John Olszewski
“Faith, family and friends”—that’s where John Olszewski Jr. says he leaned for calm this past summer, as state elections officials re-tallied the votes from the Democratic primary for Baltimore County executive. He’d finished in a dead heat with state Sen. Jim Brochin (D-42nd District) on June 26. It took nearly three weeks before elections officials affirmed “Johnny O” had eked out a victory by 16 votes.
“I spent five years as a government and social studies teacher, so I would remind my kids every year to register to vote, to get involved and that every vote mattered,” said the Dundalk-raised Democrat at Golden West in August. “And to be part of an election that affirmed that, it was special for me.”
Olszewski served two terms in the House of Delegates representing District 6 in Southeast Baltimore County, from 2006 through 2014, and is the son of retired Baltimore County Councilman John Olszewski, Sr.
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