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Fri Apr 15, 2016, 05:46 PM Apr 2016

KWEISI MFUME ENDORSES DONNA EDWARDS IN MARYLAND SENATE RACE.

Lanham, MD – Today, Kweisi Mfume, former Member of Congress from Maryland and head of the NAACP, endorsed Congresswoman Donna Edwards (D-MD) in her race for the United States Senate in Maryland.

Kweisi Mfume

“Today more than ever Maryland needs a fighter in Washington who understands the struggles facing families across our state and the policies needed to help sustain and support those same families now and into the future.

From healthcare, to voting rights and education, to reforming our criminal justice system and eradicating poverty, the need for a sincere and tested leader is clearer today than ever before. Donna Edwards is that leader. Over and over again she has stood up and spent time working on our behalf when it wasn’t popular. For minority communities, working class families, millennials and our seniors there is too much at stake in this election to give it away.

Donna will fight for job creation, workforce training and ending the scourge of violence plaguing too many of our communities. I believe she is the candidate best suited to carry on the work and progress made on healthcare and common sense gun reforms and then actually get something done. We have a tremendous opportunity to send a strong and sincere woman to represent us in this historic election.

As a former community organizer, city council member, congressman and president of the NAACP, I am proud to enthusiastically endorse and work for Donna Edwards to be our next United States Senator from our great state of Maryland.”

Donna Edwards

“I am proud to receive the endorsement of Kweisi Mfume in my race for the United States Senate. Whether he was representing Maryland in Congress, leading the NAACP, or heading a Black Student Union at the Community College of Baltimore County, Kweisi has been on the front lines in the pursuit of a more fair and just society. Together, we’ll fight for good jobs, a more equitable criminal justice system, and the investments in education and infrastructure necessary to improve the lives of all Marylanders.”

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