Brian Frosh

Brian Frosh is a State Senator from Maryland.

Supported Progressive Health Care Reform

In late 2009, Brian Frosh was one of more than 1,000 state legislators to sign a letter entitled "State Legislators for Progressive Health Care Reform". The letter was a project of the Progressive States Network and was developed in consultation with national health care reform advocates, including the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, Community Catalyst, Families USA, Herndon Alliance, National Women's Law Center, Northeast Action, SEIU, and Universal Health Care Action Network. The letter reads in part,

"Failure to pass national comprehensive health reform now will further jeopardize state and local budgets, undermining public services like education, public safety, and transportation infrastructure... We, the undersigned, call on President Obama and the Congress to enact bold and comprehensive health care reform this year – based on these principles and a strong federal-state collaboration – and pledge our support as state legislators and allies in pursuit of guaranteed, high quality, affordable health care for all."

Backing Baker

Progressive unions, groups and allies are taking on Democratic Party regulars in the June 26 Maryland Democratic gubernatorial primary. But whoever wins faces an unenviable task, even in the deep-blue state: Trying to dislodge popular GOP Gov. Larry Hogan in November.

On the party regulars’ side, former Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley became the latest regular backer of the other leader, Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker. O’Malley joined former Gov. Parris Glendening, state Attorney General Brian Frosh and U.S. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer in backing Baker.

21st Century Democrats

21st Century Democrats endorsed candidates Randy Bryce Richard Cordray, Betty Sutton, Brian Frosh in 2018.

'Rockville Resistance'

From Stephen Melkisethian on Flickr:

Rockville Maryland, the evening of July 10, 2017. A packed house of over 150 local activists and supporters gathered at Johns Hopkins Gilchrist Hall Auditorium for a panel symposium titled "The For-Profit Presidency: Ethical Issues In The Trump Administration And What We Can Do About Them." The ethics outrages of the Trump regime are numerous, egregious and well known to all, even Republicans. The solutions proposed involve using every one of the institutions of our Democracy from the highest courts to your local street protest. Inside/Outside, long game. The event was organized by the social justice group Rockville Resistance that sprung up, like so many others, in the wake of the election of Donald J. Trump to the Presidency of the United States Of America. The distinguished panel included Georgetown history professor and Dissent magazine editor Michael Kazin, Public Citizen Director Robert Weissman, Executive Branch Ethics Counsel and CREW* stalwart Virginia Cantor and Steven Spaulding from the venerable good government advocacy group Common Cause. Our House Representative Jamie Raskin cancelled due to illness and was backed up very ably by Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh. Hats off to all at Rockville Resistance for staging this important event. We fight on.