Meet Andrew
Andrew Saundry is a 29-year-old Democratic organizer and attorney from Germantown, MD. A two-time graduate of the University of Maryland, Andrew is proud to serve Montgomery County Democrats as President of the Germantown Democratic Club and an At-Large member of your Democratic Central Committee. He is committed to expanding our big tent by registering new voters and advancing a popular agenda of making people's lives better.
When Andrew was laid off from his service sector job at the start of COVID-19 pandemic, he became a regular volunteer at several local food pantries and has been volunteering in our community ever since.
Leading up to the 2020 election, Andrew revived the Germantown Democratic Club after a decade in dormancy to bring energy and attention back to his home in the UpCounty. He organized events for residents to meet their elected officials and volunteer opportunities to get out the vote for Democrats up and down the ballot.
He helped organize volunteers for poll watching throughout his native District 15, creating another opportunity for voters to hear from the Democratic Party before they voted. In 2021, he won the Montgomery County Young Democrats Outstanding Leader of the Year Award.
Andrew was elected to a full term on the MCDCC in 2022 with 57,732 votes across Montgomery County. He was subsequently elected unanimously by his colleagues as Treasurer and, later, Secretary of the MCDCC.
Andrew has also supported efforts to strengthen ties between the Democratic Party and the Labor movement and has volunteered with Immigrants' rights groups in Montgomery County.
During the 2022 and 2024 elections, Andrew did what he has always done: pushed for a more active Party presence in the community. Andrew worked with his colleagues to organize the MCDCC presence at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair, knocked hundreds in Maryland's 6th Congressional District and across the region, organized fundraisers at all price ranges, and helped ensure that the Democratic sample ballot was fully funded and arrived on time. Andrew has hosted listening tours right here in his home district.
During his tenure as Treasurer of the Montgomery County Democratic Party, Andrew drafted balanced budgets every year and kept a careful eye on contributions and expenditures, filing every single campaign finance report on time.
As a Member of the MCDCC, Andrew has voted consistently to reform the appointments process, while also voting to elevate experienced, hard-working, diverse, and young Democrats who represent their communities to the General Assembly. Andrew worked with his colleagues to author and pass the first measure of appointment reform that was implemented on the MCDCC in years, requiring public candidate forums so that the residents can hear directly from those seeking to represent them. Andrew has testified in Annapolis for the General Assembly to Democratize the process.
Outside Democratic politics, Andrew has advocated for tenants rights at the County and State to protect the rights of all people to safe, secure, and affordable housing. He has also stood up for the UpCounty, seeking to ensure that the region's priorities are heard in County budgeting. Andrew has also fought for pedestrian safety, drawing attention to pedestrians being struck by cars and helping to create safer sidewalks and crossings in the Waters Landing community.
Andrew is a passionate and committed Democrat who believes that we are only as well off as the most vulnerable among us. He knows that the role of government is to ensure a decent basic standard of living for all its people and provide for the Four Freedoms: articulated by President Franklin Roosevelt: "freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear."