our are respected and people are treated state simply because they were poor. I will equally. continue to work with the legislature to OTHER PRIORITIES: As a prosecutor/ find and invest in strategies that increase counsel to the Senate Jud. Comm., I public safety and recidivism. focused on domestic violence/sexual LITIGATION: The Attorney General exploitation/trafficking. The AG should should join lawsuits relating to federal make protection of the most vulnerable a regulations or corporate misconduct when priority. The opioid crisis in Maryland there is evidence that the people or state needs leadership from the AG to bring of Maryland have been or will be adversely together the law enforcement, public effected. health and recovery communities to find DISCRIMINATION: In 2015, my office appropriate solutions. Consumer was the first in the country to issue protection must be a priority as well. guidelines to all law enforcement agencies prohibiting profiling based upon race, Brian E. Frosh (DEM) religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual Campaign Website: www.brianfrosh.com preference, etc. We published a study of Campaign Facebook: discrimination against LGBT citizens that www.facebook.com/BrianFrosh was cited by the Supreme Court in its Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ historic Obergefell decision. We have FroshforAG penalized and shut down industries that Campaign Instagram: FroshforAG prey on the poor. Campaign Email: [email protected] OTHER PRIORITIES: Over the past three Campaign Phone: (240) 479-9788 years my office has achieved hundreds of QUALIFICATIONS: I have served as millions of dollars of settlements and Maryland's Attorney General for the past judgments from Wall Street Banks, three years. Prior to being elected Predatory Lenders, Automakers, Tobacco Attorney General, I was Chair of the Companies, and Polluters who sought to Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, injure or defraud Marylanders.My office is where I sponsored many laws that now working with the multi-state investigation protect Marylanders and our state of opioid manufacturers. If re-elected, I including the law prohibiting oil drilling in pledge to remain the People's lawyer & the Chesapeake Bay, the Maryland continue our efforts. Recycling Act and the Maryland Firearm

Page 8 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 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 statewide. 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?

Candidates help to eliminate discrimination in our Vote for no more than 1. country. I support School Choice initiatives Tony Campbell (REP) for all parents to send their children to the Campaign Website: schools of their choice. www.campbell4maryland.com ECONOMIC POLICY: I am against raising Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ taxes. I support a balanced budget campbell4maryland.com amendment. I am in favor of bi-lateral Fair Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ Trade policies. Keeping America Secure is campbell4md a key focus of my campaign for US Campaign Email: Senate. Our cyber infrastructure is [email protected] severely compromised with American QUALIFICATIONS: I have 30 years of companies being hacked by foreign government and non-profit experience. I countries. Our energy grid infrastructure is served on a Congressional staff and as a also at risk and should be priority of the presidential appointee at Social Security national government. Administration. As a former Army officer, I IMMIGRATION: National Sovereignty is understand national security issues as well connected to the ability of a country to as the need for sound foreign policy based protect its borders. I support enhancing on our national interest. I have real world our border security through a variety of experience and academic knowledge which means including building a border wall and is necessary to serve in the US Senate. increased border agents. I am against HEALTH CARE: I advocate for an end to current policies of the diversity lottery and ObamaCare. The national government chain migration. I am against a pathway should not be in the business of to citizenship for undocumented people. I mandating health care coverage. A would support permanent residency possible change I would be in favor of is status. looking at providing block grants to states ENVIRONMENT: In Maryland, a pressing from the national government to try to environmental challenge is the dredging of solve the opioid epidemic. Another change our waterways. Maryland is unique in the in health policy would be to allow Veterans amount of waterways we have and the to go to any hospital to get the care they need we have for a partnership with the need. US Army Corps of Engineers. As your next DISCRIMINATION: The Constitution of United States Senator, I will work to fully the United States guarantees liberties for fund dredging projects to make sure our citizens so they are equal under the law beautiful Chesapeake Bay is through the Equal Protection Clause of the environmentally healthy. 14th Amendment. Education Reform is OTHER PRIORITIES: Advocating one of the most pressing issues which can Success, not subsistence. The American

Page 9 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 Dream has been not possible for a lot of Congress must first pass legislation to Marylanders. As your next United States permanently protect Dreamers. We need a Senator, I want to promote a vision of legal pathway to residency for TPS economic success. I believe limited recipients. We don’t need a wall but we government intervention is important so can strengthen technology and other people can build a legacy of wealth border security. We must stop President creation to pass onto their children and Trump’s proposal to slash legal grandchildren. immigration, break up families and mostly close America’s doors to refugees. Ben Cardin (DEM) ENVIRONMENT: The president’s Campaign Website: www.bencardin.com unwillingness to confront climate change. I Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ will fight for federal resources that compel bencardin this administration to invest, especially in Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ clean air, clean water, renewable energy BenCardinforMD and public transit. We’ve seen success Campaign Email: [email protected] with funding for the Chesapeake Bay. If the Trump administration will not take Campaign Phone: (443) 865-7290 QUALIFICATIONS: In the Senate, I fight steps necessary to protect our every day for the issues of concern to my environment, we must encourage states to fellow Marylanders, promoting policies, continue their work legislation and programs that help our OTHER PRIORITIES: Opioid addiction local and regional economy, encouraging and abuse is a public health crisis. We public safety and supporting public health. must fight it head on with every available My success navigating the Small Business, resource at all levels of government. Our Environment & Public Works, Finance and drug laws must be smart, fair and rational, Foreign Relations committees allow me to and treat addiction as a disease that effectively continue my advocacy for requires treatment. We should improve Marylanders. access to evidence-based treatment HEALTH CARE: Health care is a human centers, promote prevention education right. We should have seamless quality methods, and provide support for those in health care from pre-natal to death that is or seeking recovery. affordable without sacrificing quality and basic protections. Congress must restore Arvin Vohra (LBT) the payments to insurers that have helped Campaign Website: votevohra.com keep premiums in reach for millions. I Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ have long supported a public option in the vohraeducation health exchanges that would increase Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ competition, put patients first and lower votevohra costs. Campaign Email: [email protected] DISCRIMINATION: Bills I have authored Campaign Phone: (301) 320-3634 or cosponsored include: the End Racial QUALIFICATIONS: As an educator and and Religious Profiling Act, a resolution to entrepreneur, I have seen the damage remove the deadline for the Equal Rights government has done. I advocate Amendment, the Democracy Restoration repealing regulations, ending government Act, The Equality Act of 2017 and the involvement in education, abolishing Paycheck Fairness Act. I continue to public schools, abolishing all government support legislation to protect our LGBT welfare, and ending the income tax. As students and adults. I support an increase Vice Chair of the (LBT), I support ending in the federal minimum wage. the welfare-warfare state, ceasing ECONOMIC POLICY: We should modify involvement in foreign civil wars, and our tax code to truly target middle-income downsizing the military. and working families, help small HEALTH CARE: I will sponsor legislation businesses & make smart investments in to abolish Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, infrastructure & green technologies. the FDA, and cut taxes accordingly. Investments should address income Consider this: laser eye surgery, which is inequality & raising wages. We need trade not covered by government insurance, has agreements that level the field for our dropped from several thousand dollars to workers, including robust & enforceable a few hundred per eye. EpiPen, which is labors rights, environmental provisions & covered, has increased in price from a anti-corruption provisions. hundred to several hundred dollars. Free IMMIGRATION: I support bipartisan, markets make medicine actually affordable comprehensive immigration reform, but DISCRIMINATION: I will sponsor Page 10 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 legislation to immediately end Affirmative Campaign Phone: (410) 442-6583 Action and all other government racial QUALIFICATIONS: I've run several quotas and preferences. I will also work to professional services companies in my eliminate all "anti-discrimination" laws, career, where I was surrounded by many which accomplish nothing besides creating smart people with different ideas. My job resentment. Any business has the right to in managing those companies was to refuse service to anyone, or fire any listen, bring people together, and find employee, for any reason. I will defund common ground. I have also been very related government programs and cut involved in my community as a volunteer, taxes accordingly. board member, and board chair. I've ECONOMIC POLICY: I will work to end chaired the Montgomery County and the income tax by cutting federal Greater Washington Community spending, eliminating federal departments, Foundations. firing federal employees, dismantling the HEALTH CARE: It is time for the two welfare state, shutting down foreign parties to stop fighting over how to pay for military bases, and bringing the troops an inefficient, costly health care system home. We'll have more money to spend on and instead find ways to reduce the businesses that work, creating more free crippling cost of healthcare for businesses market, legitimate jobs, while also and families. We need to enact reform attracting job creating businesses to that will incentivize wellness instead of America. incentivizing more procedures, to lower IMMIGRATION: I will sponsor legislation the overall cost of care. to open borders and end all welfare, DISCRIMINATION: I believe that including food stamps, public schools, America should be a place where everyone social security, medicaid, and college is treated equally, regardless of their race, financial aid. I also support ending the religion, sexual orientation, or income tax, in order to attract socioeconomic status. I support equal pay entrepreneurs and job creators. Anyone for equal work, and other measures who wants to come to America to work designed to accomplish this goal. I believe and create jobs should be welcome. No deeply that America should be a place one who comes to America should get a where everyone can work hard and get cent of welfare. ahead. ENVIRONMENT: The federal government ECONOMIC POLICY: One of my primary is the biggest polluter in America. Much of objectives as your Senator is to create that comes from massive military high-paying jobs in Maryland. I will work production of unneeded equipment. If with our Governor & other leaders to elected, I will sponsor legislation to end attract large businesses and incentivize production of needless military equipment, investment in small businesses, especially and to cease all environmentally in lower income parts of our state. As far destructive military overreach. I will work as infrastructure, I find it inexcusable that to end all involvement in foreign civil wars, the two major parties have failed to work bring the troops home, and cut taxes together to invest in our future. accordingly. IMMIGRATION: Immigration is an area OTHER PRIORITIES: I will sponsor where, despite 15 years of debate, the legislation to end all welfare, to encourage parties have been unable to agree on personal responsibility. I will sponsor immigration reform. We need legislation to end the drug war, to comprehensive reform that will strengthen eliminate prohibition-created violence. I our borders, increase temporary work will sponsor legislation to cut federal visas, expand the e-verification program, spending, fire federal workers, dismantle keep immigrant families together, and federal agencies, in order to increase create paths for the law-abiding freedom and end the income tax. immigrants who have been here for a long time. Neal Simon (UNA) ENVIRONMENT: It is clear that the Campaign Website: www.nealsimon.com greatest environmental threat to our Campaign Facebook: civilization is climate change, which is real www.facebook.com/nealjsimon/ and needs to be addressed in partnership with other countries. In Maryland, we Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ nealjsimon need to protect the Chesapeake Bay from Campaign Instagram: @nealjsimon sediment flowing over the Conowingo Campaign Email: Dam, I will work with our Governor, as [email protected] well as Senators from NY and PA to ensure 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 we have the federal resources we need to needs to be prioritized to asylum seekers: keep the Bay clean. We have an ancestry of immigrants based OTHER PRIORITIES: The extremes of on need, not based on whom we like or the two parties have co-opted our dislike. 2. For every issue (not just government, and altered the rules in their immigration), I will put children first. So, favor. We need political reform, and it’s when it comes to families not entering clear that neither party is going to fix the legally, we need to look at the needs of brokenness in our government. I support migrant children. 5 policies that will change the way ENVIRONMENT: Climate change is an Washington works: ending partisan issue. Going green is an eventual ideal, gerrymandering, opening primaries, but we cannot do it overnight... miners campaign finance reform, term limits, and still have jobs; most people can only modernizing the senate rules. afford gas-powered cars. The aforementioned economic issues need Michael B. Puskar (WRI) fixing first. Campaign Website: mbpuskar.com OTHER PRIORITIES: With children first, education matters greatly, and dealing Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ mbpuskar with income equality/healthcare can assist Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ with that. Eliminating college debt would mbpuskar help immensely and allow for a more Campaign Instagram: @mbpuskar diverse/stress-free assortment in the Campaign Email: workforce. I also strongly support the [email protected] rights of veterans. The gov't can't do QUALIFICATIONS: The most important enough to repay those who have sacrificed experience anyone can have when much for us. Finally, I support animal representing the People is living the way welfare. #MustLoveDogs the majority of the People live. I am a working-class man for the working class. Lih Young (WRI) This is an asset lacking in or lost to most Campaign Website: www.vote-md.org elected officials. Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ HEALTH CARE: One word: UNIVERSAL. DR_LIH_YOUNG Healthcare is a right, and certain groups Campaign Email: [email protected] take advantage of the People's health for QUALIFICATIONS: Reformer/advocate/ their own gain. While current proposals activist. Promote fairness/freedom/justice/ are far from the right solution, we need to peace; productivity/accountability/cost- move in that direction. Have you (or effectiveness. Identified “socio- economic- anyone you know) had a point in life when political- election- media- budget- medical bills/costs were an impediment? legislation- system problems”; local- There's no need for that to be. global; testify/recommend to officials, law DISCRIMINATION: Everyone is equal/ enforcement, 3 branches. TV programs equitable. Women & men deserve equal producer speaker; field/studio. Expertise, pay. No one should be singled out by law commitment: intensive/extensive/ enforcement because of skin color. 1A diversified civic services allows for freedom of religion, so anyone HEALTH CARE: Support single-payer can worship (or abstain therefrom) as they healthcare by government, affordable wish. Income inequality is too huge an health care. Our health care system issue in our wealthy nation: we need to should not be controlled by for-profit stop giving breaks to those who don't corporations. To improve quality, need them - that is why they are called affordable health care for all as a "breaks!" fundamental right and should be achieved ECONOMIC POLICY: America First, but by the government. Medical costs should that does not mean alienating allies. not be shifted onto other programs (e.g., Workers first, but we need to help small Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries). biz too. Taxes: what if we stop paying Promote productivity, accountability elected officials far more than we DISCRIMINATION: Equal protection, non ourselves make? MD's per capita income is -discrimination; employment/business/ about $80k - Congressional salaries are activities; rights/homes/vehicles/ >2x that for working as little as 1/3 of a resources/ reputation/ freedoms/ year! As for infrastructure, we need to affiliation, environment; document, spend more there than on the war evidence. Equal pay, sick paid leaves. machine. Give jobs to vets! Prosecute “official misconduct-government IMMIGRATION: 1. Legal immigration gang- MURDER- FRAUD- CRIME- Page 12 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 INJUSTICE NETWORKS" operation; threat/ fees, fast processing of citizen application/ coercion/victimization; physical/mental/ replacement card financial/medication/litigation/levies/ ENVIRONMENT: End: dependence/ foreclosures subsidies for fossil fuels, coal, nuclear ECONOMIC POLICY: Prosecute/eliminate energy, offshore oil drilling, spills. Curb " official misconduct-government gang- carbon pollution, medical costs. Improve MURDER-FRAUD-CRIME-INJUSTICE regulation/oversight. Promote clean air, NETWORKS" operation, unjust/false/ water, renewable energy. Protect public misleading practices; private-public; 3 health, environment. Promote efficiency, branches, local-fed- global, inc. non-profit, technology, research. Reduce unjust think tanks. Protect people/families/ practices, hacking, manipulation, businesses: lives, rights, reputation, obstruction; false excuses, distortion. assets, vehicles, resources. Promote Prosecute wrongdoers. productivity, public interest, cost-benefits, OTHER PRIORITIES: Prosecute/ social needs, budget constraints. eliminate “official misconduct-government IMMIGRATION: SUPPORT: gang- MURDER- FRAUD- CRIME- Comprehensive immigration reform. INJUSTICE NETWORKS"= "cruel tyranny"= Promote humanity, productivity, justice, "robbery machine"= "ROBBER-ISM"= peace. Protect people, families, “super classes of frauds, crimes, parasites, environment. Prosecute “official disservices”; public-private; 3 branches, misconduct-government gang- MURDER local- global. Promote accountability, FRAUD- CRIME- INJUSTICE networks”; social needs. objective evaluations. unjust practices, victimization, Televise candidate debate; maintain/ deprivation, destruction; threat, coercion; disseminate accurate meaningful unjust arrest, detention, torture. Reduce records,proceeding

Support Your Local League of Women Voters! JOIN...

When you join the League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County (LWVAAC), you become part of a unique organization that encourages active and informed participation in government by all citizens, and works to protect voters’ rights at the local, state and national level.

League members promote transparency and accountability in government through direct observation and interaction. They register voters and provide them with factual and unbiased information. They train and encourage citizens to exercise their democratic rights and they work to protect those rights.

LWVAAC membership is open to all persons aged 16 or older. Students join at a discounted rate. Please visit our website to learn more. VOLUNTEER...

Help LWVAAC with its election year activities! We need “feet on the ground” to distribute Voters’ Guides, demonstrate VOTE411.org, assist with candidate forums and provide community outreach. Visit lwvaacmd.org to volunteer or email [email protected]. CONTRIBUTE… Your tax-deductible donation funds resources like this Voters’ Guide, as well as candidate forums and other nonpartisan, informational programs. Please mail your check payable to the LWVAAC Education Fund to Alfa Stevens, 7923

Carriage Drive, Severn, MD 21144. Thank you! League of Women Voters® of Anne Arundel County Empowering Voters. Defending Democracy. (443) 672-8270 [email protected] lwvaacmd.org

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. Representative 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?

Congressional District 2 We just need enforcement. My concern is Candidates that we are in a "cry wolf" scenario. We Vote for no more than 1. have become desensitized to real issues. Liz Matory (REP) What we need is 1) a stronger Campaign Website: lizmatory.com appreciation for our God given potential Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ and 2) respect for each other to express LizForCongress that potential. Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ ECONOMIC POLICY: We have lost our LizForCongress economic ladder. We must free the market Campaign Instagram: instagram.com/ place from burdensome regulations and lizforcongress/ taxes that favor the powerful incumbents Campaign Email: [email protected] that lobby congress to protect their QUALIFICATIONS: I'm a former market share. When innovative companies Democrat turned Republican! I have had form and grow, citizens and families several career, educational, and life benefit. I support temp tariffs for some experiences that will help us better industries to help rebuild our nation's prepare for our country's future. In economy, address currency manipulation, addition to my law and business degrees, I intellectual property theft. have worked to find equity in access to IMMIGRATION: Immigration policy is the resources, communication, and truth. As constitutional responsibility of Congress. congresswoman, I will fight to make sure I'd push to enforce the laws that exist on that our congress represents the people our books and support local and state first and not special interest. governments who work to protect the HEALTH CARE: Crony capitalists safety and security of their citizens, like (BigPharma/Insurance Lobby/Paid 287(g). I would support full funding of Politicians) have destroyed our health care border enforcement and perimeter system. Both my parents and two of my strengthening, increase criminal penalties siblings were surgeons, and they spoke for drug and human traffickers and gang about how different the practice of violence. medicine had become. Healthcare is more ENVIRONMENT: Conservative and about profiting even before Obamacare. conservation come from the same root But Socialized Medicine is NOT the answer. "conserve". Whether for our republic or Individuals must have options. Free the our lands, it is a personal virtue not a market. Stabilize pricing. government mandate to conserve our DISCRIMINATION: There are very few natural resources as it is for our nation. policies that can address any lingering We have very strict environmental laws discrimination that exists in our society. already on the books that need fair We have many laws on the books already. enforcement. We should allow regions to

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. Representative give guidance who have lived off the land “Buy American” provisions and workers’ for generations. rights will also help strengthen the middle OTHER PRIORITIES: We have to class. I support investing in infrastructure emphasize American citizenship and to create jobs, as well as tax incentives for national sovereignty. Our Country is small business. exceptional and Americans have every IMMIGRATION: I support the bipartisan, right to defend it from enemies both comprehensive immigration reform foreign and domestic. We need to protect package passed in the Senate in 2013, our civil liberties, 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and which included protections for Dreamers. 10th. End government overreach and We must work to secure our borders with encroachment into the lives of private a 21st century “wall” of technology and citizens. We must protect the Right to Life. manpower and to deport illegal Honor our service members and families. immigrants who have committed violent crimes. We should target businesses who C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (DEM) knowingly hire illegal immigrants at the Campaign Website: expense of American workers. www.dutchforcongress.com ENVIRONMENT: The progress we have Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ seen in the health of the Chesapeake Bay dutchrupp is in jeopardy: the Administration has Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ proposed eliminating the Chesapeake Bay GoDutchForMD Program and others have proposed Campaign Email: removing core Clean Water Act protections [email protected] for polluted streams, rivers and tributaries Campaign Phone: (410) 252-2505 in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. As an QUALIFICATIONS: I have served in Appropriator, I will fight for full Bay public office for nearly 40 years, including funding as well as these dangerous eight terms in Congress, where I have regulatory changes. developed a reputation for supporting OTHER PRIORITIES: Both national and bipartisan, common sense legislation. I am economic security remain top priorities for an expert in national security issues and me: we must make sure we are prepared leverage my role as an Appropriator to for the threats of tomorrow, like cyber ensure the Second District gets its fair attacks and nuclear weapons. Congress share. I have also built one of the best needs to stop the partisan bickering and casework teams in the country to serve find ways to create jobs and help my constituents. businesses grow. Locally, we must provide HEALTH CARE: There is no question the communities with the resources they need Affordable Care Act is imperfect, but to address the opioid epidemic and gun repeal is not the answer. We need to violence. maintain its consumer protections and the individual mandate. I think we should Michael Carney (LBT) consider a “public option” and allowing Campaign Website: Americans to buy into Medicare at a carneyforcongress.us younger age. I would also support Campaign Facebook: Facebook.com/ expanding the exemption for small carneyforcongress businesses to reduce costs for many Campaign Email: American employers. [email protected] DISCRIMINATION: There is no place in QUALIFICATIONS: Ideally, the only our society for discrimination of any kind. qualification to be a representative is That’s why I support ratifying the Equal being a part of the community, which I Rights Amendment and passing The very much am. I have spent many years Equality Act. I recently fought efforts to working and being involved in the several undermine the Americans with Disabilities of the communities making up my district. Act, as another example. Raising the District 2 also contains two US Army minimum wage and improving our bases, Ft Meade and Aberdeen Proving education system would go a long way Grounds. I served as an enlisted man in toward closing the wealth gap. the Army for four years. ECONOMIC POLICY: I believe the middle HEALTH CARE: My focus for healthcare is class needs to make more money, which is a focus on market, and using legislation to why I support extending tax cuts for the ensure competition and prevent working class – not just the wealthy – as monopolies. While there is a lot of reasons well as a minimum wage increase. Robust to look at single payer, and I am willing to

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. Representative consider it, I am not convinced it will Guy Mimoun (GRN) address the reasons for the extreme prices Campaign Website: we're seeing. The most effective means to www.guyforcongress.us improve health care will be to improve the Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ quality of life of poor and rural people GuyForCongress/ DISCRIMINATION: In the long term, Campaign Email: Discrimination is only possible with [email protected] legislative support. In that mind set, I will Campaign Phone: (240) 426-1628 focus on making urban spaces more QUALIFICATIONS: I recieved a qualtiy livable, bringing jobs and money back into education from Hunter College and have the city centers. I will also seek legislation worked extensively in sales and that will end the focusing of federal managment as well as own my own housing loans on new homes, making it business but more importantly I easier for people of low income to understand what the position entails, purchase and improve older homes. I will specifically the power granted to Congress end For-Profit prisons. to make laws declare war and deficit ECONOMIC POLICY: All of these issues spend on the public purpose rather than are questions of Economy. The key to a special interest who have used a bought strong economy is to maximize congress to their exlusive advantage. opportunity for as many people as HEALTH CARE: While Repubicans wish to possible. To manage that, we have to repeal the Affordable Care Act (A make it easier for people to build privately Republican Plan that was enacted by owned businesses, owning and operating Governor Mitt Romney) and Democrats them. This, combined with housing who claim to improve upon it as is the changes, will revitalize the urban case seen in the incumbents position, I environment. I will support bills that will replace it with Medicare For All & have encourage competition and end it paid without raising taxes by deficit monopolies. spending through Congressional IMMIGRATION: I will pursue legislation appropriations. If we can afford war, we to ease immigration and migration laws, can afford healthcare. as well as providing a legal distinction DISCRIMINATION: There already federal between the two. We are a country of laws in place for protected classes immigrants, a nation without ethnicity. We however parity still lacks for the LGBTQ+ are based on laws and justice, and as community. For the disabled and such, all immigrants are innocent until pensioners, the benefit amount will be proven guilty. As such, detainment of increased to match with cost of living them is a despicable and immoral practice. enabling payments to become a basic I am against the construction of the Wall. income. With 50% of Americans living on ENVIRONMENT: The primary goals or below the poverty line & 500,000 should be to create a sustainable, next homeless, I will undo Clinton era gen energy system, and reduce "austerity" that decimated social dependency on fossil fuels. These include programs. pushing for support mass transit systems ECONOMIC POLICY: We need a Green and next gen nuclear power, which has New Deal (GND) which will divest our solved many of the problems with older energy needs from fossil fuels to generators that we are all familiar with. I renewables at zero cost to the taxpayer. will end government support of states and This will create many jobs which will companies that encourage dependency on necessitate for a Federal Jobs Guarantee outdated fuels. (FJG). The FJG can also address our OTHER PRIORITIES: Military: Changing crumbling infrastructure. A Worker the dynamic between the military and the Cooperative program will be created to industrial complex. The dependency on help workers become owners by powerful firms has trapped us in a cycle of democratize the economy and further burning money and lives, saddling us with secure it. a huge burden. I would severely curtail IMMIGRATION: Amenesty to all our use of military alliances and oversea DREAMers. According to the Anti bases, most notably in the middle east. Defamation League there are roughly The notion that the people and powers 787,000 people who benefited from the there are a threat to us is simply a lie. DREAM act only to be marginally protected under DACA when DREAM wasn't reauthorized.These are people who

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. Representative consider themselves American with no of the Affordable Care Act and have roots to their country of Origin. We need a opposed every attempt to repeal or defund comprehensive immigration policy which this important law. That said, starts with ending regime change and fair improvements could be made to further trade deals lower costs and expand access to care for ENVIRONMENT: Federaly fund all Americans, including passing legislation divestment completely away from Fossil to help stabilize health insurance markets, Fuels which is the main driver for Climate provide premium rate relief for working Change & air pollution. A jobs act that will Americans and to address the nation’s retrain people in the oil industry & apply opioid epidemic. their talent to transition America's energy DISCRIMINATION: There is no question needs to renewalbes. Ban Fracking, Ban that our laws and governing practices Neonicotinoids to protect pollinators continue to permit and sometimes (6000x more toxic than DDT) & address encourage discrimination against racial lead contamination in Maryland's drinking and ethnic minorities, the disabled, the water. poor and other minority communities. We OTHER PRIORITIES: -Restore Glass need to end racial profiling in our law Stegal -Repeal The Stock Act -Enact A enforcement, prohibit gender pay Permanent Payroll Tax Holiday To Help disparities and ensure low- and moderate- Increase The Minimum Wage To $15/hr - income Americans have equal opportunity Ban & Buyout Private Prisons -End the to achieve the American dream. warrantless spying & data collecting on ECONOMIC POLICY: To combat growing Americans -Repeal the economic inequality, we need to focus on telecommunications act -Reinstitute the economic policies which grow the middle Countering Disinformation & Propaganda class. These include ending tax breaks for Act -End The Drug War -End Citzens the corporations who ship American jobs United -Restore Our Civil Liberties/Amend overseas, investing in national NDAA infrastructure, and raising the minimum wage. No American who works full time Congressional District 3 should have to worry about their economic security. Candidates IMMIGRATION: I support a policy that Vote for no more than 1. considers both national security and economic interests, as well as the need to Charles Anthony (REP) provide a fair, legal and humane No response received by deadline. framework for people who want to come to America. I support a solution for our nation’s DREAMERs, a focus on punishing John Sarbanes (DEM) employers who knowingly hire Campaign Website: undocumented workers, and a practical www.johnsarbanes.com approach to addressing undocumented Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ workers currently in the country. jsarbanes ENVIRONMENT: There is no question the Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ most pressing environmental problem is JohnSarbanes climate change. The government must act. Campaign Instagram: We can invest in clean energy www.instagram.com/johnsarbanes/ technologies; cap and reduce greenhouse Campaign Email: gases; require utility companies to [email protected] generate energy from renewable sources; Campaign Phone: (410) 847-9556 develop capabilities to capture and store QUALIFICATIONS: Prior to entering carbon emissions; and advance smart grid Congress, I had nearly 20 years of technologies so electricity is delivered experience in the private, public and non- efficiently. profit sectors. I worked with the MD State OTHER PRIORITIES: One of my top Dept of Education, represented non-profit priorities continues to be ending the reign hospitals and senior living providers and of big money in our political system. For championed efforts to protect consumers too long, special interests have used our and ensure fair treatment in the broken campaign finance system to workplace. This prepared me well for the corrode our institutions of democracy, diversity of issues one must manage as a blocking progress on the issues that member of Congress. matter most to Americans. That’s why I HEALTH CARE: I am a strong supporter introduced the Government By the People

Page 17 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 Act to return power to the people and fix workers. Cooperate with Mexico and our democracy. Central America. ENVIRONMENT: Acknowledge climate David Lashar (LBT) change without obsessing on science, Campaign Website: lashar2018.us imposing mandates, splurging on green Campaign Facebook: projects, or otherwise succumbing to www.facebook.com/lashar2018 alarm. Prioritize clean energy by Campaign Email: encouraging private enterprise with limited [email protected] government support to raise funds, apply QUALIFICATIONS: A successful talent, and bear accountability for bringing executive in business and technology who new technologies and methods to market. plans and leads the turnaround of Continue to support federal funds for Bay organizations that are not delivering cleanup. results and are failing in their missions. A OTHER PRIORITIES: Restore political top official for Gov. Hogan at the Maryland power to all voters with a constitutional Department of Health for 2+ years. An amendment that puts an end to gerrymandering; that creates competitive appointee to the Maryland Transportation Commission. A former congressional districts that represent genuine staffer whose work received national communities across the country. Create recognition. Respectful, civil. turnover and responsiveness in Congress, HEALTH CARE: Stabilize but overhaul the reduce the influence of special-interest flawed Affordable Care Act (ACA), which money, and break the grip of party expanded insurance coverage, especially leaders on our representatives by adopting for those with low income, but has failed term limits. Break the duopoly. to control costs or improve quality, especially for those who are self- Congressional District 4 employed. Adopt the innovative Maryland Candidates Model, on which I possess direct Vote for no more than 1. experience, as a patient-centered, outcome-based, cost-controlled alternative to ACA. George McDermott (REP) DISCRIMINATION: Protect and promote Campaign Website: the equality of all persons before the law www.georgemcdermott.com regardless of race, gender, or sexuality; Campaign Facebook: George regardless of disability or economic status. McDermott@Facebook Do so consistently and vigilantly. Quit Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/NO diminishing those who either differ from us Campaign Instagram: NO or disagree with us. Affirm and respect the Campaign Email: humanity and dignity of all individuals. [email protected] Take pride in diversity of all kinds but Campaign Phone: (301) 996-9577 reject identity politics. QUALIFICATIONS: I come from proud a ECONOMIC POLICY: Force Congress and family that has been involved with public the President to debate and decide the service for as long as I can remember. I hard decisions on the budget by adopting want to work for you. We need to create a constitutional amendment for a balanced more living wage jobs, improve our budget. Make small adjustments over the schools, and make public safety - coming decade to rates of growth in especially getting guns off the streets, a entitlement programs to preserve their top priority. With nearly a decade of financial solvency for those who are government experience, I know what it currently under 50 years of age. Promote takes to find solutions, navigate the open, reciprocal trade that is firmly but complicated governmental sensibly negotiated. HEALTH CARE: Obama care was a IMMIGRATION: Embrace immigration as disaster from the beginning ill-conceived ill a source of dynamism for our society and investigated and deceptive than its nature our economy. Embrace our many with the cover story of trying to help of heritages that compose our one country. small fraction of uninsured parties this Practice lawful immigration that is debacle has ruined far more families in administered humanely. Provide a path to America that it will ever while making the citizenship, with both its rights and its corporate healthcare industry and drug duties, for the so-called DREAMers. Revive industries wealthy.unfortunately recent and expand the use of work permits for changes have only made matters much worse

Page 18 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 DISCRIMINATION: we have seen great www.facebook.com/ changes in the last decade in the anthonybrown.maryland government's policies towards Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ discrimination including race-based, anthonybrownmd4 gender, and ethnic based discrimination Campaign Email: you still have a long way to go our system [email protected] set up where those with wealth, power Campaign Phone: (240) 743-8760 and authority still flagrantly disregard and No response received by deadline. disrespect the principles of our found fathers the old boys network still Dave Bishop discriminates indiscriminately. (LBT) ECONOMIC POLICY: it appears our Campaign Website: current leadership has sent a message to www.bishop4congress.com the world by restructuring the tax laws to Campaign Facebook: benefit only the wealthy, engaging in a www.facebook.com/ war against labor and labor unions, DaveBishopforCongress engaging recklessly in trade wars which I Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ fear will have a devastating effect on our Bishop4House economy. In the administration is more QUALIFICATIONS: My primary concerned about a $50,000,000,000 wall experience is in small business and infrastructure our states and nation management. Working with smaller which is not wise. groups to coordinate efforts in order to IMMIGRATION: My past record has accomplish a large goal is part of making always been proper immigration policies any business successful. My education, build a strong nation. However in the past however, is focused in government and corporate America has used immigration non-profit management as well as social policies to benefit the bottom line while sciences. I have spent may years studying discriminating harshly against those they how people interact with their import for cheap labor even during this government's and how we have evolved election cycle the current administration culturally. only wishes to fulfill campaign promises HEALTH CARE: Health Care is not a one while turning the nation into a isolationist size fits all issue and, specifically not an state enumerated power of the federal ENVIRONMENT: Environmental policies government. But it is a necessity today. can only be addressed when the United States that wish to have healthcare States works with other nations around programs, such as Maryland, have the the globe to reduce toxics admissions responsibility to create programs that work to clean up our respective nations work specifically for the residents of our water supplies and through long-term state. Maryland should coordinate such planning by responsible environmentalists efforts with other states to force pharma and legislators. Our current administration to become non-profit. does not want to work towards any of DISCRIMINATION: It is the these goals separating us from the rest of responsibility of the Federal Government the world. to ensure people's natural rights are not OTHER PRIORITIES: Our legal system is violated by government or other a shambles it's cloaked in secrecy laws individuals. This is particularly the case have been changed without without the when it comes to ALL state and local consent of the people turning all law in government actions, and government this nation over to international employment. In the few cases that jurisdiction and our legislators and judges become federal jurisdiction, the federal are now operating fictitiously government should always caution on the underPRIVATE MERCANTILE CORPORATE side of freedom from oppression or harm. COURTS outlined under Title 8, 22 & 28 ECONOMIC POLICY: I support as much USC which in December 26th 1933 49 free trade with our allies as is financially Statute 3097 Treaty Series 881 responsible. I believe we have the (Convention resources to be self supporting and still create very profitable trade agreements. Anthony G. Brown (DEM) However, I am not completely opposed to Campaign Website: tariffs IF they help eliminate personal www.anthonybrown.com income taxes on middle income earners. Campaign Facebook: Individuals should not be paying federal

Page 19 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 income taxes. You deserve the fruits of HEALTH CARE: I believe that all your labor. Americans should be able to afford the IMMIGRATION: We need to worry about best healthcare available for the entire the people who are already here first. family. Regards of income or employment, Whether here legally or illegally, we need everyone should be able to have the same a working solution that provides for healthcare as provided to the U.S. allowing people to stay, or send them Congress. home to coming back the right way. A DISCRIMINATION: I support a policy of wall, will not help with this, and will be a absolutely NO Discrimination, especially in waste of money. But increased overall the workforce period. border security is very important. There ECONOMIC POLICY: It's basic Economics are great compromises to be made to 101, Lower Taxes and Higher improve immigration. Employment. Better paying full time jobs ENVIRONMENT: We have been entrusted is very important to the United States by God to care for this planet. While economy. The taxes paid will help with environmental issues were not considered fixing our infrastructure with building state in the original Constitution, there is no -of-the-art public transportation as well as doubt this is a new global, national and lowering healthcare costs. regional issue that must be addressed. I IMMIGRATION: I believe we have in believe the fed. government should have place right now a very strong immigration an amendment that permits SOME policy that is now being implemented. The environmental programs, but it should National Guard is now being employed to balance stewardship against fiscal protect our borders. We can not allow so responsibility and liberty. many immigrants, especially illegal OTHER PRIORITIES: I believe we need immigrants to enter the United States. some basic reform in federal government. Our Country's infrastructure, healthcare 1. Term limits for congress, 2. Reform the and economy can not support the millions electoral college to remove the winner of people that want to live here. take all scam. 3. Increase non-partisan ENVIRONMENT: We need to restrict the voter education. 4. Constitutional gun laws products that we import from other that protect the 2nd amendment and keep countries that don't have any us safe. 5. Define corporate entities as environmental regulations in place as with artificial: They don't get a vote, they China. We are definitely moving in the shouldn't be paying for campaigns and right direct here with alternative sources policy agendas. of energy with solar and wind power. Fossile fuels we use today is not unlimited Congressional District 5 amount. It's projected that we will have used all the oil and gas in the world Candidates around the year 2068. Vote for no more than 1. OTHER PRIORITIES: My Top priority is the War on Drugs. We are now in a drug William A. Devine III (REP) epidemic with the abuse pf opioids abuse Campaign Facebook: in this Country that is effecting almost www.facebook.com/bill.devine.50 every family in every State. From the poor Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ to the rich, many have fallen. 116 people. studlydevine According to the U.S. Department of Campaign Email: Health and Human Services, that's how [email protected] many people died, per day, from opioid- Campaign Phone: (410) 946-4547 related overdoses in 2016. That is QUALIFICATIONS: Even though I am unacceptable. basically a political outsider seeking office, I have served as an elected official as a Steny H. Hoyer (DEM) Councilman with the Town of Capitol Campaign Website: Heights. I also campaigned for a seat on www.hoyerforcongress.com the Prince Georges County Council. Unlike Campaign Facebook: many other candidates seeking office, I www.facebook.com/hoyerforcongress have lived my entire life in the great State Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ of Maryland. Growing up in the Town of stenyhoyer Capitol Heights was a great experience for Campaign Email: me. [email protected] Campaign Phone: (301) 464-5710

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 QUALIFICATIONS: Throughout my federal facilities as well as continue to tenure in Congress, I have been an advocate to bring the new, consolidated effective and bipartisan leader who works FBI Headquarters to Prince George’s to deliver results for my constituents. County. I will also remain an advocate for Economic development continues to be our nation’s federal employees who keep one of my top priorities and I am proud to our food safe, keep planes in the air, and have helped create and save 23,000 jobs. protect our country and serve our people. I remain dedicated to ensuring all Marylanders have access to middle class Jacob Pulcher (LBT) opportunities. Campaign Website: HEALTH CARE: The Affordable Care Act www.pulcherforpoultry.com/ has provided thousands of families in Campaign Facebook: Maryland with quality, affordable health @pulcherforpoultry.com care. Rather than undermining the law, Campaign Email: Republicans in Congress and President [email protected] Trump should work with Democrats to Campaign Phone: (267) 257-6648 improve the law, and ensure the QUALIFICATIONS: I am no different or affordability of insurance and access to more qualified than any hard working tax quality care. paying American. I believe my experience DISCRIMINATION: Throughout my qualifies me far more than any career career in Congress and the Maryland politician who has no real understanding of Senate, I have taken a leading role in what life is like for the middle class. supporting legislation that ends HEALTH CARE: I believe in a welll discrimination. I was the primary House regulated free market system. The sponsor of the Americans with Disability government should never have stuck its Act, was instrumental as Majority Leader greedy pig snout in this industry. I can in repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and agree it was not perfect before but the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, quality of this product has decline support legislation for equal pay and considerably while the cost has fought for voting rights. skyrocketed. ECONOMIC POLICY: I launched the DISCRIMINATION: As a libertarian I Make It In America plan, to focus on believe all people are Created equally. It is boosting a declining American no business of the government what your manufacturing sector. Since then, 19 bills race or sex or religious beliefs. No one have been signed into law, including should be treated different or payed less legislation to cut taxes and provide loans regardless. for small businesses, speed up the patent ECONOMIC POLICY: We need to focus process, train skilled workers, and end tax more on our crumbling infrastructure. I loopholes that encourage companies to support the unions and believe the people ship jobs overseas. I began a listening should have the choice to join them. tour to update the agenda. Government interference should be IMMIGRATION: When President Trump minimal in foreign trade. ended the Deferred Action for Childhood IMMIGRATION: I support a simpler Arrivals (DACA) program in September method to citizenship. While I do not 2017, he left hundreds of thousands of support tax funded programs to support hardworking young people twisting in the non citizens I believe that every human wind. DREAMers know no other country should have an opportunity to become an than America, and it reprehensible that American. Congress has not come to a consensus on ENVIRONMENT: I believe environmental reinstating the DACA program.It's past issues should be handled on the state time for Congress to pass comprehensive level. The federal government involvement immigration reform. in state land should be minimal. ENVIRONMENT: The most pressing OTHER PRIORITIES: The drug war has challenge is the Trump Administration’s failed us on every level. People should not actions to eliminate and undermine be incarcerated for buying drugs that environmental protection and its denial of should not be illegal. These people have a climate change. I have been a strong disease, they are our friends and family. I supporter of protecting our water, air and want to decriminalize all illegal drugs and land. create a path to have all drugs sold legally OTHER PRIORITIES: I will continue to in well regulated dispensaries. These protect our military installations like Pax dispensaries should be managed on the River, Indian Head and Webster Field, and state level and owned locally. 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 Patrick J. Elder (GRN) of our society. All persons fleeing political, Campaign Website: racial, religious, or other types of www.elderforcongress.org persecution must be welcomed and given Campaign Facebook: permanent resident status. www.facebook.com/pat.elder1 ENVIRONMENT: The 5th is home to Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ Morgantown and Chalk Point, two of MD’s studentprivacy nine coal-fired plants. They’re poisoning Campaign Instagram: us, and they should be shut down and patelderforcongress replaced with renewable energy sources. Campaign Email: The Naval Surface Warfare Center and Pax [email protected] River have polluted the air, groundwater, Campaign Phone: (301) 997-3963 surface water, and the soil. We must QUALIFICATIONS: I hold an MA in Gov’t subject the irresponsible actions of the from the Univ. of MD. I’ve been a business military to state oversight. owner, teacher, and political activist for OTHER PRIORITIES: Calvert’s school forty years. I know what it’s like to meet budget is $115 Million, about the cost of the payroll of a dozen employees. I’ve also one F-35. The F-35 is the most expensive worked on issues relating to DOD program ever, with a total lifetime homelessness, children, militarism, and price tag of $1.5 trillion. That’s 13,000 the environment. I embrace the role of times what Calvert spends on its schools. government in regulation and taxation, Modernizing nuclear weapons will cost $1 with services on a par with our European trillion over the next ten years. We must counterparts. cut defense spending and work out our HEALTH CARE: We must enact a publicly problems overseas nonviolently and funded health care system. People are multilaterally. suffering needlessly. I support HR 676. This bill provides everyone with free health Johnny Rice (WRI) care that includes all medically necessary Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ care, such as primary care and prevention, johnnyriceforcongress/ dietary and nutritional therapies, Campaign Email: prescription drugs, emergency care, long- [email protected] term care, mental health services, dental Campaign Phone: (240) 241-2724 services, and vision care. QUALIFICATIONS: I have 25 years of DISCRIMINATION: We must counter the Christian Volunteer Ministry work in mass incarceration of African Americans W.Africa for 2 years as a Bible teacher in for nonviolent drug offenses. Many are Ghana at a UN Refugee Camp ; Liberia, caught in an atrocious revolving door of Nigeria, India & Churches/Ministries, 2 arrest, incarceration, release, and re- Christian TV stations, TBN, and arrest. Many are sick, in desperate need of TheCrossTV. My Mission is on Capitol Hill intensive drug therapy and job training. I to lift up Jesus & Prayer in America and support policies to increase investment in expose the Atheistic/ Anti-Biblical Agenda marginalized communities, affordable of the Democrat Leaders / Democrat housing, education, job training, and Party. health care. HEALTH CARE: Want to work with Dana ECONOMIC POLICY: I support the Rohrabacher and Corey Booker to legalize policies advocated by the Democratic Cannabis/Marijuana to be legalized Progressive Caucus. The wealthiest must Federally as a Homeopathic Medicine & for be taxed, as they are in Europe, to Responsible 21yr old Adult usage, which radically change American society and studies have shown is a much safer create high-paying jobs. I’d invest $2 alternative medicine. Websites advocating trillion over 10 years to rebuild & educating are: https://www.mpp.org/ transportation, water, energy, and issues/medical-marijuana/ ; information systems, while overhauling www.marylandcannabispolicy.org/ ; unsafe and inefficient schools, homes, and www.marylandnorml.org . public buildings. DISCRIMINATION: Will promote Jesus's IMMIGRATION: Undocumented teachings of Loving our neighbor as immigrants and their families should be ourself & forgiving our enemies, those who granted a legal status which includes the have offended. Matthew 5 And support chance to become U.S. citizens. Persons current Anti-Discrimination laws on the should be excluded from this process only books, which great American leaders if they present a danger to other members pushed for, such as Pres. Lincoln; Dr

Page 22 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 Frederick Douglass, my biggest hero; & Welfare illegal. E-VERIFY required for ALL Dr. Martin Luther King . Promote Biblical EMPLOYMENT . Truth that Everyone is Equal as God has ENVIRONMENT: Promote Hydro Electric ordained Galatians 3:28 power as The Safest, Cleanest Energy ECONOMIC POLICY: Support Pres source, should build more Hydro Electric Trump's Economic; Trade; Taxes; policies. Dams with the goal to replace all other Support putting Tariffs equal , Fair Trade, Unclean Energy sources, especially as Peter Navarro, Trump's Trade Policy Nuclear Power Plants, which all should be Advisor, to resurrect Industries , shut down ASAP, as 80% are leaking destroyed by Bad Trade deals of Clinton, contaminating Water supplies. Also Bush Sr&Jr, Obama, NAFTA, China, replace Coal. Goal to have 100% Hydro Mexico, 800 Billion trade deficit Ross Perot Power, as Norway has 98%. Clean up warned millions of jobs lost. Support No Chesapeake Bay with Oyster project. Tax increases Pledge led by Grover OTHER PRIORITIES: Disagree w/Pres Norquist group/book. Trump on the Military budget. Would push IMMIGRATION: My solution to DACA/ to decrease the Military budget by 25% + DREAMERS NO AMNESTY CITIZENSHIP! (not Military service pay), rather the NO WELFARE! CANNOT STEAL ELECTIONS Billions wasted on Neverending spending for DEMOCRATS! LIFETIME GREEN CARD on Weapons; Nuclear; etc. Cutting the which gives RESIDENCY /WORK PERMIT . Military Budget , provide Fed Funding $1 NO FAMILY CHAIN MIGRATION. Only for Trillion Infrastructure, keep SocialServices Illegals physically here. STOP LEGAL STRONG. Stop Military invasions, for IMMIGRATION until 2020!!! NO more Defense. Cut NASA/CIA/NSA/FOREIGN ILLEGALS /GREEN CARD HOLDERS on AID/UN, except Israel. WELFARE (75% currently). Must make

GUBERNATORIAL GENERAL ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Page 23 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 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: 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?

Legislative District 21 ENVIRONMENT: The major physical environment concern and challenge in Candidates Maryland is care for the Chesapeake Bay Vote for no more than 1. and its tributaries - to main a clean quality Lee Havis (REP) of water that eliminates pollution from Campaign Website: havisforsenate.com wastewater drainage due to excessive, Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ uncontrolled human activity. The main havisforsenate challenge is at the Conowingo Dam, to Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ clean up the sledge backup that overflows patriotvoting into the headwaters of the Bay. Campaign Instagram: instagram.com/ DISCRIMINATION: Cause of all forms of havisforsenate discrimination comes from low-quality, Campaign Email: defective education of youth. Improving [email protected] public education is therefore the main Campaign Phone: (240) 481-1566 focus of attention to assure correction - to QUALIFICATIONS: As a private educator assure equal opportunity for all by de- and civic and political activist for most of centralizing the excessive top-down my adult life, I am well acquainted with administrative control to create more the problems of government in Maryland, direct citizen accountability for quality and especially in the important field of value at the grassroots level. education. This experience has allowed me EDUCATION: I favor a policy of greater to study solutions that will correct grassroots, citizen accountability for problems and improve government to education, such as de-centralizing its top- make it more accountable to citizens, down control, to allow more direct control especially in such critical areas as public from parents and local school districts. education. More funding is not needed, but a more REDISTRICTING: I favor a non-partisan uniform, objective per-pupil state-wide commission with mandate to draw district funding formula to reduce spending based lines that are concise and contiguous to on special political considerations. communities and population centers that HEALTH CARE: The main challenge in are bound together by such criteria as healthcare is to bring higher quality and jurisdictional boundaries such as towns, more affordable services. Needed is ready cities, and counties and economic centers access to a free-market, competitive of activity. system of health insurance, that supports

Page 24 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 individual choice of doctor, health plan and QUALIFICATIONS: I have lived 44 years services. Other reforms are needed as total in what is District 30, from south well, such as limit on claims for "pain and county to Annapolis. I have worked every suffering" to reduce the cost of insurance level of job here during that time. 27 required for medical practice. years as owner of Ron George TRANSPORTATION: Transportation Jewelers,inc. I volunteer to several priority is to reduce traffic congestion and charities, Becky and I have raised six improve the network of roads and children here. I have served 8 years hear highways. Funding should be through a as the State Delegate, concentrating on dedicated tax on gasoline, whose revenue strong constituent service dealing with is not used for other purposes. Maintaining every category of concern. an efficient, affordable public bus system REDISTRICTING: I was the lead sponsor should be included as a high priority as for creating a bipartisan commission for well; along with reducing traffic congestion fair redistricting when I served as a by limiting intensity of development. Delegate. I also lead the successful petition to get it on the ballot in 2014. I Jim Rosapepe (DEM) would even suggest that Judges should Campaign Email: draw them. This is better than partisan [email protected] House and Senate leaders. The way it is QUALIFICATIONS: - Member, House of now suppresses votes and denies Delegates (1987-97) - Member, State representation. Senate (2007-current) - Regent, ENVIRONMENT: I have been a voice for University System of Maryland (2001-06) many years on the need to address - US Ambassador to Romania (1998-2000) Conawingo Dam, and an advocate for REDISTRICTING: National or regional Oyster Restoration. I will continue my idea agreement of nonpartisan districting. with the Navy of bringing wind energy to ENVIRONMENT: - Climate change: Greenbury Point. My Net Metering bills switch to renewables - Clean up successfully created energy credits for Chesapeake Bay: restoration of pollution creating renewable wind and solar energy runoff and protection of sea life - parks. Many are now appearing across the Overdevelopment of open space: protect state because of my bills. That success will open space from development and support continue. smart growth DISCRIMINATION: It is important for us DISCRIMINATION: - Increasing to show and teach the young respect for minimum wage - Protect the Affordable all people. I believe job training and trade Care Act - Support the Maryland Attorney schools are one way to break a cycle of General going to court to protect poverty that many African Americans are Marylanders' rights in. We must shout for egual pay for all EDUCATION: - Increased State school aid that work hard. I advocate and vote for - Progressive tax policies - Reducing accessibility for the handicap; and school overcrowding with more modern protecting the freedom to practice ones construction methods - Expand career and faith is part of my oath of office. technical education EDUCATION: I find too many of our increases in education funding go to HEALTH CARE: - Trump Administration attacks on health insurance - Pass laws administrative jobs; I will continue to fight protecting health insurance in Maryland for funds to go directly to the classrooms TRANSPORTATION: - More transit, and our teachers. I will help teachers by demanding more planning time for particularly MARC, Metro, and Purple Line - Combination of gasoline, corporate, and teachers and NOT forcing them to use new other taxes books or curriculum every year or two. These ideas let the teachers teach; they save costs and puts those savings in the Legislative District 30 classrooms. Candidates HEALTH CARE: We are still on course to Vote for no more than 1. have a severe physician shortage in our state. I will bring back the Doctors Caucus Ron George (REP) and the Physicians Advisory I formed as a Campaign Website: rongeorge.us Delegate and make Maryland more Campaign Facebook: @rongeorgeUSA physician friendly. I will support an Campaign Email: exchange that allows purchasing of [email protected] tailored personal plans across state lines Campaign Phone: (443) 841-4951 and end the monopoly of few insurer

Page 25 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 options in our state. This helps to lower improve the inclusion of tolerance, costs to consumers. empathy, and anti-bullying education in TRANSPORTATION: Maryland has seen public schools. an increase in road improvements under EDUCATION: As a proud product of public Governor Larry Hogan but a future schools, I believe that every child governor could easily return us to once deserves access to a high-quality public again to poor transportation funding. I education. As your Senator, I will be support a true lock box on transportation committed to expanding technical and funds that cannot be reversed. The next career education to prepare kids for 21st big phase of road work is on our aging century jobs, increasing teacher salaries to bridges and we must be ready. I also will keep experience in our classrooms, and fight for existing funds to end gridlock on investing in universal pre-kindergarten. District 30 Peninsulas I'm proud to have been endorsed by MSEA. Sarah K. Elfreth (DEM) HEALTH CARE: Access to affordable, Campaign Website: quality healthcare is a fundamental right. www.sarahelfreth.com We need to make sure our healthcare Campaign Facebook: system works for all Marylanders. As your www.facebook.com/sarahforsenate Senator, I will work to implement Medicaid Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ buy-in options, invest in community-based elfreth4senate healthcare, remove the barriers and Campaign Instagram: expand access to substance abuse Instagram:@sarahforsenate treatment, and expand home healthcare Campaign Email: services that allow seniors to age in [email protected] place. QUALIFICATIONS: I’ve spent over a TRANSPORTATION: District 30 is a decade working hand-in-hand with the bedroom community with a majority of General Assembly while at the National workers commuting outside of the district Aquarium, the USM Board of Regents, and every day, particularly to Baltimore City the University of Maryland working to and Washington, DC, and currently, there build stronger public schools, protect the are not enough reliable and clean methods Bay, and grow our economy. I've spent of mass transportation available. As your my personal time as a passionate Senator, I will work to increase rapid advocate for the community: serving on transportation projects that better connect the board my community association and residents to job opportunities. President of our Democratic Club. REDISTRICTING: An open, free, and fair Christopher Wallace, Sr. (LBT) democracy is a tenant of who we are as a Campaign Website: chriswallacesr.com People. A crucial element to that process Campaign Facebook: is maintaining voting districts that www.facebook.com/cwallacesr accurately represent the community. I Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ support non-partisan redistricting as a tool cwallacesr to protect the integrity of our democracy. No response received by deadline. ENVIRONMENT: The Bay is our greatest natural resource, our economic engine, Legislative District 31 and key to our way of life. As your Senator, I will help increase oyster Candidates populations, invest in clean energy jobs, Vote for no more than 1. and fight to protect our forests and critical Bryan W. Simonaire (REP) areas. I'm proud to be endorsed by both Campaign Website: www.simonaire.com the Sierra Club and the Maryland League QUALIFICATIONS: I have been in the of Conservation Voters and will work with workplace for 30+ years with a Masters in local environmental leaders in the Senate. Computer Engineering. While continuing DISCRIMINATION: Discrimination – my engineering job, I was elected as State based on race, sex, religion, disability, Senator. My passion and background has income, or age – is unacceptable in all helped me to focus on solutions and not forms. While we've made tremendous partisan bickering. As a result, I have progress over the past decades, we must been a successful leader in the Anne do more to address discrimination by Arundel County Delegation when it comes ensuring Maryland's Hate Crimes law is to working on and passing commonsense even stronger. We must also work to legislation.

Page 26 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: Our current Campaign Email: congressional and legislative maps are a [email protected] disgrace to the people of Maryland. I have No response received by deadline. and will continue to work on providing the people with a non-partisan committee to Legislative District 32 draw the maps. Currently, the lines benefit the political parties. I want to change it to Candidates benefit the people. Vote for no more than 1. ENVIRONMENT: Clean up of the bay John Grasso (REP) remains a top priority. I have led No response received by deadline. legislative efforts to improve the bay's quality. I passed legislation to increase penalties on those that dump raw sewage Pamela Beidle (DEM) in our waterways. I sponsored legislation Campaign Website: to put a lock box on the money dedicated www.pambeidle.com for the bay, and also address the pollution Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ from the Conowingo Dam. Both these bills PamBeidle for Senate passed the Senate, but the House took no Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ action. PamelaBeidle DISCRIMINATION: Discrimination is Campaign Email: [email protected] unacceptable and laws are in place to Campaign Phone: (443) 424-2632 handle it. There is a commission that QUALIFICATIONS: After serving two receives and processes any complaints. terms on the County Council and three EDUCATION: Education is a major key to terms in the House of Delegates, I believe helping people succeed. I co-sponsored that I am well prepared to be the Senator legislation to let the people decide if they to represent District 32. want the casino money to go to education REDISTRICTING: I support a non- funding, above and beyond the existing political commission to draw redistricting formulas as initially promised. Sadly, the lines. casino money was never fully given to ENVIRONMENT: Fracking, drilling for oil, education and shell games simply gave sediment from the Conowingo Dam into the appearance. The question will be on our Bay, improving the condition of the the ballot this November. Chesapeake, are all areas we have HEALTH CARE: There are several issues. addressed on the Environment and Namely, the opioid crisis and rising Transportation Committee. We need to healthcare costs. While Washington has continue our work to protect Maryland and been mired down in partisan politics, specifically protect the Bay. I will continue Maryland has started to take the lead. to support our environmental community Governor Hogan declared the Opiod Crisis on their issues. a state of emergency and created a task DISCRIMINATION: In the past three force to make recommendations to help terms my votes have reflected my support deal with it. Action this session reduced for opposing discrimination. I noticed that the healthcare costs, but more action is you did not include Sexual Orientation on needed. the list. Policies should not discriminate TRANSPORTATION: Funding for against citizens for any of these reasons. transportation had been raided by the EDUCATION: In a non-partisan vote the previous administration, but Governor House and Senate just supported funding Hogan has reversed that trend. He has for the Kirwin Commission to improve our started getting money into local education policies and the Knott jurisdictions to fund local roadways that Commission to improve how we fund have been ignored for too long. We are school construction and renovation. We starting to see improvements all across will pay for these policies by finally putting the state. Congestion is also a major issue the Casino revenues in a "lock box." That that needs to be addressed with over constitutional amendment will be on the development. General Election ballot. HEALTH CARE: The most significant challenge is the change in Federal Funding Scott Harman (DEM) for health care. Maryland reached insuring Campaign Website: 94% of the population. HB1792 passed in www.bluewavemaryland.org/scottharman 2018, supports the health insurance Campaign Facebook: @ascottharman market stabilization by collecting 2.75% from hospitals, which benefit from patients

Page 27 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 having health insurance. We need to hold school boards, principles and elected continue to educate our under served bodies, city and county, accountable for populations on prevention. their efficient application. TRANSPORTATION: In the current term HEALTH CARE: The high cost of health I served as Chair of the Motor Vehicle and care is causing many families to go Transportation Policy Subcommittee. I without coverage. The recent report in the sponsored HB1468 to assist employers Evening Capital indicated that 400,000 with transporting employees to job less people are covered by insurance in centers. This grant will allow 2018 thank last year. We recently passed transportation for employees that do not a stop gap measure in the Senate to keep have access to public transportation. insurance premiums subsidized for the Maryland needs to do more to promote 2019 Budget year. safe, dependable mass transit. Or our road TRANSPORTATION: My transportation congestion will not improve. priority is the additional bay bridge crossing. Gov. Hogan has allocated Five Legislative District 33 Million dollars to the an enviormental impact study to try to identify the location Candidates of a new bay crossing. It has to have the Vote for no more than 1. least enviormental impact and most logical Edward R. Reilly (REP) location to improve traffic flow which is Campaign Email: [email protected] continuing to increase. Campaign Phone: (410) 533-2271 QUALIFICATIONS: Seven years as an Eve Hurwitz (DEM) Anne Arundel County Councilman and now Campaign Website: 9 years as a Maryland State Senator. As a www.evehurwitz.com senior member of the Republican Caucus Campaign Facebook: in the General Assembly, I take on www.facebook.com/voteforeve leadership roles on the floor for important Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ legislation. I was Minority Whip for two evehurwitz years helping to find consensus on difficlt Campaign Instagram: issues. No on the Finance Committee www.instagram.com/evehurwitz/ dealing with Banking and Insurance. Campaign Email: [email protected] REDISTRICTING: Non Partican citizens Campaign Phone: (410) 989-1186 commission who will respect natural QUALIFICATIONS: As a combat veteran boundries, communities of interest, and the sole female aviator in my current political boundries. squadron, I know how to excel in a male- ENVIRONMENT: How to find the most dominated environment. While in the effective way to clean up the Bay. Current military, I also adjudicated administrative programs are still relativelly ineffective. boards and non-judicial punishment. As a Holding Pennsylvania and New York business owner in the accounting field, I resonsible for the hugh amount of debris am adept at corporate finance and best being sent down the Susquahana River to practices. I am also a mother of five, an the Chesapeake Bay. Requiring Exelon to active community volunteer, and a do a better job of preventing debris from legislative activist. passing over the dam and damaging our REDISTRICTING: Fair districting is an Bay. essential aspect of the democratic process DISCRIMINATION: There are plenty of and allows true representation to occur. laws in place to address these issues. They Gerrymandering only benefits those are making incremental advances. already in power and further Discrimination continues to exist because disenfranchises minorities and of individuals who don't respect others. marginalized communities. Districts should We need as leaders to show others the be cohesive in terms of their needs, respect they deserve and hold individuals concerns, and geographic boundaries, and and institutions accountable for their should be drawn by an independent, actions. nonpartisan commission. EDUCATION: Gov. Hogan continues to ENVIRONMENT: 1) The Chesapeake Bay set aside record amounts of money to be is deteriorating due to runoff, pollutants, allocated to education. In Anne Arundel and waste and must be protected. 2) County, County Executive Schuh is Developers must be held accountable for allocating ever increasing amounts of the the impact they have on the environment. County Budget to education. We need to 3) We must ban EPS foam, which is NOT

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 recyclable and poisons sea and plant life. casino money to schools as was originally 4) I will implement business recycling promised. programs to put a stop to the millions of HEALTH CARE: The opioid addiction is pounds of recyclable material that end up one of our greatest challenges. We need in landfills. to treat addiction as a disease, not a DISCRIMINATION: We must address the crime. Studies have shown that pay gap, which harms women, minorities pharmaceuticals are the most common and other underrepresented communities. gateway drug to opioid use and addiction. Transparency in salaries is one way. We need to stop overprescribing Another is legislation to mandate equal pharmaceuticals and reform our health pay for equal work. We can also address care system to one that treats patients discrimination for Marylanders by with a more holistic and less invasive implementing paid family leave, which just approach. More beds are also crucial. passed for state employees. Disabled and TRANSPORTATION: I believe that public marginalized children in our schools need transportation is deficient across the support and compassion. county and entire state. This needs to EDUCATION: Our schools in AA County change, as many communities, which are are suffering - temporary classrooms that often already marginalized, largely rely on were never meant to be used for decades, public transportation in their day to day teacher salaries that are well below that of lives. In order to grow our economy and surrounding counties, and funding help Marylanders take care of their shortages. I will track down gaps in the families, we must expand the public budgeting process, like the Educator Trust transportation infrastructure and make it Fund. We need to vote yes on the more accessible. referendum in November that will send all

Page 29 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

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?

Legislative District 21 growing countries. We need to improve our transit systems and rural buses so Candidates that many people can enjoy riding transit Vote for no more than 3. than driving their cars. We also need to Chike Anyanwu (REP) teach about environment to our children Campaign Website: and clean our rivers and the Bay. Chike4statedelegate.com DISCRIMINATION: In this day and age, Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ we ought to be ashamed that we are still citizens For chike talking about discrimination. I will pursue Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ every means necessary that nobody is Chike4D21 discriminated against base on race, sexual Campaign Email: orientation, gender, religion, disability, or [email protected] poverty. Campaign Phone: (443) 220-7030 EDUCATION: The standard advice usually QUALIFICATIONS: I served as a given to high school graduates is this: go Community Representative for where I to college. That’s not a bad choice, but it’s worked with the constituents in the also not the only choice. Vocational minority neighborhoods to understand the schools offer students the opportunity to community needs. This helped to craft bills learn in an incredibly career-focused in the House of Delegates to the needs of environment with hands-on learning, the communities. I also served as the industry professionals teaching courses, Deputy Campaign Manager for Charles and sometimes built-in internships or co- Lollar as a Candidate for the Federal ops. A typical undergraduate education is House of Representatives, District 3. almost REDISTRICTING: The people of Maryland HEALTH CARE: I believe that the most deserve the benefits of redistricting significant challenge to healthcare is how reforms. I therefore, fully support the to maintain value-based as opposed to Governor Hogan's proposed legislation to volume-based healthcare. I believe that create a non-partisan redistricting quality always counts. However, as we commission to draw a congressional and move toward value-based healthcare, legislative boundaries. quality care becomes more important than ENVIRONMENT: The most significant ever because now it affects revenues. environmental challenges are pollution, TRANSPORTATION: As a former We never want to be like China or other employee of WMATA and also a current

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 Delegate employee of MTA, I have biased love for paid teachers, and a secure learning the transit systems. I believe that if we environment. I will use my voice and are able to convince the populace to keep General Assembly vote to support these their cars at home and ride the buses and fundamentals. trains, we have several benefits - we HEALTH CARE: The most significant reduce pollution and we keep our cost of health challenge facing Maryland is a driving cars low. We must have a General Assembly which has lost its dedicated funding for better funding bearings on controlled dangerous mechanism substances like marijuana. The downstream effects of a General Assembly Richard Douglas (REP) on the wrong side of this issue will be Campaign Email: catastrophic for sectors of Maryland [email protected] society least able to defend themselves. Campaign Phone: (202) 257-7110 The General Assembly must firmly combat QUALIFICATIONS: After 36 years here drug use, not enable it. and two Senate bids, I understand TRANSPORTATION: To move PEOPLE, I Maryland from end to end. Having been a would support all feasible mass transit Senate lawyer, I understand the danger of options, road, rail, and metro. To move an unresponsive, apathetic legislature. As CARGO, Maryland must seriously explore a veteran of Iraq and submarines, I value approaches like short sea shipping. I teamwork and a sense of duty. As a small would also like to know more about CSX's businessman, I have confronted numerous justification for withdrawing support for Maryland barriers to individual economic enlargement of the Howard Street tunnel, security. I want to remove them. as the project promised increases in cargo REDISTRICTING: Maryland's bizarre flow (and new jobs) from the Port of legislative map is often used by career Baltimore. politicians to excuse incompetence, indifference, and failure. But that map, Ben Barnes (DEM) however bizarre, is no obstacle to Campaign Website: motivated legislators willing to unite benbarnesfordelegate.com around solutions to the most important Campaign Email: problem facing thousands of Marylanders: [email protected] fundamental economic insecurity. Solving Campaign Phone: (703) 470-7369 that problem depends on political will, not QUALIFICATIONS: Most relevantly, my a legislative map. 12 years of experience as a Delegate with ENVIRONMENT: A key challenge is the a proven track record of progressive apathy of elected officials over the human accomplishment. However, my life cost of remediation. Baltimore's storm experiences as the son of a single mother water consent decree, for example, is a in a working class family, and now a father massive unfunded federal mandate. Paid concerned for the future of his own two for by high water bills and the rain tax, it children, have driven me to advocate for forces the elderly and poor into tax sale. progressive causes such as paid sick leave Baltimore is a slow-motion Flint, but and environmental protection. Maryland's General Assembly and U.S. REDISTRICTING: I support redistricting congressional delegation don't seem to overseen by an impartial, non-partisan notice. committee. DISCRIMINATION: Discrimination is a ENVIRONMENT: Climate change is the consequence of economic insecurity. The greatest challenge facing not only our key to ending discrimination is to eliminate state, but the entire country. I was proud economic insecurity by unleashing to be the original primary sponsor of the Maryland's latent economic potential. Clean Energy Jobs bill, which increased Maryland has the human capital and Maryland's renewable portfolio standards, favorable geographic position required to and to sign on to legislation this session compete with or overtake any state in the that would've mandated a 100% nation economically. It only lacks the will. renewable energy standard. I also believe EDUCATION: Abraham Lincoln learned to we need to enhance and update our Forest read and write without a computer or a Conservation Act classroom. Today, basic requirements for DISCRIMINATION: My record speaks for learning, whether in public or private itself on this issue. I was an original schools, are the same: motivation, sponsor of marriage equality in Maryland, parental involvement, trained and well- I have supported affordable housing

Page 31 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 mandates, including properties around the Sierra Club. As a delegate, I will push the Purple Line, and I have been a consistent state to divest its holdings in fossil fuels advocate for women and minority business – including its pension funds -- and I will enterprise. work to enact legislation adopting a EDUCATION: I will use my leadership 100% clean energy standard (wind, solar position as the Vice Chair of the Education and ocean tidal) by 2035 Subcommittee to fully implement the DISCRIMINATION: Maryland has recommendations of the Kirwin Commission strong anti-discrimination laws in and fix the funding adequacy gap for poor employment, housing, and public students across the state of Maryland. accommodations. However, I believe the HEALTH CARE: Disproportionate power state should consider expanding the vested in private insurance companies and definition of public accommodations to unaffordable health care plans caused by include schools since that is where federal instability are the greatest threats transgender students are the most to Maryland health care. We need to vulnerable to harassment. Legal Aid continue doing everything we can to shore organizations need more funding to up the Affordable Care Act at the state provide low income people with the level. representation they need. TRANSPORTATION: We should prioritize EDUCATION: Maryland has the highest our limited transportation funds and invest median household income in the country in existing mass transit resources. In fact, I and could afford to dedicate more to K- was proud to co-sponsor dedicated funding 12 education. Maryland should spend for WMATA this past session. Additionally, more money per pupil, hire more we need to invest in and expand Rt. 175 in classroom teachers and add more Anne Arundel County. paraprofessional support staff, media specialists and school counselors. I Mary A. Lehman (DEM) support treating the Education Trust Campaign Website: Fund as a lockbox and dedicating casino marylehmanfordelegate.com revenue on top of the baseline school budget. Campaign Facebook: @marylehmanfordelegatemd21 HEALTH CARE: The most significant Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ health challenges Marylanders face are MaryALehman1 obesity, caused in part by the lack of Campaign Email: access to fresh foods, and a severe [email protected] shortage of mental health providers. We Campaign Phone: (301) 664-3935 must improve nutritional quality of school QUALIFICATIONS: I have had two meals and improve access to Farmer's careers, both of which have prepared me to Markets. I will sponsor legislation be an effective delegate. I was a journalist providing loan forgiveness to MD medical for 15 years (1987-2002), including three students who choose psychiatry and stay on Capitol Hill, then worked as a legislative in the state to practice. aide including three years in Annapolis TRANSPORTATION: My single (2003-2010) before being elected to the transportation priority would be to expand funding for bus service. Bus Prince George's County Council. I am in my second term and currently chair the Health, service is the most affordable mode of Education & Human Services Committee. public transportation, but the lack of REDISTRICTING: Legislative redistricting connectivity both within and between based on the 10-year Census should be a jurisdictions, and the unreliable and non-partisan process. I support creation of limited service on nights and weekends a redistricting commission every 10 years makes it inefficient. The state needs to by the Governor, through executive order, better balance its transportation so membership is balanced and it must spending between highways and transit. adhere to the state’s Open Meetings Act. That requires advertising meetings, posting Joseline Pena-Melnyk (DEM) agendas and minutes, and being as Campaign Website: transparent as possible to maximize public joselinepenamelnyk.com trust. Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ ENVIRONMENT: The most significant Joseline.Pena-Melnyk environmental challenge we face is climate Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ change. My environmental record on the jpenamelnyk Council earned me an endorsement by the

Page 32 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 Campaign Email: [email protected] stabilize the individual insurance market. Campaign Phone: (301) 213-3604 A fee on the insurance companies pays QUALIFICATIONS: I am experienced and for the program. effective. I was the first in my family to go TRANSPORTATION: Maintaining Metro's to college and I grew up with my mother aging infrastructure requires more who worked in a factory and as a hotel money, but the transit agency is the only maid. Earlier in my career, I worked as a major subway system without dedicated prosecutor, a defense attorney, and as an funding. The General Assembly passed advocate for abused and neglected legislation to provide additional funding children. I understand the struggles of of $167 million a year on condition that ordinary people and I am committed to Virginia and the District contribute the public service. same or more. Highway maintenance is REDISTRICTING: I have co-sponsored important too and we need to fully fund various bills to eliminate gerrymandering, the highway user fund. most recently HB 1022. That bill would have limited gerrymandering congressional Ray Ranker (UNA) districts by requiring each district to consist Campaign Website: rayranker.com of adjoining territory that is compact in Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ form, and of substantially equal population. RayRanker/ It also requires that due regard should be Campaign Email: [email protected] given to natural boundaries and the Campaign Phone: (240) 242-9681 boundaries of political subdivisions. QUALIFICATIONS: Losing my father at ENVIRONMENT: Sustainable growth is our age 11 and being raised by a single most significant challenge. Meeting the mother, living and serving internationally needs of our citizens and the global for years, and serving as a pastor who community while protecting the earth and cares for and walks with people its species for future generations is the throughout their lives, especially in the challenge of our generation. We can act difficult times, have strengthened my locally by controlling greenhouse gas commitment to public service. I have emissions, smarter transportation and land worked with at risk children in Prince use planning, and by taking the needed George's beginning in 2001, and am not steps to protect the Chesapeake Bay from afraid to stand up to big money. pollution. REDISTRICTING: Extreme partisan DISCRIMINATION: I co-sponsored and gerrymandering is wrong, no matter voted for same-sex marriage legislation, which party it benefits. Along with our fought to protect transgender people when broken campaign finance system, they are looking for housing, employment partisan gerrymandering undermines and applying for credit, and co-sponsored public trust in our government. Maryland's Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. This Regardless of what other states do, we session I co-sponsored and voted to ban need to do the right thing. I support the conversion therapy. I also worked to appointment of an independent, non- oppose bail provisions that unduly burden partisan commission to draw federal and the poor who often cannot afford bail. state congressional districts in Maryland. EDUCATION: We should continue to ENVIRONMENT: We need to increase implement the Kirwan Commission our use of renewable energy and recommendations, including improving continue to clean up the Bay and its teacher recruitment, getting more tributaries. MD law requires 25% of our resources to students in low-income energy usage coming from renewable schools, and expanding career and energy sources by 2020. But trash technical education programs. We need to incinerators count as a renewable energy allocate enough funding from the general source thanks to large campaign budget, and allocate all the state's casino contributions. We need to stop proceeds to education (the Lockbox subsidizing big polluters and instead referendum). invest in mass transit systems to help get HEALTH CARE: Maryland families are cars off the road being hit hard by rising health insurance DISCRIMINATION: I support anti- costs. I co-chaired the ACA Workgroup that sexual harassment legislation recently developed legislation to prevent further passed by the General Assembly. We excessive premium increases. We passed a need a culture change in Annapolis and bill that would create a reinsurance our communities. We also need to program that will allow insurance continuously address our history of companies to curb premium increases and systemic racism that has led to 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 inequalities that continue to be lived out Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ today, implement paid maternity leave, speakerbusch and ensure that all Marylander's can work Campaign Email: with local police without fear of [email protected] deportation. Campaign Phone: (410) 573-5000 EDUCATION: Many school buildings in QUALIFICATIONS: I work each and our district are crumbling and need repair. every day to ensure that every person in I support universal pre-k and free summer our community and in our State is heard educational programs, to ensure that and that their values are represented in children from low-income familes don’t fall the work of the State legislature. I believe behind. I support the Commission on it is important to work to bring people Innovation and Excellence in Education together - regardless of background - to and find it imperative that casino money, make a better future for Annapolis. It has as was originally sold to the public, finally the highest honor of my life to represent be added to the state’s educational my hometown in the legislature. budget. REDISTRICTING: I have always been HEALTH CARE: While I applaud propping clear that we need a national solution from up our state’s health insurance the federal government on redistricting. marketplace, we still have hundreds of The General Assembly passed legislation thousands of Marylander's without for a five-state compact for redistricting, insurance. Premiums continue to rise and however Governor Hogan vetoed that medical debt continues to be the number legislation. one cause of bankruptcy. I pledge to work ENVIRONMENT: We have made good with stakeholders to devise and implement progress towards cleaning up the Bay and a plan in the single payer mold, to ensure expanding renewable energy opportunities all Marylander's get the quality health care in MD. Expanding solar, wind and other they deserve. renewable options; broadening investment TRANSPORTATION: New investment in in natural oyster and aquaculture metro and the coming purple line are a programs; and curbing the effects of good start, but we need to improve climate change and greenhouse gas existing services, including MARC and emissions will be priorities for next term. busing services. Walk-able and bike-able DISCRIMINATION: One of the most communities are part of the solution, but important things we do in the legislature is the current MAGLEV proposal is not (I to ensure that everyone has access to a oppose it). We can re-prioritize current quality healthcare system, a good transportation funds and should continue education and a job to support their to solicit Federal funds to help meet our family: regardless of orientation, race or transportation goals. gender. Equal rights is my top priority. I have prided myself on being an inclusive Legislative District 30A leader in the House of Delegates, naming one of the most diverse leadership teams Candidates in the history. Vote for no more than 2. EDUCATION: I look forward to leading Chelsea Gill (REP) our state’s efforts next term to increase Campaign Website: investments in career technology www.chelseagillfordelegate.com education, early childhood and STEM Campaign Facebook: programs focused on getting more women www.facebook.com/Chelsea-Gill- & minorities in these fields. One of the 119702848599573 things that we need to immediately fix No response received by deadline. from the Kirwan Commission initial report is that the poorest students in our State are not getting the resources they need. Bob O'Shea (REP) HEALTH CARE: This year, we fended off Campaign Website: www.boboshea.com Washington's attempt to undermine No response received by deadline. Maryland’s health care system in the short -term but still have more work to do. We Mike Busch (DEM) need to find ways to incentivize Campaign Website: Marylanders to sign up for health www.speakerbusch.com insurance; look for ways to lower the Campaign Facebook: rising costs of health insurance for middle www.facebook.com/SpeakerBusch class families; improve access for women's

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 health and clamp down on rising schools. We are working to diversity the prescription drug costs. teaching profession and end the school- TRANSPORTATION: I have been to-prison pipeline. On Capitol Hill, I disheartened that Governor Hogan has helped with the Lilly Ledbetter law to end undone much of the work that the pay discrimination policies. There is still legislature did over the past ten years on much to do! broadening mass transit solutions in EDUCATION: My priority is to build a Maryland. This is an important policy that world-class education system in we need to work to expand for people to Maryland, including more support for at- get to work and to school. Prioritizing these risk students. As a Commissioner on the projects in our CTP is the first important Annapolis Education Commission, I lead step to expanding mass transit. efforts to improve school safety, reduce overcrowding, and pay teachers more. Alice Cain (DEM) We can bring $500 million to schools Campaign Website: alicejcain.com without raising taxes by "Fixing the Fund" Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ and ensuring casino gaming revenue AliceJCain/ goes to schools as intended. Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ HEALTH CARE: Healthcare is a right, not ALICEJCAIN a privilege. Access and cost are the Campaign Instagram: instagram.com/ biggest challenges. Everyone — alicejcain/ especially our children and seniors — Campaign Email: [email protected] deserves access to affordable, high- Campaign Phone: (410) 645-0541 quality health care. At the Children’s QUALIFICATIONS: I've spent 30 years Defense Fund, I helped lead a national working on policy, including at the campaign that got health insurance for Children's Defense Fund and for two of the over 140,000 previously uninsured most progressive and effective Members of children in MD. They are at risk under Congress in history (Sen. Paul Simon and Trump and I want to fight for them. Rep. George Miller, one of President TRANSPORTATION: We need much better access to public transportation -- Obama’s closest allies.) I know how to get things done - how to translate good ideas including more and better ways to use into legislation, how to get a law passed, public transit to get to and from work. and how to get it funded so it can make a This can reduce traffic - including on the difference. Bay Bridge and the Forest Drive corridor REDISTRICTING: Gerrymandering - and help the environment. We also threatens the integrity of our democracy, need incentives - such as HOV lanes - for and both parties are guilty of perpetuating hybrid automobiles. As Delegate, I will this problem. I support redistricting that is work for greater access to bike shares fair and maps that reflect the will of the and safe bike paths. voters. We need an independent commission to draw congressional and Legislative District 30B legislative district lines. As former Attorney Candidates General Eric Holder says, voters should pick Vote for no more than 1. their representatives, not the other way around. Seth Howard (REP) ENVIRONMENT: Climate change threatens Campaign Website: us, our children, and our grandchildren. I've sethfordelegate.com been fighting for years against over- Campaign Facebook: sethfordelegate development, testifying before our City and Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ County Councils and publishing many sethfordelegate letters to the editor. I strongly support Campaign Email: updating the Forest Conservation Act, [email protected] expanding the Clean Energy Jobs Campaign Phone: (443) 831-9508 Campaign, and banning styrofoam. Because QUALIFICATIONS: As a life long of my leadership, the Sierra Club Marylander, current small business unanimously endorsed me. owner, home owner, veteran and family DISCRIMINATION: I've been fighting man I have brought a wide variety of poverty and racism my entire adult life, ideas and life experiences to Annapolis. including through my church, at the As a sitting delegate, I have been Children's Defense Fund and at Teach Plus, honored to have had the opportunity to where I work with teachers in high-poverty sponsor, co-sponsor and support many

Page 35 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 pieces of legislation that will have a direct Mike Shay (DEM) and positive effect on our communities, Campaign Website: businesses and working families. www.ElectMikeShay.com REDISTRICTING: I absolutely support Campaign Facebook: redistricting and the creation of a non- www.facebook.com/ partisan redistricting commission. I spoke MikeShayforDelegate/ at the town hall meetings (Laurel Police Campaign Email: station) that were held to gain public input [email protected] pertaining to the composition and standards Campaign Phone: (301) 922-4044 of selection for the independent re- QUALIFICATIONS: Over the years I redistricting body. I publicly made several have started 5 businesses and non-profit suggestions that I believe would keep our organizations in our community, and re-redistricting efforts fair and balanced. given countless hours of volunteer work ENVIRONMENT: I am proud to have co- on issues we care about. My sponsored and voted for legislation that will achievements, successes and awards re-classify water purity as a primary reason (including a resolution from the MD for considering Bay restoration and clean Senate and House) are available to see up projects. This will help ensure that our at www.electmikeshay.com and I have older communities in the critical areas with first hand experience working with our failing septic tanks will get the funding they local government on behalf of our need to take corrective measures. I was communities. also proud to vote for SB610 - Forest REDISTRICTING: I have worked on Conservation Act Policy (TF) local councilmatic redistricting and I DISCRIMINATION: I was looking forward would support concepts that have more to supporting Hb1695. This bill specifies common sense and less politics. that, for purposes of the hate crimes laws, ENVIRONMENT: Smart growth and the term “deface” includes to affix, erect, or citizen planning is the first step to place a noose or swastika on. overcoming our environmental Unfortunately, the bill did not come to the challenges. I'm a founding member on floor for a vote this year. . the leadership board of South Arundel EDUCATION: I supported the Fix the Fund Citizens for Responsible Development. Act—This bill would ensure that all revenue For the last 25yrs we have been stopping raised into the Education Trust Fund from inappropriate development and saved casino gaming actually increases school over 750 acres of important lands in our funding. We must ensure that funding area. I will continue to fight inappropriate promised for education and or increased development and promote smart teacher salaries is not diverted for special growth. projects or to balance the budget. DISCRIMINATION: Healthy Marylander's voted for the casino money to communities understand and support go to education, let's keep it that way. their diversity. Simply put, the issue of HEALTH CARE: The Rising cost of health of diversity should not be a partisan issue. I health care is negatively affecting our am running against an incumbent that Maryland families. To help address this has voted against equal pay for equal concern I voted to support HB1795 - work. I will whole heartedly support all Establishment of a Reinsurance Program policies and legislation that support This emergency bill requires the Maryland diversity and equality. Health Benefit Exchange to submit a State EDUCATION: I support the 7 areas of Innovation Waiver application for a federal revenue enhancement by the Teachers Section 1332 waiver to establish a program Association that includes additional taxes for reinsurance. on high income individuals, corporations, TRANSPORTATION: Transportation cigarettes and lockbox gaming. This infrastructure is vital to the success of our would provide needed revenue for the businesses, schools, working families and maintenance of our schools and making communities. I am honored to support Gov. sure the needs of our 88,000 school aged Hogans roads initiative. The funding for children are met. I believe teachers pay these initiatives is in the Trans Trust Fund should also be in line with neighboring (TTF), which can no longer be raided thanks jurisdictions. to the bi-partisan actions of the legislature HEALTH CARE: The opioid crisis is in 2015. I was proud to vote to stop the among the largest current health misuse of the monies in the TTF challenge affecting Maryland. I believe that pharmaceutical companies that

Page 36 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 knowingly market, and doctors that over- taxes and would bring about competition prescribe these dangerous products should in our educational system. More school be held responsible. Their accountability options will give power to families, should be what provides the increased students, and teachers in having the services for mental health, rehabilitation ability to chose what is best for them while and community outreach. holding bureaucrats in the school systems TRANSPORTATION: Much of the District accountable. I am running in (30 B, most of South HEALTH CARE: The opioid epidemic is the County, including Mayo and parts of most significant health issue of my Edgewater) is underserved by public lifetime. At the user level, we need stiffer transportation. Our district has a penalties for dealers and those caught demonstrated need for more access to abusing. To get at the root cause of the public transportation. I will support an issue, we need to go after doctors who are efficient and affordable solution to rollout over-prescribing medications that create on a trial basis to meet this need. the addictions. Lastly, we need to make sure we have the infrastructure in place to Legislative District 31A support those seeking recovery. TRANSPORTATION: No response Candidates received by deadline. Vote for no more than 1. Brooks Bennett (REP) Ned Carey (DEM) Campaign Website: Campaign Website: www.brookslbennett.com nedcarey4delegate.com Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ BrooksLBennett nedcarey31A Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ QUALIFICATIONS: I am a lifelong brookslbennett resident of Northern Anne Arundel County Campaign Instagram: instagram.com/ and have served my community for many brookslbennett years. I have served as a little league QUALIFICATIONS: I learned leadership coach, PTA President at Brooklyn Park and vision during my time in the Army in Elementary, Chair of the Board of both operational and strategic positions. I Directors at Harbor Hospital, Chair of the served as a member of the 75th Ranger Chesapeake Arts Center Board of Regiment and deployed twice to Directors, Anne Arundel County School Afghanistan. I hold a bachelor’s degree in Board Member and President, and as Criminal Justice and a Masters in Business Delegate for District 31A since 2013. Administration. I work in the private REDISTRICTING: At the state level there sector where I focus on results and have been several legislative proposals working through bureaucratic barriers. considered over the last few years and I REDISTRICTING: An independent group believe that moving forward with a should be in charge of establishing nonpartisan independent commission to congressional and legislative districts. determine legislative districts is the best Politicians should not be in the business of means to address this issue. picking their voters and should be taken ENVIRONMENT: Protecting the out of this process as we have seen how it Chesapeake Bay is a key to a healthy has been abused for partisan gain. Maryland. We need to continue to work to ENVIRONMENT: So much of Maryland reduce our contribution to the pollution in depends on the Cheasepeake Bay. It is so the bay, while finding an appropriate vital to many sectors of the Maryland means to hold adjacent states accountable economy that its health and prosperity in reducing their pollution to the bay and should be relevant to everyone. I will its tributaries. welcome partnering with scientific and DISCRIMINATION: I will continue to ecological communities on joint private/ work with my colleagues to develop public ventures to strengthen the Bay. policies that ensure that discrimination of DISCRIMINATION: I will always be in any kind has no place in our society. I support of any legislation that echoes the have supported related proposals in the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th past including equal pay for equal work Amendment. legislation. As additional legislation arises EDUCATION: I support the continued to ensure that discriminatory practices are growth of charter schools within our state. terminated, I will support those efforts as These are funded by using current school well.

Page 37 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 EDUCATION: As a former member of the Commission Bill pass.I believe all districts Anne Arundel County School Board, I have should be drawn as evenly and fairly as long been aware of the intricacies and possible thus delivering true impact of state and local education policy. representation of its citizens. I also I support the work of the Kirwan support single member House of Commission and I am a staunch advocate Delegates districts. of keeping education dollars in the ENVIRONMENT: The Chesapeake Bay is classroom. As a state, I believe that we critical to us as Marylander's. It is a need to do better in funding school national treasure which provides construction while also working to fund employment, prosperity, recreation, vocational education. enjoyment and a way of life to so many of HEALTH CARE: Maryland currently faces us. We must work on a collaborative basis many healthcare related issues. Chiefly between private and public sectors to among them are the affordability of strengthen and improve the health of the healthcare as a whole as well as the opioid Bay for all Marylander's. crisis. Individuals should not be faced with DISCRIMINATION: I am unwavering the possibility of being bankrupted by a supporter of the Equal Protection Clause of health emergency or the cost of their the 14th Amendment and will work to prescription drugs. As a legislature, we protect it. I see all people as true miracles must work together with state, local, and with unlimited potential. national stakeholders to address these EDUCATION: I'm very proud of my Public issues. School education and will cherish the TRANSPORTATION: Transparency is a lessons learned there. I am however key in order to establish a healthy overall troubled with the inability of many public transportation system. Citizens must be schools in Maryland to provide a quality involved in the process and are needed to education to those most in need. I am a help set priorities related to highway solid proponent of school choice, private construction, maintenance, and public schools, charter schools or any other transportation. Increased transparency educational resource that advances the would foster a greater understanding and intelligence that best prepares a child to would provide a rationale behind funding succeed. decisions in all aspects of our HEALTH CARE: We need a strong and transportation system. stable health insurance market that will allows private and public sector Legislative District 31B competition across state lines resulting in greater quality care and affordability. Candidates TRANSPORTATION: We need to support Vote for no more than 2. more of Governor Hogan's initiatives to Brian Chisholm (REP) boost private sector growth and raising Campaign Website: revenue to the State to adequately fund www.chisholmformaryland.com local roads and all other top transportation Campaign Facebook: priorities. www.facebook.com/chisholmformaryland/ Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ Nicholaus R. Kipke (REP) chisholm4md Campaign Website: www.kipke.com Campaign Email: Campaign Facebook: [email protected] www.facebook.com/delegatekipke Campaign Phone: (800) 768-2130 Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/kipke QUALIFICATIONS: As a lifelong Campaign Instagram: Marylander, small business owner, and www.instagram.com/delegate_kipke/ community leader with long lasting and Campaign Email: [email protected] strong relationships with current and Campaign Phone: (410) 591-9535 former teachers, coaches, small business QUALIFICATIONS: As the House owners, co-workers, veterans and public Republican Leader I've been one of service members I understand first hand Governor Hogan's strongest allies in the many of their challenges. I consistently General Assembly. I have extensive approach life with great energy and experience in the private sector, especially enthusiasm which will follow me to related to manufacturing. In the Annapolis to produce positive results. community I have consistently worked to REDISTRICTING: I would like to see solve problems and help people. This year Governor Hogan's Independent I received a public service award from the

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 House of Delegates for my bipartisan work state legislature also has the authority to to pass good public policy. hand that duty to an independent REDISTRICTING: I'd like to see the commission. Alaska, Arizona, California, Governor's independent commission bill Idaho, Montana, and Washington use pass, I've cosponsored it each year. Also I independent commissions--so should believe districts should be drawn evenly Maryland. and fairly. I'd also like to see all House of ENVIRONMENT: Climate change is Delegates be single member districts. undeniable. The science is real--the ENVIRONMENT: We've made great strides effects are real. on the right course by to better conserve our resources and clean requiring companies in Maryland to buy up our environment in recent years. We more energy from sources such as wind need to continue to support Bay Restoration turbines, solar panels, and hydroelectric including holding our federal dams. As our society, community, and representatives accountable for their role in technologies evolve, so must our policies. funding Chesapeake Bay clean up. This effort will only harness 25% DISCRIMINATION: Maryland has made renewable energy by 2020. We can do great strides in this area as well. I voted to even better. modernize the state code to improve the DISCRIMINATION: We are not born to definition of hate crimes this session. hate, we are taught to hate--directly and EDUCATION: I continue to advocate for indirectly. Equality laws and policies must school choice for low income student in not only address discrimination, but act neighborhoods with poorly performing on erasing it from our culture. Equal schools. opportunity; equal pay for equal work; HEALTH CARE: We need to ensure our equal benefits; higher wages for the individual health insurance market is stable working families; affordable healthcare so that individuals can afford health for all; and any other policies that can insurance. We passed legislation in 2018 to bring about equality to our friends and help with this but likely need to do more. neighbors. We also need to take another look at EDUCATION: We must: invest in public underlying health costs like the rising cost school resources, infrastructure, and of pharmaceuticals. maintain per-capita student funding TRANSPORTATION: We need to more equal regardless of the child's zip code; adequately fund local roads and continue not discriminate or disenfranchise our supporting Governor Hogan's transportation Special Education students by failing to agenda that fixes the top transportation provide the medical or educational care. priority in every area of our state. How: Legalize marijuana; hold casino industry accountable; keep public dollars Harry E. Freeman (DEM) in public schools. Campaign Website: HEALTH CARE: Health care is a right for www.harryefreeman.com all. I support a Single-Payer system. Campaign Facebook: www.facebook.com/ Prescription drug prices are less Harry4Maryland/ affordable than ever before, and issues Campaign Instagram: within the Individual Health Insurance Market financially placed on those who www.instagram.com/harry4maryland/ Campaign Email: require it unfairly. Legislation must be [email protected] passed to work towards making sure Campaign Phone: (240) 374-8778 every Marylander has the health and medical needs they require regardless of QUALIFICATIONS: As an U.S. Army Veteran, I have been provided a unique financial status. experience in service to others. Leading TRANSPORTATION: Improving our soldiers; having empathy towards others; infrastructure; investing in the MARC, analyzing situations at every level of risk Metro, and AMTRAK, and High Speed and creating solutions; and ready to Rails; providing safer pedestrian sacrifice personal interests so others may walkways and increasing bike paths and gain are attributes that my time in the lanes. The local, state, and federal military, as well as my personal and government has a responsibility and professional life have afforded me to obtain. major financial stake in revitalizing and REDISTRICTING: I am wholeheartedly improving our transportation system. Our opposed to politicians picking their voters. people, roads, economy, and The Constitution gives state legislatures the environment will benefit from authority to draw political districts, the transportation focuses.

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 Karen Patricia Simpson (DEM) year to help her live a normal life. Her Campaign Website: treatments cost over $15,000 each. No www.karen4maryland.com one should be a paycheck away from Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ going broke because they get sick. I will karen4maryland sponsor and support legislation that Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ provides affordable and accessible karen4maryland healthcare for everyone. Campaign Instagram: Karen.Simpson TRANSPORTATION: Public transportation Campaign Email: is vital to our economy and environment [email protected] and must be expanded—more people will Campaign Phone: (410) 647-7197 use and fund the metro if gets them where QUALIFICATIONS: Karen Simpson is a they need to go. Maryland native who loves this state. Karen is a domestic violence survivor who Legislative District 32 has become a #MeToo champion for women and children and the majority of Candidates men who respect them. Karen is a Vote for no more than 3. Maryland public servant with extensive Mark E. Bailey (REP) experience working with State government Campaign Website: electmarkbailey.com to enact laws and policies that help Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ Maryland families. ElectMarkBailey/ REDISTRICTING: Both parties Campaign Email: gerrymander and it has to stop. Our [email protected] constituents deserve fair representation. Campaign Phone: (410) 766-9134 Voters should choose their QUALIFICATIONS: I have over 20 years representatives—not the other way of combined federal and state service around. Maryland needs an independent bi working in government environments such -partisan commission that uses as the Maryland State Police, Maryland mathematical equations to determine National Guard, US Army Reserves, and districts. the Maryland State Board of Morticians ENVIRONMENT: Lack of awareness is at and Funeral Directors. In addition to public the core of every environmental debate— service, I have also owned and operated many people do not know what causes Bailey Funeral Home and Cremation environmental problems or how to solve Service, PA for the past 9 years. them. Public awareness campaigns, like REDISTRICTING: I believe the task of the don’t be a litter bug campaign, must drawing district lines should fall to a be part of all environmental protection nonpartisan independent commission. legislation to ensure every generation Maryland has been gerrymandered in such understands how to protect our land, ways to silence and suppress the masses water, and air. of our society. The geography clearly DISCRIMINATION: Maryland’s most demonstrates that not everyone is treated vulnerable citizens will always be my fairly in their respective legislative focus. My goal is to provide opportunity, districts. equality, and fairness to everyone in our ENVIRONMENT: Pollution is still a large community. As your Delegate, I would issue facing our society. Pollution of air, sponsor and support legislation that is water, and soil by chemical compounds proactive and intentionally responds to does take many years to break down. discrimination based on race, gender Most of these chemicals are the bi- identity, sexual orientation, religion, products of our modern lifestyle and are disability, or poverty. created by industry and motor vehicle EDUCATION: Karen is a graduate of exhaust. Legislation should be examined Maryland public schools. Our children yearly to support a cleaner environment deserve a good education in a safe for future generations. environment. Our teachers deserve fair DISCRIMINATION: As a graduate of a pay for their investment in our future. Historically Black College and University - Education should always be our top Coppin State University, I recognize the budget item. We need to collaborate with need for diversity and believe that our higher education communities and everyone should be treated fairly and local businesses to invest in our children. equally. Everyone should be treated alike, HEALTH CARE: My daughter has Crohn's and no one should be discriminated disease. She requires infusions 8 times a against based on race, gender, religion,

Page 40 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 disability, or poverty. I will support and deserve a fair and balanced system. I legislation against discrimination on all will support Gov. Hogan to draw District fronts. lines that are non-partisan. It is incredibly EDUCATION: I strongly encourage important for us to have a government education reform and accountability to that represents all Marylanders. Neither ensure that appropriate resources are party should have an unfair advantage allocated toward teacher's salaries, over the other. classroom resources, and building ENVIRONMENT: Maryland has many infrastructure. Maryland should expand environmental treasures, not the least of existing vocational training programs to which is the Chesapeake Bay. It is the address the growing labor shortages in crown jewel. We must stop dumping waste skilled service jobs. Ensure per-pupil chemicals into our Bay. There needs to be funding parity throughout the state. a well thought out plan that is followed in HEALTH CARE: The most difficult aspect order to manage and control stormwater of healthcare is the rising costs, often runoff. There is clearly a tension between time, related to administrative fees and property development and care for our price transparency. Just having health environment. We must not favor one over insurance is a challenge for many the other. Marylanders. Not only is it a challenge for DISCRIMINATION: There is much more workers, but also for employers to provide to do in areas equality. I believe that by such benefits. Through appropriate creating an environment of opportunity legislation, legislators can make our and prosperity for all Marylanders we will incredible health care more available and do better for all people. Our elected affordable. officials should govern not only with their TRANSPORTATION: Many of the minds but also with their hearts. I will transportation issues facing Marylanders support policies that protect our freedoms, are congestion, rising costs to improve rights, and liberties, especially for the infrastructure, and, in certain areas-- least and most vulnerable in our crime. Equivalent to other modes of communities. transportation in the state, there is a need EDUCATION: We must prioritize funding to improve the light rail, and it can be met for our schools but we need more with an entrepreneurial/management accountability. All schools options should ideology. Ensuring federal and state funds be supported - perhaps funding can follow are earmarked for infrastructure the student. North Anne Arundel County improvements. needs school facilities that are smaller and community-based. And I would support Patty Ewing (REP) the Governor's "Lockbox" Legislation to Campaign Website: direct Casino money into the classrooms www.pattyewing.com and to teachers and away from Campaign Facebook: administrative costs. www.facebook.com/ HEALTH CARE: Parents should not have PattyEwingForDelegate/?ref=br_rs to worry if they can afford healthcare for Campaign Instagram: Instagram: their children. If the federal government cannot agree on health care reform, then Pattyewing4delegate Campaign Email: [email protected] Maryland should take the lead. Healthcare Campaign Phone: (443) 312-9960 should be affordable for everyone. I QUALIFICATIONS: I have had my own support creating a more competitive healthcare insurance marketplace for business for over 34 years. I raised four daughters (who are now thriving with Marylanders. I support creating a more families of their own) while running my competitive healthcare insurance business and volunteering in the marketplace for Maryland. community, schools, and church. I have TRANSPORTATION: I live near two Light cared for my neighbors and my decision to Rail stops that have adversely impacted seek public office is a direct result of my our communities. I am not against public concern for the District. People want to be transportation. It’s a good, affordable way heard. I will be the Representative who to commute. But people who don’t live in will listen. our community have abused the Light Rail REDISTRICTING: It is common and come into our communities for no knowledge that our current Districts are good purpose. We should be able to use gerrymandered to consolidate power for public transportation free from fear. All public transportation should be made the benefit of one party. Marylanders want safe. 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

Tim Walters (REP) HEALTH CARE: Access is critical in this Campaign Website: discussion and should be the start point. www.waltersfor32.com We need to increase consumer options Campaign Facebook: through cross state lines options, tort www.facebook.com/waltersfor32/ reform, and increased tax credits to assist Campaign Email: doctors in making the decision to be [email protected] doctors. We need competition to decrease Campaign Phone: (443) 848-6291 prices. Insurance that costs too much or QUALIFICATIONS: As a retired Navy the deductible is never met is not Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) insurance. We need more effective Technician I perform problem identification governance. and resolution in extremely high stress TRANSPORTATION: D32 is a hard hit scenarios. Since retirement I have been a area due to over development and BRAC. Program Manager of programs valued at We need to repeal the road kill bill and $200M. I am responsible for cost, reestablish priorities and budgets aligned schedule, performance and risk of my with growth. The road kill bill is a projects, meeting budgets, and executing formulaic approach that is lazy and contracts successfully. This is exactly what ineffective. We must make informed and we need in the legislation. hard decisions. Citizens know what they REDISTRICTING: This is about fairness need and should be engaged in this in our electoral process and neither party process. should dominate through unfair boundaries. We need to redistrict and J. Sandy Bartlett (DEM) follow a fair process that does not equate Campaign Website: to law makers picking their constituents www.sandybartlett.com vice constituents electing their leaders. I Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ would like to see single seat districts. My sandy4delegate district is a prime example; we are not Campaign Email: fairly represented in the current structure. [email protected] ENVIRONMENT: We must balance Campaign Phone: (301) 502-6675 growth, development, infrastructure needs QUALIFICATIONS: My work and life and environmental needs. D32 is over experience has prepared me to serve developed losing green space, creating others: *Attorney with practice in hard surfaces that impact our storm water trademark and copyright law *Adjunct system. We need smart execution of Professor at AACC *Elected twice to AA improvements and ensure all people who Democratic Central Committee *Mother, impact the bay are doing their part (our wife and community activist *Board PA and NY neighbors). our neighbors member of organization to help people provide a large percentage of our Bay with disabilities *Former leadership pollutants. We need to engage them. positions within sorority, NAACP, boards DISCRIMINATION: This is a heart issue. and Maryland Bar It starts with respect and supporting open REDISTRICTING: I support changes that dialogues that are scary. We must focus are drawn in equity based upon a neutral on what unites us and is common. We are formula. Americans, Marylanders and humans first. ENVIRONMENT: Climate change and the I believe churches, community centers and preservation of our natural resources are neighbors are the areas to create change. some of the most significant It starts with understanding we are not environmental challenges. I will address islands individually but part of them by supporting legislature that communities that exist to take care of improves our utilization of our natural each other. resources and decreases waste. EDUCATION: We must focus on Regulation waste and our lack of meaningful change not just adding money. renewable energy sources is problematic. We must allow parents to have the ability Laws cannot do more harm than good to to hold schools and teachers accountable our environment. through school choice, vouchers, tax DISCRIMINATION: As an attorney and dollars that follow the student, etc. We part-time professor, I am very aware of need to cut all of the overhead in our discrimination issues and it has no place in school systems in order to provide our society. The scars of discrimination are teachers what they need to be successful. slow to heal and break the spirit. I support Be more student/teacher focus as the policies that empower all people and start point in all analysis. Page 42 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 especially those who have a history of past Voters each consecutive year for my discrimination. I support policies that strong record on protecting the anticipate and prevent discrimination. environment and investments in EDUCATION: As a part-time educator, renewable energy. Preserving and and mother, I am keenly aware of the investing in open space and recreational challenges of our students, instructors and areas in our communities is a priority that staff. I support policies that ensure a safe I have consistently supported. environment for both. With respect to DISCRIMINATION: Sadly, as we reflect funding, I support utilizing the "lock box" on the 50th anniversary of the on casino funds for education. Education is assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, a priority for the betterment of our society Jr., incidents of racism are prevalent in and I believe in fully funding public our schools and community that have education. caused trauma to children and adults. HEALTH CARE: Based upon my reading During this past legislative session, I was and listening to health care professionals the lead sponsor on legislation to make it or resource providers, drug addiction and a criminal offense to place nooses and mental health are two main challenges symbols of hate on properties to facing Maryland. I hope to introduce and/ intimidate classes of people. or support bills that would decrease our EDUCATION: During this past legislative numbers of overdoses and deaths due to session, I voted for the 21st Century these two areas. The government must School Facilities Act which provides $400 equip providers, likewise providers must million in school construction. Through an adhere to their duty of care. ammendment that I offered on this budget TRANSPORTATION: I commuted from bill, an additional $10 million is allocated downtown DC for many years and more for school safety. In total, I voted for often than not, I took public $41,600,000 in school safety funding. transportation. It is best for our Investing in cyber, apprentice training, environment, but it must be reliable. I and higher education are needed. support upgrading public transportation HEALTH CARE: Maryland has the best systems to attract more users and healthcare delivery sytem in the world, decrease the need for government and I will continue to vote for funding for funding. With this said, I do not support University of Maryland Medical Center the Maglev or Hyperloop. I would prioritize Shock Trauma and investments in all other current upgrades. hospital systems. I will continue to vote for legislation to lower healthcare and Mark S. Chang (DEM) prescription drugs premiums. Access to Campaign Website: healthcare for all individuals is an www.delegatemarkchang.com important legislative priority to me. Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ TRANSPORTATION: Northwest Anne markchang2014 Arundel County is one of the most Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ economic vibrant areas of Maryland, and marksoochang investments in roads is a high priority to QUALIFICATIONS: As a member of the meet the demands of the growth. House Appropriations Committee, I have Expansions in public transportation are experience in making fiscal decisions on also needed to help relieve congestion and the $44.5 billion operating and $1 billion provide access for underserved capital budgets that affect all Marylanders communities to economic opportunities. with regards to healthcare, education, The Transportation Trust Fund needs to be economic development, public safety, dedicated for the transportation needs. environmental stewardship, transportation, and infrastructure. I Mike Rogers (DEM) chaired the Anne Arundel County Capital Campaign Website: Budget Subcommittee for 2 years. Votemikerogers.com/ REDISTRICTING: I support a transparent Campaign Facebook: VoteMikeRogers/ redistricting process that consists of an Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ independent commission with input from MikeJRogers4 residents to set the congressional and Campaign Email: legislative district boundaries in Maryland. [email protected] ENVIRONMENT: Throughout my entire Campaign Phone: (301) 317-8873 first term, I have received a 100% rating QUALIFICATIONS: As a retired Army by the Maryland League of Conservation Colonel with 29 years leading

Page 43 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 organizations around the world, I served sessions has taught me how to my country and now and ready to serve successfully prepare and pass legislation my community at the state level. I have including making home invasion a crime of been active in my church, a director in my violence which passed during the 2017 home owner’s association, a youth football session. I have also learned to work with coach, and high school PTSA President. I others to make bad bills better and to pass believe all of these experiences uniquely significant legislation to improve Maryland qualify me to serve as a state delegate for for all. my district. REDISTRICTING: I support the REDISTRICTING: Congressional and Governor's House Bill 356 as a co-sponsor. legislative districts should be continguous Furthermore, I introduced House Bill 1022 based on a review by a bipartisan with 63 co-sponsors calling for Maryland’s commission. Congressional districts to be drawn so that ENVIRONMENT: Climate change is real. I each district would be “of adjoining support tough emission standards and territory, be compact in form, with due investment in sustainable energy regard given to “natural boundaries and resources that create jobs for the local the boundaries of political subdivisions.” economy. ENVIRONMENT: The health of the DISCRIMINATION: I will support policies Chesapeake Bay and promoting forests similar to those used by the military within Maryland continue to be significant services which address and denounce environmental challenges for Maryland. I discrimination based on race, gender, supported forest conservation by voting religion, and national origin. I will support for House Bill 766 which requires the state legislation to create opportunities for those to study appropriate changes regarding with disabilities and programs to support forest cover and tree canopy in the state. moving people out of poverty. As most know, maintaining forests within EDUCATION: I would support programs Maryland promotes clean air and water. which close the archievement gap and DISCRIMINATION: I support legislation increase teacher pay and provide teacher that discourages discrimination. By way of incentive pay for high performers and example, I supported Senator Astle’s especially those working in title one legislation (SB 528) which would prohibit a schools. I would use casino money which person from committing certain acts is supposed to be earmarked for against another person or group because education. of another person’s race, color, religion, HEALTH CARE: Affordable healthcare for gender, disability, or sexual orientation. I all citizens. We should a baseline level of also supported unsuccessful House Bill healthcare for everyone. It’s also 1695. important to provide treatment and EDUCATION: I supported Governor education programs for drug addition. Hogan’s budget which provided historic TRANSPORTATION: I think we need to levels of funding for K-12 education and focus on creating a transportation system unprecedented $6.5 billion which is above which connect all members of the and beyond the spending formula required community both bus, and rail. by the legislature. Future educational initiatives will be aided by the passage of Sandra Lee German (WRI) Senate Bill 1122 which I supported. No response received by deadline. HEALTH CARE: The most significant healthcare challenge facing Maryland is the rise of health care costs. I supported Legislative District 33 House Bill 1795 which was a measure to Candidates curtail skyrocketing premiums for Vote for no more than 3. approximately 150,000 Marylanders and to prevent the state’s health care market Michael Edward Malone (REP) place from collapsing. Campaign Website: TRANSPORTATION: My transportation malonefordelegate.com priority is to improve transportation Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ throughout the state and in particular, delegatemichaelmalone Anne Arundel County. A step in the right Campaign Email: direction was the passage of House Bill [email protected] 807 (Transportation-Highway User Campaign Phone: (443) 454-1769 Revenues/Distribution) which I voted for. QUALIFICATIONS: My experience in the The bill creates a formula by which local House of Delegates these past four

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 governments will receive additional collapsing and an additional $380M tax highway user dollars. passed this year to prop it up will only make things worse. We need to eliminate Tony McConkey (REP) Obamacare, reduce mandates and allow Campaign Website: www.leg33.com Marylanders to buy insurance plans across Campaign Facebook: state lines to introduce more competition www.facebook.com/DelMcConkey/ and cost savings. Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ TRANSPORTATION: My priority is roads. mcconkey 90% of the money in the Transportation Campaign Email: Trust Fund comes from taxes and fees on [email protected] motorists while 59% of the money goes to Campaign Phone: (410) 544-0957 mass transit. The legislature just voted to QUALIFICATIONS: 16 year incumbent take more. I am dedicated to building and delegate, with service on the Environment maintaining roads including restoring state & Transportation Committee (2003-2006), highway user funds to counties to improve Judiciary Committee (2007-2010), and our roads. Transit users should shoulder currently on the Appropriations Committee more of the cost of transit. (2011 - pres). Elected by fellow delegates to serve as Vice Chair of the Anne Arundel Sid Saab (REP) Delegation (2013-2014), and ranking Campaign Website: www.sidsaab.com member on Appropriations (2012- pres), Campaign Facebook: leading the Republican efforts on the www.facebook.com/saabfordelegate budget the last 7 yrs. Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/SidSaab REDISTRICTING: I strongly support Campaign Email: [email protected] electing members of the House of Campaign Phone: (410) 231-8827 Delegates from single member districts, QUALIFICATIONS: As a small business and I support Governor Hogan's plan to owner, I have experienced, firsthand, the set up an independent non-partisan devastating effects of anti-business commission to draw the lines for both legislation. This has given me the Congress and the state legislature. experience to be able to go to Annapolis to ENVIRONMENT: I think continuing represent small business owners and help progress on cleaning the Bay is the most turn our economy around. I have also important goal. In addition to the program served for the last four years and this has in place I would accelerate progress on enabled me to understand the process in oyster re-establishment, which I think is which laws are made. key. I would move forward with the REDISTRICTING: The Constitution is introduction of the Asian oyster to help clear that representation is to be chosen speed clean up. by the people. However, our redistricting DISCRIMINATION: I think sufficient laws in the state of Maryland has been are in place to prevent and punish the completely done the wrong way. The right many forms of discrimination. I would way to do it is to have constituents choose support additional funding for more their politicians, not politicians choose the enforcement of those laws where constituents. necessary, but I think overall the state ENVIRONMENT: The health of the and counties have done a good job in Chesapeake. I will make sure that prosecuting discrimination. adequate funding Is available to continue EDUCATION: With the state to clean up the Chesapeake. constitutional lockbox I think the state is DISCRIMINATION: These laws are stepping forward to adequately fund our already in place and I support them being 24 school systems, the state now has to enforced. set up guidelines and best practices for EDUCATION: i have been an advocate for school systems to better management the an elected school board in Anne Arundel money they will now be receiving. Anne County and was able to pass legislation so Arundel County Public Schools is in the top that there would be accountability. I have 10 of all school districts, IN THE NATION, supported Governor Hogan's initiatives to in money spent per pupil on fund the school system through his "administration". budget. Our educational system if of the HEALTH CARE: The hospital assessment utmost important and will continue to is a state tax on healthcare of $350M support efforts to keep Anne Arundel which drives up costs for everyone and County Schools among the best in the needs to be repealed. Obamacare is nation.

Page 45 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: First and foremost, health spaces as well as a green streets initiative. insurance is becoming so expensive that DISCRIMINATION: I support policies of we have to restructure our policies to inclusion including the use of preferred accommodate our hard working families. A pronouns in schools and gov. offices for huge challenge that we face is the cost of trans and gender non-conforming persons. prescription drugs. We need to study the I also support an expansion of affordable pricing structure including the entire housing and housing assistance indexed supply chain from pharmaceutical by the local market value and companies, pbms, insurance companies, decriminalizing the use of recreational wholesalers to the pharmacies marijuana to allow for the expunging of themselves. misdemeanor drug charges, free pre-k and TRANSPORTATION: Our roads and lunch programs. bridges are in dire need of maintenance EDUCATION: We have to lock box our and repairs. I believe that we need to casino revenue to ensure funds are redirect the funds from mass transit to bridging the gap between counties to help support the maintenance of our attract and retain educators and support roads. It is unacceptable for our streets to staff, and to invest in recruiting mental deteriorate when the money is there, but health staff for middle and high schools, misappropriated. establish a more autonomous classroom for educators. I will reinvest in vocational Heather Bagnall (DEM) training, destigmatizing and gender- Campaign Website: heatherbagnall.com specifying career education by partnering Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ with businesses. HeatherBagnallForDelegate HEALTH CARE: Rising cost of healthcare Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ is a top concern for voters. We have to HBagnall4MDDel take a comprehensive approach to address Campaign Email: the cost of prescription and generic drugs, HeatherBagnallforDelegate@gmail to allow pharmacists authority to make Campaign Phone: (800) 207-9428 cost saving recommendations, and to QUALIFICATIONS: Working in non- stabilize the markets, and expand profits, a training ground for improvisation preventative care which ultimately saves and creative problem solving, where you money. I will work to expand preventative often do everything with almost nothing, care to include dental, vision, and wellness and working in arts education and arts education. administration, helping children and adults TRANSPORTATION: Public develop empathy while working on transportation, sidewalks, bike paths and communication and team-building has green streets are my transportation given me a unique ability to frame an priorities. Many of our older communities argument and work in coalition utilizing lack a public access option. We also have the strengths of a team. decreased the catchment area for school REDISTRICTING: I had hoped that we buses and increased traffic because we would set a national precedent with the lack safe walk/bike paths in many Supreme Court decision but that did not communities. I would expand the Reforestation Act to plant trees in under- happen. I continue to support a trans- state cooperative solution however it served urban areas and along highways. appears our governor is unwilling to support such an initiative which would Tracie Cramer Hovermale (DEM) make Maryland a leader while holding Campaign Website: other states accountable, so we need to www.traciehovermale.com invest in a non-partisan third party for Campaign Facebook: Facebook.com/ redistricting. hovermalefordelegate ENVIRONMENT: Maintaining and Campaign Instagram: strengthening the health of the @hovermalefordelegate Chesapeake Bay is an ongoing challenge. Campaign Email: We have a major issue with deforestation [email protected] and storm water runoff and must hold Campaign Phone: (410) 798-1147 ourselves accountable to the 1:1 QUALIFICATIONS: I’ve always relied on replacement ratio as defined by our a collaborative approach when seeking Reforestation Act but would extend solutions while in the workforce or as a reforestation beyond the district to utilize community volunteer; it’s the only way to and revitalize urban areas with green find sustainable solutions. I bring people

Page 46 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 together from all sides and with hard work transportation options are critical to and tenacity stay engaged until a solution reduce emissions and traffic. When is found. Given my background in available, we must work to secure Federal antibribery and ethics; I pledge my infrastructure funding. commitment to transparency and ethics as your legislator. Pam Luby (DEM) REDISTRICTING: This challenge extends Campaign Website: www.pamluby.com well beyond Maryland. Nationwide districts Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ have not been drawn to ensure that every lubyfordelegate person’s vote counts. It is critical to Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ America that redistricting be done across lubyfordelegate the country based on common sense Campaign Email: boundaries and designed so that all [email protected] citizens are represented equitably. Campaign Phone: (410) 349-7128 ENVIRONMENT: Maryland must prioritize QUALIFICATIONS: I have a diverse to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by professional background, a history of embracing renewable energy, returning to community engagement and experience smart growth development and investing with many of the issues that come before in science and technology to determine the General Assembly. As an attorney and efficient use of limited resources. Limiting business woman, I’ve worked for Fortune impervious surfaces and forest decimation 500 companies, nonprofit organizations, is needed to minimize runoff and protect state government, and owned my own our waterways. We must collaborate with business. I've worked in our schools, in other states in the region to find solutions. our courts and in our communities. DISCRIMINATION: Discrimination REDISTRICTING: I would support a non- against any person relative to education, partisan, independent body to draw housing, the workplace, medical services, legislative and congressional district maps banking or the legal system prevents our after each census. society from being its best and cannot be ENVIRONMENT: Reducing greenhouse tolerated. We must ensure policies already gases, increasing Maryland’s renewable in place are enforced consistently and energy portfolio and protecting the work together to strengthen policies Chesapeake Bay. These challenges require shown to be ineffective and to identify new a commitment at from every level of policies to fill gaps. government which we have not seen EDUCATION: Our future is dependent on because of a misconception that there is a children developing into critical thinkers tradeoff between economic growth and the and problem solvers who can lead into the environment. Educating people that future. We must provide the framework healthy environment means a healthy and foundation so all can reach their full economy will advance good policies. potential by funding the public system first DISCRIMINATION: Dealing with these and by providing early childhood services issues requires a holistic approach to and competitive compensation for overcome the underlying drivers of teachers. We also must support affordable discrimination. A fair and level playing and accessible workforce retraining field in the workplace in terms of pay and options. benefits, access to adequate housing, HEALTH CARE: Given the situation with social services, child care, adult daycare, federal health care policy Maryland must education, health care, legal services, be a leader and continue to move forward financial services, transportation and a with the work done in this area. Aging, more equitable criminal justice system economic disparities, changes in the work would be a start. environment and increasing costs have left EDUCATION: Early childhood education, many people to choose between medical highly qualified, properly paid teachers, care and other necessities. We are better college and career ready pathways, more than this and must continue as a state to resources for at-risk kids and better work for affordable healthcare for all. governance and accountability. Increased TRANSPORTATION: A reliable and funding for projects and restoring budget efficient transportation system is cuts which occurred this year are a start necessary for economic growth and quality but the Fix Fund Act, and the Kirwin of life. Funding to maintain Metro and light recommendations on funding formulas will rail is crucial. We need to evaluate further direct where the money should expansion of bus routes and passenger come from. and freight train capacity. Public Page 47 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: Affordable and quality Polluters, such as companies running health care for all Marylanders. We need industrial chicken farms on the Eastern to protect Maryland’s insurance markets Shore, need to held accountable for their from federal action through initiatives like role in harming our environment. Air health insurance down payment plans. pollution is increasing rates of respiratory Requiring more transparency for major complications among our community. drug corporations in price setting. These issues must be addressed Reducing or eliminating financial immediately. incentives to doctors for prescribing drugs DISCRIMINATION: There is absolutely and pursuing lawsuits for price gouging. no room in our community for TRANSPORTATION: A safe, efficient and discrimination on any level. Reducing economical transportation systems that discrimination can be addressed by reaches both rural and urban communities increasing education and awareness on is essential for economic growth. the topic, beginning at the preschool level. Neighboring states are implementing Promoting community events leads to transit programs that reduce congestion, strengthening community bonds, which pollution, and improve economic can also help reduce discrimination. development in their communities. EDUCATION: Increasing sexual and Maryland needs to do the same by mental health education is a necessity in investing in an integrated transportation our school systems. These subjects must infrastructure that serves all of Maryland. be appropriately implemented into schools’ curriculum, starting before adolescence Liv Romano (GRN) and taught continuously after that, up Campaign Website: until finishing their secondary education. www.livforchange.org Increasing the taxes on tobacco products, QUALIFICATIONS: I grew up in the era sodas, and alcohol could help fund these where titles of “Democrat” or “Republican” programs. don’t matter. I grew up in the era that HEALTH CARE: The opioid epidemic has would rather work on solving our problems taken far too many lives, and will continue and protecting our people than focus on to do so unless immediate, progressive party affiliations. If elected, solving action is taken. Suicide rates, including problems and protecting our people is the alarming number of youth suicides, exactly what I plan to do. are also of grave concern. Access to health REDISTRICTING: The solution to fighting care for all individuals is a must towards the problem of often discriminatory solving these issues. redistricting is by forming a nonpartisan TRANSPORTATION: Keeping light rail committee. This committee should be stops open and expanding upon it is comprised of members of the community absolutely crucial. Many rely on the light who would be affected by the redistricting. rail to get to and from their jobs, and the Party affiliation should not play a role in use of it also reduces traffic and pollution. how a district is constructed. More of the state budget should be ENVIRONMENT: Pollution of both air and invested in clean energy public waterways are of significant concern. transportation.

Page 48 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 Executive

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?

Candidates developed/developable land. I support Vote for no more than 1. small area plans, and more public notice and increased public engagement. I am for Steve Schuh (REP) policies that create healthy housing Campaign Website: markets to moderate home prices, and my www.steveschuh.com administration has entered into new P3 Campaign Facebook: agreements to redevelop our public www.facebook.com/electsteveschuh housing communities. Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ REPRESENTATION: We increased the electsteveschuh County’s engagement with diverse Campaign Instagram: @electsteveschuh communities by creating a Hispanic & Campaign Email: [email protected] Immigrant Affairs Officer, Minority Campaign Phone: (410) 255-6323 Outreach Officer, and the Anne Arundel QUALIFICATIONS: I have served as United program. We initiated Spanish Anne Arundel County Executive since language TV, radio, website and mail 2014. I am a lifelong Anne Arundel County communications. Our cabinet and citizen resident and small business owner. I know commissions are the most diverse in the County, its people and what they care County history and reflect the make-up of about. First as a State Delegate and now our County with 22% minorities. as County Executive, I have proven COMMUNITY RELATIONS: My experience in constituent service, the administration created the Anne Arundel legislative process, and working with United initiative, and I am proud of its others and creating coalitions to get things achievements thus far. These done. conversations and issues are critical, and I CHALLENGES: Our top challenges are to: will continue to fund the program and to 1. Intelligently manage our lands and provide the human and other resources waterways. 2. Uplift people with needed for the program to grow. Hatred challenges, particularly those who suffer has no home in our County. I will do from homelessness and substandard everything in my power to create a housing, lack of job skills, the challenges jurisdiction that is safe and open to all. of old age and addiction. 3. Reduce OTHER PRIORITIES: Other priorities overcrowding in schools and accelerate include cleaning our waterways and other school construction. 4. Encourage quality of life initiatives. My administration economic growth and job creation by will invest $250 million in 300 waterway moderating taxes, fees and regulation clean-up projects over the next six years. AFFORDABLE HOUSING, This is the largest such effort in County DEVELOPMENT AND LAND USE: I am history. Other quality of life improvements committed to smart growth and include bike trails, boat ramps, swimming preservation and support the current mix beaches, roads, parks and improving our of 51% rural/protected and 49% roads and infrastructure.

Page 49 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 Executive

Steuart Pittman (DEM) areas where it has community support. Campaign Website: Our service economy requires that we PittmanForPeople.com create affordable more housing Campaign Facebook: PittmanForPeople opportunities in the county. Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ REPRESENTATION: Having worked in Steuart_Pittman Latino, African American, and low income Campaign Email: white neighborhoods of Chicago and Des [email protected] Moines, I appreciate diversity. County Campaign Phone: (240) 452-1035 boards, commissions, and high-level staff QUALIFICATIONS: I have run positions will have far more women, more businesses and nonprofit organizations for ethnic minorities, and more geographic 33 years. I operate a south county farm diversity than exist today. Good policy that has been in our family for eight development requires creativity, and that generations and Retired Racehorse rarely comes from rooms full of rich, white Project, a national non-profit that is men. responsible for retraining and rehoming COMMUNITY RELATIONS: Arundel thousands of horses each year. I spent United was a good idea that never took nine years as a community organizer, hold. It was perceived as a political move helping local groups to influence decisions from the top down, rather than a made by their elected officials. community-driven effort. My CHALLENGES: Our greatest challenges administration will invite community are fiscal. My opponent, the incumbent leaders to make recommendations on how county executive, has used taxpayer- to move forward against the divisiveness funded development subsidies to promote and racial intolerance that persists in our growth, but failed to adequately fund the schools and communities. I will follow schools, public safety, or infrastructure to their lead, but I will not be silent. serve the growing population. We need to OTHER PRIORITIES: We spend too engage the public in the budget process much time in traffic. After nine years of and give them the data to make wise waiting, we will have a Transportation choices about how their money is spent. Master Plan when I take office in 2019. I AFFORDABLE HOUSING, will work with federal, state, and regional DEVELOPMENT AND LAND USE: I partners to implement that plan oppose the county executive’s decision to aggressively. We must also convene do our next General Development Plan community and business leaders to without an update of our 16 Small Area address poverty, addiction, and mental Plans. We need input from those health. New strategies to embrace the communities and we need to enforce the most vulnerable among us empower us GDP so that development is limited to all.

Page 50 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

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? Councilmanic District 1 seems first in line for programs to move Candidates people into Anne Arundel County from Vote for no more than 1. other areas. "Affordable Housing" must Kimberly McCoy Burns (REP) stop being a function of zip code and it is Campaign Website: kimforcouncil.com past time for the entire county to take on Campaign Facebook: Friends of Kim the burden. Burns REPRESENTATION: I will work to bring Campaign Email: people together, regardless of their [email protected] "community." The term "diverse QUALIFICATIONS: I have a lifetime of communities" is used to divide people and experience serving as an advocate, in both pull them apart. What District 1 needs is law and the legislative setting. I know how for all our residents to work together. We government works and how to get things should work together to build stronger done. I understand how to work with neighborhoods and schools. I want to others to build a consensus to achieve bring us together; not divide us with results. District 1 needs and deserves an artificial labels. experienced advocate who can get COMMUNITY RELATIONS: There is substantial things done and fix the nothing "current" about a mission to build problems and concerns we face in our trust and understanding among people in communities including crime. our community. The people of District 1 LEGISLATIVE GOALS: I will: - vote to have a long and strong proven history of end the Rain Tax, which the incumbent working together to help and support each fully supports and has repeatedly voted to other regardless of economic and social maintain; - support the County's voter- factors. District 1 needs a councilperson enacted Tax Cap and will work to insure who can build on this history, who has a that your tax dollars are spent proven history of building partnerships intelligently, effectively and fairly; - and bridges that work. sponsor legislation to require OTHER PRIORITIES: Development is accountability and demand openness in swallowing up District 1 - traffic, built-over the zoning and development process; - green space and similar problems are oppose, vote and fight against MAGLEV. deeply felt in our neighborhoods. There AFFORDABLE HOUSING: District 1 is a must be a balance between growth and great place to live. People work hard to be maintaining what is left of the charm and able to afford to live here. Unfortunately, simple good life that has always been a when it comes to government-subsidized part of our communities. I will fight to housing, it is also the area that always protect our area before it becomes just

Page 51 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 another paved-over suburban sprawl on a initiatives. In addition, I will promote map. I oppose MAGLEV. equity at every opportunity, including through advocating for public Sarah Lacey (DEM) infrastructure investments in District 1 Campaign Website: such as community pools and activity www.votesarahlacey.com centers. Campaign Facebook: fb.me/ OTHER PRIORITIES: Improving quality sarahforcouncildistrict1 of life by building, expanding, and/or Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ repurposing facilities to place public SarahLaceyAACo services where they will be convenient and Campaign Email: accessible to more communities; investing [email protected] in community parks, sidewalks, bicycle Campaign Phone: (443) 620-4024 lanes, senior centers, and youth QUALIFICATIONS: My motto is “Where programs; pay raises for teachers and first there’s a will, there’s a way.” I'm a mom, responders; restoring and protecting our a top-rated plaintiff’s attorney, a former local environment and increasing water engineer, a homeowner, and a community access. volunteer and leader. I'm known for my tenacity and creativity in solving Councilmanic District 2 problems; integrity; service to others; and Candidates cheerful, can-do outlook. Listening to Vote for no more than 1. people and taking action to make progress are what I do now, and what I will do if Tom Gardner (REP) elected. Campaign Website: trgardner.com LEGISLATIVE GOALS: Our residents Campaign Facebook: tom gardner for want more transparency, responsiveness, county council and accountability. I will prioritize 1) Campaign Email: [email protected] requiring more active communication and QUALIFICATIONS: Thanks to the League engagement from County government; 2) of Women Voters for giving myself and the setting deadlines for officials and agencies other candidates the opportunity to share to resolve community issues and notify the more about who we are, and what we community of the resolution or remaining stand for. As an Army Officer, I served issues; and 3) mandating that the County with honor both at home and overseas, provide public services timely and and as the Chief Information Officer of the equitably. MVA, I learned how to help a government AFFORDABLE HOUSING: I agree we agency that was widely viewed by our need to increase the supply of affordable citizens as inefficient, become more housing in the county, and I support streamlined. reasonable measures to increase and LEGISLATIVE GOALS: I'm committed to relocate affordable housing options for making sure our county infrastructure is county employees and residents. I will solid, our kid's schools are environments also strongly support measures that will of learning and achievement, not bullying help our teachers and first responders or violence. I'm committed to ensuring the afford a home in Anne Arundel County. efficient use of every tax dollar, and I've REPRESENTATION: In addition to the signed a pledge to oppose ANY tax usual channels for outreach through increase in Anne Arundel County. I oppose community organizations and events, I the Rain Tax as well. I live and pay taxes see a need for more accessible and timely here, so I want the best for all of us! communications with all residents. I will AFFORDABLE HOUSING: I believe in create a "District 1 Stakeholders' Alliance" giving a person/family a hand up not a to bring our many community associations hand out. Part of this is that you must be together. I would also create a new web- an asset to the community not a problem. based platform specifically for individual I believe the County certainly needs those Council District updates and resident who work here to be able to afford to live input. here! Affordable housing options are best COMMUNITY RELATIONS: Justice, improved through a comprehensive study fairness, and compassion are among my while not taxing our infrastructure, core values. The County must strive schools, public services. The community toward social progress. If elected, I will must be involved support and participate in the Anne REPRESENTATION: To best serve ALL Arundel United program or related the citizens of District 2, and the County

Page 52 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 collectively, community engagement is a Workforce housing. We need to review must. In my campaign, I've knocked on the current barriers within county laws over 3,000 doors to have a dialogue with that make it difficult to increase my fellow residents of District 2, regardless workforce housing especially in areas of their political party, race, creed, gender that are also in need of revitalization. The etc... we are all neighbors, and I'll continue lack of affordable housing was identified to foster positive, constructive community in the last General Development plan and involvement on the Council. should be a focus in the next GPD/Small COMMUNITY RELATIONS: I believe in the Area Planning process. community having constructive REPRESENTATION: I am committed to conversations, even debates at times, but holding town hall style forums but it is the key to promoting understanding, while paramount to attend local community combating hatred, is not "fighting"...it is association meetings and events on a taking action together. Where hatred exists, regular basis to ensure on going we host a peaceful forum to better engagement. I have forged positive understand. Where misunderstanding relationships in my district with veteran's exists, we don't fight, we hold a peaceful groups, community associations, PTAs, forum to discuss things, and we do that etc. I will continue to build upon these until understanding exists. relationships to ensure everyone has a OTHER PRIORITIES: I support a General voice. We must listen first. Development Plan that will not over burden, COMMUNITY RELATIONS: I am our infrastructure, schools, first responders, committed to the mission behind this and nature or human resources. Our county initiative. The County Council must is in great shape because of wise fiscally ensure our laws promote equality and conservative decisions and I will seek a 3% equity. We must also work to increase cut in property taxes while keeping the open and honest dialogue through public County Tax Cap as is as the voters of the forums that bring diverse groups County intended. together with the goal of promoting understanding. There are good examples of these types of community events Allison Pickard (DEM) Campaign Website: around the country like "The Longest www.allisonpickard.com Table". Campaign Facebook: AllisonPickard for OTHER PRIORITIES: 1. Bolster County Council compensation within our public sector; Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ fire, police, teachers, public works, etc. allison_pickard 2. Ensure that funds are allocated for the Campaign Instagram: AllisonM.Pickard 12 priority schools in the Old Mill/ Glen Campaign Email: Burnie clusters 3. Work to improve intra- [email protected] county public transportation 4. Create a Campaign Phone: (240) 281-8052 responsive constituent service program QUALIFICATIONS: My professional 5. Craft land use laws that ensure strong experience in the private, public, and non environmental stewardship profit sector working with services for the elderly, my community involvement and Councilmanic District 3 higher education provide me a unique Candidates perspective that lends itself well to County Vote for no more than 1. Council. My service on the AACo Board of Education and School Board Appointment Nathan Volke (REP) Commission exemplifies my ability to Campaign Website: nathanvolke.com represent my District with integrity. Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ LEGISLATIVE GOALS: When elected, I will votevolke focus my energy to bring county resources Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ and revenues to my district. I am nathanvolke committed to crafting legislative policy and QUALIFICATIONS: As a litigation incentives that will bolster revitalization to attorney over the last seven years, and the greater Glen Burnie area. I am also having interned for legislators at the interested in focusing on the planning that county (Councilman Ron Dillon), state goes into the General Development Plan/ (Delegate Nic Kipke) and federal level Small area plan process. (Senator Ben Cardin), I have seen first- AFFORDABLE HOUSING: It is clear that hand what makes an effective advocate AACo does not have enough Affordable/ and legislator. Be well-prepared. Listen

Page 53 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 more than you talk. Ask relevant questions. QUALIFICATIONS: Leadership and Do not compromise your core beliefs. outreach is the core of who I am. I am a LEGISLATIVE GOALS: Taxes: Minimize Registered Nurse, recently retired from the tax burden on families & retirees. the Department of Veterans Affairs. I Spending: Modernize government services volunteered weekly in my daughters & give our county employees the tools they school from K-8th. PTA president 3yrs at need to perform their jobs more efficiently. Jacobsville Elementary, President of the Development: Ensure that any new county 4 yr & state PTA 2yrs, Member development is measured, transparent & 21st Century Education Foundation. carefully considered based on intensive Member Board of Education 5yrs, VP 1yr. community outreach & input. Alumni Emerge MD 2017 AFFORDABLE HOUSING: This is one of LEGISLATIVE GOALS: I would like to the most expensive counties in the country see legislation and budgets that to live. I believe continued efforts to reduce addresses the following: • Competitive our taxes would help lower that cost. More compensation for our public servants economic prosperity would also put more (police, fire, educators, corrections, money in people’s pockets to live. I want to etc.) • Better infrastructure and public make sure that our taxes, spending and transportation • Increased recreational economic prosperity benefit everyone in our opportunities • Smaller class sizes in our county not just the well-to-do. public schools • Re-purposing empty REPRESENTATION: It is crucial to hear commercial spaces, • Being good from the people affected by new policies stewards of our waterways and parks before they are enacted. One new way I'd AFFORDABLE HOUSING: I do not feel like to engage the community is to offer that we have ample affordable housing. open meetings at local coffee shops around Many of our public service employees the district where constituents can sign up can’t afford to live in the county. I would to discuss issues they care about. I would like to see the county government also like to do more with online surveys to working with developers to increase hear directly from constituents. available units, as well as look at COMMUNITY RELATIONS: Hatred has no established area to increase availability place in our county as I firmly believe we of units. We would need to develop are called to love one another. To begin to policies and guidelines for affordable understand one another so that we can love housing. one another, it’s my belief that we must REPRESENTATION: Community start by listening to each other. So, as outreach has always been very important simple as it may sound, I want to listen first to me. During my time on the Board of and hear from those in our community who Education I help to promote and host feel they have been left out or not outreach events at local libraries around represented. the county. The purpose was to meet OTHER PRIORITIES: Education: Increase people in a neutral environment I plan to teacher pay and hire more teachers to do similar events when elected to the decrease classroom sizes. Healthcare: My Council. While with PTA a goal was to son’s recent birth and his extended hospital increase involvement and encourage stay reminded my wife and I just how others to be active and advocate. important and expensive healthcare can be. COMMUNITY RELATIONS: Fighting I want to make health insurance more hatred and promoting understanding affordable for families. Public Safety: needs to start in our communities. A Increase resources for public safety, collaborative county-wide effort is a good including hiring more police and fire start, but I will work to get the business personnel. community, faith-based organizations, schools, HOA’s, recreation groups and Debbie Ritchie (DEM) others together from my district to have Campaign Website: open dialogue and brainstorm solutions. www.electdebbieritchie.com OTHER PRIORITIES: The General Campaign Facebook: Friends of Debbie Development plan is a key issue. I want Ritchie to ensure that we have reached a diverse Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ group of citizens for input. Implementing ritchie_debbie into the GDP were applicable parts of the Campaign Email: [email protected] small area plans. The issue of addiction, Campaign Phone: (443) 424-2018 prevention, intervention and treatment. Both of these issues will need

Page 54 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 collaboration and input from the influence. community will be crucial to be successful. COMMUNITY RELATIONS: I have found that it is best to step beyond the paradigm Councilmanic District 4 of "town halls". Rather, I seek to make myself available in a variety of settings, Candidates such as parks, libraries, and community Vote for no more than 1. events. I believe our libraries and parks Torrey J. Snow (REP) will play a key role in connecting people Campaign Website: directly to one another. I actively www.snow4liberty.com encourage and support people who seek Campaign Facebook: snow4liberty18 face to face dialogue with those who Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ embrace different ideas. snow4liberty18 OTHER PRIORITIES: My primary goal is Campaign Instagram: snow4liberty18 to give our residents the confidence that Campaign Email: they can not only understand their local [email protected] government, but that they can play an Campaign Phone: (443) 599-9178 active role in improving it. I will invite QUALIFICATIONS: My education, as well community stakeholders to participate in as personal experience has given me county council proceedings and assure significant comfort in engaging and them that they are not only heard, but connecting with people from all valued for their work in our community. backgrounds. I spent nearly every weekend volunteering in underserved Andrew C. Pruski (DEM) communities, since I was a teenager. I Campaign Website: also made the transition from being an www.andrewpruski.com educator to a professional systems Campaign Facebook: analyst. My entire job focus was crafting www.facebook.com/votepruski and maintaining sound policy and Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ processes. andrew_Pruski LEGISLATIVE GOALS: My primary Campaign Email: [email protected] legislative goal will be to approve a QUALIFICATIONS: As the former Four General Development Plan that our Seasons Community Association President, residents are informed about and member and President of the Anne comfortable with. I'm also committing to Arundel County Board of Education, and look for ways to reduce the burdens and now currently my first term as a County obstacles that prevent our residents from Councilman, I have bring a wealth of taking action to address local challenges. experience to run for a second term. In Finally, I will work to ensure that the pay addition to the aforementioned positions, I for our educators and law enforcement am also a former High School Social have greater priority in budgets. Studies Teacher and Eagle Scout. AFFORDABLE HOUSING: After meeting LEGISLATIVE GOALS: Within my first directly with representatives from the term on the County Council I lead the Housing Commission of Anne Arundel effort to pass numerous pieces of County, I am convinced that we are on a legislation including for veterans, small positive path. We have strong local business, schools, and greater advocacy, and wise leadership. I would transparency in government. My goal is to like to see the county council raise continue my efforts to support our awareness to the resources that help schools, public safety, and protect the residents achieve housing independence. environment. In particular I also think we There are opportunities to invest in need to address the affordable housing programs that support this goal. gap in Anne Arundel County. REPRESENTATION: I believe very AFFORDABLE HOUSING: Anne Arundel strongly in the citizen statesman model. County clearly has a shortage of affordable Not everyone needs to be experts on and workforce housing. I feel we need to politics, but everyone should have a do a better job of creating policy and trusted friend who is. I already actively initiatives to support more affordable seek out these leaders and organize small- housing for our teachers, police, group meetings where they can connect firefighters, and those in need. I have with those who manage policy. I then worked hard to advocate for residents in encourage these leaders with strategies need and have been successful in and tips to engage their own spheres of matching resources for those who need it.

Page 55 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 REPRESENTATION: Currently I hold town expanding local businesses); improving halls and community meetings throughout quality of life (improved infrastructure, the year. This has been very helpful in retaining teachers & reducing class allowing me to be in touch with all voters in sizes); and safer streets, including the community. In some cases I also have recruiting and retaining police and visited homes of constituents that contact firefighters, and better collaboration to me about concerns. I frequently use social fight the opioid epidemic. media to engage and involve the local AFFORDABLE HOUSING: There has community. been a push by the county, with federal COMMUNITY RELATIONS: As leaders it is grants, to create more affordable important that we lead by example. I have housing, including for the homeless. I always involved youth in my campaigns or support it if we ensure that it is done in a have them volunteer in my office. In thought-out process without over- addition, it is important that we promote development, or increased density to charity and common understanding in our already stressed infrastructure. community. Each year I hold a community REPRESENTATION: Regardless of football game that benefits a charity in our religion, race, level of affluence, or community. Attendees include a range of geographical location within my district, I diverse families that come together for a believe that we must have open common cause. communication and work together to OTHER PRIORITIES: I support greater improve quality of life for our families. transparency in our local government. In We must set aside political affiliations the last election, voters supported my and philosophical differences on some charter amendment requiring the County specific issues to focus on the larger, Executive to hold public meetings, before critical priorities – building a better he introduces the budget. I plan on community for all of our families. continuing efforts to engage citizens and COMMUNITY RELATIONS: As “actions involve them in local government. I also speak louder than words,” I hope to be a want to make sure that our teachers, role model for treating everyone equally, police, and firefighters are adequately encouraging diversity, and promoting compensated. open minds & open hearts towards all. As a public servant, I would demonstrate Councilmanic District 5 this through personal behavior, hiring practices for my staff, voting for Candidates legislation reflecting such values, and Vote for no more than 1. participating in programs that support Amanda Fiedler (REP) this countywide initiative. Campaign Website: OTHER PRIORITIES: I believe in good www.voteforfiedler.com government, here to serve the people. To Campaign Facebook: amandafiedler that end, I will work to cut government (candidate page) waste and reduce bureaucratic red tape. Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ I will also promote transparent amandafiedler processes, and particularly for Campaign Email: development. [email protected] Campaign Phone: (443) 906-3621 Dawn Gough Myers (DEM) QUALIFICATIONS: As a working mom, Campaign Website: community activist, and education www.votefordawn.com advocate, I have proven to be a hard- Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ working leader. For years I have testified votefordawn on legislation and spending at the county Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ and state level. I served on two boards at voteformyers our local hospital and founded a nonprofit Campaign Instagram: @votefordawn that saved hundreds of lives. I’m a member Campaign Email: of our local chamber of commerce and [email protected] served as PTO president for a school of QUALIFICATIONS: I have worked for nearly 800 children. the State of Maryland as a budget and LEGISLATIVE GOALS: I’ll support bills finance expert for almost 20 years. I reflecting my priorities: economic growth have a law degree and an MBA, and over (lower taxes and fees, supporting a the course of my career as a public property tax cap, and strengthening and servant, I’ve drafted legislation, studied

Page 56 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 and implemented environmental, fiscal, QUALIFICATIONS: My professional, education and smart growth policy, and community, and local background provide ran complex government programs. context and skills to be an effective LEGISLATIVE GOALS: I would bring consensus builder on the Council: Grew up fiscal responsibility to the county budget. in Annapolis (St Mary Elementary & HS Specifically, I'd ensure that education alum) - President of the West Annapolis funds are spent in the classroom and on Civic Association - Past Board Member of teachers where they have the highest Box of Rain - Youth Soccer Coach for ASC impact-not on expanding administration. I and DAA - AHS PTA - Former Alderman would also address the dangerously low Ward 2 Annapolis - Navy veteran (USNA funding for our first responders, which is 85 and Navy Helicopter Pilot) putting emergency services at risk. Lastly, LEGISLATIVE GOALS: We must move I would slow development to sustainable away from national partisan politics and levels. do what's best for our local AFFORDABLE HOUSING: The supply of neighborhoods. There should be better affordable housing in the county is access to health care, better teacher pay, inadequate. Teachers, Firefighters, Police and more done to stop storm-water Officers, and other public servants runoff. And, it should be harder to upzone struggle to afford housing in the county. residential property - more density equals Many residents do, too. Few existing more traffic. programs adequately address the issue, AFFORDABLE HOUSING: Anne Arundel and one has been used to benefit County has affordable housing - it is just gambling interests instead of helping that it's usually located in high-crime citizens afford housing. This is an areas. We should do a better job at important issue that needs better reducing crime so all neighborhoods can solutions. thrive. I oppose plans to build high-rise REPRESENTATION: I will engage diverse public housing - this is a failed policy that communities by talking with community should not be repeated. leaders, having frequent opportunities for REPRESENTATION: In order to reach community meetings, and being consensus you must actively engage all accessible. stakeholders in the City and surrounding COMMUNITY RELATIONS: I would jurisdictions. I did this on a regular basis ensure this initiative has the proper as an Annapolis Alderman. Only by resources, attend events, and encourage listening to our diverse community can the County Executive to effectively you ensure decisions will unify and not be implement the program. disruptive or have an unfair effect. OTHER PRIORITIES: Our quality of life is COMMUNITY RELATIONS: I have being impacted by ever expanding volunteered my time with organizations development. Our schools are that work with underrepresented and overcrowded and underfunded, our traffic underprivileged groups. I believe everyone is gridlocked, our first responders strained, should have the opportunity to succeed and our environment is suffering. Our and that government should work communities cannot afford to have any diligently to remove any obstacles, more poorly planned development foisted whether real or perceived, that stop upon us. I also believe that the County people from having this opportunity. has to do more to encourage the creation OTHER PRIORITIES: The biggest threat of good jobs with benefits. to Annapolis and the surrounding communities is development. As a former Councilmanic District 6 Annapolis City Councilman, I saw this first hand. As land is getting more expensive, Candidates developers want to build up. I disagree Vote for no more than 1. and believe that any future development Michael Christman (REP) must be congruent with the current Campaign Website: surrounding communities www.electmikechristman.com Campaign Facebook: Mike Christman for Lisa Brannigan Rodvien (DEM) County Council - Dist 6 Campaign Website: lisarodvien.com Campaign Email: Campaign Facebook: [email protected] www.facebook.com/friendsofLisaRodvien/ Campaign Phone: (410) 268-5992 Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ LisaRodvien

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 Campaign Email: program, 3) expanding our pedestrian and [email protected] cycling infrastructure, 4) securing Campaign Phone: (240) 441-2674 competitive compensation for county QUALIFICATIONS: As a former employees, including first responders, and Education Law attorney I have significant 5) expanding protections for our LGBTQ experience reading and interpreting laws. neighbors. As such, I am well prepared to create laws. My current work as a public school Councilmanic District 7 teacher has provided me valuable insight into the needs of youth and families of our Candidates county and it has honed my ability to be a Vote for no more than 1. resourceful and tenacious multitasker. Jessica Haire (REP) LEGISLATIVE GOALS: I want to create a Campaign Website: budget that better supports our schools. WWW.JESSICAHAIRE.COM Classes in AACPS have grown too large Campaign Facebook: Jessica Haire for and teacher compensation is not Anne Arundel County Council competitive. I would also create legislation Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ that adds more teeth to zoning laws while rundjessie slowing growth. As the County Council Campaign Email: updates the General Development Plan, I [email protected] want to ensure that it builds on the Campaign Phone: (443) 607-2434 community input and the previous small QUALIFICATIONS: I am a first time area plans. candidate but I believe in public service AFFORDABLE HOUSING: Housing in and volunteer throughout the community Anne Arundel County is expensive. As as a Court Appointed Special Advocate and developers profit handsomely from a Commissioner on the Anne Arundel building in our county, we must County Commission for Women. Coupled encourage, incentivize, or require them to with my engineering and legal provide affordable housing if they also background, I believe I am well suited to want to profit from high-end projects. We this role and can effectively represent are also fortunate that several nearby District 7. counties have successfully expanded LEGISLATIVE GOALS: As an engineer, affordable housing through policies that I’m prioritizing the GDP process and can serve as models. comprehensive rezoning to ensure that we REPRESENTATION: Engaging diverse see growth only if it is supported by communities is best accomplished through necessary infrastructure (roads, schools, communication and listening. In many fire safety etc.) and rooted in the cases the communication will mean improvement of the quality of life for attending neighborhood meetings, existing residents. I'm also working on listening to community members, or ideas to develop solar energy parks on listening to community leaders. By existing landfills to promote energy emphasizing doorknocking in my efficiency and cost savings. campaign, I have already spoken with AFFORDABLE HOUSING: Our current hundreds of people and attended meetings demand is outpacing supply. From a local in all different parts of District 6. level, inclusionary zoning in the next GDP COMMUNITY RELATIONS: First, I will can help encourage an increase in speak up when I observe racism or bias or affordable housing options. when a county policy or practice unfairly REPRESENTATION: Throughout my impacts one group. I will work to amplify campaign I have made an effort to visit diverse voices so that all viewpoints are and meet with each community within considered when creating new policy. District 7. I will continue to do so to make Finally, I will work with the Board of sure that every voice in the community Education to ensure that they are creating has an opportunity to be heard. a safe learning environment for all COMMUNITY RELATIONS: As a Court students and fully responding when Appointed Special Advocate for children in incidents of hate occur. foster care and a commissioner on the OTHER PRIORITIES: My other priorities Women's commission, I fully support a include: 1) Increasing support for message of understanding and inclusion. I addiction recovery programs to stem our have seen first-hand through this opioid and other addiction problems, 2) volunteer work what violence and hatred removing Anne Arundel County’s 287(g) does to vulnerable people in our

Page 58 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 community, particularly teenagers. I affordable housing. The waitlists for both support programs aimed at giving children HCAAC units and Housing Choice Vouchers an opportunity to thrive (like CASA). are much too long. We also need to OTHER PRIORITIES: Promoting budget expand our view of affordable housing to efficiency to free up additional operating include options that allow our public cash flow that can be used for teachers, servants to live in our county. I would fire fighters, police, and other annual support inclusionary zoning ordinances as expenses. well as looking to provide housing allowances for public servants that live James Kitchin (DEM) here in Anne Arundel County. Campaign Website: REPRESENTATION: As a public policy www.jameskitchin.com researcher, I have been trained to always Campaign Facebook: think about how each policy decision www.facebook.com/james.carl.kitchin affects every stakeholder – including the Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ diverse communities of my district. I will james_kitchin hold bi-monthly town halls in which I will Campaign Instagram: @james_kitchin listen to the views of community members Campaign Email: and will directly reach out to community [email protected] leaders in regards to legislation that Campaign Phone: (410) 562-1345 directly affects their stakeholder group. QUALIFICATIONS: Most of my career I COMMUNITY RELATIONS: I would have been a high school teacher and I participate in this initiative’s activities. But currently work as a public policy also, I believe that we need to make sure researcher at UMBC. These experiences the county’s policies are consistent with have prepared me to prioritize these stated goals. We are actively investments in education and to make involved in programs that, I believe, sure that the council’s decisions are negatively affect our Hispanic communities grounded in data, based on the most and we have an anti-LGBTQ resolution still recent scientific evidence, and always are on the books. We need to change this. We in the best interest of the public. also need to have an empathy curriculum LEGISLATIVE GOALS: My top legislative in our schools. goal will be introducing campaign finance OTHER PRIORITIES: We need to reform. Second, will be to reform the way continue our focus on addressing the we do development as the current system opioid crisis, especially by providing a decreases our quality of life and strains higher number of beds in treatment our budget at the same time. Third, will be facilities. I think that our schools need to to make sure that our schools, police, and do a better job preparing our students for fire departments are adequately staffed careers that don’t require a college and that these public servants are paid degree. We should prioritize using local competitively compared to surrounding workers to complete county construction counties. projects by removing the ban on Project AFFORDABLE HOUSING: We need more Labor Agreements.

Page 59 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 Judicial Offices Judge of the Circuit Court

DUTIES: The Circuit Court 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 number of judges in each circuit and county. When there is a vacancy, the Governor appoints a qualified person to fill the office. Each newly appointed Circuit Court judge then must stand for office at the first election 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 primary 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?

on the court. I was born in Maryland and I Candidates am committed to AA County. Vote for no more than 1. Discrimination: As a judicial candidate Mark W. Crooks campaigning to retain my seat on the Campaign Website: bench, I must not be beholden whatsoever www.markcrooks.com to any political party or faction. To the Campaign Facebook: contrary, I must maintain no platform. @friendsofjudgemarkwcrooks Instead, I must be a thoughtful, patient Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ fair and impartial jurist to ALL persons. As judgemarkcrooks I have demonstrated, a judge must not be Campaign Instagram: influenced by personal bias, but should @friendsofjudgemarkcrooks strictly apply the law EQUALLY. Campaign Email: Court Needs: AA County requires a [email protected] military veterans court in Circuit Court. Campaign Phone: (443) 808-4731 Honorably discharged veterans deserve a Qualifications: I am an incumbent judge robust court dedicated to addressing the appointed after a lengthy peer evaluation special needs of former servicemen/ and nomination process. I have presided women who now find themselves in over civil, criminal and family law hearings harm’s way. These courts are proven to and trials. I spent my legal career as a reduce recidivism, cost taxpayers less state and federal prosecutor investigating money and turn lives around. We must and trying over 2000 cases. I am the only also expand our drug treatment court to military veteran and lifetime public servant combat the opioid crisis.

Judge in Court of Special Appeals (At-Large)

DUTIES: The Court of Special Appeals is the intermediate appellate court in Maryland. The Court reviews the actions and decisions of the Circuit Court and of the Orphans’ Court in cases brought before it. The Court, usually sitting in panels of three judges, decides if the trial judge followed the law and legal precedent. The Court is composed of 15 judges: eight at large and one each from seven appellate judicial districts. SALARY: $168,633 annual base. TERM: Ten years, no term limit. Mandatory retirement age of 70 years. HOW ELECTED: When there is a vacancy on the Court of Special Appeals, the governor appoints a qualified person to fill the office, with the consent of the State Senate. Once appointed, the appellate judge holds the office until the first election that occurs at least one year after the vacancy happened. At that time, the judge runs for an uncontested election for a ten-year term on their record (yes or no for continuance in office). No one is permitted to file against them. If the incumbent judge is approved, the judge faces another “retention election” every ten years to continue in office. If the Page 60 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 Judicial Offices incumbent judge is rejected by the voters, the post becomes vacant, and the governor makes a new appointment. 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? At Large Candidates Vote yes or no for continuance in office Donald E. Beachley Matthew J. Fader No response received by deadline. No response received by deadline.

County Offices State’s Attorney

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 justice 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 prosecutorial discretion? OTHER PRIORITIES: What other issues will be your priorities during your term of office?

Candidates criminal justice initiatives. Vote for no more than 1. INITIATIVES: We improved technology, Wes Adams (REP) training & administration in the office, Campaign Website: creating a foundation for our Intelligence www.electwesadams.com Based Prosecution program. Going Campaign Facebook: forward, we established the STING Unit, www.facebook.com/Wes-Adams-for-States hired gang experts and analysts to -Attorney-274344579408593/ harness and coordinate data to identify Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ and prosecute the persons driving crime in wesadams2018 the County. Our innovative Safe Stations Campaign Email: Partnership has led to 12% decrease in [email protected] opiate ODs in 2018. QUALIFICATIONS: I am a prosecutor PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION: I will with over 20 years of experience in continue to demand that my prosecutors multiple jurisdictions in Maryland. I have a evaluate cases based on individual facts, proven record of success prosecuting, impact on the victim and community at teaching and managing prosecutors, and large, basing sentencing recommendations building partnerships between law on the nature of the crime, the State enforcement and the community at large. sentencing guidelines, the offenders' I am a recognized expert in homicide criminal history & any pre-sentence prosecutions, DNA and cell phone investigations. Additionally, we seek input forensics and a leader in innovative from impacted & disenfranchised groups Page 61 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 for fair sentencing recommendations. justice for victims of domestic violence, OTHER PRIORITIES: In addition to sexual and physical assault. improvements in training, case prep and INITIATIVES: I will restore the gang task prosecutions, my office will continue to force to partner with schools & county focus on crime prevention. In the past 3 agencies to disrupt & prevent gang activity. years we have made over 150 I will form community prosecution teams to appearances in local schools teaching work with neighborhoods & police. I will about drug misuse, teen dating violence, restore community outreach programs to on-line safety, cyber-bullying, and peer help citizens avoid becoming victims of leadership & mentoring. Long term crime crime. I will prosecute drug dealers bringing prevention requires consistent presence opioids into our county & expand treatment & messaging with youth. options for non-violent offenders. PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION: The Anne Colt Leitess (DEM) current S.A. ended formal training of Campaign Website: Anne Arundel prosecutors in 2015 and the result has been Anne.com disastrous. A large number of cases are Campaign Facebook: Anne Colt Leitess dropped or lost daily in the courts because for Anne Arundel State's Attorney the prosecutors are ill-prepared to handle Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ them. I will resume the formal training that annecoltleitess existed in the office for more than 25 years. Campaign Instagram: Instagram The foundation for ethical, non- @annecoltleitess discriminatory practices is professional Campaign Email: training and guidance. [email protected] OTHER PRIORITIES: My priority is Campaign Phone: (443) 343-2180 restoring the office to an effective team QUALIFICATIONS: I've dedicated my that seeks justice for victims of crime in a career to prosecuting crime and keeping professional, ethical & fair manner. I will AA County safe. My reputation as a fair, stay on budget, unlike the current S.A. who ethical and professional prosecutor overspent $1million dollars of tax payer resulted in the county judges appointing money while the county lacks funding for me to replace the retiring State's opioid treatment & schools. I will never play Attorney in 2013. I am running to regain political games with our families' safety or that office. Currently I manage a team of with the rights of citizens. 15 attorneys committed to seeking

Clerk of the Circuit Court

DUTIES: The Clerk of the Circuit Court issues certain licenses and performs various court duties, including 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 distributes 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?

Candidates Campaign Phone: (443) 305-9487 Vote for no more than 1. QUALIFICATIONS: I have 27 years of Doug Arnold (REP) court management experience. We Campaign Website: DougArnold.net support families in wonderful ways like Campaign Facebook: facebook/ adoptions, wedding ceremonies, and DougArnoldCampaign passport applications. I work to keep our Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ communities safe. We issue warrants and DougArnoldAACo commit guilty parties to jail the same day Campaign Instagram: @DougArnoldAACo ordered by the court. We protect the Campaign Email: [email protected] rights of victims of violence to gain

Page 62 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 restitution. I will serve you with fair, QUALIFICATIONS: I have over 30 years equitable and accessible justice. of experience in the military, law PRIORITIES: I am committed to enforcement and public safety. As a Senior expanding services and ensuring that Executive with the Federal government I victims of crime obtain notification and was responsible for operations like those restitution. We lead the way in increasing of the Clerk’s Office but on a larger scale, our use of IT and data management to and I earned many awards for my service. better our services, accuracy and support I have worked with criminal courts, civil for victims of crime. I will do everything courts and administrative law judges. As possible to ensure we have safer Clerk I will bring fresh ideas and new communities in Anne Arundel County, energy. provide equitable access to justice and I'm PRIORITIES: I believe voters should dedicated to serving you. expect more from the Clerk’s office. I will do more to reduce gun violence. I will Scott Poyer (DEM) reduce the backlog of 11,000 unserved Campaign Website: warrants, which have languished for POYERFORCLERK.COM years. I will support raising the minimum Campaign Facebook: age of marriage above the current level of www.facebook.com/PoyerForClerk 15 years old. I will increase support to Campaign Email: victims of domestic abuse. And I will [email protected] increase outreach and streamline business Campaign Phone: (410) 573-1592 licensing. 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?

Candidates efficiency & virtually no waiting time. Vote for no more than 1. Transitioned to paperless to save the Lauren M. Parker (REP) public supply & storage costs. Preparing Campaign Website: plan for making all ROW services to be www.laurenparker.org Cloud based & available to public. Campaign Facebook: Prepping estate paperwork E-filing project. www.facebook.com/voteLaurenParker Continued excellence thru caring public Campaign Email: service & experience. [email protected] Campaign Phone: (410) 370-9907 Joseph J. Janosky (DEM) QUALIFICATIONS: Drafted Wills & Trusts Campaign Website: www,jjjanosky,com for 25 yrs as atty- no job training needed- Campaign Facebook: Joseph jj Janosky 12 yrs experience as Register- Achieved 3 for Register of Wills perfect State Legis. Audits-Staff & I work Campaign Email: together to exceed public expectations- [email protected] public satisfaction rating 99.24% & Atty. Campaign Phone: (410) 474-7861 Satisfaction rating 95.73%. Created QUALIFICATIONS: I have spent my life website for public for Case info & online in public and private offices finding order system. Outreach programs created efficiencies and providing services to help to inform clubs & civic grps regarding improve my “community”. I have personal estates. experience, and those of others, who feel PRIORITIES: Maintenance of a well this office needs compassion and trained, knowledgeable, compassionate, innovations. The office has stagnated and computer savvy staff guaranteeing you needs to be revitalized. This will be my

Page 63 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 new “community” passion about the importance of a valid will and PRIORITIES: The office is unknown to what to expect when a will needs to be the public, but it tells the life and death executed. Develop a larger online story of every citizen, in all age groups. presence. Evaluate cybersecurity and We should create a citizen outreach to inefficiencies in the office and make gather information and educate the public, improvements.

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?

Candidates Alan Rzepkowski (REP) Vote for no more than 3. Campaign Facebook: Maureen Carr-York (REP) @Friends Of Alan R No response received by deadline. Campaign Email: [email protected] Nancy Phelps (REP) QUALIFICATIONS: As a Judge of the Campaign Email: Orphans' Court, I am completing a 4- [email protected] year term of office and my experience QUALIFICATIONS: I was first elected in has grown with regard to serving the 1998, & previously appointed Chief Judge public in this important role for family by Governor Hogan. I maintained the members who have are going through Orphans' Court within budget with fiscal the estate process. My business and responsibility. I have consistently served on professional experience have been useful the bench with professionalism, integrity & in becoming an effective judge by compassion for the families' of the carefully considering the facts and writing deceased. I have knowledge of estate & effective case decisions. probate matters. Previously, I was the DISCRIMINATION: The Orphans' Court President of the MAJOC and received serves the families of those who have numerous citations. experienced the death of a loved one as DISCRIMINATION: I believe that court the Personal Representative opens an matters should not be influenced by estate and works to distribute the assets discrimination in any way. I understand the of the decedent. With regard to importance of truth and fairness in the discrimination, all heirs, interested courtroom, and make it my priority to treat parties, and legatees are treated equally everyone fairly. under the law and this subject is not an COURT NEEDS: The Orphans' Court needs issue that is a consideration in the to maintain dedication to resolving probate administration of an estate. matters expeditiously, fairly and effectively. COURT NEEDS: The Orphans' Court is a I will always have the interests of the court of the public for family members citizens of Anne Arundel County first. Public seeking the proper adjudication of an awareness of the Orphans' Court and estate estate for the deceased. There are no planning for the family deserve immediate specific needs of the Orphans' Court that attention. need to be addressed.

Page 64 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

Vickie Gipson (DEM) COURT NEEDS: The greatest need is QUALIFICATIONS: I have 30 years of there to be unfettered fairness and legal experience. compassion towards all those who come DISCRIMINATION: The courts can before the court. provide implicit bias training to judges and other court staff members and Torrey Jacobsen, Jr. (DEM) establishing no tolerance policy and Campaign Email: [email protected] proactively address issues as they arise No response received by deadline.

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?

Candidates Vote for no more than 1. Current practices are obsolete and out of touch. Jim Fredericks (REP) OTHER PRIORITIES: #1 Warrant Campaign Website: Reduction - With nearly 12,000 un-served www.JimFredericksforSheriff.com warrants in Anne Arundel County, this Campaign Facebook: Jim Fredericks for reduction must begin immediately by Sheriff implementing modern leadership and Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ practices. #2 Addressing Failed Audits that Fredericks2018 uncovered gross administrative oversight Campaign Instagram: Instagram Jim issues regarding failed or improper Fredericks for Sheriff collection of fees, and, failures regarding Campaign Email: reporting of hours for a federal grant for [email protected] child support enforcement. Campaign Phone: (410) 703-2896

QUALIFICATIONS: 26 years of AA County law enforcement leadership and James Williams (DEM) administrative experience to correct the Campaign Website: outstanding warrant and court security www.jameswilliamsforsheriff.com issues in the Sheriff's Office. I have Campaign Facebook: James Williams For command & management experience in Sheriff Personnel, Media Relations, Technology, Campaign Email: Purchasing, Emergency Preparedness, [email protected] Homeland Security, and Organized Crime. Campaign Phone: (301) 399-1348 My integrity, honesty and accountability QUALIFICATIONS: I am a retired are key to success in office. command officer from a large police TRAINING: Currently, deputies are not department. During my 27 years in Public properly trained in modern law Safety, 24 of which with the police enforcement best practices regarding use department, I've gained extensive of technologies in warrant service, and experience in the leadership, response theories for active shooter. administration, and management of a These are top training priorities to ensure diverse, progressive agency. My current safety of deputies in the performance of employment as a deputy has allowed me their duties, and the general public to gain experience with the daily frequenting the Circuit Court in Annapolis. operations of the Sheriff's Office.

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 TRAINING: I would implement training to OTHER PRIORITIES: I will reduce the help sheriff personnel to better understand number of open warrants by working to and communicate with diverse cultures. eliminate the need for new warrants, i.e., Enabling deputies to communicate with better public transportation to those who citizens whom English is not their primary do not have a vehicle. Better public language, will help to strengthen transportation will provide the ability to community relations. I would also require attend court so citizens are less likely to additional training to enhance the receive a warrant for failing to appear. understanding of persons with mental Domestic violence issues and reforming disabilities and how to provide better the Sheriff's Office will also be top services. priorities. Board of Education 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 administrative 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 matters; 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 character 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 office? 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.

Campaign Email: District 1 [email protected] Campaign Phone: (443) 698-8789 Candidates QUALIFICATIONS: I'm a mom with a Vote for no more than 1. child attending two Anne Arundel County Candace C.W. Antwine Public Schools. I am also a disabled U.S. Campaign Website: Navy veteran with over 20 years of service candacecwantwine.com to my country and community. I am Campaign Facebook: candace antwine prepared to humbly and effectively serve

Page 66 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 others, especially the students of Anne first. Three of the biggest issues facing our Arundel County Public Schools. Schools are academic achievement, school PRIORITIES: Optimizing safe learning is construction, and a shortage of teachers. critical. Anything that disrupts safe Increase in population, the lack of new learning in our schools should be school construction, and difficulty retaining addressed and eradicated. Hate actions teachers have caused class rooms sizes to like inciting violence, bullying, sexual record highs. assault and racism are intolerable. I plan AREA OF NEED: Academic achievement is to get them out of our schools! one of the greatest need in our public AREA OF NEED: Protecting our students schools. Studies have shown that smaller and preserving safe learning are great class sizes yield better academic results. needs in our county's public education Therefore, I fully support an increase in system. I am already addressing it. teacher hiring and new school construction However, I plan to work with the rest of to reduce class sizes with a goal of the board to ensure we take actions with a improving student achievement. sound accord that builds trust- QUALITY OF EDUCATION: The relationships within the schools and our classroom needs of students and teachers communities. must come first. School spending must QUALITY OF EDUCATION: I recently first be directed towards our students reviewed the Anne Arundel County Public academic achievement. To ensure a School's strategic plan over the next few quality education for all students it is years. Let's start there and be willing to important to provide them a quality adjust, as necessary. https:// learning environment that fosters their www.aacps.org/Page/1690 needs. Studies have shown the importance COMMUNITY RELATIONS: The Board of of smaller class sizes on our children's Education serves to oversee the academics. established educational infrastructure of COMMUNITY RELATIONS: As a parent the public school system. The educational of child with special needs, I understand models and curricula in our schools the need to "fight hatred and promote already do these things. It is important understanding." The Board of Education that when hatred and misunderstanding should promote these ideals to preserve a are introduced, action is taken to correct safe and uninterrupted learning complications. environment. Our children should never be COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC afraid to go to school. I look forward to SCHOOLS: Yes. Non-public Anne Arundel helping our schools "fight hatred and County schools should be able to request promote understanding" in the classroom and receive availaible funding from the and in our community. County. However, there should COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC prioritization based on need. There should SCHOOLS: Due to the funding shortfalls also be a separate budget for non-public in the Anne Arundel County Schools, I do schools. The public school system is not currently support funding non-public already greatly financially constrained. schools. I would like to provide our children the quality education they David P. Starr deserve and eliminate the need for Campaign Facebook: @DavidStarrBOE families to seek non-public schools. I Campaign Email: support allowing families who choose non- [email protected] public schools the opportunity to Campaign Phone: (443) 343-2308 participate in Public School Extracurricular QUALIFICATIONS: I graduated from Activities. North County High School, a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from District 4 UMBC, and two Associate Degrees from Anne Arundel Community College. I Candidates volunteer with the UMMC NICU Advisory Vote for no more than 1. Board. I am a parent of two young children, my oldest entered Kindergarten Melissa Ellis this fall. I am a parent of a child with Campaign Website: special needs and I believe in the www.votemelissaellis.com importance of giving back to our Campaign Facebook: Melissa Ellis for community. Anne Arundel County Board of Education - PRIORITIES: I believe the classroom District 4 needs of students and teachers must come Campaign Twitter: votemelissaboe Page 67 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 Campaign Email: of a disadvantaged student, which I [email protected] believe is the current practice; for Campaign Phone: (410) 923-4598 example, for a student who has QUALIFICATIONS: I earned a BA in experienced trauma in the school. If Psychology at UMBC, focusing my studies managed effectively, I believe we have the and research experience on child resources and ability in our county to development and learning. There is a make all of our public schools the best science to learning that is largely ignored option for all students. in public education. I want to bring a whole-child approach to our schools that Julie K. Hummer will level the playing field, focusing on Campaign Website: developing the mind rather than preparing www.juliehummer.org for tests, and eliminating the achievement Campaign Facebook: Friends of Julie gap. Hummer PRIORITIES: A budget that is focused on Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ dollars in our schools rather than central voteJulieHummer office, developing retention strategies for Campaign Email: our teachers that includes a competitive [email protected] salary and greater autonomy in the Campaign Phone: (703) 727-1373 classroom that allows teachers to focus on QUALIFICATIONS: I have a masters their students' needs, greater degree in special education and five years transparency and accessibility among the experience teaching students with learning board, and greater accountability with our and emotional disabilities. I am also the administration will be many of my top mother of five children with five very priorities. different personalities and learning styles. AREA OF NEED: Our resources must be Children have always been my focus, focused within the walls of our schools. It especially the most vulnerable children. I was not the curriculum that failed our bring experience in education from the under-achieving students, it was their teacher, student, and parent perspective. support system that failed. We must PRIORITIES: Improve delivery of social/ adequately staff our schools and engage emotional support services by increasing greater community support to lift all personnel, particularly in counseling, students to achieving their greatest special education, & English language potential. We must bring a whole-child acquisition.Increase teacher/staff approach to education. compensation to bring system into top QUALITY OF EDUCATION: We need third of school systems state wide. adequate staffing and greater community Develop collaborative relationships with involvement, including parents, the new & veteran county elected officials businesses, and organizations, to address so that budgets are crafted to meet real the issues that stand in the way of needs of schools. academic achievement for many students. AREA OF NEED: We must provide I want to bring back bonus pay to retain adequate social/emotional supports for our our most effective teachers in our most students. Adequate funding has to be challenged schools. Again, if we focus on provided for the needed personnel such as developing the mind and take a whole- school counselors, psychologists, social child approach, every student can workers, and special educators. The Board succeed. must craft budgets that include these COMMUNITY RELATIONS: We cannot resources,and then advocate with the deny the role our schools play in the county elected officials to see that these character development. A greater budgets are funded. partnership between schools and parents QUALITY OF EDUCATION: Resources is needed in addition to our PTSAs, as well must be allocated in an equitable way, not as more team-building and social- an equal way. Equal means each child emotional skills exercises in our receives the same thing; equitable means classrooms. This is not a political issue, each child receives what they need. Many but a practical one. Social skills do not of our students come with greater needs have to be separate from academic skills than others, whether due to poverty, lack and can be developed in the same lesson. of opportunity,or limited English COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC proficiency. We must be committed to SCHOOLS: Financial assistance for meeting the needs of each child so he or students should only be in cases where she can achieve and succeed. our schools are unable to meet the needs

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 Board of Education COMMUNITY RELATIONS: The Board continue to be my primary goal, should I must publicly affirm and support positive be privileged to continue serving on the actions within our schools and Board of Education. Research shows that communities. Members must speak out at smaller class sizes are an enabler of Board meetings, in the community, & in success and I will continue to advocate for schools against any forms of hate or additional teacher positions to support intolerance. Our students often are the class size reductions. leaders in promoting kindness and QUALITY OF EDUCATION: AACPS excels understanding; members must encourage with programs of choice, which include & support their efforts & ensure they are magnet and signature programs. These given the freedom to speak out. programs, emphasizing 21st Century COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC learning skills at the middle and high SCHOOLS: No. Public schools are required school levels, help students prepare for to teach every child, no matter their race, both college and workforce readiness to religion, or disability. Private schools do compete for both local and global not have to accept every child, & unlike opportunities. Expanding Triple E public schools, they are held to no (Enhancing Elementary Excellence) to all accountability standards for academics or feeder systems is critical, as well. achievement. Public funds should be used COMMUNITY RELATIONS: The Board of to educate EVERY child, and schools Education should have a seat at the table should be accountable to the public for to discuss and propose solutions, but this how public funds are being spent. needs to be a community-driven initiative that involves stakeholders from the District 5 community at-large. The Board and AACPS have taken a number of internal steps to remedy the issues within the schools, but Candidates additional efforts are needed, including Vote for no more than 1. student and staff input on both awareness Terry R. Gilleland Jr. and enforcements. Campaign Website: COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC www.terrygilleland.com SCHOOLS: I am not aware of current Campaign Facebook: county funding for non-public schools. I terry.gilleland.aacps am a product of AACPS and believe in our Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ public school system. As a state legislator, terrygilleland I supported state funding for private and Campaign Email: independent colleges and universities, and [email protected] as a proud graduate of Loyola University Campaign Phone: (410) 987-3039 Maryland (undergrad), I value the QUALIFICATIONS: My entire partnerships with non-public partners, at professional career has been devoted to both the K-12 and higher education levels. education. I currently serve as the State Director of Adult Education at the MD Dana Schallheim Department of Labor and previously led Campaign Website: multinational teams overseeing curriculum www.DanaforBOE.com development and both online and blended Campaign Facebook: learning solutions while at Laureate www.facebook.com/DanaforBoe Education. I also taught as an adjunct Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ faculty, teaching courses in economics, Danaforboe entrepreneurship, and finance. Campaign Email: PRIORITIES: My priorities have been and [email protected] will continue to be: 1) reducing class sizes QUALIFICATIONS: I bring the right mix to increase student performance and of education, experience, persistence, and reduce teacher workload, 2) adding dedication to successfully advocate for ALL guidance counselors for student support AACPS students. Highlights include an needs, 3) reducing the construction and MBA, an extensive record working with maintenance backlog with smart diverse populations, and 30+ years of operational solutions, 4) increasing SROs volunteer, activism, and advocacy and security measures, & 5) increasing experience. As an at-home mom, I will responsibility, accountability, and devote the time needed to close the gaps, transparency to taxpayers. develop meaningful policies, and effect AREA OF NEED: Increasing academic real change. achievement remains paramount and will

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 Board of Education PRIORITIES: My priorities include District 7 teacher retention, establishing pay/ working conditions for all teachers, secretaries, and staff equal to their Candidates counterparts in surrounding counties, Vote for no more than 1. decreasing class sizes, developing budgets Michelle Corkadel that reflect actual school needs, aligning Campaign Website: www.corkadel.com school start times with evidence-based Campaign Facebook: www.facebook/ research, and providing needed fiscal corkadel oversight, including eliminating Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/corkadel transportation inefficiencies. Campaign Email: [email protected] AREA OF NEED: Teacher and staff Campaign Phone: (443) 699-4806 retention is a huge problem and requires QUALIFICATIONS: 20+ years working to re-focusing Board culture towards crafting improve AACO. Diverse professional budgets and policies that reflect actual experience combined with volunteering for school needs and fully supports ALL various civic and educational organizations teachers and staff. Fiscal oversight is means I have unique understanding of needed to close funding, program, and how our schools are funded and operate. I resource gaps between schools to ensure currently serve AACO as Constituent that, upon graduation, ALL students will Services Officer representing Council be adequately equipped to pursue the Districts 4 and 7. served 2007-2009 as path of their choosing. Chair of the Planning Advisory Board. Im a QUALITY OF EDUCATION: All means wife and mother of two ALL. Every school must be placed on equal PRIORITIES: Teacher and Student Needs footing, including providing schools Must Come First. Lets re-prioritizing serving low-income communities with the spending to make our classroom the funding/resources equal to those that are highest priority. Teachers are our most generated by affluent schools with active valued resource in the classroom. We PTAs/PTOs. Providing all schools equal need to retain and recruit high-quality programming, technology, renovations, educators. High student to teacher ratios and hiring/retaining the adequate number and antiquated, inadequate security of teachers, staff, counselors, infrastructure create unhealthy, unsafe psychologists, etc. is my priority. learning environments. Mental health COMMUNITY RELATIONS: The board resources don’t meet needs must develop/fully support policies and AREA OF NEED: My priority issues initiatives via continual parent/community require systemic change of spending, education and required age-appropriate policies and procedures. Re-prioritize programming at every grade level focusing spending and policy objectives back into on multicultural and social justice classrooms; teachers and students always education, culturally responsive learning, come first. Recognize that we can only be compassion, celebrating diversity, successful with parental, community and practicing empathy, and allows for open business involvement. More mental health and safe discussion of issues surrounding services that better meets students and culture, race and racism. families’ needs. Continue to Restructure COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC School Security SCHOOLS: I absolutely oppose ANY effort QUALITY OF EDUCATION: After decades to direct public school funding, in ANY of federal, state and local initiatives, we way, to non-public schools. Directing still struggle to make good education funding away from public schools accessible to all. AACPS needs to review undermines their success and negatively its ESL programs, remove barriers limiting impacts graduation, crime, and families’ participation at school, and unemployment rates, as well as property develop more a more comprehensive values. Non-public schools should raise compensation and resource strategy to their own funding, via tuition and other better support teachers who educate revenue streams entirely separate from students with unique socio-economic public funding sources. needs. COMMUNITY RELATIONS: Gather stakeholders and develop a strategic plan that responds to immediate situations, while establishing a foundation that rises above politics and rhetoric of hatred and

Page 70 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 anger. It must be more realistic, relevant well-being of all students in our district. to our communities’ families’ needs, and AREA OF NEED: The public education most importantly meet the needs of system must have the ability to address students. Kindness Campaigns, AA United, the needs of all students while providing and similar are good beginnings. educators with appropriate resources to COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC achieve that goal. We can begin to SCHOOLS: I feel that although we have a address those areas with a fully funded very robust education system, we should budget and by implementing the recognize the important role private recommendations from the Kirwan education has in our communities. Charter Commission. We should work better with schools have proved a successful educators, community members and integration of alternative learning choices business leaders to gain support. is possible Some of our special education QUALITY OF EDUCATION: I support the needs continue to be met successfully by review and evaluation of resources within the public school partnering with the schools and across the school system to private school industry. identify and address disparities in resource allocation. This includes improving the Laticia Hicks funding formula, adopting policies to close Campaign Website: the achievement gap, and proposing a www.laticiahicks.com budget that adequately addresses student Campaign Facebook: needs. www.facebook.com/ COMMUNITY RELATIONS: The BOE LHicksForSchoolBoard7/ must support the enforcement of policies Campaign Instagram: laticiahicks and procedures that protect all of our Campaign Email: [email protected] children from discrimination, harassment, QUALIFICATIONS: My twenty plus years intimidation, and bullying. The Board must working in a Federal Correctional setting review the county’s discrimination policies included time serving as an Educational and complaint procedures to ensure that Services Program Manager, which required they are consistent with current laws and me to apply policy, manage a budget, and are fully implemented. have the type of vision needed to facilitate COUNTY FUNDING FOR NON-PUBLIC services more efficiently in a dynamic SCHOOLS: If the public schools were environment to address the needs and adequately funded, then consideration challenges of students from backgrounds could be given to financially supporting often mirrored in the public schools. non-public schools provided their PRIORITIES: The issues that will be a agreement to adhere to the same priority during my term in office include accountability and reporting standards as advocating for a sufficient school budget, the public schools. This includes retaining and recruiting effective teachers, transparency in admissions, curriculum, reducing class sizes, and adopting test results, and budget. proactive polices to address the safety and

Page 71 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 Ballot Questions Statewide Question 1 - Education Funding

Constitutional Amendment (Ch. 357 of the 2018 Legislative Session) Requiring Commercial Gaming Revenues that are for Public Education to Supplement Spending for Education in Public Schools

Ballot Language: The amendment requires the Governor to include in the annual State Budget, as supplemental funding for prekindergarten through grade 12 in public schools, the revenues from video lottery operation licenses and any other commercial gaming dedicated to public education in an amount above the level of State funding for education in public schools provided by the Bridge to Excellence in Public Schools Act of 2002 (otherwise known as the Thornton legislation) in not less than the following amounts: $125 million in fiscal year 2020; $250 million in fiscal year 2021; $375 million in fiscal year 2022; and 100% of commercial gaming revenues dedicated to public education in fiscal year 2023 and each fiscal year thereafter. The amendment also requires the Governor to show in the annual budget how the revenues from video lottery operation licenses and other commercial gaming are being used in a manner that is in addition to the level of State funding for public education provided by the funding formulas established by the Bridge to Excellence in Public Schools Act. The State Constitution currently authorizes video lottery operation licenses for the primary purpose of raising money for public education. (Amending Article XIX, Section 1(c)(1) and (g), and adding Section 1(f) to the Maryland Constitution)

Current Law: Maryland voters approved a constitutional amendment (Article XIX) in 2008 authorizing video lottery operations for the "primary purpose" of raising money for public education. The funds must be used to support programs in public schools, such as early childhood education, career and technical education, high school courses for college credits, training for public school teachers, improvement of school buildings, and capital projects at community colleges and state-supported colleges and universities.

Proposed Change: This amendment would require that beginning in 2020, the Governor must include specified amounts from gambling revenues in the state budget for public education. These amounts must be in addition to, and not a substitute for, any other state funding for public education. The amendment would also repeal the provision that allows gambling revenues to be used for capital projects at community colleges and state-supported colleges and universities.

Origin of the Ballot Question: The 2018 session of the Maryland General Assembly passed legislation (SB 1122) proposing an amendment to the Maryland constitution to add more specific requirements for how gambling revenue is used in the state budget to fund public education. A bill to amend the Maryland constitution does not take effect unless it is approved by the voters at the next general election.

Arguments FOR the amendment:  It ensures that gambling revenues are directed to public education as intended and approved by voters.  It addresses concerns that the state was using gaming revenues to substitute for education funding that was already required by law, rather than increasing the total amount of education funding.  It ensures that gaming revenues paid into the Education Trust Fund (also called a “lockbox”) may be spent only in addition to other public education funding and cannot be used as a substitute for other funding that is already required by the Bridge to Excellence law.

Arguments AGAINST the amendment:  The amendment would reduce the state's flexibility to use gambling revenues for other state programs.  The amendment would eliminate the use of gaming revenues to fund capital projects at community and public colleges.

A vote FOR the constitutional amendment means the state constitution would be amended to specify that revenue from gambling be used to supplement other state

Page 72 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 Ballot Questions funding for public education and cannot be used as a substitute for other required education funding.

A vote AGAINST the amendment means the current provision in the constitution would remain in effect, under which gambling revenue is used for public education but those funds may be in place of other state funding for schools. [State Board of Elections summary of Ballot Question 1.]

Statewide Question 2 - Election Day Voter Registration

Constitutional Amendment (Ch. 855 of the 2018 Legislative Session) Same- Day Registration and Voting at the Precinct Polling Place on Election Day

Ballot Language: Authorizes the General Assembly to enact legislation to allow a qualified individual to register and vote at a precinct polling place on Election Day. The current law requires voter registration to close before Election Day. (Amending Article 1, sections 1 and 2, and adding Section 2A to the Maryland constitution.)

Current Law: Maryland law requires that voter registration close 21 days before an election. An exception allows people to register and vote in person during early voting at an Early Voting Center. They must provide proof of residence such as a driver's license or other specified identification. Under current law a person may not register to vote at a precinct polling place on Election Day and vote on the same day.

Proposed Change: The Maryland constitution would be amended to authorize the legislature to pass a law permitting people to register to vote at a precinct polling place on Election Day and to vote on the same day.

Origin of the Ballot Question: The 2018 session of the Maryland General Assembly passed legislation (HB 532) proposing an amendment to the Maryland constitution to allow people to register to vote on Election Day and to vote the same day. A bill to amend the Maryland constitution does not take effect unless it is approved by the voters at the next general election.

Arguments FOR the amendment:  Voting is a fundamental right that should not be lost due to failure to comply with a registration requirement.  Same-day registration and voting already takes place during early voting. On-the- spot validation of a voter's documentation is conducted before the voter is allowed to vote. These procedures could also be used for same-day registration and voting on Election Day.  Fourteen other states allow same-day voter registration and voting on Election Day and have not reported problems.

Arguments AGAINST the amendment:  Permitting people to register and vote on Election Day could lead to voter fraud.  Requiring people to register in advance is not burdensome, as the registration forms are readily available.

A vote FOR the amendment means that the constitution would be amended to allow the legislature to enact a law permitting people to register to vote at a precinct polling place on Election Day and vote the same day.

A vote AGAINST the amendment means that the constitution would not be amended, and people would need to register to vote before Election Day. [State Board of Elections summary of Ballot Question 2.]

Page 73 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 Ballot Questions Anne Arundel County Question A

Charter Amendment Legislative Procedure - Notice of Amendment to Comprehensive Zoning Ordinances

Ballot Language: To amend the Anne Arundel County Charter to require notice by posting on a subject property pursuant to requirements found in the County Code before amending a comprehensive zoning ordinance to include a zoning change request made to the County Council and not proposed or reviewed by the Office of Planning and Zoning before introduction of the comprehensive zoning ordinance.

Origin: Introduced by County Councilman Trumbauer.

Present Practice: Comprehensive zoning ordinances are enacted to implement land use guidelines established by the General Development Plan (GDP). The County Office of Planning and Zoning proposes comprehensive zoning ordinances to County Council, and the public is notified as part of the normal legislative process. A property owner who wants to change a pending comprehensive zoning ordinance that has already been publicly advertised can ask a member of County Council to introduce an amendment. As there is no requirement to advertise a zoning change resulting from an amendment, owners of nearby properties may be unaware and/or unable to comment.

Proposed Change: In the event of a direct request to a County Council member resulting in an amendment to a pending comprehensive zoning ordinance, a sign will be posted on the property in question announcing the requested zoning change.

Pro: Owners of nearby properties will be informed of the requested zoning change in time to appear at a public hearing and otherwise comment.

Con: Possible added expense for the County. If the charter amendment passes, County Council will pass legislation assigning responsibility for posting the signs and other details.

A vote FOR means that a sign will be posted to notify nearby property owners of a zoning change.

A vote AGAINST means that property owners will have to monitor Council Council meetings to learn whether amendments have been made to comprehensive zoning ordinances affecting neighboring properties.

Anne Arundel County Question B

Charter Amendment Purchasing Contract Limits

Ballot Language: To amend the Anne Arundel County Charter to restrict the County Council's ability to increase the minimum value of purchases and contracts requiring full competitive bidding from $25,000 to an amount not less than $25,000 and not greater than $50,000 and to require that the award of contracts greater than $5,000 and less than the minimum dollar requirement for full competitive bidding shall be awarded through a simplified competitive process except as otherwise provided by law; and to require that the County Purchasing Agent shall cause to be published on the Anne Arundel County website all awards of contracts through the full and simplified bidding processes for capital improvements, contractual services, professional services, or supplies of $5,000 or greater awarded by the County in accordance with the Anne Arundel County Code.

Origin: Introduced by request of the County Executive.

Present Practice: Full competitive bidding, involving a formal sealed bidding process, is required for County purchases and contracts valued at $25,000 or more. Purchases and contracts valued between $5,000 to $25,000 are awarded through a simplified process in which multiple unsealed bids are considered. There is no requirement for contract awards to be posted on the County’s website.

Proposed Change: The County Council will have the ability to increase the minimum

Page 74 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 Ballot Questions value of purchases and contracts requiring full competitive bidding up to a cap of $50,000. Purchases valued less than the minimum value for full competitive bidding set by Council will be awarded through a simplified competitive process, and all contract awards of $5,000 or more will be posted on the County’s website.

Pro: The full competitive bidding process can be costly and time-consuming, and Anne Arundel's minimum is lower than most county jurisdictions in the state. Changing the allowable minimum value has the potential of making the purchasing process more efficient and provides County government flexibility to adjust as prices increase with inflation. Unlike a 2016 proposed charter amendment which would have raised the minimum to $75,000 and was defeated by voters, this amendment assigns County Council the authority to raise or lower the minimum within the $25,000 to $50,000 range.

Con: Sealed bids facilitate participation by a larger number of vendors and can result in cost savings for the County.

A vote FOR the amendment would permit the County Council to set the minimum value of a contract subject to competitive bidding to a value between $25,000 and $50,000, and would require the County Purchasing Agent to publish awards of contracts with a value of $5,000 or more on the County's website.

A vote AGAINST the amendment would keep the current minimum value of $25,000 for a contract subject to formal competitive bidding, and would not require any posting of contract awards on the County's website.

Anne Arundel County Question C

Charter Amendment Legislative Branch - Duties of County Auditor - Reports of Fraud

Ballot Language: To amend the Anne Arundel County Charter to require that the County Auditor receive a copy of any report related to employee theft or fraud in the County and to permit the County Auditor to inspect the records relating to the report and forward any exception to the findings of the fraud investigation to the County Council and the County Executive.

Origin: Introduced by County Councilman Walker.

Present Practice: The County Auditor is authorized to inspect all County financial records and to report to the County Executive and County Council any irregularity or improper procedure found therein. However, the charter does not require County agencies to report incidences of employee theft or fraud to the Auditor.

Proposed Change: The County Auditor will receive and review records related to employee theft or fraud, and will assess the findings of fraud investigations and report any exceptions.

Pro: Open communication and cooperation within County government improves operations and transparency. Timely notification may help limit losses of County resources through theft and fraud. The County Auditor’s office has four staff members who are certified fraud examiners.

Con: None.

A vote FOR means that records related to theft of County resources by an employee or fraud in County government perpetrated by an employee would be provided to the County Auditor who would review and report on any exceptions to the findings of the fraud investigation.

A vote AGAINST means that the County Auditor would not automatically be informed about reports of theft or fraud by County employees.

(Anne Arundel County Board of Elections summary of ballot questions.)

Page 75 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Am I registered to vote? In Maryland, registration is permanent as long as you continue to live in the state and keep your current address. To verify your registration, go to voterservices.elections.maryland.gov/VoterSearch, or call the Board of Elections. When you first register to vote or change your registration (name, address or party affiliation), the Board of Elections will mail you a Voter Identification Card. If you don’t receive a card within 3 weeks or if the information on the card is incorrect, contact the Board of Elections. Am I eligible to register to vote? To register, you must be at least 16 years old, a U.S. citizen and a Maryland resident. You must not be under court-ordered ineligibility to vote due to mental disability, nor convicted of buying or selling votes. If you have been convicted of a felony, you must have completed serving any prison sentence. How and when can I register, change party or update my address? To vote absentee OR on November 6, General Election Day, the deadline to register to vote or make changes to your party affiliation and/or address is Tuesday, October 16, at 9 PM. Go to aacounty.org/elections and click on “Register to Vote.” You may also register to vote during early voting (October 25-November 1) at any AA County early voting center. Bring a Maryland driver’s license, identification card, learner’s permit, or other proof of residency. If you are already registered, you may correct your address at an early voting center, but you cannot alter your party affiliation. Who can vote in the General Election? U.S. citizens must be at least 18 years of age on or before the General Election date, November 6, 2018, to vote.

LWVAAC thanks candidates for their participation!

About the League of Women Voters General Election Voters’ Guide The League of Women Voters has a long history of impartially reporting the verbatim responses of candidates on topics of interest to voters. The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan organization and never supports or opposes any candidate or political party.

To prepare this publication, the League invites all qualified candidates to participate. Responses appear exactly as entered by the candidate through an online interface. Answers end when the pre-established 400-character limit is reached. Candidates who have not responded by the print deadline and those who wish to revise their responses, may do so at any time and their updated information will be accessible to voters 24/7 online via the League’s interactive website, VOTE411.org.

Due to space limitations, candidate photos are omitted from this Voters’ Guide. They may be seen on VOTE411.org along with any updated responses by the candidates.

This Voters’ Guide is published as a public service by the League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County’s Education Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Copies of this Voters’ Guide are available at county public libraries and other community centers and may be requested by emailing [email protected]. Candidate information is current as of September 21, 2018.

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY lwvaacmd.org [email protected] 443-672-8270 FB: lwvaac