Politics

With the primary field set for Maryland’s 6th Congressional District, Republican voters have a choice between two candidates with past primary election success and four relative newcomers to politics. Neil Parrott, a state delegate from 2011 to 2023, filed Friday — deadline day — for the Republican primary after months of mulling it over. Parrott previously won the Republican primary for the seat in 2020 with 65% of the vote and again in 2022 with 63%.

After a contentious process to redraw Baltimore’s political map ended last fall with Mayor Brandon Scott sinking City Council President Nick Mosby’s plan at the last minute, one council member is proposing to take the process out of the hands of politicians. Under changes proposed by Councilman Zeke Cohen, the once-in-a-decade task of drawing and approving new district lines would go to an independent commission comprised mostly of community representatives.

Friday is the last day for City Hall hopefuls to file a run for office with the state elections board. Candidates have until 9 p.m. to file their paperwork to appear on primary ballots. The following candidates had submitted their paperwork as of 9 p.m. Friday. The Banner will update this page throughout the day. All names are as they were submitted to the State Board of Elections. The primary election is May 14. Early voting begins May 2 and mail ballots will be sent out by April 1.

In the continuing debate over addressing juvenile crime, Senate Democrats grew frustrated Friday afternoon as some Maryland state’s attorneys pressed for a legislative fix to constituent concerns with minimal data to back up some of their points. “Juvenile crime — while it’s happening — is a minor portion of overall crime,” Sen. Charles Sydnor, a Baltimore County Democrat, said at the bill hearing Friday. “I just want to make certain that, within these conversations, we’re not making a minor major and a major minor.”

A little more than 24 hours before the deadline to file, Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby made his campaign official. The damning, embarrassing and, at times, self-incriminating testimony he delivered just days earlier during the federal trial of his ex-wife, Marilyn Mosby, did not deter him Thursday from seeking another term. Now the council president embarks on a campaign unlike any he has ever run. Nick Mosby finds himself at a sizeable fundraising disadvantage and has no significant campaign apparatus.

Lynn Cave waited hours to provide public testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Proceedings Committee Thursday afternoon. “I have eye cancer that has spread to my liver. It will likely claim my life in just two years. I don’t want my disease to choose when I die. I want to make that decision myself,” she told the lawmakers on the panel. Cave, of Silver Spring, said she supports SB 443, which would allow a qualifying terminally ill patient to prompt their own death through the help of a physician, often referred to as “medical aid-in-dying.”

Rudy Callahan had dozed off by the time Maryland lawmakers took up the bill bearing his name, a proposal that would set state requirements on baby food testing that are stricter than the Food and Drug Administration’s. The chubby-cheeked redhead, now 17 months old, was among hundreds of people who reported lead poisoning to federal agencies after eating apple puree pouches with contaminated cinnamon.

On his newly minted U.S. Senate campaign website, former Gov. Larry Hogan barely utters the word “Republican.” Not in Democratic-dominated Maryland. Not with a state GOP organization that has had almost no interaction with the former two-term Republican governor in recent years. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was among national Republicans who had recruited Hogan to run for the seat being vacated by the retirement of Democratic U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin after next year, according to a McConnell spokesperson.

Former state Del. Neil C. Parrott (R-Washington) hopes the third time is the charm. The two-time Republican nominee in the 6th congressional district entered the GOP primary for the open seat just a few hours before the filing deadline Friday, joining six other Republicans in the race to replace U.S. Rep. David Trone (D), who is running for Senate. “I am an engineer,” Parrott said in a video he posted to social media from the Maryland State Board of Elections headquarters in Annapolis. “I like to solve problems. I like to work with other people.