President Bill Clinton's former director of intergovernmental affairs, Mickey Ibarra, wrote in a Sept. 7, 1998 memo that he reached out to Glendening the day before and "delivered our message (it does not help any of us to pile on)." Ibarra said he also spoke with then-Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke and Prince George's County Executive Wayne K. Curry.
The document offers a rare glimpse of political arm twisting at the highest levels.
"I also let [Glendening] know that Schmoke and Curry are furious with him for his actions on this and any hope of getting those two on board with his race were lost at least until after the primary," Ibarra wrote.
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Still a toss-up as to whether he or Marty is the worst governor this state has ever had.
ReplyDeleteNothing "strange" here. Just politics in action. There are those who think a BJ is no big deal as well as those who think it is abominable. Just differences of opinion among consenting adults. Such things have been with us for thousands of years.
ReplyDeleteSpeech problems plague the state of Maryland.Watching PG on Pac-14 a few weeks back was difficult.He made plenty of sense and had quite a lot to say when asked "what he would like to have accomplished while in office that he didn't get around to" or something like that.
ReplyDeleteThe fact in concern here is not the act itself...it is the lies about the act. The Clintons never met a lie they didn't like. They are soooo convenient.
ReplyDeleteClinton and Glendening are both jerks, as far as I'm concerned!
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ReplyDeleteAre we talking about the former MD governor who ditched his wife while in office? Yep. He certainly earned the right to criticize the sleazeball known as Clinton.
Same morals; slightly different pathway. Both were and are disgusting.