Larry Pretlow: An Election to Win!

Progressive-Conservatism is not a bag thing. 

Here comes Larry!

Larry T. Pretlow II, files Declaration of Candidacy,
on November 14, 2017
at the Maryland State Board of Elections

Understanding a Delegate Larry Pretlow

"I want voters to understand that a vote for me is a vote for YOU! Yes Team 13 is diverse in the ethnicity of our incumbents, But it is not diverse in the advocacy for all constituents."

I sent Larry a message on his site and I got a promise for a response and eventually I got a response. This showed me that not only will he make a promise, he will also deliver on that promise.

I also believe that someone in his team took time to make sure that whatever the response would be, it had to be wholesome.

Larry lost an older brother to gun violence. But he didn't go off and become angry about guns. Instead, the position he takes, protects 2nd Amendment Rights while making sure that anyone charged/convicted of violent criminal offenses cannot purchase a gun - a right that you forfeit when you decide to commit a violent crime. He then says, that he wants to ensure penalty for anyone in illegal possession of a gun.

I hate guns. But I know that with Larry, anyone with a gun will most likely be someone not in the practice of harming others just because they are angry about a dispute.

He also cares about Retail Workers and our jobs. He respects our jobs as a skill-building profession and as customer service careers. Instead of arguing abut 15.00 an hour, he wants retailers to cut their corporate bonuses and reinvest into employees for living and savings wages.

I then got to the Meet Larry bio page.
I learned that Larry Pretlow :

• has some college under his belt (Strayer U & UMUC). 
• Married but is legally separated from his wife. 
• Has two biological toddlers and an older step-daughter. 
• Lives in an apartment, wants to buy a home in District 13 
• Works as a state licensed Secuirty Guard 
• Is a former employee of the United States Postal Service who is speaking up for himself in a NLRB case, currently open before the board. 

You would think these are things working against him but instead he is making all of those things work for him in his campaign.

He manages to insist that he can appeal to the white working-class Americans who are the majority of the electorate in a diversely growing district.

Almost half of the electorate represents the ethnic diversity, while more than half are white, college educated, married, homeowners with and without children.

He argues that Team 13 is diverse in ethnicity but not diverse in advocacy for all constituents.

So I took my computer to my Mom. An educated, white, working-class, divorced woman.

She immediately identified with Larry, because he wants to buy his own home here in the area and talked about increasing property value without higher property tax and bringing investments that would bring secure jobs growth to the area. Also, community and school safety. He talks about restorative justice.

My Mom hates her 1 hour commute to work every morning. And she always says that kids are getting in trouble need to learn how to take to each other and do things in the community together.

Funny thing, she thought that Larry was running for the county council.

I'm excited about the Delegate race, which I didn't really care about at first. But my Mom and I want to help elect Larry.