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I couldn’t think of another word to describe Cummings but I’ll try to recreate my words sans his rearguard actions.

There was a story in the Baltimore City Paper, June 8th edition entitled “A one-time city power player fights to save his home”, about an artist who has fallen on hard times but whose work in the field was locally and nationally recognized even by Pres. Bush.

The man wrote to Cummings, as his representative in Congress, to ask with help in getting his house repair permits/contractors approved because of possible local neighbors threats against them.

Cummings passed the buck faster than a pickpocket at a convention and basically said you’re on your own. Why should he help a poor constituent when he’s got so many more idiots around who still vote for him and would even if he was caught sleeping with Hillary Clinton (whose butt he has been trying to cover on the Benghazi hearing committee, for years)?

The story about Dwight Whitney, contained the following about his efforts to get help with his housing problems.

“Congressman Elijah Cummins sent him a letter back. Dated March, 2014, it mentioned a pending foreclosure. It says the neighboring roofs “are not under our domain.” And as for the drug activity? “This is strictly a police matter...”

I once worked for a congressman and we never sloughed off on a constituent’s request for help. We always tried to put them in touch with our local office’s constituent services section, or to contact some local or government agencies to see if they could help.

Mr. Whitley also had written to officials that he “Served as a photographer with the U.S. Air Force for the 459th Congressional Wing - Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Served as a photographer for the Pentagon and the White House, Washington, D.C.”

If Mr. Whitley’s story is true, and the author, Edward Erickson Jr. wrote a lot about this man, his life, and now, the hard times re his house, then something is wrong in “Charm City”.

For some reason, I don’t think Cummings gives a damn about some poor black photographer constituent. But then, again, it could be just me (because I know that Cummings is a piece of Democratic garbage from my old hometown).