A Sad State

Well there certainly are a lot of people running for Governor. Democrats, that is. With Wes Moore joining the race yesterday it looks like this:

Rushern L. Baker III

Jon Baron

Peter Franchot 

Doug Gansler

Ashwani Jain

John B. King

Wes Moore

Mike Rosenbaum

You may be noticing something about this list. I do. There’s no women. I find this incredibly frustrating. It seems that in Maryland there’s a distinct lack of willingness on the part of the fellas to set their ambitions aside and get behind a woman.

This is true not only at the gubernatorial level. Back in 2017 I wrote about how women are marginalized in Howard County local affairs:

...and yet all women have experienced this treatment. One is rendered invisible. A woman might be thought of as good conversation, great to bounce around ideas with, and just the right person to host an at-home candidate event. But would that favor be returned? (“A Report from the Front”, June 7, 2017)

Do men think it is “unmanly” to support a woman?

Yet again a look at Congress and the Senate shows all electeds from Maryland are men. Sheesh. Thank goodness we have women representatives in the state legislature.It does look as though that’s as far as the Maryland political system is willing to go when it comes to women in higher office. 

It’s 2021 and, as far as I am concerned, that’s a pretty sad state of affairs.