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Neal Jerry Simon ) is a business executive and community leader in Potomac, Maryland

Simon has led four businesses, and has served on the boards of several leading Maryland non-profits. He is the CEO of Bronfman Rothschild which manages $6.1 billion and has eleven offices in the Midwest and east coast. From 2006 to 2008, Simon was the chairman of the board of the Montgomery County Community Foundation[1] and in 2016 Simon was elected chairman of the board of the Greater Washington Community Foundation. In April 2016, Simon and his family were recognized by Interfaith Works as Humanitarians of the Year.

On February 6, 2018, Simon declared his candidacy to represent the state of Maryland in the U.S. Senate as an Independent.

Shari Scher Shari and her husband have been residents of the City of Frederick for decades. Shari has a BA and MS in Early Childhood Education, spent many years as a Childhood Curriculum Specialist and Family Involvement Supervisor in with Frederick County Public Schools, and presently serves as an Adjunct Professor at Hood College and a Professional Developer for Head Start in Frederick. Her professional and volunteer work has been recognized by too many awards to list here, but includes Maryland’s Top 100 Women (2006), a Teaching Excellence Award (2012), Educator of The Year, Maryland PTA (2013) and Humanitarian of the Year from Hood College (2017). She is the founder and president of Children of Incarcerated Parents in Frederick.

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have been very unhappy with how the new charter government has been going. Frankly, it’s hard to know if it is the failings in how the charter is written or the cast of characters that are currently elected to county office. The County Executive and Council positions are modeled similarly to the governor and legislature of Maryland. The County Executive is given substantial power. Your next County Executive should have a head for business and a heart for service. I believe I am that person.

The elephant in the room is overdevelopment. The former board wanted us to look like Montgomery County (apparently, they never saw a high-density housing development or developer they didn’t love), and Jan Gardner wants us to be like MoCo with bureaucratic red tape and high property taxes to seal the deal. I hope people will go to my website, KathyAfzali.com, where I give more detail about how state policy and poor local leadership have propelled us into our current situation, i.e. thousands of new townhomes and apartments without the road infrastructure and school capacity to support it.

Council Member - District 2

Tony has decided to conduct a write-in campaign for the District 2 Council Seat.

Tony Chmelik has resided in Frederick County for 42 years.  A graduate of Linganore High School, he received a B.A. in mathematics and engineering from Belmont Abbey College.  He is the owner of Chesky Construction, Inc., and a partner in Affordable Geothermal LLC.

Tony and his wife of 24 years, Rebecca, have been blessed with 11 children - seven boys and four girls.  His goal is to keep Frederick County moving in a positive direction, to remain a place where his children also would choose to live and call home. 

As a Knight of Columbus, Tony has volunteered hundreds of hours in service to the community.  In 2010 and 2011, he used his experience as a contractor to assist his church with disaster relief and other mission work in Haiti.  

Tony is committed to conservative principles and civil liberties, including Second Amendment rights, and he is proudly pro-life.

Sheriff Jenkins is currently serving in his third term as Sheriff. He is a 2007 graduate of the National Sheriff’s Leadership Institute and he serves on the Immigration / Border Security Committee and Homeland Security Sub-Committees of the National Sheriff’s Association.

He maintains a strong stance on illegal immigration enforcement and has effectively partnered with ICE to participate in two major programs, the 287g Immigration Enforcement Program and the Federal Inter-Governmental Services Detainee Housing Program. He was named by FOX News as “America’s second toughest Sheriff on illegal immigration.” In the summer of 2014, the Sheriff visited the Mexican border in the McAllen sector of Texas, to view first- hand the surge of illegal immigrants streaming across the borders, and the local impact to crime and public safety due to an open southern border.

The biggest issue is residential growth and managing the bad land-use decisions made by the prior Board of County Commissioners which were locked down with developer agreements. During my administration, no new residential growth has been approved. I have ended taxpayer giveaways. The Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance has been strengthened and the school “buyout” option ended. I am working hard to provide needed infrastructure that should have been required first and to protect taxpayers from the cost by making sure development pays its way. The Livable Frederick Master Plan puts citizens in charge of our future rather than development interests.

Jerry Donald is a Frederick County native and has worked in Frederick County for 30 years as a teacher. He is married, has three daughters, and lives in Braddock Heights near his parents.

He is a graduate of Middletown High School and Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College). Besides teaching, he has been in sales, coached and officiated high school sports, served as President of the Braddock Heights Community Association and served in various positions at Trinity United Methodist Church.

Council District 1 comprises Burkittsville, Brunswick, Braddock Heights, Jefferson, Middletown, Rosemont, Sugarloaf Mountain, Tuscarora, and parts of Urbana.

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