October 12th, 2017 by WCBC Radio
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, a policy consultant and wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings, says she'll seek the Democratic nomination for governor in Maryland. Cummings kicked off her campaign today in a video posted online.
She becomes the ninth Democrat to announce a run for governor.
Republican Gov. Larry Hogan is seeking a second term in next year's election.
Rockeymoore Cummings tells The Washington Post she's concerned about economic inequality in the state.
Rockeymoore Cummings is 46. She earned a doctorate in political science from Purdue University. She has more than two decades of experience working in the public and private sectors, including as chief of staff to New York congressman Charles B. Rangel, at the National Urban League and at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. She started Global Policy Solutions, a social change strategy firm, in 2005.
Her campaign, announced Thursday, is her first run for public office.
Cummings is the second woman and third African American in the Democratic gubernatorial race.
In a Goucher College Poll last month Cummings received 8 percent of the support but that poll found 44 percent were undecided on a candidate.
