Patrick Cusack
Patrick Cusack (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Maryland House of Delegates to represent District 44B. He lost in the Democratic primary on July 19, 2022.
Cusack completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Patrick Cusack was born in Oaklawn, Illinois. His career experience includes working for Verizon Wireless, as a service assurance technician for Comcast, and as a campaign manager.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Maryland House of Delegates elections, 2022
General election
General election for Maryland House of Delegates District 44B (2 seats)
Incumbent Sheila Ruth and Aletheia McCaskill won election in the general election for Maryland House of Delegates District 44B on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Sheila Ruth (D) | 51.2 | 19,682 |
| ✔ |  | Aletheia McCaskill (D) | 47.4 | 18,219 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.4 | 532 | ||
| Total votes: 38,433 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Maryland House of Delegates District 44B (2 seats)
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for Maryland House of Delegates District 44B on July 19, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sheila Ruth | 25.8 | 5,774 |
| ✔ | | Aletheia McCaskill | 23.0 | 5,132 |
 | Aisha Khan | 21.1 | 4,714 | |
 | Bishop Chapman | 16.4 | 3,660 | |
 | Patrick Cusack | 7.4 | 1,644 | |
| Shazia Shah | 6.4 | 1,420 | |
| Total votes: 22,344 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Patrick Cusack completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Cusack's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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My passion and my main purpose is to be the beacon for the Marginalized and Working-Class People of Maryland. I will implement proven and proactive solutions to improve quality of life and to stop our current regressive reactionary politics and build a solid foundation of infrastructure to future-proof our wonderful state. My platform is designed to have an immediate societal change to improve the quality of life for everyone in our district in a way that is scalable for all of Maryland. The voices of the people will not go unheard, they will be included in my platform.
- NOW is the time for proven and proactive solutions. NOW is the time for someone to be in office who understands the current hardships that we all endure. NOW is the time for You and me to improve our quality of life. NOW is the time for immediate societal changes. I will be your beacon and implement these solutions to improve quality for the Hard-Working People of Maryland from all backgrounds and cultures. Your life matters to me. NOW is OUR time.
- NOW is the time for proper representation of the Hard-Working People of Maryland and all marginalized groups of people. NOW is the time for no more reactionary responses and outdated solutions. NOW is the time to remove regressive and oppressive legislation.
- My passion and my main purpose is to be the beacon for the Marginalized and Working-Class People of Maryland. I will implement proven and proactive solutions to improve quality of life and to stop our current regressive reactionary politics and build a solid foundation of infrastructure to future-proof our wonderful state.
Proactive Solutions!
Education/Childcare:
We must help our hard-working mothers and fathers to provide for their families. We can instantly relieve the financial burdens and stress by combining our care providers with our public-school administrations. By doing so, childcare becomes a service and not a cost and this also provides workers benefits to the childcare providers. This also increases public schools funding which will improve the quality of life for our children, paraprofessionals, and educators.
WE NEED TO HELP OUR FAMILIES!
Transportation:
Maryland Public transportation ranks 7th in public transportation usage and 44th in infrastructure in the United States. Parents must see their kids going to school and get home in time to have proper family time. We have to shorten the time and remove the obstacles for the hard working people of Maryland to get to work and back at reasonable times. We have to improve the quality of life for families. We had a $2.4 billion surplus in the state budget, and this is the perfect area of opportunity to improve the logistics of our transportation.
Unions and Workplace Democracy:
The crux of my running for office is worker's rights. I am a strong advocate for workplace democracy and collective bargaining. We need to pass legislation that allows all public workers to have a union. It's paramount for everyone, public or private, to have the right to form a union and negotiate a contract. If elected, I will be a thorn in the
My father John Cusack is the most important figure in my life that I looked up to. My father is the reason why I am the person today. He was a very kind and open-minded person with a lot of empathy and compassion. Historical and current figures that have helped shape who I am and expand my perspective were leaders who wholeheartedly represented solidarity amongst the working-class people and solutions to improve quality of life. These leaders are John F. Kennedy, Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King, Fred Hampton, Paul Wellstone, Bernie Sanders, Dr. Cornel West, Angela Davis, Nina Turner, and Jamie Raskin.
The Following Books:
"The Road to Wigan Pier"- George Orwell,
"1984"-Geroge Orwell
"Democracy Matters"- Dr. Cornell West
"Our Revolution"- Bernie Sanders
The main important principles are that my morals and ethics are not for sale. Other important principles are having empathy, compassion, and being able to challenge your perspective. With those principles, the results will result in improving the lives of The People.
I have a vast knowledge and understanding of infrastructure and economics. This will allow me to implement proven proactive solutions for immediate societal changes that will improve the quality of life for The Hard-Working People from all backgrounds and cultures. I also have experience in going head to head with major corps and for sale electoral leaders on matters that I will not compromise at the cost of quality of life for The People. Finally, I have empathy and compassion, and your life matters to me above everything else.
My core responsibilities are to be the beacon for the Marginalized groups of people and The Hard-Working People from all backgrounds and cultures. By Passing proactive solutions to improve their quality of life and their voices to not go unheard.
I have no interest in individual achievements or accolades as long as our hard-working mothers and fathers and their children have a better way of life. That's the only thing that matters to me.
There were a lot of major historical events that have happened in my lifetime. The most impactful event at a young age was the 9/11 attacks and the 2011 economic recession that followed. I have witnessed our families and all my neighbors around me enduring obstacles and hardships from the economic recession and regressive and oppressive legislation and taxes from our electoral leaders. My parents were laid off and along with many other Americans; our life quickly became very humbling. The lives we lost, and the financial hardships were very hard to endure as a collective, and we all thought our state and federal governments would do everything to protect us and to make sure this will never happen again.
Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case as we went through multiple recessions and millions more lives were lost from a pandemic that could have been prevented if it wasn’t for the greed and reactionary response of our electoral leaders. This is what ignited my passion to help and improve our quality of life for Hard-Working People from all backgrounds and cultures.
My first job was detasseling corn as a 14-year-old kid. The job responsibilities were walking down in half-mile to 1-mile corn fields removing the tassel from the tops of corn and placing them on the ground during July during the heat of the day.
I struggle in knowing we have already proven proactive solutions that are not being implemented to help mothers, fathers, and children.
The ideal relationship is having 1 goal and that goal is to help The People and improve their quality of life. The relationship must be transparent for the people to see, engage and know what's going on. There is no room for individual spotlights and pride.
The biggest challenge is to remove reactionary responses and legislation from electoral leaders. The more we vote for a proactive and progressive-minded individuals the quicker we can have an immediate societal change to improve the quality of life for The Hard-Working People from all backgrounds and cultures.
No, I believe we need representation from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We cannot have just one or two pathways to determine whose experience to run for office.
Absolutely, our relationship must have 1 goal and that goal is to help The People and improve their quality of life. The relationship must be transparent for the people to see, engage and know what's going on. There is no room for individual spotlights and pride.
I believe the time to redistrict is to improve representation equally for all backgrounds and cultures so everyone has proper representation.
There are 2 particulars that I model myself from and they are Paul Wellstone and Bernie Sanders.
Yes, I am, my passion is to continue to help and improve the quality of Hard-Working People of America from al backgrounds and cultures.
I find many stories equally impactful from the wonderful people in my district. They have voiced the same common concerns. Their voices go unheard and they are not represented in good faith. They see current realities and their way of life plummeting and that's what drives me to be their beacon and to improve their lives.
What do you call a pencil with two erasers?
Pointless.
Lol, sorry too good not to share.
I would compromise as long as the result is that of improving the quality of life for the Hard-Working People and does not negatively impact the social determinants of health.
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See also
2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 1, 2022
