October 13, 2010: Examiner- Baltimore
Republican Nancy Jacobs.
Pamela Bond
Baltimore County Elections 2010 Examiner.
You can tell the story of Maryland State Senator, Nancy
Jacobs, in two ways. She is an accomplished woman, yet she has
been able to give herself away.
She was first elected to the Maryland State Senate in 1999 to
represent District 34. District 34 covers portions of Harford
County and Cecil County. The population in District 34 is
117,409; 95,068 residents are white; 16,920 residents are
African Americans; 8,906 of those people making up the entire
population are under the age of five.
Nancy Jacobs graduated from West Virginia University with a B.A.
in journalism and speech, and minor in secondary education. She
worked in the continuity direction office for WSLS-TV in Roanoke
after she graduated from college. She later taught English. Her
election web page insists that you heed the voice of the
politician.
She owned and operated the West Shore Indoor Tennis Club. Her
athletic abilities enabled her to work as a country club tennis
pro. Jacobs also coached the girl’s tennis team at John Carroll
High School, and she taught the Gold Cup Tennis program for
Harford County for several years.
Somewhere along the way Nancy Jacobs and her husband raised a
family of three, now grown, daughters.
She was elected to the House of Delegates in 1994. In 1995, she
became the Freshman Minority Whip. In 1998, she was elected to
the Maryland State Senate. She has been a Member of the
Republican Party through Clinton politics, George Bush’s claims
to being an American Caesar, and recent partisanship politics
whereby Republicans could be defeated by democrat numbers
without even having to show up to vote in the Maryland State
Senate and several other governing bodies throughout the United
States.
You wouldn’t think that it would have been the tennis pro who
sponsored Maryland’s first gang law, but Jacobs did not wrap
herself in the suburban cocoon of the upper middle class woman.
She got involved in the issues of those who lived in her
community, and especially those confronting women. She had been
willing and able to give away the skills and confidence that she
developed in the normal course of her life to assist others in a
high quality of life.
Jacobs has had an effective message for state government as
well. She has consistently fought tax increases even before it
became a part of the Republican platform, Jacobs believed
communities would thrive if the government could manage their
responsibilities without heavy taxation of citizenry. Nancy
Jacobs has been described as a watch dog for fiscal
responsibility.
Recently, she has been the sponsor of Maryland’s version of
Jessica’s Law. A Jessica Lunsford Act was brought before
Congress, but never enacted. A lot of people were horrified by
the rape and murder of Jessica Lunsford by a repeat sex offender
in the state of Florida. Few municipalities have been able to
put their emotions into legislative action.
SB622, HB289, and HB60 call for tougher sentencing and pre-trial
measures to deter and control sexual predators in the state of
Maryland.
Nancy Jacobs is running for the Maryland State Senate as the
representative of District 34. She is endorsed by gubernatorial
candidate, Robert Ehrlich, Jr.
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