Latinx policymakers asked gubernatorial candidates to expound on how their plans on COVID-19, education and the economy would support the Latino community, a group that has been steadily increasing in Maryland for more than a decade, during a virtual forum Monday evening.
Five out of nine declared Democratic candidates for governor — Jon Baron, Peter V.R. Franchot, Doug Gansler, John B. King, Jr. and Tom Perez — and one Republican candidate, Robin Ficker, attended the forum hosted by the Maryland Latino Caucus of the General Assembly. The remaining Democratic candidates — Rushern Baker III, Ashwani Jain, Wes Moore and Mike Rosenbaum — were attending the second day of a two-day forum hosted by the Prince George’s County NAACP at the time.
Perez is the son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic and King’s mother came to the U.S. mainland from Puerto Rico in the early 1940s.
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