Sarah Lacey
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Sarah Lacey ran for election to the Anne Arundel County Board of Education to represent District 1 in Maryland. She did not appear on the ballot for the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Sarah Lacey was born in Garland, Texas. She earned a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002 and a law degree from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law in 2008. Her career experience includes working as an attorney and chemical engineer.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Maryland, elections (2024)
General election
General election for Anne Arundel County Public Schools, District 1
Incumbent Gloria Dent won election in the general election for Anne Arundel County Public Schools, District 1 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Gloria Dent (Nonpartisan) | 96.4 | 27,672 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 3.6 | 1,038 | ||
| Total votes: 28,710 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Sarah Lacey (Nonpartisan)
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Anne Arundel County Public Schools, District 1
Incumbent Gloria Dent and Sarah Lacey (Unofficially withdrew) defeated Hunter Voss and Ciera Harlee in the primary for Anne Arundel County Public Schools, District 1 on May 14, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Gloria Dent (Nonpartisan) | 34.0 | 3,031 |
| ✔ |  | Sarah Lacey (Nonpartisan) (Unofficially withdrew) | 24.6 | 2,195 |
 | Hunter Voss (Nonpartisan) | 21.3 | 1,902 | |
 | Ciera Harlee (Nonpartisan) | 20.0 | 1,784 | |
| Total votes: 8,912 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Lacey in this election.
2022
See also: Maryland State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Maryland State Senate District 32
Incumbent Pamela Beidle defeated Kimberly June in the general election for Maryland State Senate District 32 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Pamela Beidle (D) | 65.7 | 23,380 |
| Kimberly June (R) | 34.0 | 12,103 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 76 | ||
| Total votes: 35,559 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Maryland State Senate District 32
Incumbent Pamela Beidle defeated Sarah Lacey in the Democratic primary for Maryland State Senate District 32 on July 19, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Pamela Beidle | 68.2 | 6,620 |
| Sarah Lacey | 31.8 | 3,090 | |
| Total votes: 9,710 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Maryland State Senate District 32
Kimberly June advanced from the Republican primary for Maryland State Senate District 32 on July 19, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Kimberly June | 100.0 | 3,545 | |
| Total votes: 3,545 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
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2022
Sarah Lacey completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Lacey's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a civil rights litigation attorney and advocate, a mom with kids in our public schools, and a person who still believes deeply in the promise of the American Dream. I believe we must work for it, never take it for granted, and commit to making it possible for every American and every Marylander to live freely and achieve their dreams. When I discovered that our local government did not care about solving a neighborhood problem they created, I decided to run for office. I challenged a well-liked incumbent and won the 2018 primary by working hard to personally reach every voter I could. I've spent the last 4 years advancing affordable housing access and fair housing protections in our County. I voted for every budget that raised the salaries of our teachers, fire fighters, and police officers, and added mental health positions in our schools. I worked to protect our forests, balance our land use policies, and raise awareness of transit and sidewalk needs. Now, I want to leverage that experience and my professional background as an attorney to move us all forward at the State level.
- District 32 deserves fresh, principled advocacy and next-generation leadership in the State Senate, and that is what I offer. Inspired by great leaders like Thurgood Marshall and Shirley Chisholm, I advocate for justice for people, rather than the monied interests. I analyze the substance of a policy and look for pragmatic compromises, but I always vote my conscience. We deserve a Senator who puts her reputation for honesty, integrity, and fair dealing above all political considerations. I believe this is the kind of leadership we want to model for our children. I’m proud to have made my children proud by campaigning for and serving on the County Council. They know what our democracy is truly about at its heart.
- I support sensible policies that support working families. For example, we need family-sustaining wages across all economic sectors and opportunities for workers to have better control over their schedules. We need to make child care available to all; we need to ensure child care providers are assured pay, healthcare, and PTO benefits. Because no one in this State should go bankrupt due to medical bills, we should expand our system to reach 100% coverage. We should invest in our students by expanding student loan forgiveness to those who work in Maryland for a certain period of time after obtaining their degree. And we must reinvest in the mass transit we have as well as expand it!
- With the passage of the sweeping policing reform bill in 2021, there is a huge opportunity to move toward a more peaceful and equitable community for everyone. There is more to do to restore public trust in our law enforcement institutions, particularly those communities that have been over-policed. I will support expanding civil rights in other important ways as well, including allowing individual choice in end-of-life care decisions, giving adoptees full rights to know their birth parents’ identities, and protecting a woman’s right to safe and legal abortion by supporting a State constitutional referendum.
I am personally passionate about criminal justice and police accountability. As an attorney, I fought Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County, and the State of Maryland in four different lawsuits on behalf of individual clients who were wrongfully convicted based on fabricated evidence, wrongfully incarcerated, falsely imprisoned, and injured during the execution of a no-knock search warrant based on an intentional misrepresentation. These cases gave me insight into how our public institutions tend to resist accountability to our citizens. If I am privileged to become a State Senator, I will pursue reforms in this and related areas, including the rehabilitation of returning citizens, ending the school-to-prison pipeline, and repealing the policy of qualified immunity for law enforcement officers.
George Orwell's books "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal Farm" have influenced my political philosophy as warnings of what we, individually and as a society, can and will become if we do not value independent critical thought and judgment and stand up for our democratic institutions against authoritarianism.
I want to leave the world a better place for my four children and kids everywhere. My generation grew up with the values of idealism and optimism, but we inherited a legacy of climate, economic, education, and health crises, including gun violence, that we must address with urgency if we are going to make a difference for our kids.
The first historical event I really remember is the 1989 Loma Pieta earthquake in California. I was 9 years old. My dad and younger sister and I were watching the World Series on television. We had just moved to Northern Virginia from San Francisco that summer, but my mom had returned to San Francisco to finish a work project. I remember the announcer at Candlestick Park saying that an earthquake was happening. I immediately started to worry about my mom. We could not reach her right away because the telephone lines were down. She could not get to her apartment for a couple of days because the bridges were damaged. Thankfully, she was not hurt, but the event was traumatic to experience as a kid being 3,000 miles away from her mom. To this day, I am very sensitive around kids who are missing a parent. Now that COVID-19 has orphaned so many children, I think the State must do more to help children with trauma and mental health issues.
“Rhythm Nation” by Janet Jackson.
In Maryland, particularly over the past 8 years, the relationship between the governor and the General Assembly has more resembled a tilted playground see-saw than a partnership of co-equal branches of government. This dynamic isn't healthy for either participant. It isn't healthy or productive for the good of the citizens of Maryland, because it again tends to exacerbate distrust and sow cynicism among the public. I think our antiquated 90-day session structure is part of the problem. It worked when most people farmed and had a dormant season; now, we have far more legislation than can be heard and deliberated and voted on in that period of time. We follow that with a frenetic period of ceremonial bill signings, or vetoes that cannot be considered for override until the next year's legislative session (or at all in election years such as 2022). Meanwhile, our legislators get back to their "day jobs" -- if they have one that can accommodate this schedule; few legislators in modern Maryland are farmers -- and the Governor has Annapolis to himself. Issues are left to simmer and relationships to wither over the course of the rest of the year. Let's start with reforming the length of Session, and examine whether the Governor's executive powers need to remain as broad if the General Assembly can handle more matters effectively and efficiently.
I favor abolishing the General Assembly's ability to draw its own redistricting maps. Instead, we should appoint an independent commission made up of three independent/unaffiliated voters, three Democrats, and three Republicans, none of whom may be current elected officials. Working with demographers, other data experts, and nonpartisan legal advisors, they should draft several potential maps, which then would be offered for public hearing and comment at several meetings across the state. If a current elected official wishes to comment or request a change, that official would have to agree to make public the nature of their comment or request and the reasoning for it. In addition, the official would have to disclose whether they have any personal interest in a particular request, such as having close familial, professional, or community ties to a specific area. The independent commission would then have the opportunity to revise the draft maps and present them for a second round of public hearings, after which the commission would vote on at least 2 maps to recommend to the General Assembly. The General Assembly would be required to adopt one map, without revision.
Q: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhinoceros?
A: <shrugs> 'Elefino!
A: <shrugs> 'Elefino!
I have to give a lawyer's answer to this question: "It depends." Policymaking is what the executive and legislative branches of government are supposed to do to promote the health, safety, and general welfare of our society. Because human beings are the policy makers, we inevitably bring our personalities, values, and motivations with us to the table. Depending on the nature of the issue to be addressed, different people's experiences (or lack thereof) with the issue, the urgency of solving it in the context of prior attempts, and the relationship of the issue to others that are also pressing or significant, compromise may be desirable and/or necessary to achieve a common goal. As long as the policy makers are willing to be honest agents for the people they represent, compromise can represent the political ideal of democratically-elected representatives coming together to promote the general welfare. When a cloak-and-dagger ethos is the norm, however, the virtue of compromise is undermined, and distrust and fear drive decision-making. I believe it is critical that we institute a combination of term and age limits for our State legislators as a check on this human tendency of fear to weaken a legislator's spine.
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 30, 2022
