- Maggie McIntosh
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Margaret L. McIntosh 
Member of the Maryland House of Delegates
from the 43rd districtIncumbent Assumed office
November 10, 1992Preceded by Anne Perkins Personal details Born December 22, 1947
Quinter, KansasPolitical party Democratic Website delmaggie.com Margaret L. McIntosh, commonly known as Maggie McIntosh, is an American politician from the state of Maryland. The Chairman of the Environmental Matters Committee of the Maryland House of Delegates, she has been a member of the House of Delegates since November 1992.[1] She is a former Baltimore City Public School teacher who now chairs one of the six standing committees of the Maryland House of Delegates.[2] A Democrat, she represents the state's 43rd district in Baltimore City.
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Early life and career
McIntosh received her Bachelor’s Degree in arts education from Wichita State University in 1970 and her Master of Science degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1987. An educator, she taught art in the Baltimore City Public Schools from 1972 to 1978, before becoming an adjunct instructor of continuing education at Catonsville Community College (now known as the Catonsville campus of the Community College of Baltimore County). She would later spend nine years working for the City of Baltimore at the Commission on Aging and Retirement Education, serving from 1985 to 1988 as the Director of Pre-Retirement Education. During that time, she was heavily involved in Democratic campaigns, including those of Michael Dukakis and Barbara Mikulski.[3] She was elected as a delegate to both the 1980 and 2008 Democratic National Conventions, the latter as a delegate pledged to Hillary Clinton.
Legislative career
Maggie McIntosh was appointed to fill a vacancy in the House of Delegates in November 1992, when Delegate Anne Perkins accepted a teaching position in China. Two years later she was elected to a full term representing the 42nd District of Baltimore City and parts of Baltimore County. She has been re-elected in 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010, but had to run in a substantially different district after the post-2000 round of redistricting; the 43rd, which she now represents, contains only 10% of the voters from her previous district, the 42nd. Nevertheless, in 2002, she placed first in a Democratic primary election in her new district which included five serving or former delegates vying for three seats.
In the legislature
In the House of Delegates, McIntosh first served on the Appropriations Committee. She chaired the Subcommittee on Personnel and was a member of the Education and Economic Development and Capitol Subcommittees. In 1998, McIntosh assumed the position of Vice Chairman of the Commerce and Government Matters Committee. In 2001, she was named House Majority Leader after a previous stint as Deputy Majority Whip (1995–98). In January 2003, McIntosh was named chairman of the House Environmental Matters Committee, which handles legislation regarding not just the environment, natural resources, and agriculture, but also transportation, housing, and local government.
McIntosh during floor debate in 2009
Legislative notes
- voted for the Healthy Air Act in 2006 (SB154)[4]
- voted against slots in 2005 (HB1361)[5]
- voted for electric deregulation in 1999 (HB703)[6]
- voted for income tax reduction in 1998 (SB750)[7]
- voted in favor of Tax Reform Act of 2007(HB2)[8]
- Voted 2nd (after Speaker Michael E. Busch) in The Maryland Gazette of Politics and Business's list of most influential Maryland state delegates for 2010[9]
Past election results
- 2006 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – 43rd District[10]
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- Voters to choose three:
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Name Votes Percent Outcome Curt Anderson, Democratic 22,315 29.4% Won Maggie McIntosh, Democratic 22,093 29.1% Won Ann Marie Doory, Democratic 21,219 28.0% Won Armand F. Girard, Republican 3,425 4.5% Lost David G.S. Greene, Green 2,619 3.5% Lost Brandy Baker, Green 2,267 3.0% Lost Richard J. Ochs, Green 1,772 2.3% Lost
- 2002 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – 43rd District[11]
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- Voters to choose three:
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Name Votes Percent Outcome Maggie McIntosh, Democratic 21,993 32.5% Won Curt Anderson, Democratic 21,131 30.8% Won Ann Marie Doory, Democratic 19,999 29.15% Won John A. Heath, Republican 5,243 7.64% Lost Morning Sunday, Green(Write-In) 152 .22% Lost Other Write-Ins 97 .14% Lost
- 1998 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – District 42[12]
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- Voters to choose three:
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Name Votes Percent Outcome Samuel I. Rosenberg, Dem. 21,768 30% Won James W. Campbell, Dem. 20,903 29% Won Maggie McIntosh, Dem. 20,443 29% Won Jeffrey B. Smith Jr., Rep. 8,399 12% Lost
Firsts
Delegate McIntosh is the first woman to be appointed majority leader in the Maryland House of Delegates [1] and the first openly gay person in the Maryland General Assembly.[2][3] She is also the first woman to serve as the chairman of the Environmental Matters Committee where she has steered several major legislative initiatives to passage. The Chesapeake Bay Restoration Act, which funded upgrades at wastewater treatment plants around the state, is among McIntosh's accomplishments, as well as an annexation measure passed in 2006 in which she brought counties and municipalities together. One of McIntosh's chief initiatives in 2007 is the Chesapeake Bay Green Fund, which would levy a surcharge on new development to pay for Bay restoration.[4]
References
- ^ Maggie McIntosh, Maryland State Delegate
- ^ Looking after Maggie’s farm
- ^ Cecil, Andrea (2005-02-18). "Baltimore art teacher rises to top in Maryland politics". Daily Record. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4183/is_20050218/ai_n9728603/. Retrieved 2009-04-12.
- ^ Vote Record 0942
- ^ Vote Record 0152
- ^ Vote Record 0870
- ^ Vote Record 1229
- ^ http://www.mdchamber.org/docs/ss_hb2.pdf
- ^ Poll (2 April 2010). "Where Does Your Legislator Rank? See the list.". Maryland Gazette of Politics and Business. http://www.gazette.net/thelist/. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
- ^ "House of Delegates Results". Maryland State Board of Elections. http://www.elections.state.md.us/elections/2006/results/general/county_Baltimore_City.html. Retrieved on Mar. 3, 2007
- ^ Maryland State Board of Elections
- ^ "House of Delegates Results". Maryland State Board of Elections. http://www.elections.state.md.us/elections/1998/results_1998/gahod.html. Retrieved on Nov. 6, 2007
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Categories:- Living people
- 1947 births
- Members of the Maryland House of Delegates
- Lesbian politicians
- LGBT state legislators of the United States
- Women state legislators in Maryland
- Maryland Democrats
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