WE BELIEVE:

  • local governments are designed to support healthy families, a clean environment and good jobs in Maryland’s cities, towns and counties; and,
  • local government exists to respond to the needs of the people who live and work there; and
  • special interest groups have successfully pushed state lawmakers across the country to prevent local governments from passing laws that support healthy families, a clean environment and good jobs; and
  • special interest groups are now actively targeting Maryland state lawmakers; and,
  • blocking local governments’ ability to pass laws that support healthy families, a clean environment and good jobs unfairly hurts women, children and people of color.