2018 Legislative Report Card

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ISSUE AREAS
In this report card, we grade legislators
along two issue areas:
1. Criminal and Juvenile Justice
a. Bail Reform
b. Police Reform
c. Tough on Crime policies
d. Youth charged as adults
2. Education:
a. Educational efforts aimed
specifically to support Black people
b. Funding
c. Guns in Schools
d. HBCU’S
e. Suspensions
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MONTGOMERY
MONTGOMERY
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systems of power.
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legislators 12 are allowed to brand
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CHARLES
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their allegiance to the Democratic
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quo. We also know that there are
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ways for the leadership to stifle
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CRITERIA
While many legislative report cards
focus on individual voting records
as the sole basis for grading, LBS’s
report card is different. Our insight
into the political relationships in
Annapolis confirm our knowledge
that legislators are much more
than a vote.
There are a variety of ways that
a legislator can be silenced,
undermined and marginalized in
our State’s Capitol. We know that
there are ways that the legislature
and its leadership appear to take up
issues that seem justice-oriented,
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but in fact, maintain the current
themselves as an advocate for the
Black community while maintaining
Party leadership and the status
a legislator’s effort to advance
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substantive
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policy. Political
maneuvers undermine racial
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justice in ways that are often not
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reflected in public statements or
a voting record. Our methodology
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was created to weigh and consider
these nuances ST MARYS when assigning
grades to the elected officials.
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