This is the first year that the state of Maryland will be giving residents the opportunity to vote early. Voting early is a great way to make your voice heard in this year’s primaries. Early vote starts Friday, September 3rd and ends on Thursday September 9th. There is no voting on Sunday, September 5th. Each day of Early Vote voting will begin at 10 am and end at 8 pm. The process is exactly the same as it would be on Primary Day, September 14th.  The only difference will be the shorter lines!

Here is a list of Montgomery County early voting locations:

Germantown Recreation Center
18905 Kingsview Road, Germantown 20874

Montgomery County Executive Office Building
101 Monroe Street, Rockville 20850

Bauer Drive Community Recreation Center
14625 Bauer Drive, Rockville, MD 20853

Silver Spring Civic Building
8525 Fenton Street, Silver Spring MD 20910

Marilyn J. Praisner Community Recreation Center
14906 Old Columbia Pike, Burtonsville 20866

We encourage you to vote early and spread the word to your friends and family about this exciting opportunity!

Susan

This weekend has sure been a great one for the campaign.  With Primary Election Day just over two weeks away we’ve had an amazing crowd of volunteers getting out into the community to talk with voters about Saqib’s positive vision for Maryland’s future.

But that’s not all!  From day one this campaign has been structured around our youth organizing at a grassroots level to spread the word about Saqib.  My husband believes passionately in involving young people in the political process and it has been extremely rewarding to see so many young people take ownership over this campaign.  Yesterday evening Saqib and I took the girls to a fantastic Students for Ali event that was put together by some of our strongest high school supporters.

A very impressive crowd of students turned out to hear about how they can get involved in the campaign and to learn more about the political process.  Many signed up to volunteer for the campaign in the final weeks.  If you’d like to join our grassroots organization click here.

Susan

It is regrettable that Nancy King has elected to launch a website entirely dedicated to attacking me personally. Unfortunately this is a trend that I have been dealing with for nearly one year now. While I continue to speak about Democratic values and serious issues, I have been the subject of a vicious campaign of personal character assassination. In January, Nancy King publicly called me “crazed” and “desperate” and made frivolous ethics allegations against me. Now she has released an out-of-context photo of me falsely claiming that I was sleeping on the job. This kind of old-school politics must stop. Fair-minded residents of District 39 will recognize these smears as a desperate and undignified attempt by a politician to save her job.

Voters are seeing this ugly spectacle because Nancy is trying very hard to distract them from her lackluster legislative record. She refuses to answer the following simple questions posed to her:

• Why were you the only Board of Education Member to vote against common-sense sex education for MCPS students?
• Why do you remain a member of an election committee that used money from tobacco behemoth Phillip Morris to fund a smear campaign against me?
• Why did you lead the charge to extend corporate tax loopholes that prioritize corporations like Wal-Mart over every-day Marylanders?
• Why did you chose the alcohol lobby over Mothers Against Drunk Driving when you voted to loosen restrictions on sugary, alcoholic beverages commonly consumed by teenagers?
• Why did you vote against common-sense safety legislation to ban hand-held cell phone usage while driving?

I will continue to stand with the voters in seeking answers to these simple but important questions. Nancy may release more candid photos of me or childishly dig through my personal Facebook/Twitter logs to her heart’s content. But I will continue fighting to give District 39 residents a state senator who prioritizes their interests over special interests.

-Saqib Ali

Click here to see Saqib’s full statement.