Reply May 6, 2021 Baltimore County Executive John A. Olszewski Jr., who had contemplated joining the Democratic primary for governor in 2022, announced Thursday morning that he plans to seek re-election instead. Subscribe Olszewski was poised to be a leading contender in the statewide Democratic scrum, but said in an email to supporters that he wants to take advantage of "a once in a generation opportunity to use this time of Covid recovery not just to get back to where we were before, but to imagine and aspire towards where we always should have been." "It's an opportunity we should seize — and that requires a continued, sustained focus on the work in front of us," Olszewski wrote.