Panel Recommends Dereck Davis To Be New Maryland Treasurer

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A sheet of Maryland authorities lawmakers voted Monday to urge Del. Dereck Davis to go the state’s adjacent treasurer.

The Special Joint Legislative Committee to Select the State Treasurer voted 10-0 for Davis, a Prince George’s County Democrat who has been the House Economic Matters chairman.

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The sheet heard from 4 candidates who are seeking the presumption earlier voting connected the recommendation. The different 3 candidates are Jorge Cortes, Joseph Zimmerman and John Douglass.

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All 4 names volition beryllium submitted to the Maryland General Assembly, which is scheduled to ballot connected selecting a caller treasurer during a peculiar league of the legislature, which is convening adjacent week for a peculiar league connected redistricting to make a caller legislature map.

The treasurer’s bureau is becoming vacant with the status of Nancy Kopp.

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The treasurer holds 1 of 3 seats connected the state’s almighty Board of Public Works. The treasurer besides leads respective cardinal authorities boards and fiscal readying committees, including the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systems.

CBS Baltimore Staff