Friends,

Yesterday, my colleagues I joined my colleagues on City Council, Attorney General Anthony Brown and advocates from across the city to support our friend and Delegate Elizabeth Embry’s Ratepayer Protection Act at a press conference at City Hall.

This can't wait. Everywhere I've gone the last few weeks, folks have told me how BGE's rate increases are impacting them. Older adults on fixed incomes who don't know how to cover their rising costs. Families with young children facing shutoff notices on the coldest days of the year. Business already squeezed by costs who can't afford a higher bill.

For years, I’ve been standing up to BGE’s unchecked spending on projects that only worsen our dependence on fossil fuels while driving up costs for all of us. Now, our City Council is taking action to protect Baltimoreans and get the answers they deserve.

This is the work we signed up for when I ran for City Council President, and I need your help to stay in this fight.

Please contribute what you can today to help us put people over profits. Your support will help us engage with voters and build a volunteer infrastructure that will give power back to the people of Baltimore.

Thank you for having our back,

Zeke

“In this house, we do the people’s business,” Cohen said. “We do not do BGE’s shareholders’ business.”

Baltimore Sun, February 4, 2025