[Baltimore Sun] Cheikh should serve as interim county executive | READER COMMENTARY
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I wholeheartedly agree with Ms. Nichols’ view (“Yara Cheikh should serve as interim county executive | READER COMMENTARY” Nov. 17). I have known Yara and known of Yara Cheikh for several years now. She has consistently been empathetic, pragmatic and able to work with diverse groups of people to get things done! We have had a county executive who has spent six years transforming Baltimore County. Now, more than ever, we need to keep that momentum going, with someone who has no political agenda except constituent satisfaction. That person is Yara.
From her tireless advocacy within the school system to helping settle refugees, from her expert fiscal guidance of the work groups and Task Forces to which she has been appointed, to her everyday concern for the financial issues facing Baltimore County residents; and from her daily meetings with high-stakes business owners and corporations to her meetings with grassroots community activists, Yara takes an interest in every single one of her stakeholders, regardless of how important, wealthy or influential they are. This is what we need in Baltimore County. Someone who makes decisions based on the needs of the residents of the county rather than developers, corporations or special interest groups.
I have worked with Yara as a fellow parent in the BCPS school system, then a community activist for Asian American groups and most recently as an advocate for New Americans in Baltimore County. Yara has been interested and invested in each one of my endeavors, only asking how she can help. Another person who expressed a similar interest is our latest congressman, Johnny O. I cannot think of a better person to continue the forward momentum of Baltimore County than Yara Cheikh.
Simply put, we need Yara.
— Jyoti Mohan, Cockeysville
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