Dale. Mike Rogers (D-Anne Arundel) and supporters in Annapolis Waterfront last week. Photo by Josh Kurtaz.
Eight state MLAs are running in the primary of Congress in three separate districts in this spring. Maryland Matters are checking with them all that they are discussing how they are balanced their legislative work to get out of the campaign mark, as well as they are emphasizing on more campaign marks in the General Assembly along with those issues.
This is the first installment of our series. We will also look deeply on the more information about the Congress race and other candidates as we reach close to the primary of May 14.
Dale. Mike Rogers (D-Ani Arundel) collected a group of military giants and other supporters along with Annapolis Waterfront on the second day at a small rally for his Congress campaign. He talked about his work in the General Assembly and the desire to do big things on Capital Hill.
“I am going to bring the same passion that I have brought here and take it there,” Rogers told The Dozen either people who gathered at the ghat in Susan Campbell Park.
But the morning incident was short -lived: Rogers had to quit quickly as the House Economic Matters Committee, on which he serves, had set a polling action for a few minutes.
“I am sorry to leave you,” he told his friends. “I don’t want my committee’s chair to beat me. I have to vote. ,
The scene faced Rogers – and seven other state MLAs challenges, who are currently running for the Congress in May 14 primary – every day. They are in the midst of the 90-day period of making laws at the same time, they need to present themselves from voters, raise money, campaign and unite support.
“It was not done earlier, it is an interesting experience,” Rogers said in an interview. “But as I tell people, I am designed for it.”
Rogers is one of the five state MPs, who is competing in the 22-candidate Democratic Primary to retire US Rape John Sarbans (D) in 3 Congress districts.
Compared to the MLAs running for open seats in the 2 and 6th districts, the candidates running in 3 are relatively easy. Most of Anne Arundel County, including Annapolis, are in the third, meaning that it is easy to meet potential voters, without wandering far away from the state house. The district also includes a slaver from Howard County and Carroll County.
Rogers, an army veteran, who turned 60 on Tuesday, said that there is nothing in a specific week and their legislative work in conjunction with the election campaign, which is nothing compared to the typical weeks tolerated by him during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, when he traveled from Kuwait to Pakistan from Pakistan to Iraq and traveled to Kuvit in seven days. In his three decades in the army, where he reached the post of Colonel, Rogers served in four continents in 32 countries.
Rogers was overshadowed by his military experience during his entire political career, which began when he was first elected to the House in 2018, and he is targeting the votes of veterans and military families as a campaign.
Rogers has already been supported by some giants’ organizations, and his latest support comes from former New York Congress Max Rose (D), a political liberal who served in the army during the Afghanistan war.
“With all divisive and toxic politics, who have taken away our country, we need leaders like Mike,” said Rose.
Over the weekend, Rogers’ campaign has organized large canvas across the district with several volunteers, where he can talk to voters and supporters, unlike his recent news conference in Annapolis, when he can talk to voters and supporters.
With so many candidates, and in a district with a strong military appearance, they feel that veterans and military families may be the key to victory.
“Anyone who can take out their voting, they are going to win,” he said.
About half of the bills, Rogers, has somehow sponsored the deal of this legislative session with those who are serving or serving in the army. These include bills that align with the village Wes Moore (D) top priorities, to help the military spouse find jobs and to maintain tax break for military retired people to maintain jobs and live in Maryland.
A Rogers will limit the bill that can see a student’s armed services a standardized test for business qualification batteries, potential military recruits that reveal power and ability in science, mathematics and language. Another bill will require Maryland courts to discharge the papers of military giants rather than keeping digital records and paper records.
“I am excited about the opportunity to move the giants’ law,” he said.
Rogers said that he introduced more laws than this session than this session, but the figures that advocacy groups asked for them to help because “they know that I can get a bill across the finish line.”
“I think the unique skill set,” he said, “is the one who will change my vote.”
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