Ivan Bates
Ivan Bates is expected to announce tomorrow morning that he’ll be challenging incumbent Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby for her seat as the city’s top prosecutor in 2018.
Bates has been gearing up to announce his election bid for months. In March, he informed supporters in an email that he’d formed an exploratory candidate committee. His campaign manager, David Kosak, sent out advisories in late July and yesterday about a “special announcement” happening tomorrow morning at the home of Kendal Fenwick, a late Park Heights resident and activist who was murdered in 2015 after openly pushing back against heavy-handed drug dealers in his neighborhood.
The July email advisory said Bates’ campaign committee had been talking to residents about concerns related to “the ongoing public safety epidemic” in Baltimore. “Sadly, the response has been nearly universal: from the surging murder rate to record increases in violent and property crime, Baltimore is in crisis,” it said.
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