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RoCo meets a local politician, gaining an understanding of who’s running this locale.

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RoCo meets a local politician, gaining an understanding of who’s running this locale.

Rich Gibson, Jr., Howard County State’s Attorney

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I’ve been a big Rich Gibson, Jr. supporter since I met him about 18 months ago. I was so excited when he won the race for Howard County State’s Attorney. It was just a matter of time before I interviewed him, I think we can all agree on that! I asked him to talk to me after the NAACP Jazz Brunch on our way out to our cars on May 5th. He immediately agreed and put it in his phone calendar. If I Were a Rich Man So sang Tevye in Sholom Alecheim, Arnold Perl, and Joseph Stein’s classic piece … Read more

A Work Ethic of Service With Courtney Watson

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Delegate Courtney Watson (D-9B) has been and continues to be a big part of RoCo’s discovery of HoCo. Her campaign to represent Maryland’s District 9B in the state’s General Assembly was one of the first we got involved in after moving here. Our friends, PaCy (Paul and Lucy) Steinberg told us we had to go to a meet-and-greet for Courtney and Senator Katie Fry Hester (D-9) at the home of Jennifer Silver Cavey. It turned out to be excellent advice, as we met  Deeba Jafri, then-candidate for Board of Education Sabina Taj, and others who would become good friends of … Read more

Purple Passion With D9 Senator Katie Fry Hester

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Katie Fry Hester (D-9) is advancing the purple cause in Annapolis as the Senator for Legislative District 9 in the Maryland General Assembly. Like the color itself, she seeks to blur the lines between ideological Republican Red and Democratic Blue, replacing them with what’s best for her constituents in 9. She said this at a fundraiser during 2018’s primary season, and I asked her to talk to me about how it’s going now that she’s been representing the Western Howard County and Southern Carroll County district for a couple months. The Color Purple That, as book lovers know, is the … Read more

Deanna Peel On the Life of a Chief-of-Staff

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Very soon after Colleen and I dove headfirst into the local political scene, we figured something out that to more seasoned politicos might sound a touch obvious. The people to know–the ones who have all the answers–are the chiefs of staff to the politicians. They arrange the professional lives of their bosses, after all, and managing delicate relationships is so much of what politics involves. This is ever truer the more local you get. Sure, Senator Guy Guzzone (D-13) is pretty high-up at the state level, but it’s still true in his case. And it’s why I wanted to talk … Read more

Del. Jen Terrasa (D-13) on A Political Threshold

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When we sat down to chat about her political history and her political future–not to mention her political present!–at RoCo’s RV, Jen Terrasa (D-13) told me that she had a vision, if you will, of the house that sits just beyond where our vehicular home is currently parked. “Colleen, for whatever reason, it looks like there’s a pond or a lake in the backyard. Is there?” she asked me, her head resting on a hand propped up by the couch we sat on. I told her there wasn’t, that it was a gently rolling stretch of grass. I thought, though, … Read more

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