About four in ten Anne Arundel County residents approve of the job County Executive Steuart Pittman and the County Council are doing, according to a new Capital poll.
During the 90-minute event at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Pittman, the Democratic incumbent, and Haire, a Republican County Council member from Edgewater, made their case to voters that they would be responsible stewards of a $2 billion annual budget while painting each other as the wrong choice to the lead the county over the next four years.
With three weeks left until the Nov. 8 general election, Anne Arundel County executive candidates Steuart Pittman and Jessica Haire will discuss their strategies to manage the county's biggest issues at a debate at Maryland Hall Tuesday.
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In her run for county executive, Haire hopes to rein in spending, lower taxes and slow government growth in Anne Arundel County by using her varied experience as an attorney, engineer and do-it-all mom.