Scott Collier

Scott Collier's working trades have included structural steel painting and home improvement.¹ He graduated from Dundalk High School in 1981 and later moved into local media through DundalkTV.¹ His official candidate listing points voters to the DundalkTV Political YouTube channel alongside his congressional campaign website.²

His public professional profile also includes outreach on brain injury awareness through the Global Brain Injury Association.³ That work has included appeals to Maryland's governor to recognize Brain Injury Awareness Month in March.³ His professional biography identifies media entrepreneurship as another part of a career that also includes manual trades and residential improvement work.¹

Collier has made earlier campaigns for the Maryland Senate and Congress.¹ In 2014, he ran for Maryland's 6th Senate District as an unaffiliated candidate.⁴ This is his third bid for the 7th District House seat.⁵ His campaign focuses on problems facing neighborhoods, naming violent crime, gangs, drug use and educational difficulties as priorities for congressional attention.⁵

He also wants to address food deserts, placing access to groceries alongside public safety in his stated agenda.⁵ Collier favors stronger cooperation between residents, law enforcement and organizations supporting officers, arguing that those partnerships can make neighborhoods safer places to live and work.⁵ He faces Democrat Kweisi Mfume.²