Del. Brooke E. Lierman (D-Baltimore City) announced Thursday that she plans to run for state comptroller in 2022 – an office she hopes to use to close the racial wealth gap in Maryland.
Lierman called the racial wealth gap in the United States an “abomination” in an interview with Maryland Matters, and said she thinks the state’s next comptroller will be well-positioned to elevate women and minority-owned businesses after the pandemic.
Lierman said she believes that government spending has an impact on private sector wealth. Given the comptroller’s seat on the powerful three-member Board of Public Works, she said the next person to hold that office could make a huge impact on minority-owned businesses in the state.
“The power of the purse really lies, at the end of the day, with the Board of Public Works,” Lierman said. “Not just in the programs and projects that we’re building, but who is doing the building and who is receiving those contracts.”
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