Steven Messmer

Steven is an attorney who works for a nonprofit, helping low-income families stabilize their housing. In his work he sees so many laws that shouldn't exist and that particularly harm low-income people. 

Steven is running for State Senator because we need laws that work and that work for everyone.

Before becoming an attorney, Steven served as a math teacher at Forest Park High School in Baltimore. There he saw students failed by the system that was supposed to teach them. That experience formed Steven's understanding of the great need for more support for our schools and of how we need systemic changes to address systemic injustice.

Steven is particularly equipped to fix the issues that face our district. This is not just because of his experience as an attorney, but also because he has first hand experience seeing how complicated issues like vacant houses, drug addiction, poverty, injustice, and gun violence play out in his own neighborhood. Steven deeply cares about these issues and the people that face them. 

Steven isn't just going to make empty promises or offer empty talk. Over his first four years, Steven has four tangible goals to bring economic justice to West Baltimore and low-income people across Maryland: end tax sale, repeal the inheritance tax, eliminate ground rent and reform probate. He's focusing on these issues because these are the issues he knows and nobody else is fixing them.