{"id":2933,"date":"2014-04-14T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2014-04-14T10:46:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:46:32","slug":"equality-maryland-endorses-brian-frosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2933","title":{"rendered":"Equality Maryland Endorses Brian Frosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Equality Maryland&#8217;s press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBrian Frosh has been a firm ally and leader on LGBT issues in the General Assembly. He has the maturity, experience and commitment to be an effective advocate for the LGBT communities of Maryland as our next Attorney General,\u201d said Equality Maryland Executive Director Carrie Evans.<\/p>\n<p>Evans added, \u201cDuring the just-completed General Assembly session, Equality Maryland worked closely with Senator Frosh on passage of SB 212, the Fairness for All Marylanders Act. He worked with Senate leaders and advocates to shepherd the bill through the Senate. His leadership was instrumental in achieving the 8-3 vote for the bill in the Judicial Proceedings Committee which he chairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEquality Maryland members were already aware of Brian Frosh\u2019s record of support on our issues.\u00a0 During his interview with us he spoke convincingly about his commitment to fairness and how his own convictions were shaped by the example of his father, who supported civil rights for African Americans as a member of the Montgomery County Council more than 50 years ago,\u201d said Equality Maryland PAC Chair Tim Williams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Frosh has more than 35 years of experience as a practicing attorney and has served in the General Assembly for 27 years.\u00a0 He understands the duties of the Attorney General and articulates a clear vision for how this office can continue to move Maryland forward on fairness or equality,\u201d said Equality Maryland, Inc. Board Chair Stephanie Bernstein, adding, \u201cWe strongly urge the LGBT community and its allies to support Senator Frosh in his bid to be Maryland&#8217;s next Attorney General.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To find out more information about Senator Frosh and his campaign, <a href=\"http:\/\/equalityfederation.salsalabs.com\/dia\/track.jsp?key=-1&amp;url_num=2&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fequalitymaryland.org%2F%3Fp%3D5471\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Equality Maryland&#8217;s press release: \u201cBrian Frosh has been a firm ally and leader on LGBT issues in the General Assembly. He has the maturity, experience and commitment to be an effective advocate for the LGBT communities of Maryland as our next Attorney General,\u201d said Equality Maryland Executive Director Carrie Evans. Evans added, \u201cDuring the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=2933\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Equality Maryland Endorses Brian Frosh<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[626,297],"tags":[386,784,471,1604],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endorsements-2","category-equality-maryland","tag-brian-frosh-2","tag-endorsement","tag-equality-maryland-2","tag-lgbt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-Lj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2934,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions\/2934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}