No gubernatorial bid for Angela Alsobrooks, who will seek 2nd term leading Prince George's.
'Prince George’s County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D) said Wednesday that she will not run for governor in 2022 and will instead seek another term running Maryland’s second-largest county.
Alsobrooks, 50, who has led Prince George’s since 2018, told The Washington Post that she decided not to enter the race for the governor’s mansion because she wants to focus on her “twin loves”: her 16-year-old daughter, Alexandra, and residents in the county where she grew up.
Alsobrooks raised the most money last year of any likely gubernatorial contender and said many Democrats in the state had urged her to run. But she said she wants to be there for her daughter in her final years of high school and help Prince George’s recover from the coronavirus pandemic, which hit harder in the county than elsewhere in the state.
“I want every space I occupy to be one that makes an impact,” Alsobrooks said. “I want to leave a trail of accomplishments.”
Alsobrooks said one of her biggest goals in the rest of her term, and in her second term if she wins reelection, will be addressing the variety of inequities laid bare by the pandemic, including in health care and the economy.
She said she wants to boost the medical infrastructure in the county of nearly 1 million, invest in development projects that will benefit residents, oversee construction of schools through a new public-private partnership and help reform the police department — whose new chief she selected amid a surge in homicides and a lawsuit alleging racism on the force. . .
The other Democrats vying to replace Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who is term-limited, include former Maryland attorney general Douglas F. Gansler, Comptroller Peter Franchot, former U.S. education secretary John B. King, former Montgomery County Council candidate Ashwani Jain, and Baltimore-based business owner and economist Mike Rosenbaum.
Author and nonprofit leader Wes Moore and former Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez are also considering primary bids, as are two longtime Prince George’s politicians: Rushern L. Baker III, who was Alsobrooks’s predecessor as county executive, and Rep. Anthony G. Brown (Md.), a former two-term lieutenant governor.'
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