Why Elect Emmanuel?

 

Emmanuel is a proud American veteran, citizen, political activist who has served as a member of the Baltimore City Republican Central Committee representing Councilmanic District 10 since May 2023.  In 2022 Emmanuel was the Republican nominee for Maryland State Senate District 46.  This year he is the Republican nominee for the Council President of  Baltimore City, having won the Republican primary on May 14, 2024.  He has frequently attended Maryland General Assembly (MDGA) during its annual January-through-March Sessions to protect our civil and constitutional rights by giving oral and written testimony on bad bills before they became bad laws.  Alas, over the past 20 years Emmanuel discovered that the MDGA had little to no interest in protecting our civil and constitutional rights; therefore, he ran for political office to protect his fellow Baltimore City neighbors.

Early Life and Education

     He was born in Baltimore City, Maryland at the original Saint Joseph German Hospital on Caroline and Oliver Streets, which later moved to Towson in 1965.  His father, Berkley Digman, was a steel worker at Bethlehem Steel and served his country in the Korean War as a U.S. Marine honored with a Purple Heart decoration.  His mother Martha Digman-(Hickman) was a factory worker and a custodian at an elementary school.  Like Ben Carson’s childhood, his parents divorced when he was nine years old, and he was raised by his mother in a single-parent household with three children.  This occurrence had an insightful impact on his life and shaped his outlook on family and personal responsibility.  Out of poverty and necessity, Emmanuel read and learned everything that needed to be done and then he did it.  Emmaneul enlisted in the Maryland Air National Guard while still in high school, (where he took a lifetime military oath to protect both the U.S.  and the Maryland Constitution. )  After military training, he discovered a glass ceiling that prevented promotion and wage increase in the job market.  Therefore, he started college and achieved a Bachelor in Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) from University of Maryland Baltimore County in 1987, the first BSME graduating class for UMBC.  During federal employment with the Department of Defense, Digman earned a second Bachelor in Science degree in Computer Science (BSCS) from University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 1998.  Later, 2011, he earned a Masters in Science in Strategic Intelligence from National Defense Intelligence College (MSSI) in order to meet mission critical needs.

Political Activism

     Emmanuel Digman has fought legislatively to retain our US and MD Constitutional rights during Maryland Legislative Session in Annapolis for 20 plus years with numerous oral and written testimonies.

Legislative Priorities

If elected Council President of the Baltimore City, He will enact the following improvements;

1. Forensic Audit of Baltimore City spending and Lower Property Tax (LPT): Shall make proceeding priorities achievable.

2. Public Safety: Statically proven in other cities that LPT produced lower crime and increase residential population.

3. Improvement of Quality and Affordable Residential Housing: Establish a new housing building program for modern economical and affordable housing for all City residents.

4. Excellent City Services: Evaluating and removing systems and regulations that are not a benefit to our city residents and/or unconstitutional thus improving our services to residents while revitalizing of Baltimore.

5. Better Schools: Restructure a fallen system to yield a generation for continued revitalization and growth for our city. 

6. Workforce Development: Focus on increasing and enhancing both the manufacturing and service industries within our city to provide employment to our new graduates, existing city residents, and others moving back in to our city.