Angela Alsobrooks is another partisan machine politician who is part of the broken system and doesn’t deliver on her promises. We can’t afford a leader like Larry Hogan who might offend his colleagues by daring to be independent and actually work across the aisle to get things done. Send her to Washington because she will fit right in!
Under Angela’s leadership in Prince George’s County, crime has increased to out-of-control levels, schools are declining, the budget deficit is skyrocketing, and the county’s financial outlook has been downgraded. Whether it’s a lack of funding for police and firefighters or even just picking up the trash, Angela’s administration has taken swift action by failing to deliver on even the most basic of government functions. But, then again, so has Washington. With your help, she can prove there is nothing that can’t be excused away by blaming others.
Whether it’s a lack of funding for our police and firefighters or even just picking up the trash, Angela has not delivered on even the most basic of government functions.
Lack of funding for public safety has been an ongoing issue in Prince George’s County under Angela, with fire stations dealing with severe staffing shortages.
The county firefighters’ union sounded the alarm about staffing shortages that have become “more and more serious” over the last several years, blaming the Prince George’s County government for inadequate funding.
A Democratic County Council member claimed that the council has been trying to get more funding to hire more firefighters but that it has not been a priority for Angela’s administration.
The firefighter shortage almost led to a deadly situation when, earlier this year, there were not enough firefighters to respond to a serious home fire with residents trapped inside. This forced just one engine to deal with the blaze for a long period of time without any backup and miraculously avoiding casualties.
The Prince George’s County School Board, led by Angela’s appointed Chair Juanita Miller, has devolved into a dysfunctional, chaotic, and ethically-questionable body under her watch. Instead of focusing on improving education outcomes for students, the board has been preoccupied with petty arguments and ethics complaints.
The State Board of Education charged Miller with incompetency, willful neglect of duty, and misconduct in office, as she failed to effectively fulfill her responsibilities as board chair, further exacerbating the dysfunction within the board. Miller faced allegations of withholding ethics complaints from board members and engaging in unauthorized procurement, which has undermined trust in her leadership and integrity due to a lack of transparency and adherence to proper protocols.
The state’s official scorecard for 2023 showed that PG County high schools “failed to hit any of the annual targets laid out by the state and did not achieve improvement in any of the five categories measured.” Even after red flags were raised about Juanita Miller’s leadership of the board, Angela repeatedly said she “stood by” her.
Not a single demographic group of students in Prince George’s County hit the state’s annual target for math proficiency last year. Four Prince George’s County high schools — Duval, Roosevelt, Gwynn Park, and Largo — lost a star in the state’s one-to-five star scale ranking system and not a single high school in the county improved its ranking.
In December 2023, the latest forecasts for Prince George’s County showed a projected deficit gap in the budget that grows from $183M in FY 2025 to as much as $387M by 2030.
Angela has been accused by a fellow Democrat of managing the county budget so poorly that law enforcement and public safety personnel would have to be cut at a time of rising crime.
A Democratic County Councilmember claimed that in order to close the budget deficit, Angela was planning to furlough public safety personnel. He also called on Angela to be more transparent about the budgetary issues the county is facing and how she plans to address them.
Angela is now openly talking about raising taxes on her constituents.
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