PM's Work in 2007 General Assembly: Testimony, Photos & Links
Del. Tom Hucker, Progressive Maryland's Executive Director (center foreground, on leave during Assembly sessions), testified in support of the Living Wage bill Feb. 20 alongside Del. Herman Taylor, sponsor of HB 430, and Tom Perez, Maryland Secretary of Labor, Licensing & Regulation (at Taylor's right side). See Living Wage FAQs, The Truth about the Living Wage, and Testimony below:
- Delegate Tom Hucker, Progressive Maryland's Executive Director
- Coalition of Asian Pacific American Democrats–MD (CAPAD)
- Economic Policy Institute, Lian Fox
- Montgomery Co. Office of Procurement, Ed Stockdale
- Maryland State Teachers Association, Robert Rankin
- Pat Foerster, PM Board Member and former MSTA President
- Elbridge James, PM President and NAACP-MD Vice President
- Progressive Cheverly, David Thorpe & Catherine Smith
- Wider Opportunities for Women, Kate Farrar (WOW)
- WOW: MD Self-Sufficiency Standards 2007
Also see the new 2-min. video of Maine Senate President Beth Edmonds testifying on the benefits of publicly financed campaigns on YouTube.
Sen. Paul Pinsky (bottom right) and Del. Jon Cardin (at his left), surrounded by Progressive Maryland staff and supporters representing other organizations, spoke at our news conference preceding the Feb. 22 hearing on their Public Campaign Financing Bill. See news release and full report.
Progressive Maryland President Elbridge James, Acting Director Sean Dobson, and Common Cause Communications Director Mary Boyle (seated at the table, left to right) presented testimony supporting the Pinsky/Cardin "Clean Money" elections bill Feb. 22. More than 50 activists and experts filled the room. See testimony.
Progressive Maryland staff testified in both House and Senate hearings along with numerous representatives of other groups and experts in support of legislation to replace insecure touchscreen voting machines with reliable optical scanners and voter-verifiable paper ballots that can be audited and recounted. See testimony.
Progressive Maryland's Testimony by Sam Pizzigati,
PM Board Member and Editor of Too Much
On Senate Bill 395 (To end public tax subsidies for excessive executive pay.)
Denial of Deduction for Excessive Compensation of Officers and Directors
In the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, February 28, 2007.
