Angela Alsobrooks Paves Way for Black Women in Maryland Senate Race

Angela Alsobrooks Paves Way for Black Women in Maryland Senate Race

Angela Alsobrooks, the county executive of Prince George’s, is vying to be the first Black woman to represent Maryland in the U.S. Senate. Early primary voting is scheduled to begin on May 2.

“Raised in a working-class community, my mom was a receptionist and dad was a newspaper delivery person, but they convinced me that we all had an obligation to care for our neighbors,” Alsobrooks stated.

The grassroots campaign team of Alsobrooks, nestled in the quiet community of Largo, Maryland, is diligently striving to create history in the state.

“In every opportunity I’ve had, whether it’s elected state’s attorney or county executive, I’ve always said, ‘I want to leave it much better than I found it’ and when I leave it, I want people to say, ‘Oh my God, what an incredible amount of work that she did and that’s what I’m interested in,” Alsobrooks stated. “This is a very serious time.”

There are a lot of important issues at stake in this upcoming election, including women’s rights, gun control, and crime, which Alsobrooks claims is a result of a lack of opportunity and optimism.

“When I think about what has to be done all across the state, it’s economic opportunity,” Alsobrooks stated. “How do you really increase the bottom line for so many families? This is work that has to happen in this moment where a lot of people are discouraged.”

What’s more depressing, according to Alsobrooks, is the attack on women’s rights.

Codifying Roe versus Wade and restoring access to equitable healthcare for women is worth the effort in her campaign to become Maryland’s next U.S. Senator, as she is a caregiver to her mother and her first-year college student.

“The least I can do is fight to make sure that women like my mother have the social security they need, have the healthcare they need and my daughter, who is 18 years old, and to your question, who is facing a world where she has fewer rights than me and her grandmother,” Alsobrooks stated. “There is something wrong with that.”

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Alsobrooks has her sights set on another opponent, former Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, with whom she claims to get along but whose records tell a different tale, as she prepares to face her Democratic opponent David Trone in the forthcoming primary.

“I’m about creating opportunity,” Alsobrooks stated. “We look at what the former governor did in Baltimore alone, sending back $900 million to the federal government that was designated to create a transportation network of the Red Line for Baltimore and then the $736 million that was also designated by the state was re-distributed elsewhere. I’m about creating opportunity and transportation is foundational to opportunity.”

However, Alsobrooks sees it as an opportunity to use her talent and make sure she’s helping others, an endeavor she says is motivated by her mother’s advice to be a force for change in Maryland.

“People deserve to have someone fighting for them who understand them and who care about our families that’s who I am and you know, if given the opportunity, I’m going  to continue fighting for all of our families,” Alsobrooks stated.

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