1. Elizabeth M Embry was born on March 2,1977 and is an American politician who is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for District 43A in Baltimore.
22 Facts About Elizabeth Embry
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Elizabeth Embry attended Baltimore City College, Yale University, and Columbia Law School.
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In January 2015, Embry became the chief of the Maryland Attorney General's criminal division.
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Elizabeth Embry was on leave from this job during her 2016 mayoral campaign, and resigned from it in February 2018 to focus on her gubernatorial campaign.
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Elizabeth Embry announced her candidacy for mayor of Baltimore on November 6,2015, becoming the 11th candidate to join the race in the Democratic primary.
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Elizabeth Embry's platform included increasing funding for schools and extracurricular activities, criminal justice reform, and improving city transportation.
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In January 2018, rumors arose that Elizabeth Embry was on Prince George's County executive Rushern Baker's shortlist for potential running mates.
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On February 20,2018, Baker announced that Elizabeth Embry would be his running mate in the 2018 Maryland gubernatorial election.
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Elizabeth Embry said she was "a bit shocked" to be asked by Baker to join his ticket, as the two had only spoken briefly a few times before.
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Baker and Elizabeth Embry were defeated by former NAACP president Ben Jealous in the Democratic primary election, placing second with 29.3 percent of the vote.
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On January 21,2022, Elizabeth Embry announced that she would run for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 43, seeking to succeed retiring state delegate Maggie McIntosh.
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Elizabeth Embry won the Democratic primary election on July 19,2022, placing second behind Boyce with 29.1 percent of the vote, and later won the general election in November with 44.59 percent of the vote.
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Elizabeth Embry was sworn into the Maryland House of Delegates on January 11,2023.
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Elizabeth Embry is a member of the House Judiciary Committee.
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Elizabeth Embry supported providing incentives to encourage police officers to live in the city, and proposed implementing an early warning system to identify troubled officers.
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Elizabeth Embry said that her administration would use CitiStat to track maintenance and repairs at public housing complexes as well as the effectiveness of various housing incentives.
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In March 2016, Elizabeth Embry proposed a social media campaign to promote local art by establishing a cabinet-level position to focus on the arts and artist residency programs at city schools.
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Elizabeth Embry added that her support for arts education was a matter of social justice, and that promoting youth arts programs would be her highest priority in arts policy.
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Elizabeth Embry called for a continuation of the city's 1 Percent for Public Art initiative, which saw a portion of development fees go toward city art projects.
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In March 2016, Elizabeth Embry said she supported continuing with tax cuts pursued by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, but said that those tax cuts, which reduced property tax rates by 14 cents, were not enough.
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Elizabeth Embry expressed the need to find new sources of revenue to cut the city's dependence on property and income taxes.
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On March 18,2016, Elizabeth Embry released a plan for building a "comprehensive public transit system" in Baltimore, which included an east-west public transit line, expanded bus services, and connections between water taxis and other forms of transportation.