Del. Heather Mizeur plans to announce her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor this week, joining Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown as an official candidate in the June 2014 primary.
If elected, Mizeur would become the first woman to serve as Maryland governor as well as the first openly gay governor in the nation, but Donald F. Norris, professor and chair of public policy at UMBC, told The Baltimore Sun that Mizeur faces “formidable odds” in trying to jump from the Maryland General Assembly to the governor’s office.
“She’s not known at all outside her district. She’s going to have a really hard time getting that name recognition and raising money,” Norris said. “In politics, hardly anything is impossible, but this is about as close as it gets.” Mizeur disagrees, predicting that her opponents will be “quite surprised” when her campaign files its next contribution report next January.
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