The public is invited to hear Delegate Heather Mizeur, of Takoma Park, as she addresses the annual meeting of the Kent County League of Women Voters on Friday, April 19.
Mizeur will talk on the present role of women at all levels of government, and how to increase their participation. The event will take place at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Cross Street, Chestertown, with lunch beginning at 12 noon.
At age 40, Mizeur is now serving her seventh year in the Maryland General Assembly and also represents the state on the Democratic National Committee. She is known as a
“hard-charging liberal” (commentator Josh Kurtz) who has made specialties of the fracking issue and school construction in Baltimore City, efforts that political observers say should broaden her appeal statewide.
Mizeur is also one of eight openly gay members of the state legislature. She supported the recent Maryland referendum on marriage equality, which passed in the November general election. The Daily Record has twice named her to its list of the state’s 100 most powerful women. The Baltimore Sun called the delegate “one of the leading environmental advocates in the General Assembly” for her efforts to regulate drilling for gas in shale soils of Western Maryland, a technique known as fracking. She has also received the Montgomery County Medical Society’s Distinguished Public Official Award.
“But no one thinks the House of Delegates will be her last political stop. The state Senate, Congress, governor, comptroller, Montgomery County executive – Mizeur’s future seems as limitless as her intense ambition,” writes Kurtz in Center Maryland, an article reprinted on the delegate’s website, www.heathermizeur.com.
A buffet lunch at $25 requires a reservation by calling 410-810-1883 and leaving a message. The deadline is April 15. It is not necessary to have luncheon in order to hear Delegate Mizeur. Those wishing only to hear the address should arrive about 1 p.m. The meeting will conclude with a short business meeting for members.
Fletcher R. Hall says
Not on the Eastern Shore again! With her policy ideas does she really ecpect to carry this part of Maryland?
And, what does Kurtz know?