Legislative Diary

New Grades and New Residences

A lease signing in Mt. Washington and a groundbreaking at Uplands.  Two ceremonial events on today’s schedule.  Expanding the Mt. Washington Elementary School to include a middle school has been the community’s goal for more than a decade.  The Shrine of the Sacred Heart School, just two blocks away, was closed by the Archdiocese of …more >

Voter Intimidation: Hiding In Plain Sight

“Election integrity monitoring” is one element of the Maryland Republican Party’s ambitious early voting plan, wrote a former press secretary and speech writer to Robert Ehrlich, Jr. in a Baltimore Sun op-ed this week. There’s another way to describe election integrity monitoring. It’s voter suppression and intimidation. Unwarranted challenges to people’s right to vote, literature …more >

After the Fox News Frenzy, Bipartisan Support Is Welcome

In Maryland, it is illegal to influence a voter’s decision to go to the polls or vote through the use of force, menace, intimidation, bribe, reward, or offer of reward. That became our law after the General Assembly overrode Governor Ehrlich’s veto of Senate Bill 287 in 2005. The Voter’s Rights Protection Act of 2010, …more >

Unopposed!

For the first time in 28 years, I do not have a contested Democratic primary! July 6th was the filing deadline, and the only candidates for the three seats in the House of Delegates for the 41st District are my two colleagues, Delegates Jill Carter and Nathaniel Oaks, and myself. We will have a Republican …more >

  • My Key Issues:

  • Pimlico and The Preakness
  • Our Neighborhoods
  • Pre-Kindergarten
  • Lead Paint Poisoning