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ANNOUNCEMENT: Lower Shore Progressive Caucus unveils Legislative scorecard for 2019 Maryland General Assembly Session.

SALISBURY, MD January 4, 2020 -- The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus is proud to announce our first ever legislative scorecard. Our scorecard is designed to educate the community by showing how Governor Hogan and our Lower Shore state senators/delegates voted on bills that pertain to Economic, Social, Racial, and Environmental Justice. The scorecard shows how each official voted on a list of 17 bills covering the four categories described above.  A total score is then determined by the average of their economic, environmental, racial and social scores. 

Delegate Sheree Sample-Hughes (District 37-A) 87.5%

Senator Mary Carozza (District 38) 57.5%

Senator Addie Eckardt (District 37) 57.5%

Governor Larry Hogan 56,25%

Delegate Wayne Hartman (District 38-C) 24%

Delegate Carl Anderton Jr.  (District 38-B)  24%

Delegate Chris Adams  (District 37-B) 22.75%

Charles Otto (District 38-A) 17.75%

Johnny Mautz (District 37-B)  16.5%

https://www.lowershoreprogressives.com/2019_scorecard 

The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus 2019 Endorsements 

SALISBURY, MD September 16, 2019 --  The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus, a non-partisan, local activist organization committed to empowering working people, is proud to announce our endorsements for the 2019 local elections. We believe in the right for all individuals to obtain economic security and support systems and infrastructure that uphold economic, racial, and gender equity; not systems that only provide exorbitant profits for a few. Our endorsements reflect our values as an organization and we believe our endorsed candidates will fight for the citizens in our community and will uphold our goals within in their elected positions.

The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus is pleased to endorse the following candidates:

The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus 2018 Endorsements

SALISBURY, MD April 7, 2018 --  

The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus, a non-partisan, local activist organization committed to empowering working people, is proud to announce our endorsements for the 2018 primaries and general election. We believe in the right for all individuals to obtain economic security and support systems and infrastructure that uphold economic, racial, and gender equity; not systems that only provide exorbitant profits for a few. Our endorsements reflect our values as an organization and we believe our endorsed candidates will fight for the citizens in our community and will uphold our goals within their elected positions.

The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus is pleased to endorse the following candidates:

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Michele Gregory

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Lower Shore Progressive Caucus joins a coalition of Eastern Shore groups to demand Eastern Shore state representatives stand up to Andy Harris on Off-Shore wind

Salisbury, August, 7th, 2019 -- The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus is proud to announce the creation of a coalition of local groups and elected officials from across the Eastern Shore to call on every member of the Eastern Shore delegation in Annapolis to stand up to Andy Harris concerning his position against off-shore wind project development.  

Recently Representative Andy Harris has been trying to delay and ultimately kill the off-shore wind project off the coast of Ocean City.  His actions are putting jobs and economic growth at risk here on the Eastern Shore. That is why this coalition is calling on all our representatives to publicly stand up to Representative Harris and demand he stops his current efforts to kill jobs and opportunities on the Eastern Shore.  

The construction of offshore wind and future green energy projects across the Eastern Shore would allow for the birth of a modern clean energy economy that will produce thousands of skilled family-supporting jobs across our entire region. According to the Public Service Commission, this first offshore wind project alone would bring $1.8 billion of in-state spending as well as 9,700 direct and indirect jobs.  Keeping in mind that the U.S. industry is just beginning to develop this tremendous untapped offshore wind resource, this presents an opportunity for the Eastern Shore and all of Maryland to put our businesses and our workers at the forefront of this burgeoning American industry.

For further information contact: 

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Media Contact: Michele Gregory

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The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus opposes building a new Redskins’ stadium at Oxon Cove Park

Salisbury, January 8, 2019 -- The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus stands united in opposition to the proposed idea to build the Washington Redskins a new football stadium at Oxon Cove Park in Prince George’s County.  

Currently, with some many other important issues facing the state like climate change, the declining health of the Chesapeake Bay, skyrocketing healthcare costs, unfunded schools, and more, the Governor’s ambitious plan to build Billionaire Dan Snyder a new stadium is misguided and the opposite of what the state should be focusing on moving forward.  

If the Governor is wanting to undertake projects to start economic growth in the state, we encourage him to invest in the hardworking people of the Lower Eastern Shore by investing in new infrastructure, improving rural healthcare, adding more education programs, and looking to attract good-paying jobs to a region that desperately needs it.   

For further information contact:

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Media Contact:

Michele Gregory

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https://www.lowershoreprogressives.com

Lower Shore Progressive Caucus joins a coalition of Progressive groups to protest inhumane family separating policy

Salisbury, June 20, 2018 -- The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus is proud to announce it will be joining Grassroots Social Justice and Progressive Groups across Maryland’s First Congressional District to Protest family separation at Representative Andy Harris’ offices across the District.  

Rallies will be held at Representative Andy Harris’s offices in Bel Air (15 East Churchville Rd.) at 5:00 pm, Salisbury (100 E. Main St.) at 5:00 pm, Kent Island (100 Olde Point Village, Chester) at 6:30 pm to protest the current treatment of asylum seekers and their families at the U.S. border, including the separation of parents and children and the placement of these children in internment camps.

Groups coming together to put on the rally will include Together We Will Harford County/Upper Chesapeake, Talbot Rising, Kent and Queen Anne’s Indivisible, Worcester Indivisible, Queen Anne’s County Democratic Club, Harford Indivisible, Together We Will Delmarva and the Lower Shore Progressive Caucus.

For further information contact: 

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Media Contact:

Seamus Benn

443-523-2195

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Rep. Andy Harris Needs to Come Clean About Family History 

SALISBURY, MAY 28, 2019 -- Rep. Andy Harris has long campaigned on his family ties to Hungary, though now surfacing from family members in Hungary, are reports that Harris’ father, Zoltán Haris, are reports that Harris’ family history isn’t as squeaky clean as he tries to paint it. “Family relatives recalled that Rep. Harris’s father served in the pro-Hitler Hungarian army and was probably captured by the Soviets and sent to a POW camp. The Hungarian army fought against the Allies, including the Americans. About 1,000 US airmen were killed in Hungary during WWII.” reports the Hungarian Free Press.

Original article: http://hungarianfreepress.com/2018/10/19/rep-andy-harriss-unexplained-gulag-story/?fbclid=IwAR035fyJqKEphyd3Mm3lT5AD-3Z-hzJvWMweczILmLZg2W7rylUPCq_CiNI

About Lower Shore Progressive Caucus

The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus is a group of local organizers committed to furthering the four lower Eastern Shore counties by instilling progressive values and leaders.

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The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus Endorsements 

SALISBURY, MD April 7, 2018 -- 

The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus, a non-partisan, local activist organization committed to empowering working people, is proud to announce our endorsements for the 2018 primaries and general election. We believe in the right for all individuals to obtain economic security and support systems and infrastructure that uphold economic, racial, and gender equity; not systems that only provide exorbitant profits for a few. Our endorsements reflect our values as an organization and we believe our endorsed candidates will fight for the citizens in our community and will uphold our goals within in their elected positions. 

The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus is pleased to endorse the following candidates:

Media Contact:

Michele Gregory 

[email protected]

http://www.lowershoreprogressives.com/

The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus Endorses Holly Wright

Lower Eastern Shore, March 30, 2018 -- The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus is proud to announce the endorsement of Holly Wright for Senate in District 37.

Holly Wright is a first time candidate with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and worked in public health at both the state and regional level for over 20 years. Wright was staff to senior management at Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield and Montefiore Medical Center. She also directed a nursing home quality assurance program that covered 40 facilities in Bronx, New York.

Wright’s legislative priorities are increased environmental protections, expanded addiction treatment services, stopping escalating prescription drug prices, workforce development for youth, and adequate and equitable funding for K-12 education.

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Ocean City Council Set to Kill Wind Turbine Renewable Energy Project, which would’ve brought nearly 10,000 jobs to the Lower Shore 

SALISBURY, MD February 5, 2018 -- 

The Lower Shore Progressive Caucus is sad to announce that the Ocean City Council plans to pass a “Resolution in Opposition of Permanent Offshore Wind Turbines Visible from Ocean City” tomorrow at 6 at City Hall Council Chambers, 301 North Baltimore Ave, Ocean City. The Council claims that it doesn’t want to build the wind turbines off the coast of Maryland because they would be 13 miles off the Coast of Ocean City and visible from the beach, which the Council believes would be bad for tourism, and therefore bad for the local economy. 

However, the Council’s claims that this will be bad for Ocean City’s economy are mostly baseless. In fact, the wind farm being built would actually probably be helpful to Ocean City’s economy, considering the proposed wind farm would be made up of over 100 wind turbines, whose construction would create nearly 10,000 jobs directly and indirectly for Ocean City and the Lower Shore in general, which is home to the 2 poorest counties in the state. The wind farm in Ocean City is popular with both citizens in Ocean City and seasonal vacationers, with it having a 69% approval rating in Baltimore County and a 72% approval rating on the Lower Eastern Shore, according to an OpinionWorks poll conducted in December 2017. The Ocean City Council’s fears seem to be largely imaginary, considering the polls show that the vast majority of people don’t seem to mind the wind farm. 

We strongly urge the OC Council to reconsider voting against the wind farm. Ocean City has already committed to a 100% clean energy supply portfolio initiative, so these wind turbines would work perfectly towards achieving that goal. The Lower Shore desperately needs job opportunities, and we’d hate to see those nearly 10,000 jobs go to Delaware or another neighboring state. The wind turbines are great and necessary for our environment and economy.