A portrait of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) was unveiled Wednesday the place it should grasp within the U.S. Home Authorities Oversight and Reform Committee listening to room.
Cummings, who died on the age of 68 in 2019, chaired that committee.
Born in Baltimore and the son of a sharecropper, Cummings was elected in 1996 and acquired the uncommon honor to lie in state within the Capitol’s Statuary Corridor.
“He was my Baltimore brother,” Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who was born in Baltimore, mentioned throughout a greater than 90-minute unveiling ceremony. “We bear in mind an enormous. A large in American historical past. A large not [only] for the Democrats or Republicans, however an enormous for our nation. A large for our youngsters.”
A number of different Marylanders spoke throughout ceremony together with April Ryan, a White Home correspondent with The Grio who served because the mistress of ceremonies on the occasion on Capitol Hill.
Home Majority Chief Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) learn Cummings’ former cellphone quantity to the viewers.
“I don’t know whether or not [there’s] cell service in heaven, however I do know they hear us in heaven,” he mentioned. “Elijah Cummings was welcomed to heaven for all that he had achieved. I feel that Elijah and I might each let you know it’s not by work that you just get to heaven. It’s by religion. It’s by perception. God bless America he gave us Elijah Cummings.”
Baltimore artist Jerrell Gibbs painted the portrait, which was impressed by a photograph by Baltimore-based photographer Justin T. Gellerson that was featured on the duvet of Cummings’ memoir, “We’re Higher than This: My Battle for the Way forward for Our Democracy.”
“I thank him for being a constructive instance for younger Baltimoreans comparable to myself,” Gibbs mentioned about Cummings. “Elijah Cummings confirmed me via his actions that you are able to do nice issues in life it doesn’t matter what aspect of the tracks you come from. I might inform him, ‘Thanks’ for displaying so many people from the town of Baltimore that the alternatives are limitless if we put our minds to it.”
Kellyanne Conway coming to Maryland
The Maryland Republican Occasion had deliberate to offer Gov. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) a heat welcome at its thirty first annual Purple, White and Blue dinner Sept. 22 at The Lodge on the College of Maryland in School Park.
However Noem, a potential 2024 presidential contender, is recovering from again surgical procedure and received’t be capable to attend.
The celebration’s alternative: Kellyanne Conway, a former senior counselor to former President Donald Trump.
In accordance with a letter Thursday from celebration chair Dirk Haire, each attendee will obtain a signed copy of Conway’s new memoir, “Right here’s the Deal.”
Conway stays a fixture within the GOP that features her work as a marketing consultant serving to Republican candidates throughout this yr’s midterm elections, in line with The Hill.
Listed below are some ticket costs: $200 for common admission and dinner; $1,000 for dinner, a personal reception and a photograph alternative with Conway.
Dems getting collectively
Maryland Democrats will collect this weekend to open a marketing campaign headquarters, then eat on the celebration’s annual barbeque bash.
In preparation for the Nov. 8 common election, the celebration’s coordinated marketing campaign will open its Prince George’s County headquarters Saturday in Largo. This can kick off a collection of workplace openings all through the state.
In addition to County Govt Angela Alsobrooks (D) in attendance, different high-profile candidates and county residents who can be at that opening embody Rep. Anthony Brown (D), operating for legal professional common, and Glenn Ivey (D), operating to interchange Brown as consultant for the 4th Congressional District.
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wes Moore, who’s additionally scheduled to attend, received Prince George’s with 59,430 votes, greater than he garnered in another jurisdiction through the July major election.
The state celebration acknowledges Prince George’s, a majority Black and Maryland’s second most populous jurisdiction, as key to successful the governor’s race, statewide and different places of work.
After celebration members deal with campaigning and enterprise on Saturday, the temper can be extra relaxed Sunday when fellow Democrats collect for the annual barbeque bash at Colorburst Park in Columbia.
Prime Democrats operating for workplace are scheduled to attend together with U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, Rep. John Sarbanes, Howard County Govt Calvin Ball and state senators, delegates and native officers.
Lierman launches ‘Higher Maryland’ tour
Democratic comptroller candidate Del. Brooke Lierman will start a statewide tour Friday to debate her platform and listen to from small enterprise house owners.
Labeled the “Construct a Higher Maryland” tour, Lierman plans to evaluate alternatives and enhancements wanted in numerous areas of the state.
The primary cease can be at DiscContinued Homme, a males’s grooming lounge in Laurel, Prince George’s County, to evaluate efficient partnerships with municipal leaders.
Lierman will proceed the tour in Prince George’s on Tuesday at Vista Market in Bowie with a concentrate on rising enterprise within the county.
Three different stops this month will embody:
- Sept. 29 within the Baltimore area, specializing in the comptroller’s workplace and implementing the Black agenda.
- Sept. 29 within the Annapolis area, to debate environment friendly and efficient tax administration.
- Sept. 30 on the Worldwide Affiliation of Warmth and Frost Insulators and Allied Staff, Native 24 in Prince George’s, on strengthening organized labor.
Three extra excursions are scheduled in October with two within the Baltimore area specializing in manufacturing and creating alternatives for women-owned companies.
“Maryland ought to be a state the place households can thrive and entrepreneurs can create and develop companies. Small companies are vital to producing financial progress and to increasing jobs in our state,” Lierman mentioned in a press release. “Maryland wants to make sure we have now the investments and instruments to help and develop firms at residence. We can’t lose Maryland expertise and jobs to different states.”
Lierman faces Republican Barry Glassman, the term-limited Harford County government, in November.
Lockheed Martin will get an ‘F’
Lockheed Martin, a protection contractor primarily based in Bethesda, receives tens of millions of federal {dollars} for its innovation on aircrafts, missile and data know-how.
However relating to democracy, the corporate acquired a failing grade of an “F” from Accountable.US, a nonpartisan political watchdog group.
The group launched its American Democracy Scorecard on Tuesday analyzing all “Fortune 100” firms. The grades are primarily based on a number of elements comparable to whether or not a company speaks out in help of democracy and to which politicians’ campaigns they contribute.
Accountable.US gave Lockheed Martin a failing grade as a result of it contributed greater than $520,000 to members of Congress who opposed federal voting rights laws; no less than $275,000 to members of Congress who voted towards certifying the 2020 election; and no less than $19,000 to state officers who voted for anti-voter laws.
Lockheed Martin ranked among the many 10 worst firms — together with AT&T, Comcast and Boeing — for making contributions to such politicians.
“Company executives know their prospects, staff and shareholders wish to purchase from, work for, or put money into an organization that shares their values, not only one that preserves its backside line,” Kyle Herrig, president of the Accountable.US, mentioned in a press release. “Firms and their executives that use their energy and affect to protect democracy will solely discover it’s good for his or her enterprise and the financial system.”
A consultant from Lockheed Martin didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
