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Patrick Paschall
Patrick Paschall (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Maryland House of Delegates to represent District 22. He lost in the Democratic primary on July 19, 2022.
Paschall completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2022
See also: Maryland House of Delegates elections, 2022
General election
General election for Maryland House of Delegates District 22 (3 seats)
Incumbent Alonzo Washington, incumbent Nicole Williams, and incumbent Anne Healey won election in the general election for Maryland House of Delegates District 22 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Alonzo Washington (D) | 34.5 | 21,165 |
| ✔ |  | Nicole Williams (D)  | 33.1 | 20,311 |
| ✔ |  | Anne Healey (D) | 31.0 | 19,036 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.5 | 896 | ||
| Total votes: 61,408 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Maryland House of Delegates District 22 (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Maryland House of Delegates District 22 on July 19, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Alonzo Washington | 30.4 | 9,809 |
| ✔ | | Nicole Williams | 25.5 | 8,250 |
| ✔ | | Anne Healey | 16.3 | 5,280 |
 | Ashanti Martinez | 13.9 | 4,494 | |
 | Patrick Paschall | 7.8 | 2,510 | |
 | Chiquita Jackson | 6.1 | 1,967 | |
| Total votes: 32,310 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Patrick Paschall completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Paschall's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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He spent over a decade working as a policy lawyer in the LGBTQ rights movement at the national level, where he worked with the White House and federal agencies to write laws and regulations that better serve LGBTQ communities. He also served as Executive Director of FreeState Justice, Maryland's statewide nonprofit that provides free legal services and policy advocacy for low-income LGBTQ Marylanders.
As a member of the Hyattsville City Council, Patrick led a slew of progressive initiatives that drove the conversation in Hyattsville and surrounding communities. He wrote the Sanctuary City law protecting immigrants in our community, passed paid family leave, introduce the Hyattsville Human Rights Act, and brought the conversation around lowering the voting age, non-citizen municipal voting, and same-day voter registration to Prince George's County.
Patrick is running against an anti-abortion incumbent who has spent decades voting against abortion rights in our state, including voting this year against the Abortion Care Access Act. It's time to replace her with someone who shares our views, especially on the important issue of abortion.
Patrick Paschall is an experience civil rights lawyer, policy expert, public servant, and dad who is ready to relentlessly fight for our values in Annapolis.- Abortion is on the ballot. Anne Healey has voted time and time again against abortion rights in our state, including voting against funding abortion services this year. Patrick thinks we need leaders who will champion our values in Annapolis, not vote against them. We need to establish a refugee assistance fund to support women traveling from other states to access the health care they need, and to make sure all counties in our state have abortion services providers. Seventy percent of counties in Maryland have no abortion services, and that needs to change. Patrick Paschall is a pro-choice lawyer with experience writing laws that benefit our communities who can deliver results to protect abortion access in Maryland.
- The global pandemic that stopped us all in our tracks rages on, and we've seen disparities grow as a result. With unprecedented stimulus funds from the federal government and a historic state surplus, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reinvest in our communities and support those who need it most. But we need dedicated leadership from our elected officials at all levels to get there – people committed to not just recovering from the pandemic but to building better community support systems to help make the recovery permanent for everyone. This means using pandemic relief funds to remove systemic barriers that have kept our communities down for generations, and making permanent the lifeline programs launched during the pandemic.
- We must do more to prioritize future generations in policymaking. For far too long, our kids have been forgotten. We’ve seen local school facilities with visible mold growth, flooding, restrooms without stall doors, rodent problems, lack of ventilation, and more. Classrooms are overcrowded, teachers are leaving our school system, and the bus driver shortage makes some students reliably late to class – sometimes by hours. Every Prince George’s County child deserves a world-class education – healthy and safe school facilities with plenty of space for recreation, health resources for families in need, and teachers who are paid commensurate with the importance of their job.
Patrick has spent his career working on an array of civil rights issues, such as housing and homelessness, employment discrimination, non-discrimination policies, prison and detention issues, voter protection, supporting immigrants, reproductive justice, racial justice, women's rights, and disability rights.
Patrick also believes we need to restore faith in public officials. Our government is defined by the civic responsibility of voting, and we should be removing barriers to ensuring we have full and easy access to the voting booth.
This means ensuring there are adequate polling resources and short voting lines, improving vote by mail procedures, expand voter registration, and declaring a state holiday on Election Day.
Politicians should not be subject to the influence of rich developers whose interests are profits, not people. But too often we see our local elected officials take donations from corporations and vote to support developers over the objections of legal counsel and residents. Patrick won’t take donations from developers or corporations and will support banning corporations and developers from making political contributions in Maryland.
State House and Senate vacancies should be filled by special election, rather than the current practice of political back-scratching for vacancy appointments that are made by political insiders.
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See also
2022 Elections
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