PACE Committee Organizes RCV (Ranked Choice Voting) Demonstration at Leisure World Democratic Club

April 13, 2019 Lynn Olson

*Pictured from the left: Michelle Whittaker, Mayor Kate Stewart, Ruben LeBron, and Barbara Noveau.*

Chalk up another first for WDC’s energetic PACE Committee, co-chaired by Barbara Noveau and Nancy Walker. PACE worked with both RCV Montgomery and DoTheMostGood MoCo to show 70 Leisure World (LW) Democratic Club activists what Ranked Choice Voting is all about. LW organizer Sandy Zimmett and Club Chair Roger Blacklow spearheaded LW’s participation.

David Trone—On Fire to “Get Stuff Done”

April 12, 2019 Liz Joyce

Newly elected Congressman David Trone celebrated the diverse freshman class, the Democratic House majority, and Speaker Pelosi’s shrewd leadership at a WDC luncheon at Normandie Farm on March 20. Surveying the challenges confronting our nation, he stressed that through action and compassion, Democrats can restore hope for the future.

Catastrophes surround us, inviting paralysis. The president’s policies and conduct, white nationalism, economic inequality, climate change, decaying infrastructure, and the opioid epidemic (to name a few) reflect years of disinvestment—and the despondency they induce. Only by finding pragmatic solutions for all Americans, he believes, can we turn our nation around.

WDC Discussion Forum - Women In the Criminal Justice Sysyem: A Closer Look

April 12, 2019 Alison Bennett

From Left: John McCarthy, State’s Attorney for Montgomery County facilitates panel with Marilyn Mosby, State’s Attorney for Baltimore City, Aisha Braveboy, State’s Attorney for Prince George’s County, and Anne Colt Leitess, State’s Attorney for Anne Arundel County.

As a result of more expansive law enforcement efforts, stiffer drug sentencing laws, and post-conviction barriers to reentry, women have been uniquely affected by changes in the criminal justice system. WDC members and guests filled the room at the Silver Spring Civic Center on Wednesday evening, April 3, where a panel of Maryland State’s Attorneys analyzed the challenges facing women in the criminal justice system. The panelists, all women, were: Aisha Braveboy from Prince George’s County, Anne Colt Leitess from Anne Arundel County, and Marilyn Mosby from Baltimore City. John McCarthy, Montgomery County State’s Attorney, moderated.