Progressive Maryland has announced its first round of endorsements for state and county offices. The organization will make more endorsements in July.
Here are the group’s early endorsements in Montgomery County.
Incumbents
Delegate Anne Kaiser, District 14
Senator Rob Garagiola, District 15
Delegate Kathleen Dumais, District 15
Delegate Brian Feldman, District 15
Senator Brian Frosh, District 16
Delegate Bill Frick, District 16
Delegate Susan Lee, District 16
Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez, District 18
Senator Jamie Raskin, District 20
Delegate Sheila Hixson, District 20
Delegate Tom Hucker, District 20
Delegate Heather Mizeur, District 20
Delegate Charles Barkley, District 39
Delegate Kirill Reznik, District 39
Challengers
Delegate Karen Montgomery for Senator in District 14
Eric Luedtke for Delegate in District 14
Bonnie Cullison for Delegate in District 19
Jay Hutchins for Delegate in District 19
Progressive Maryland has not yet endorsed anyone in the contested District 17, 19 or 39 Senate primaries. Nor have they yet endorsed in any county-level races in Montgomery.
Following is their full statewide release.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Progressive Maryland Announces Early Endorsements
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4 comments:
How can progressive Maryland endorse anyone who voted for a 20% increase in the most regressive tax, the state sales tax that every man, woman and child pay every day. Delaware, a state with which we share an 85 mile border, charges NO sales tax at all. This tax increase has caused unemployment and forclosures in Maryland.
Where is your posting about the council voting 5-4 to pass the ambulance fee?
Mr. Ficker,
Are you seriously arguing that a penny increase in the Maryland sales tax caused a worldwide recession?
And just to follow your lead in cherry picking data:
MD State Income Top Tax Bracket-6.25%
Delaware State Income Top Tax Bracket-6.95%
MD Distilled Spirits Tax-$1.50
Delaware Distilled Spirits Tax-$5.46
MD Wine Tax-$.40
Delaware Wine Tax-$.97
MD Beer Tax-$.09
Delaware Beer Tax-$.16
MD Corporate Tax Rate-8.25%
Delaware Corporate Tax Rate-8.7%
Hard to believe Delaware has not swallowed us whole.
-Marc
Adam, because of his ongoing gross conflict of interest as treasurer of the D-18 slate, ignored the big story from the Progressive Maryland endorsements – none of the boys in 18 was endorsed. The norm for many liberal advocacy groups is a reflexive endorsement of incumbents, at least in Montgomery County where virtually everyone claims to be progressive. In this case, however, the trio’s opposition to the Purple Line, a signature issue for PM, was too much. The opposition continues to be aggressive, with ongoing meddling by Madaleno and Carr.
There are other sticking points as well – progressive taxation and combined reporting, support for the ICC – but the point has been made. It is no longer sufficient to claim to be progressive, one must actually live and work and fight progressive.
The writer is treasurer of the Dana Beyer campaign.
Christine Grewell
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