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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Recent Prince George's County News (14 Feb 2010)

  • nbc4: PG's Glacier Avenue Is Well-Named; Residents feel left out by the county because streets have not been cleared http://bit.ly/ceS3Zy 
Public Safety
  • GoryPG: Hans Harrer, 54, (0.008), 11 Feb 2010, 2:06 pm, Coolridge Road, 6700 block, Camp Springs, 20748, Shot by police http://bit.ly/cD1egV 
  • GoryPG: Unidentified man, (0.007), 9 Feb 2010, 9:05 pm, 55th place, 5400 block, Riverdale, 20737 http://bit.ly/d6QrcH 
  • GoryPG: Unidentified man, (0.006), 1 Feb 2010, 2:48 am, Red Top Road, 6800 block, Chillum, 20912 http://bit.ly/9K09jy 
2010 Election
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Recent Prince George's County News (14 Jan 2010)

Public Safety
2010 Election
2010 General Assembly
Other Politics
  • Gazette: State House forum comes to Springdale; Budget, census topics of 24th delegation meeting with residents http://bit.ly/5Gjrkj 
Education
  • Post: Class Struggle: School boards shouldn't fear competition from charters http://bit.ly/8p1YMF 
Other
  • Gazette: County property values declined nearly 20 percent; Assessment marks first drop since early 1990s http://bit.ly/5Gjrkj
  • Gazette: South Prince George's Co. master plans to proceed; Judge Hotten denies motion to halt progress amid litigation http://bit.ly/6YL8Ej 
  • Post: Major Pr George's development [Westphalia] facing foreclosure [which began before recent county council approval] http://bit.ly/6ZWYxB 
  • Gazette: DOT: Traffic at Andrews to hit ‘failing' level by 2011; Intersection improve. unlikely to be comp. in time http://bit.ly/6EHRxZ 
Recent Candidate Filing
  • Obie Patterson 
    • Candidate for Council, District 8
      • (former delegate, district 26)
    • Filing information
      • Patterson, Obie
      • Democratic 
      • Mailing Address P.O. Box 440-558, Fort Washington, MD 20749
      • Public (240) 723-6171
      • Juris. Prince George`s  
      • EMail
      • Status Active
      • Filed Regular - 01/14/10
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PG Porkers: Del. Aisha Braveboy (D-25) seeks to increase the state's huge deficit by another $250,000 (HB49) http://bit.ly/4CIZPN

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Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Delegates eyeing exec seat in '10; Field in Prince George's already crowded

marylandmoment, 2 Nov 2009, Two state delegates said to be running for Pr. George's County Executive

Gazette, 2 Nov 2009, Delegates eyeing exec seat in '10 Field in Prince George's already crowded

Delegates Aisha N. Braveboy (D-25) and Gerron S. Levi (D-23A).  The Gazette story also mentions additional candidates Rushern L. Baker III, Tony Knotts, Samuel H. Dean, Glenn F. Ivey, Michael A. Jackson, and Anthony C. Muse [sic].
(Posted 3 Nov 2009)
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Friday, June 12, 2009

2010 Candidates: Rumors about various senate races

Primary races could produce intriguing matchups; Potential for battle looms large in Prince George's, elsewhere.
Gazette, 12 Jun 2009 (Brody).
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Several Annapolis insiders said Prince George's County appears to be ground zero for primary election intrigue:
For all the early speculation, Pinsky, who plans to run for re-election, predicted that at least half of the rumored challenges will not materialize.

"Talk is cheap. Sometimes talk is throw it up against the wall and see what sticks," he said. "When they start making phone calls and saying, ‘Can I count on your support for X office?' then it becomes much more real."

Incumbents usually skate to re-election, but Progressive Maryland will target some Democratic office holders, though the group's executive director, Sean Dobson, declined to say which ones.

"We're going to challenge the bad apple Democrats who are carrying water for corporate special interests at the expense of working families," he said on Thursday. "These bad apples know who they are and if they think they're safe, they need to ponder two words: Al Wynn."
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Comment: [Senate 27] Reporter Brody completely ignored the fact that Ron Miller has already announced that he is a repeat candidate for senate in District 27.
(Posted 12 Jun 2009)
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Monday, March 16, 2009

PG sponsors of alcohol tax increase

Comment:  The tax and spend democrats in Annapolis never stop trying to raise taxes using any and every cause or excuse they can possibly dream up.

HB 791, SB 729

PG Sponsors:

  • Delegates Barnes, Braveboy, Gaines, Ivey, Levi, Pena-Melnyk, Ross, and V. Turner
  • Senator Exum


Entitled: Alcoholic Beverage Tax - Increase and Distribution of Funds


Synopsis:
Increasing the State tax rates for alcoholic beverages sold in Maryland from $1.50 to $6.00 per gallon for distilled spirits, from 40 cents to $1.60 per gallon for wine, and from 9 cents to 36 cents per gallon for beer; providing for the distribution of the additional revenue to special funds to be used only for the purpose of providing additional funding for specified services; etc.
House hearing, 19 March, 1:00 pm (Ways and Means)
Senate hearing, 18 March, 1:00 pm  (Budget and Taxation)


(Posted 16 Mar 2009)
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Friday, January 23, 2009

Legislators again seek to confiscate the value of old gift cards

HB 126, SB 418

PG Sponsors:
  • Delegates Pena-Melnyk, Barnes, Benson, Braveboy, Frush, Gaines, Griffith, Healey, Holmes, Howard, Hubbard  Ivey, Niemann, Ross, V. Turner, Valderrama, Vallario, Vaughn , and Walker
  • Senators Exum, Harrington, Peters, and Rosapepe
Entitled: Commercial Law - Gift Certificates - Balances - Presumption of Abandonment

Synopsis:
Providing that on a specified date the balance remaining on a gift certificate sold in the State shall be presumed to be abandoned; requiring each issuer of gift certificates sold in the State to report to the Comptroller specified information regarding gift certificate transactions in the State and to remit to the Comptroller 70% of the remaining balances on specified gift certificates on or before March 1 of each year; etc.
Earlier:
(Updated 3 Feb 2009)
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

General Assembly hypocrites attack school board plans

(Posted 10 Dec 2008)
Comment:  Although I believe that the school board's plan to spend $36 million on new headquarters was an extremely dumb move, I am disgusted by the hypocrisy of our General Assembly members who spent millions and millions and millions of dollars on their own office buildings in Annapolis over the past few years--taking money away from schools and helping to create the state's huge deficit--but now criticize the school board for doing the same thing on a smaller scale.

Headquarters Move Bugs State Officials; Lawmakers Cite Troubled Economy, Press Board to Be Honest About Costs.
Post, 10 Dec 2008 (Hernandez).
State lawmakers from Prince George's County grilled the school board this week on a $36 million headquarters move, saying they were worried the project would divert money from classrooms during a recession and make it harder for them to argue for education funding in Annapolis.

The planned headquarters at Washington Plaza, an office park not far from the Capital Beltway and Andrews Air Force Base, has been an object of heated debate since the school board voted 6 to 4 in June to approve a 10-year lease-purchase agreement.

The deal's supporters celebrated their success, saying it would allow the school system to move out of its moldering central administrative building in Upper Marlboro, save money by consolidating offices across the county and provide parents with most school-related services in one location.
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But that was before the country entered a financial crisis and the state faced a $1 billion budget shortfall. Now, lawmakers are deeply pessimistic that they will be able to maintain funding for education during the upcoming legislative session.

In a meeting Monday night in Upper Marlboro, Del. Joanne C. Benson (D-Prince George's) asked the board to be "honest" about the property's costs. Sen. Nathaniel Exum (D-Prince George's) chimed in a few minutes later: "Everywhere I go in my district, there is no support for this Washington Plaza or whatever it is."

Other lawmakers weighed in. "I know that when you're doing a whole system move, it's going to be extremely expensive," said Del. Aisha N. Braveboy (D-Prince George's). "These expenses, for the leases and the cost of moving and the cost of retrofitting, are all taken out of operating expenses, which is the classroom."

School board Chairman Verjeana M. Jacobs (At Large) and Vice Chairman Ron L. Watson (At Large) said that a new deal the school system is pursuing would save the schools $390,000 a year by consolidating staff buildings scattered across the county. Yet the current 10-year lease-purchase deal, according to a fact sheet the school system provided to lawmakers, costs the system $156,000 more per year. The new deal, equivalent to a 30-year mortgage, is expected to be in place early next year.

After the meeting, Jacobs said: "It is a cost savings. It is almost as if people don't want to believe that, but it is. There are new state buildings going up all the time. . . . We all recognize that there comes a time when you have a need to consolidate services. We believe that this project does exactly that."

"There are still some questions in terms of the money and the computations and their accuracy," said Del. Melony G. Griffith (D-Prince George's), the new chairman of the Prince George's House delegation. "I would say at this juncture that there is concern about the decision to proceed, but there is also an understanding that decisions are made with the information that people have at the time decisions are made. . . . I don't think any of us were aware of the depth of what we were facing."

School board members have long recognized the sensitivity of the issue. When the board was voting on the lease six months ago, Heather Iliff (District 2), who supported the lease, warned that the decision could turn the board into "a political punching bag." John E. Deasy, the superintendent at the time, strongly urged the board not to approve the lease. A spokesman for County Executive Jack B. Johnson said the time was not right for the long-sought office move.

"We just need to continue articulating to the community that this is a benefit to the community and a benefit to students," Watson said Monday night.

"It may be a good idea, but not today, not this week, not this month, not this year," said Del. Barbara A. Frush (D-Prince George's). "It's just very bad timing."

Frush said the project will complicate efforts to preserve state school funding when the legislature meets next month.

"It will be problematic," she said. "Everybody's going to have their hand out. And they'll have their hand out for better reasons than a new building."

Staff writer Rosalind S. Helderman contributed to this report.
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Thursday, September 04, 2008

O'Malley angers black lawmakers and civil rights activists

(Posted 4 Sep 2008)
O'Malley Administration: DNA Collection Rules Criticized;Proposal Unclear on When to Take, Expunge Samples, Some Say.
Post, 4 Sep 2008 (Rein).
Leading black lawmakers and civil rights activists accused the administration of Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) yesterday of reneging on safeguards in a new law that expands police powers to collect DNA samples from crime suspects.

The critics said that regulations proposed by the Maryland State Police in how the law will be implemented fail to ensure that officers take DNA samples only when someone is formally charged with certain violent crimes, not when arrested. That was a key change that the Legislative Black Caucus had negotiated with O'Malley officials before the General Assembly passed the bill this year.

The caucus, the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, the Maryland NAACP and the state public defender's office also said the regulations do not clearly explain procedures for expunging DNA samples from the records of suspects who are found not guilty, nor do they prevent police from using partial matches to pursue relatives they think might have committed crimes.
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As for expunging a sample if charges are dropped or a suspect is cleared, critics said the regulations don't give clear instructions on how to make sure the samples are removed from federal databases.

"We're very concerned the expungement provision does not ensure destruction," said Del. Aisha N. Braveboy (D-Prince George's). . . . [Full story]
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

PG Taxers: PG sponsors of special session tax bills

(Updated 2 Nov 2007, new bill from Sen. Muse; 3 Nov 2007 , sales tax bill from Del. Howard; 6 Nov 2007,anther new bill from Sen. Muse)
Apparently Gov. O'Malley's proposed tax increases are not enough to satisfy most of our Prince George's County delegates and senators. On the very first day of the special session, over 60% of our legislators sponsored or so-sponsored bills to extort even more taxes and fees from us than Gov. O'Malley proposed. Later in the week, Sen. Muse introduced yet another tax bill.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Slots & Taxes: What our legislators are saying

(Posted 18 Oct 2007)
Slots Plan Is Brought To Delegates
Post, 18 Oct 2007 (Helderman, Hernandez & Wiggins).
"To the governor's credit, he's been trying to keep us informed," said Del. Aisha N. Braveboy (D-Prince George's), who recently attended a breakfast hosted by the governor for freshman delegates to discuss the budget shortfall and his plans for a special session this month.
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The Prince George's House delegation has been staunchly opposed to any plan that might bring slot machines to the county.
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Braveboy, who was not in office in 2005, when the last slots bill was defeated, said she is against "slots as a tool for economic development" and against them in Prince George's, but she remained uncommitted on whether she would support a bill that includes slots.

"There are a number of questions that need to be answered to support a bill at this juncture," she said.
Meanwhile, Del. Barbara A. Frush (D-Prince George's), who acknowledged that she has always voted against legalizing slot machines in Maryland, said she might be open to the idea this time if "the right bill" came before her. She said the components of a "right bill" would keep the bulk of slots proceeds in the state and require each sector of the state to have a slots location. "The entire state will benefit, the entire state should take a hit from having them," she said.
State lawmakers called back to Annapolis; O’Malley says he will keep General Assembly in special session until a deal is reached
Gazette, 18 Oct 2007 (Brody & Tallman).
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Economic Matters Committee Chairman Dereck E. Davis said most of the session’s work will be done with the General Assembly’s budget committees.

‘‘Our role is going to be more or less sidelined until a bill comes to the floor,” said Davis (D-Dist. 25) of Upper Marlboro. But lawmakers, possibly concerned about a tax measure or a proposed cut in services, will want to be ‘‘front and center” of any debate.
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O'Malley to Offer Revenue Proposal In Special Session; Md. Tax Increases, Slot Gambling On Table in Risky Hurry-Up Play
Post, 13 Oct 2007 (Wagner).
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Sen. Ulysses Currie, chairman of the Budget and Taxation Committee, said O'Malley is taking a real gamble. "I think without consensus it's very risky, and we don't have full buy-in yet," Currie (D-Prince George's) said. "On the other hand, the governor feels strongly that if we don't do something in a special session, it's going to cost the taxpayers more."
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Lawmakers back special session, tax hikes, wary of slots.
Laurel Leader, 18 Oct 2007 (Pichaske).
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"We have such a financial crisis in the state and we need to get ahold of it," said state Del. Barbara Frush, a Beltsville Democrat whose 21st district includes Laurel. "If we wait until next year, the shortfall will be another half-billion dollars."
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Frush, for example, said she opposed any increase in the gasoline tax as unfair to lower-income Marylanders. So did fellow District 21 Democrat, Del. Joseline Peña-Melnyk of College Park -- who also admitted to "mixed feelings" about the special session, saying it could end up being "a waste of time."

Sen. Douglas Peters, the District 23 Democrat who represents part of South Laurel, said he does not favor expanding the sales tax. "We should be exploring an Internet sales tax," he argued.

Sen. James Rosapepe, a District 21 Democrat from College Park, said he would prefer closing more tax loopholes rather than increasing the sales tax.

All of the area lawmakers, however, praised O'Malley's package as balanced and substantive.

"It's a fair package, and it's already full of compromises," said Del. Ben Barnes, a College Park Democrat. "I think it's a great start."
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"I don't think we should balance the state budget on slots," said Peña-Melnyk, a vocal slots critic. While she opposed legalizing slots, she said she might support a voter referendum on the issue, which O'Malley has suggested.
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"If I were putting this package together, I wouldn't puts slots in there," said Rosapepe. "But I understand the governor's position."

Rosapepe said he could support a slots proposal with certain provisions: having the state, not a gambling company, run the system; including funds to help people with gambling addictions; and including money to aid those areas most affected by slots -- including Laurel, since the Laurel Park racetrack is sure to have slot machines.

Frush said that while opposed to slots, she might support a proposal that scattered the machines across the state and that guaranteed the money raised would stay in the country.
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"I don't favor slots, but I don't want to be tilting at windmills," said Barnes. "We need to keep all options on the table because the situation is so dire."
Proposal would create hospital authority.
Sentinel, 4 Oct 2007 (Samuel).
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However Del. Doyle Niemann (D-Dist. 47), is back with what he believes will be the final fix to the hospital system, the Prince George's Hospital Authority Act.
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Niemann's current proposal again includes a 3-cent property tax.
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