Mizeur, a former two-term state delegate who represented the Takoma Park and Silver Spring area from 2006 to 2014 but now resides on a farm in Chestertown, on the Eastern Shore, amassed a decidedly progressive record while also managing to achieve some key bipartisan compromises with her Republican colleagues during her time in the General Assembly.
One example of this was passage of a family planning bill that increased access to contraception for low-income women while reducing the number of abortions in the state.Mizeur previously served as domestic policy director for former U.S.
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and was the principal architect of his 2004 presidential campaign’s health care reform agenda.Following her defeat in the Democratic.