Dear neighbor,

Please cast your vote today for the future of our great county.  Cast your vote for accelerating our progress, valuing experience, and advancing fresh ideas for building a stronger, more prosperous community.  Please cast your vote for the Jobs First Movement and Franklin for Council At-Large.  We are one County and we rise together.  If you haven’t seen our campaign video, please click the video below.  Voting ends today at 8pm, so please see the voting information link below this video and written message.

 

Do you believe in Prince George’s County’s future?  If you do, please join me and click the video above to support my Jobs First Plan for Prince George’s County.

Together, we will:

1. Make Prince George’s County an economic destination for the world, by cultivating signature industries like health care-life sciences, information technology-communications, business services, tourism-hospitality, and the federal sector, and attracting better retail and restaurant amenities.

2. Keep our public dollars local to grow our small, minority, and women-owned businesses in the County, creating generational wealth and good paying jobs with good benefits for county residents.

3. And most of all — invest in our people, by growing our commercial tax base to invest more in PreK-14 education, school construction, and workforce development; public safety staffing and resources; better roads and transit; higher property standards quality and enforcement; and more services for our seniors and youth.

Let’s write the next great chapter in Prince George’s County’s story!

-Mel Franklin, Councilman

 

 

My Background:

• An Experienced, Two-term County Council Member and past Council Chairman. Chaired committees on planning, zoning, public safety, budget, and fiscal management.

• Author of over one hundred successful pieces of legislation, which increased education and public safety funding, expanded the summer youth jobs program, invested in new recreation centers, strengthened the environment and transportation, attracted high-quality economic development and a major federal agency, and increased minority/women-owned business opportunities and local hiring.

• Former Maryland Assistant Attorney General who worked to improve access to quality, affordable health care.

• Former Federal Trade Commission Attorney who fought to protect consumers.

• Former Member, Board of Trustees, Prince George’s Community College.

• A public school Dad, Duke Law School graduate, and the son of lifelong educators.

 

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