AISHA BRAVEBOY
Age: 50
Residence: Upper Marlboro
What have you accomplished for your community that makes you most proud, as a public servant, leader, or advocate?
I’m proud of earlier service, and most proud of delivering historic crime reduction for county residents in homicides, carjacking, and intimate partner violence, and for having positioned the office for success after me by launching three results-oriented units — The Narcotics Intelligence, Firearms, and Digital Evidence units.
What do you most hope to accomplish during your first term?
- I will not raise taxes.
- My focus will be strengthening our finances, expanding our commercial tax base, and supporting local businesses and keeping county residents.
- I will prioritize county services with a government that is available and responsive, a top-notch school system, well-maintained streets, a focus on the needs of seniors, and a permitting system that works.
- Realizing development around our Metro stations will attract first-time homebuyer professionals and families.
- We must confront the $171 million budget deficit. I know how to partner with our federal and state partners and how to ask for what we need. And I will be a true partner with our school board and our county council; we cannot serve as a divided government.
As we face a county budget crisis, are there any areas where you feel that county government is overspending? If so, please specify.
- I will audit spending to make sure county resources are being allocated in the county’s best interests.
- Prince George’s taxpayers are committed to a first-class education system where they’ve invested fully 62% of the county’s general funds budget. We can only benefit from what we learn from the state’s audit of school budgets.
Who’s on your team? Please list endorsements and any community groups in which you have a leadership role.
Labor:
- International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, (IUPAT, District Council 51)
- Laborers International Union of North America (LIUANA)
- Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters (EAS Carpenters)
- Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO
State:
- Sheriff John D.B. Carr
- State Senator C. Anthony Muse, District 26
- Delegate Mary Lehman, District 21
- Delegate Joseline Pena-Melnyk, District 21
Councilmembers:
- Wala Blegay, District 6
- Krystal Oriadha, District 7
- Edward Burroughs III, District 8
Municipal mayors
- Tim Adams, Bowie
- Linda Monroe, Capitol Heights
- Kelly Porter, Seat Pleasant
Municipal police chiefs:
- Chief Tyrone Collington, Bladensburg
- Chief Linwood Alston, Mount Rainier
- Chief Darryl Morgan, Capitol Heights
- Chief Marcus Jones, Brentwood
- Chief Eric Beale, Edmonston
- Chief Regis Bryant, Glenarden
- Chief Anthony Rease, Forest Heights
- Chief Standford Moore, Jr., Fairmont Heights