Baltimore mayor says she will not seek re-election By JULIET LINDERMAN Sep. 11, 2015 10:37 AM EDT

AP ^ | Sep. 11, 2015 | JULIET LINDERMAN

[MarvinStinson]

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Friday that she will not seek re-election, nearly five months after the city erupted in rioting following the death of a man injured in police custody.

Rawlings-Blake made the announcement at a news conference called only 90 minutes earlier, a move that comes just days after officials said the city would pay Freddie Gray's family $6.4 million to settle civil claims over his spinal injury.

[Resettozero]

Wouldn’t have voted for her anyway.

[MarvinStinson]

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[gov_bean_ counter]

$6.4 million to settle civil claims
Baltimore is broke.

[exit82]

The payoff is safely in an offshore bank.

[publius911]

Baltimore mayor says she will not seek re-election By JULIET LINDERMAN Sep. 11, 2015 10:37 AM EDT

Sour grapes?

Determined to outrun the angry mob?
Both?

[P-Marlowe]

Makes you wonder if she got a kickback from the 6.4 million.

[Da Coyote]

She had also not go anywhere near an IQ test either.

[shadeaud]

She must have been told not to run so that she won't be prosecuted for dereliction of her oath of office and just being one stupid Al Sharpton black clansman

[Dilbert San Diego]

She’s afraid to faced the voters??? Interesting.

Another story said her national star was rising. Really???

Why was her national star rising?? Because she is a prominent black woman in a high position as mayor of a major city?? But then will her shooting star crash and burn if she lost re-election???

I predict she will end up on CNN or MSNBC or somewhere in the world of punditry.

[P-Marlowe]

You beat me to it.

[Lou L]

Was Dixon found guilty of embezzling gift cards with the intent of giving them to needy families? Or, was she guilty of embezzling gift cards that were intended for needy families?

In either case, what makes her think this experience should be any sort of feather in her cap to run again?

[Sooth2222]

Because she’s running for Barbara Mikulski’s senate seat?

[Enlightened1]

Well her “Stand Down” and let the city plan did not work out to well.

The mayor was simply too stupid to realize the communist philosophy she learned back in college from her Marxist professors of burn baby burn does not work in real life.

[Enlightened1]

Well her “Stand Down” and let the city burn plan did not work out to well.

The mayor was simply too stupid to realize the communist philosophy she learned back in college from her Marxist professors of burn baby burn does not work in real life.

[exit82]

GMTA. +1

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

She’ll parlay her whatever moment of fame into something that pays 6x as much. And I don’t blame her for that.

[SES1066]

Another story said her national star was rising. Really???

The New York Times uses a different set of standards for certain preference groups.

[MarvinStinson]

Dixon found guilty of embezzling gift cards that were intended for needy families.

[MarvinStinson]

Stephanie “Give Them Room to Destroy” Rawlings-Blake.