“The reason I’m running for governor is that Maryland isn’t making progress on major problems damaging millions of lives, and I’m offering a fundamentally different approach than the other candidates,” candidate Jon Baron said.

“Maryland should do what Massachusetts and Oregon have done which is to require gun owners to have their guns locked and stored when they are not using them,” Baron said.

Former nonprofit leader and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jon Baron launched his second 2-minute advertisement on Monday…

The Baron campaign said the ad would first be seen as part of “a significant ad buy on Facebook” and would also go on the candidate’s various digital platforms. The campaign said it would begin airing ads on TV soon.

Learn about Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jon Baron in the Baltimore Sun’s 2022 Voter Guide.

Jon Baron and Natalie Williams for Maryland campaign released a new ad illustrating the fundamentally new governing approach the Baron-Williams administration will pioneer in Maryland.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jon Baron joined Tom Hall for an interview on the WYPR show, Midday.

His first campaign ad makes it clear. Jon Baron wants to be seen as different from the other democratic candidates for Governor.

“All the candidates in this race share similar goals,” Baron said. “Natalie and my approach to achieving those goals is very different than the others’. What they are offering, and we’ve heard it tonight, is rolling out or expanding one unproven government program after another and hoping that’s going to work.”

Baron said answers to crime will be found not in regularly practiced government programs, but with a detailed reevaluation of which programs work and which don’t.

“There’s procedural justice training, implicit bias training, use of force training, de-escalation training. Which of those actually work? Which of those work best to increase community trust and reduce police use of force?” Baron said. “We don’t really know yet.”

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