I will be on the Marc Steiner show tonight from 5-6pm on 88.9FM in Baltimore. You can also listen online here.

Give a listen and hear why I am the candidate for Governor who will break the stranglehold corporations have on our government and our lives, why raising corporate taxes and closing corporate tax loopholes is fair and just, how establishing a state-owned bank will jump-start Maryland’s small business economy and its move to renewable energy manufacturing and usage, how a Medicare-for-All system is the only health care system that makes sense, why I support marriage equality and oppose the death penalty – and a host of other issues that concern all of us.

Martin O’Malley and Robert Ehrlich have been invited to participate in a debate next Monday, October 11th, moderated by WJZ’s Denise Koch. Despite having qualified for the November ballot, Maria Allwine has not been invited to participate in this debate. Neither have the nominees of the Libertarian or Constitution parties, who will also be on the ballot next month.

How are Maryland voters supposed to make an informed decision when less than half of their choices for Governor are invited to speak?

Please click here and sign our petition to open the debate. It is only fair that everyone on the ballot be allowed to say their fair share.

Do you really want to do away with government? Have you thought about it, really analyzed it? Have you considered what this country would look like without government? Consider just two examples, both recently in the news…(read more here)

It is a lie to say that tax breaks for large corporations lead to job creation. Look no further than the recent taxpayer bailouts – the most enormous “tax break” and transfer of wealth upward if ever there was one. Yet the recipients of those bailouts, bloated with taxpayer cash, are sitting on those huge piles of cash, not hiring, not lending, not doing anything to help our foundering economy. What they are doing is continuing to buy other companies (got to do something with those piles of cash to avoid paying taxes), which results in ever more people being thrown out of work, and paying their CEO aristocracy millions in wholly undeserved compensation.

A local case in point is Black & Decker, a formerly great investment, great place to work and in decades barely remembered, a great corporate citizen/neighbor…(read more here)

All of us lost a promising young woman this past Monday. Natasha Pettigrew, the Maryland Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, was riding her bicycle Sunday morning, training for a triathlon, when she was hit by a Cadillac Escalade whose driver continued on without stopping until she got home and called police. I do not want to discuss the particulars here except to say that there has been news coverage of the details.

I want to talk about Natasha. I only knew her for a short period and I cannot claim to have known her well. But what I knew of her was inspiring and amazing…(read more here)

It’s been 11 years since a clueless general assembly deregulated our utility industry and over 4 years since the rate caps expired and we BGE ratepayers were saddled with some of the highest electricity rates in the country. I say clueless because in my years of advocating and working for reregulation, many legislators have admitted to me that they did not understand what deregulation really was, how negatively it could (and still does) affect ratepayers and did not read the legislation they voted for. They admit deregulation is a mistake, but admit they do not know what to do to correct it.

Welcome to the real political world – where political “leaders” decide what’s good for us and their favored corporate campaign contributors – and their political allies in the general assembly go along with it to save their own jobs and ensure their own survival. While tending to themselves they forget about us, our lives and our survival. But they do manage to remember us at election time when they need our votes…(read more here)

Aren’t you sick and tired of the empty promises and the shifting rhetoric from Martin O’Malley and the Democratic Party, who promise you everything and deliver nothing? Aren’t you tired of fighting for “your rights” when those rights are already inherently yours? Aren’t you angry waiting for equal protection under the law to guarantee you the same safeguards as everyone else? Don’t you resent working hard just to make sure legislation aimed at rolling back the gains you’ve made doesn’t become law?

And aren’t you utterly disgusted by politicians, like Robert Ehrlich, who deny you your right to legal marriage because of a belief in “traditional marriage” and O’Malley, who doesn’t have the guts to say he will sign a marriage equality bill?

What is wrong with these politicians? While you fight for the right to live in peace and marry the person you love, they placate the very groups guided by hate and fear who oppose you because of who and how you love. Every move they make is calculated to ensure their reelection and if they have to sacrifice the LGBTQ community to get it, they will do it every time…(read more here)

Click on the image here to check out video of Maria Allwine talking about why you should vote Green in this year’s General Election!

Who says growth is good? Who says unlimited, unchecked growth is good for people and communities? Maryland is becoming more densely populated than ever. Developers have even more sway over what happens in your community as they work hand-in-hand with our elected officials to extract enormous profits leaving your community with projects you don’t want, congested roads, overcrowded schools and overburdened infrastructure.

Unlimited growth – with ever larger corporations and retailers, more congested roads, gated enclaves and industrial agriculture – is no longer a feasible or desirable model for Maryland.

For us to sustain our own lives and our own communities, we must exchange the current outmoded model of unchecked development for one that focuses resources on already-existing communities, supports locally owned businesses and farms and walkable public transit-oriented neighborhoods…(Read more here)

Maria Allwine has joined dozens of other candidates from across the country in advocating for a “Green New Deal”.

“The Green New Deal is a complete break from the failed policies of the Democratic and Republican parties that have led us to economic and environmental disaster,” said Gary Ruskin, co-founder of Green Change, a national political organization.

Click here to read more about the Green New Deal.