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Jim Rosapepe is an environmentalist and education champion who has worked for the people of Maryland for over twenty years.

For eleven years in the Maryland House of Delegates, he fought to protect open space, improve the public schools, boost the University of Maryland, hold down taxes on middle class working and retired families, and protect our neighborhoods from drugs and crime.
In 1997, President Bill Clinton asked him to join his administration as U.S. Ambassador to Romania, where he worked to win friends for America and make the world a safer place.
Returning in 2001, Governor Glendening appointed Jim to a five year term on the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland, which governs the university. He continued to champion the College Park campus -- and he led the fight against state budget cuts to the university and against double digit tuition hikes. He helped draft and pass legislation to restore the cuts and freeze tuition in 2006 and 2007.

In 2006, Jim was elected to represent the 21st District in the Maryland Senate, where he serves on the Education, Health, and Environmental Committee and as a member of the Senate Democratic Leadership. Barbara is a lifelong resident of Prince George's County and currently lives in the Calverton community in Beltsville. She serves on the Environmental Matters Committee where she is the Chairman of the Environmental Subcommittee. Considered a champion by the environmental community, Barbara Chairs the Joint Committee on Critical Areas and Coastal Bays.

She chairs the Prince Georges House Delegation. She serves on the Commission on Aging, the Task Force on the Bay Restoration Fund and the Advisory Committee on End of Life Care. Most recently Barbara successfully sheparded the ban on smoking in all indoor workplaces through the General Assembly. http://www.votejoseline.com/

Joseline is an immigrant from the Dominican Republic. She attended John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx, struggled with her English, and became a United States citizen in 1983. Her teachers may remember catching her asleep at her desk after working nights at the fried chicken store, but she graduated a semester early.

Wanting to leave New York City and its distractions far behind, she left for Buffalo State College in January, 1985. She arrived in the middle of a blizzard, a first for this island girl, with $33 in her pocket. The money was a gift from one of her high school teachers.

Joseline was determined to be the first in her family to achieve a college degree. At Buffalo State she studied criminal justice and worked in a nursing home to make ends meet. She also volunteered as a clerk in the municipal court. After graduating, she attended law school at the State University of New York at Buffalo on an equal opportunity scholarship. There, she continued her passion for criminal law and graduated in 1991.

Her first legal job was at the Philadelphia Public Defender Service and Joseline later moved to the Washington, D.C. area where she married Markian Melnyk, her law school sweetheart. Most of her legal work has been in public interest jobs. She worked as a guardian for children in the foster care system and both as a court appointed defense attorney and as an Assistant United States Attorney, prosecuting criminal cases and arguing appeals in Washington, D.C.

She has seen the effects of crime on families, businesses and neighborhoods. Violence also touched her personally when the father of her niece and nephew was killed. She helped to support her sister after that tragedy and to raise and educate her children. The oldest two are now in college. When she says that she supports our police and community centers and programs that keep young adults off the streets, those are not empty words. She also has learned that strong families are important to building a healthy community. These are the values that she carries with her.

When Joseline was blessed with a son, Camilo, and later twin daughters, Alejandra and Katerina, she left the world of paid employment to raise her children. All mothers, and some fathers too, know that caring for children is a wonderful 24/7 job. But she liked being involved in the community and she joined Casa de Maryland, a non-profit social services organization, when she was invited to serve on its board of directors. In 2003, Joseline jumped into politics when she was elected to the College Park City Council. In 2005, she won re-election. In November 2006, she was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates.

She has lived in Hyattsville and College Park for the past 13 years and she is proud of the way she has represented her neighbors on the City Council, in front of County government, and in Annapolis arguing on their behalf. She does not take for granted the trust that they have put in her. She intends to represent your interests in Annapolis with an independent and strong voice, not the voice of special interests.