Labor's Candidates: Veronica Turner (MD 26)

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Elected four years ago when the Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO led a door-to-door effort among Prince George’s County union members urging them to put a union leader in the state house, SEIU 1199 leader Veronica Turner has kicked off her re-election effort for State Delegate in Maryland’s 26th District. Since her election in 2002, union advocates no longer have to stand outside the caucus room anxiously waiting to find out whether their bills will be supported: with Turner advocating forcefully inside those chambers, she has become labor’s spokesperson in the General Assembly. As a freshman Delegate, Turner faces an especially tough reelection fight this year, since Del. Obie Patterson’s decision to run for State Senate created an open seat with a number of candidates running hard.  District 26 covers parts of Oxon Hill, Clinton & Fort Washington. Read more about Turner on her Maryland State General Assembly webpage at http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/mdmanual/06hse/html/msa13995.html

Contact Tuner’s campaign at Friends of Veronica Turner, 6944 Allentown Road, Camp Springs, MD  20748; 301-449-6200.