News Release

May 19, 2010
Contact: Rion Dennis, Progressive Maryland

 

Progressive Maryland Announces Candidates Who Earn its “Early Endorsement” in 2010 Election

PM vows maximal effort to elect these “Champions of Working Families”

 

Silver Spring. Progressive Maryland (PM) today announced which candidates for state and local office in the 2010 election received the group's coveted "early endorsement."

PM, with 15,000 individual members and supporters as well as dozens of organizational affiliates, is the strongest pro-worker advocacy group in the state. PM gets vigorously involved in elections to help elect its endorsed candidates and defeat opponents. In the 2006 election, more than 90 of its endorsed candidates won.

"Yesterday, our board of directors reviewed the records and questionnaire responses of dozens of candidates who seek our endorsement," said Elbridge James, PM's President. "It takes a 2/3 vote of our Board to get PM's endorsement, so our endorsed candidates are truly Champions of Working Families."

"PM will now mobilize our thousands of members and dozens of affiliates and knock on thousands of doors to elect this progressive slate," said Rion Dennis, the new Acting Director of PM. "We are focused especially on improving the state Senate, where too many pro-working family reforms have died over the past four years."

Here are the candidates winning Progressive Maryland's "early endorsement":

 

General Assembly Incumbents

  • Delegate Karen Montgomery for Senator in District 14
  • Delegate Joanne Benson for Senator in District 24
  • Delegate Jon Cardin, District 11
  • Delegate Elizabeth Bobo, District 12B
  • Delegate Shane Pendergrass, District 13
  • Delegate Frank Turner, District 13
  • 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
  • Senator Jim Rosapepe, District 21
  • Delegate Ben Barnes, District 21
  • Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
  • Delegate Joseline Pena-Melnyk, District 21
  • Senator Paul Pinsky, District 22
  • Delegate Anne Healey, District 22
  • Delegate Tawanna Gaines, District 22
  • Delegate Justin Ross, District 22
  • Delegate James Hubbard, District 23A
  • Delegate Aisha Braveboy, District 25
  • Delegate Veronica Turner, District 26
  • Delegate Kris Valderrama, District 26
  • Delegate Charles Barkley, District 39
  • Delegate Kirill Reznik, District 39
  • Delegate Shawn Tarrant, District 40
  • Delegate Sandy Rosenberg, District 41
  • Delegate Maggie McIntosh, District 43
  • Delegate Pete Hammen, District 46
  • Delegate Doyle Niemann, District 47

 

General Assembly Challengers
  • Ryan Trout for Delegate in District 4A
  • James "Ward" Morrow for Delegate in District 7
  • Mary Ann Maher for Delegate in District 9A
  • Eric Luedtke for Delegate in District 14
  • Bonnie Cullison for Delegate in District 19
  • Jay Hutchins for Delegate in District 19
  • Stan Janor for Delegate in District 31
  • Lori Albin for Delegate in District 42
  • Mary Washington for Delegate in District 43

 

Prince George's County Offices
  • Rushern Baker for County Executive
  • Sam Epps for County Council District 1
  • Eric Olsen for County Council District 3
  • Mel Franklin for County Council District 9