Towson-area Developer to challenge Brochin
Kevin Carney, a house builder and Towson resident, said this week he will run as a Republican for the 42nd District Senate seat and challenge two-term incumbent Democrat Sen. Jim Brochin next November.
The 42nd District includes Towson, Timonium and part of Pikesville.
Carney, president of Columbia, MD-based Thomas Builders, lives at the far end of the district near the city line with his wife Marla. The couple has two adult children.
“Annapolis is broken,” Carney, 58, said during an interview in his Columbia office. “People are worried that the state is over-spending.”
“They understand taxes are going to go up and it scares them,” Carney said, referring to the state’s growing budget deficit.
He said his skills as an attorney and a business owner provide him with the background to be in the Senate.
“I understand budgets,” Carney said, adding that the recent economic downturn forced him to lay off some of his own employees. “It’s time for someone who understands these practices to (represent) the 42nd District.”
Carney, a political newcomer, has been raising money and going door to door in the district since earlier this year. He estimated he has knocked on about 4o0 doors since June and plans to increase those efforts in the fall.
He’ll likely need to for a run against Brochin, who is widely known as a skilled political tactician and for his workman-like approach to campaigning.
Carney said he has been fund raising for the race but declined to discuss how much he believes he will need to mount an effective campaign. He also declined to say how much he has raised so far, other than to say he has hit his fund raising goals each month.