Maryland State Bar Association To Interview Maryland Gubernatorial Candidates, Host Debates

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Baltimore County (WJZ) — The Maryland State Bar Association volition big a multi-day, non-partisan bid of interviews and debates with declared 2022 gubernatorial candidates starting successful aboriginal December.

The interviews volition springiness voters an accidental to perceive candidates’ positions connected pressing societal issues astir a twelvemonth retired from the predetermination successful Nov. 8.

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The virtual interviews volition instrumentality spot implicit the people of 5 days astatine the Inscape Theatre astatine Stevenson University.

“Stevenson is pleased to supply a integer venue done which the citizens of Maryland tin larn much astir the tract of gubernatorial candidates and their views connected the galore important issues facing the state,” University President Elliot Hirshman said. “We judge the unsocial accidental of hosting the Gubernatorial Interviews gives the MSBA, its members, and Maryland’s citizens an accidental to acquisition a caller modular for accusation speech successful the run for the state’s apical office.”

The debates volition instrumentality spot successful idiosyncratic successful March, April, and June 2022. The last June statement volition hap astatine the yearly MSBA Legal Summit successful Ocean City.

The nationalist tin drawback the debates and interviews connected the MSBA unrecorded watercourse found here.

“Presenting the premier interviews and debates to Maryland lawyers and the nationalist is an accidental we’re incredibly honored to spearhead arsenic we connection imaginable candidates a level to contiguous their program connected moving our authorities guardant successful 2022 and beyond,” said Natalie McSherry, President of the Maryland State Bar Association. “We look guardant to proceeding from the sheet of aspiring individuals moving for Governor and are pleased to supply accrued vulnerability and acquisition opportunities to our colleagues successful the ineligible profession.”

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The docket for the interviews is arsenic follows:

Dec. 6

  • Rushern Baker (D)
  • Jon Baron (D)
  • Peter Franchot (D)

Dec. 7

  • Mike Rosenbaum (D)

Dec. 8

  • David Lashar (L)
  • Ashwani Jain (D)

Dec. 9 

  • Doug Gansler (D)
  • Wes Moore (D)
  • Tom Perez (D)

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Dec. 10

  • John King Jr. (D)
  • Robin Ficker (R)

CBS Baltimore Staff

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