Alison M. Healey

Republican

Committee Name: Friends Of Alison Healey

Address: 2904 Kragl Dr

Churchville, MD 21028-1703

Phone: (443) 865-0117

Email: friendsofalisonhealey@gmail.com

Website: www.alisonhealey.com

Social: www.facebook.com/Alison-Healey-for-Harford-County-States-Attorney-103698018587253

Alison Healey Is Not Who Harford County Thinks She Is

Alison M. Healey made history in November 2022 when she became the first woman elected Harford County State's Attorney. The race was decided earlier, in the July 19 Republican primary, when she unseated incumbent Albert J. Peisinger Jr. 19,437 to 9,053 — better than two-to-one. She had spent twelve years as a prosecutor in that same office, including years supervising the domestic violence unit, before leaving in 2019 and opening her own criminal defense and family law practice in Bel Air. The Harford County Deputy Sheriff's Union backed her over Peisinger, and she rode that endorsement, along with a "victim-first" and tough-on-crime message, into office on January 3, 2023.

That's the resume. Here's why it shouldn't be enough to earn her a second term this cycle.

A prosecutor who'd rather hold press conferences than run her office

Since taking office, Healey has spent an outsized share of her energy fighting other Republicans instead of prosecuting crime. The feud with County Executive Bob Cassilly boiled over on September 18, 2023, when she stood outside the courthouse and accused him of "unethical" retaliation over an employee-email dispute — then said she would seek emergency funds, with early estimates "in the millions of dollars," for a private server system for her office, and threatened court action to force the emails. Cassilly, who watched the press conference and then answered reporters himself, called it a "political hit job." Three days later the two sides announced a temporary fix and the emails were released. Whoever was right about the inbox, the spectacle itself is the problem: a sitting State's Attorney using a courthouse press conference and threatened lawsuits as a management strategy is not what "victim-first" leadership is supposed to look like.

Picking sides in the county's Republican civil war — and picking wrong

Harford County's GOP spent 2026 in an ugly split between Cassilly's administration and a bloc of officials aligned against him, led by County Council President Patrick Vincenti, who primary-challenged the sitting county executive. Healey aligned with that faction — including an endorsement of Vincenti — rather than with the county's own chief executive. Sheriff Jeff Gahler did the same. Voters settled it on June 23. Official returns: Cassilly 15,521 (59.56%), Vincenti 9,189 (35.26%), Spencer Dagner 1,348 (5.17%). Cassilly carried 60 of the county's 63 precincts. It wasn't close.

Healey now has to work — or try to — alongside a County Executive she spent the better part of two years publicly feuding with and whose chief primary rival she backed. That's not a footnote. It's a preview of more of the same dysfunction. The judgment that got tested at the ballot box was the one she made in the executive primary. Her own race never was.

Questions about who she's put in charge

When Healey took office, David Ryden was elevated as her deputy — the same David Ryden who had been sworn in as deputy under former State's Attorney Joe Cassilly in January 2018. For an administration that campaigned on turning the page on the old regime, keeping a holdover from it struck plenty of local observers as an odd choice.

A pattern, not a moment

None of this happens in isolation. Between the taxpayer-funded server request, the public feuding with the county executive, the alignment with the losing side of this year's Republican civil war, and lingering questions about her senior staffing choices, a picture emerges of an office more focused on political survival than on the quiet, competent work of prosecuting crime. Harford County deserves a State's Attorney who spends more time in the courtroom than at the podium.

Healey is seeking a second term. She is the only name on the ballot for State's Attorney. No Republican challenged her. No Democrat filed. All she needs is one vote.

That is not a mandate. It is an empty oval. Harford should send her a message by leaving it blank. Do not vote for her. Let the returns show how many people refused to rubber-stamp four more years of the same.