Political Notes: Alsobrooks Backs Lierman for Comptroller, Maryland Marches, and More – Maryland Matters

Del. Brooke Lierman (D-Baltimore Metropolis) pulled in an enormous endorsement Friday from the yard of her Democratic main opponent within the race for comptroller: Prince George’s County Govt Angela Alsobrooks (D).

“Brooke is the accomplice Prince George’s County wants within the Comptroller’s workplace,” Alsobrooks stated in a press release. “What impressed me most about Brooke was her sturdy imaginative and prescient and plans for the Comptroller’s workplace, exhibiting she is able to lead on day one.”

Alsobrooks has minimize a one-minute radio advert for Lierman and has pledged to exit on the marketing campaign path together with her.

“As a delegate, Brooke has elevated faculty funding, made our communities safer from violence and weapons, and held our businesses accountable for a way they spend your tax {dollars},” Alsobrooks says within the advert.

“I’m operating to carry extra alternative to all Marylanders, beginning with public colleges,” Lierman provides.

The advert seems to be geared towards Black-oriented radio stations within the Washington, D.C., market.

And it could actually’t make Lierman’s Democratic main opponent, Bowie Mayor Tim Adams, completely satisfied. Bowie is the most important municipality in Prince George’s County; a good chunk of the county’s Democratic institution, together with U.S. Home Majority Chief Steny Hoyer and state Sen. Joanne Benson, is backing Lierman over Adams within the July 19 main to switch Comptroller Peter Franchot (D), who’s operating for governor.

The Alsobrooks endorsement and advert comes one week after the Lierman marketing campaign launched a TV advert titled “Confirmed” which is airing within the Baltimore and D.C. media markets and three radio adverts that are airing within the Baltimore and D.C. media markets.

Adams, in the meantime, has launched his personal adverts, together with a spot about excessive fuel prices that’s airing at service station pumps.

(Make amends for earlier endorsements within the comptroller race right here.)

March in your lives in Maryland

Gun security advocates are converging in Washington, D.C., Saturday afternoon for the most recent “March for Our Lives” rally, within the wake of mass shootings in Buffalo, New York; Uvalde, Texas — and, simply on Thursday, in Smithsburg, Md.

The principle march will begin at midday on the Washington Monument in D.C. however in truth there can be 300 related marches throughout the nation, together with half a dozen in Maryland. For these heading to D.C., there can be a pre-rally rally in Wheaton, that includes speeches from U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) — recovering from a current delicate stroke however now making public appearances — U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.); Montgomery County Govt Marc Elrich (D); Montgomery County Council President Gabe Albornoz (D) and County Council Vice President Evan Glass (D); state Sen. Susan Lee (D-Montgomery); state Dels. Jared Solomon (D-Montgomery) and Emily Shetty (D-Montgomery); gun security advocate Giselle Morch, an Everytown Survivor Senior Fellow; and a number of other different leaders.

The occasion begins at 9:45 a.m. at Marian Fryer City Plaza, 2425 Reedie Drive.

In accordance with March for Our Lives, there may also be rallies Saturday in Cumberland, in entrance of the Allegany County Courthouse, 30 Washington St., from 9 to 11:30 a.m..; in Baltimore at Pierce’s Park, 701 E. Pratt St., from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; in Annapolis, on the Folks’s Park, 43 Calvert St., from midday to 2 p.m.; in Chestertown, on the county constructing, 400 Excessive St., from midday to 2 p.m.; in Reisterstown, at Franklin Excessive Faculty, 12000 Reisterstown Rd., from 1 to 2:30 p.m.; and in Ocean Metropolis, on the West Ocean Metropolis Park and Journey, 12848 Ocean Gateway, from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

Perez rallying with immigration advocates

Former U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez, searching for to grow to be the primary Latino elected to statewide workplace in Maryland, has a rally scheduled Saturday with immigration advocates and different teams exterior the Langley Park headquarters of CASA, the largest immigration rights group within the Mid-Atlantic.

Perez, one in all 9 Democrats operating for governor, and his operating mate, former Baltimore Metropolis Councilmember Shannon Sneed, can be rallying for jobs and immigrants’ rights together with members of CASA, Progressive Maryland, and half a dozen unions which might be backing their marketing campaign.

Perez this week additionally picked up the endorsement of El Tiempo Latino, the most important Spanish-speaking newspaper within the Washington, D.C., area. It’s the primary time the paper has ever endorsed a candidate for governor in Maryland.

The editorial board referred to as Perez “uniquely certified to serve our neighborhood on this state.”

“We’re satisfied that Tom Perez has the background and expertise to know our particular issues in a singular means,” the newspaper wrote. “Likewise, being the son of Dominican immigrants, he’s properly conscious of our challenges and aspirations. He is aware of, as a result of he understood this since his childhood along with his mother and father, that this nation wants immigrants, not as a result of we come to beg, however as a result of we come to work and to be helpful to this nice nation. That is one in all his elementary variations from the opposite candidates for the place.”