Posted on 03/05/2026 3:20:37 AM PST by Libloather
It’s hard for taxpayers to stomach!
The Baltimore mayor’s office spent more than $890,000 on lavish meals and parties — including crab feasts, catered “farewell” bashes and massive tabs at Ravens football games, according to a report Wednesday.
Mayor Brandon Scott’s administration blew taxpayer cash on over-the-top perks for staffers — including $52,589 on grub in the Mayoral Suite at Ravens and Orioles games — in a gross violation of the city’s “public funds” rules, according to baltimorebrew.com.
One of the elaborate meals was served at a $3,636 farewell “office party” for Scott’s former campaign manager Marvin James, which featured a $324 balloon arch, a $217 cake and a $2,600 catered spread with crab balls and grilled salmon in March 2025, according to the outlet.
James, however, didn’t actually leave City Hall and is still on the payroll as the mayor’s $190,000-plus-a-year senior adviser.
In total, the office spent $801,839 on meals and catering, $42,691 on floral arrangements and funeral services, and $45,646 “unreconciled” expenses between July 2022 and November 2025, according to the outlet.
The administration spent lavishly on food such as banana bread pudding, pizza, bottomless freshly popped popcorn and “a fresh fruit tray available to everyone in the mayor’s suite daily,” according to the outlet, which cited a report from Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming, the city’s waste and fraud watchdog.
It also forked over more than $10,000 for flowers, which city regulations state shouldn’t be purchased “for any reason,” the report states.
The investigation found other extravagant so-called “P-Card” — aka procurement card — expenses related to birthday celebrations, baby showers and flowers “for a selected few, including executive leadership,” according to the report.
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Feb 3 - Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott Drops Race Card When Asked Why He’s Driving Most Expensive Taxpayer-Funded SUV In State
https://www.aol.com/news/baltimore-mayor-brandon-scott-drops-231838299.html
It’s the water. Or the crabs in the water.
2020 - Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh Sentenced to Three Years in Federal Prison for Fraud Conspiracy and Tax Charges
That's a lot of hot dogs!
The problem with crab balls is they're so small.
Forgot who said it, goes something like:
Spending your own money>high vigilance and high attention
Spending someone else’s money>low vigilance and low attention
Ack, found it
1) You can spend your own money on yourself.
If you spend your own money on yourself, you’re very careful on what you spend it on. You make sure you get the most for your dollar.
2) You can spend your own money on someone else.
When you spend your own money on someone else, you’re careful on not spending too much. You don’t worry as much about the gifts you buy for other people as the things you buy for yourself.
3) You can spend somebody else’s money on yourself.
You’re careful to get good things for the money. But you’re not very worried about getting the best bang for your buck. You’re happier to spend more of somebody else’s money within reason.
4) You can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else.
You become a “distributor of welfare funds.” You’re interested in making your own life as good as you can. But you’re not going to be anywhere near as careful as spending this money on other people.
They voted for it.
A bushel of crabs in Maryland is around $300.
I’m looking for the price on crab balls. Special tools are required, I’m sure. And afterwards? Released back into the wild? Female crabs hardest hit.
Baltimore use to be such a great city, when I was growing up, always wanted to live there and I was able to live in the city in the late 1990s. Even back then I realized that the city was on the slide towards total corruption.
The voters in Baltimore are completely stupid as they keep electing the same types of people and expecting a different result.
This is not totally unexpected and Scott has dropped the race card and will blame Trump for trying to go after him.
This is just totally sad once again,
That’s getting to the point where there’s an IRS angle possible. Make them issue W-2s to everyone. Go after them for tax avoidance.
Saw a local news report on this a couple fo days ago.
Brandon’s response? Muh racism.
When has Baltimore ever had a mayor who wasn’t corrupt?
Could ask the same of any major US city.
Would you like a recipe for a specific dipping sauce to go with these?
Here we go...
Ka-boom.
House Democrats focus on affordability in 3-day retreat to take back the majority
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/house-democrats-focus-affordability-3-013342570.html
Yes, it is!
*waves*
Remember Martin O’Malley?
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