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• Raised in O’Donnell Heights
• Graduate, Sacred Heart of Mary School
• Baltimore City Police Officer 1969-70
• AA - Criminal Justice (Phi Theta Kappa)
• BA - Sociology University of Baltimore 1973
• MBA Western States University 2000
• Ph. D. Western States University 2001
• Retired Marine Transportation Officer, US Army Reserve
• Coast Guard Merchant Marine Captain's license
• Major, Civil Air Patrol
• Real Estate Appraiser, Broker, Home Builder, Property Manager
• Married to Dori Rafalides Dewar, with two adult children
• Don Dewar will fight against high property taxes.
• Don Dewar supports the police because he was a police officer himself. Don wants the Police Department to be fully staffed, well paid, and independent of the politicians in City Hall.
• Don Dewar will promote home ownership and wants to end public housing as we know it.
• Don Dewar worked hard to get a good education and to succeed in life. Don will fight to give the same opportunities to all children.
The way Dewar sees it, Kraft has been good only at pushing "feel-good things" for the city and the district, such as a bill that he's currently
championing that would ban plastic grocery bags. "But he's not going to focus in on the important stuff--the squandering of public funds, the
fiscal crisis in the schools, the tax rate that's double everywhere else, and the murders," Dewar continues. "I find that alarming, and so do many
others who I talk to, but nobody's going to talk about how they're squandering public funds--they wouldn't look so good. The way I see it,
Kraft is like most politicians: They are more adept at getting elected than they are at governing. I'm just a businessman, and a reluctant
candidate, and it was time to step up and get things going in the right direction."
Dewar, 58, says he grew up in O'Donnell Heights, signed up for active military duty during the Vietnam War, became a city police officer for
one year before starting in on his higher education, and has been a city real-estate investor for 35 years. He has a home in Middle River in
Baltimore County, but he says he's been living in Canton for the past 10 years. Asked how much he's willing to spend to unseat Kraft, Dewar
says, "I have a message to get out, and I'll spend enough to get that message out."
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