Well, it's a deep blue city, so I guess this shouldn't shock us too much, but Baltimore's mayoral race could experience the Marion Barry effect, the return of a mayor who was previously convicted of a crime. It's not drug possession, however, which got the late Mr. Barry, mayor of DC at the time, into legal trouble in the 1990s for which he actually served some jail time. After his release, he ran again for mayor and won. And people wonder why Democratic cities are poorly run? Baltimore could be having its own much softer version of that, albeit with politicians who are crooks, but not drug users. Still, the narrative remains about how Democratic cities are administered. The fish rots from the head.
The city's former mayor, Catherine Pugh, resigned in a corruption scandal relating toa business arrangement between her series of children's books at the University of Maryland Medical System. She got a three-year jail sentence for this fiasco and is expected to plead guilty to perjury in the coming days.
So, who can right the ship in B'More after this scandal? Well, it could be an ex-mayor who was formerly convicted of embezzlement. No, I'm not kidding. The mayor who was booted for fraud and tax evasion could be replaced by a woman who was convicted of embezzlement (via Fox News):
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ReplyDeleteThere it is folks. Sadly the city will scream and demand money to help them, yet again, so that the elite can skim the cream and the less fortunate are kept in their place. Time to turn off the tap.
ReplyDeleteOh well the residents love living worse then any animal should live in all the crime, trash, rats. You vote stupidly you deserve to live like many do in that city.
ReplyDeleteYou can't fix stupid
ReplyDeleteThat's what the gangs and drug dealers want. Baltimore is the next City occupied by these ANARCHIST. Is that not right no gonads HOGAN.
ReplyDeleteI suppose you idiots don’t realize she lost the primary and conceded already, do you?
ReplyDeleteRemember Mayor Barry? You want change? Obviously not
ReplyDeleteNorthwest Woodsman: I’m sure they are the best of what Baltimore has to offer.
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