Posted on 04/29/2019 7:10:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A member of the Legislative Black Caucus from Baltimore City has resigned from the group over remarks purportedly made by the caucus’ leader.
Her decision comes just days before the House of Delegates votes on a new speaker, amid signs that a leading candidate — a member of the caucus from Prince George’s County — may be preparing to align himself with Republican legislators in order to win the position.
That decision has frayed relations within the 98-member Democratic caucus – which includes 45 members of the black caucus. The LBC is scheduled to meet Monday afternoon in Annapolis – two days before the full House meets to elect a new speaker.
Freshman Del. Regina T. Boyce (D) quit the black caucus Friday afternoon to protest comments from Del. Darryl Barnes (D-Prince George’s), the LBC chair, that she found “unacceptable and infuriating.”
She made her intentions known in an email to Barnes that was obtained Sunday by Maryland Matters.
In an email Monday morning to Maryland Matters, Boyce said she did not intend for her note to Barnes to be made public.
“My intentions are not to divide any group and cause further tensions, however I believe the publication of my email does,” she wrote.
In her email to Barnes, Boyce accused the black caucus leader of saying, “We are going to let a white lesbian be the speaker of the House?” an apparent reference to Del. Maggie L. McIntosh (D-Baltimore City), the first legislator in Maryland history to acknowledge being gay.
According to her email, Barnes made his comments during a black caucus meeting on Sine Die, the last day of the legislative session.
McIntosh is vying with Del. Dereck E. Davis (D-Prince George’s) to succeed the late Speaker Michael E. Busch (D), who died earlier this month.
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The Black Caucus? If you can’t make it there you can’t make it anywhere (To paraphrase Frank Sinatra).
Like being told “You aren’t good enough to hang around in this pool hall.”
Maybe he resigned before being bounced to the sidewalk.
This is Baltimore. Were the remarks too caucasian?
“Boyce accused the black caucus leader of saying, “We are going to let a white lesbian be the speaker of the House?” an apparent reference to Del. Maggie L. McIntosh (D-Baltimore City), the first legislator in Maryland history to acknowledge being gay.”
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I agree with her! Publishing an e-mail plainly disparaging someone on account of race and sexual orientation is most certainly divisive!
Racist, homophobic e-mails like Boyce's should be kept "under wraps" - for the good of the Black Caucus and the Democratic Party!
Regards,
Re “We are going to let a white lesbian be speaker of the house”. Hey, they already did, Nancy Pelosi! /SuperSarc and LMAO.
If this gets to the House floor, the vote could well be Davis 72 McIntosh 69.
Sadly, the next House election is not until 2022 (in MD, each House member gets a 4 year term). However, when they redistrict the state after the 2020 Census, we could end up with 141 single member districts, which could really cut into the ‘Rat advantage in the House (at the present time, most districts are 3 member districts, which is a real advantage for the ‘Rats).
Cancer runs deep
Has that crook Baltimore mayor turned up yet?
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