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Baltimore Mayor Dixon is Indicted on 12 Counts [DEMOCRAT Corruption]
Wall Street Journal ^ | 01/09/09 | BRAD HAYNES

Posted on 01/09/2009 10:07:12 PM PST by Enchante

A Maryland grand jury on Friday indicted Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon on 12 criminal counts, including theft and perjury, for alleged official misconduct beginning when she was a councilwoman.

A number of the charges relate to gifts that prosecutors say Ms. Dixon received from developers, including her former boyfriend, Ronald Lipscomb, and didn't properly disclose. Mr. Lipscomb isn't named in the indictment but was charged with bribery this week in Baltimore. His lawyer has said he is innocent.

In addition, the Maryland prosecutor's office charged that for four years Ms. Dixon misused holiday gift cards that were intended to be distributed to needy families. Prosecutors say she gave them to members of her staff and used them to buy herself electronics and clothing.....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; corruptdems; corruption; cultureofcorruption; demagogues; demcultofcorruption; democrats; maryland; mayor; sheiladixon
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Let me be the first to say it.....

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION!!

1 posted on 01/09/2009 10:07:12 PM PST by Enchante
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"for four years Ms. Dixon misused holiday gift cards that were intended to be distributed to needy families."

STEALING holiday gift cards intended for the needy???

Lady, you're lower than whale poop!!

2 posted on 01/09/2009 10:08:43 PM PST by Enchante (Bernie Madoff Learned His Ponzi-Investment Strategy from our Social Security System!!)
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To: Enchante

Isn’t she the one who waved her shoe at a white city councilman saying “Now the shoe is on the other foot” or something like that?


3 posted on 01/09/2009 10:09:02 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Once you hate whitey, you never go back.

She wishes she was the one throwing shoes at President Bush.


4 posted on 01/09/2009 10:11:26 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two wolves and one sheep deciding what's for dinner.)
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To: Enchante

ACORN should have kept a few GOP guys around to keep the investigators and prosecutors busy. LOL!!! Now it’s the ‘RATS’ turn to all go to jail.


5 posted on 01/09/2009 10:11:40 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (CIA Director!....So easy, a caveman can do it!)
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To: Enchante

A Rat? No way! According to the MSM, the corrupt ones are

always Republican. But I’m speaking to the choir.

The MSM can go to hell.


6 posted on 01/09/2009 10:12:06 PM PST by unkus
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To: Lorianne

Don’t know about that one, but clearly we need someone with skills to churn out various posters and t-shirts and e-blasts of all the corrupt Demagogues..... theme is “Culture of Corruption”.....

Blagojevich, Wm. Jefferson, Kwame Kilpatrick, Mayor Dixon, so many others......

Notice that this article barely referenced Dixon’s party, only indirectly at the end when referring to a “fellow Democrat” (I’m sure the reporter simply made a mistake on mentioning it that time.....)


7 posted on 01/09/2009 10:12:34 PM PST by Enchante (Bernie Madoff Learned His Ponzi-Investment Strategy from our Social Security System!!)
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To: Enchante
6-hours old is not exactly "breaking news".

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161905/posts

8 posted on 01/09/2009 10:12:36 PM PST by South40
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And it takes EIGHT paragraphs to indirectly state she is a dem.


9 posted on 01/09/2009 10:13:29 PM PST by Wacka
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To: Enchante

Wow! Another Democratic mayor or governor indicted for corruption. I’m shocked; appalled!

It’s getting crowded in prison. So many Democrats, so little space. “We’re gonna need more prisons.”

Hey Bubba, you got a new roommate.


10 posted on 01/09/2009 10:14:08 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Kickass Conservative

>>Once you hate whitey, you never go back.

She wishes she was the one throwing shoes at President Bush.<<

Racist/s


11 posted on 01/09/2009 10:14:40 PM PST by unkus
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To: Enchante

Let me be the first to say —

Elect a Republican!

The same in Illinois for Obama’s seat.

The rebuilding of the Republican party needs to start in these smaller spots.

Let’s roll!


12 posted on 01/09/2009 10:15:03 PM PST by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Enchante
Cue the Steve Martin quote:

"I was born a poor black child...."

Awww, how can you even think in your wildest dreams she's guilty? She's disenfranchised....oppressed....discriminated against....she's anything but a thieving, crooked, POS politician.

13 posted on 01/09/2009 10:16:44 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: South40

I can’t help it if FR’s search function doesn’t function properly — I searched the title, got no results, Google News said it was from the past 30 minutes...... seemed like an important story in the context of all the Democrat corruption and the need to get more of the public to see the realities of the cesspool of the Democrats................sorry I haven’t been on FR for the past six hours..........


14 posted on 01/09/2009 10:19:59 PM PST by Enchante (Bernie Madoff Learned His Ponzi-Investment Strategy from our Social Security System!!)
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"for four years Ms. Dixon misused holiday gift cards that were intended to be distributed to needy families."

Women and minorities hardest hit.

15 posted on 01/09/2009 10:22:01 PM PST by hometoroost (Put not your trust in princes...in whom there is no help...happy is he whose hope is in the Lord.)
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To: Lizavetta

She’s such a good person..... she stole holiday gift cards intended for needy families, and used them for shopping sprees for her own enjoyment.

Guess she thought that Scrooge is better than Santa Claus, and that the needy should just get by with less..... despite all the rhetoric we see from Demagogues, when it comes down to it they are often the most greedy and selfish SOBs around — and continually pretend otherwise.


16 posted on 01/09/2009 10:23:42 PM PST by Enchante (Bernie Madoff Learned His Ponzi-Investment Strategy from our Social Security System!!)
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To: Salvation; All

17 posted on 01/09/2009 10:27:41 PM PST by STARWISE ((They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: Enchante
Baltimore
18 posted on 01/09/2009 11:21:19 PM PST by South40
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To: South40

Thanks, I didn’t search a word, I searched the exact title. I see an article on the subject was posted 5 hours before you posted a thread on the matter, so I guess I’m not the only one who didn’t search for “Baltimore” before posting a thread..... :^)


19 posted on 01/10/2009 3:13:43 AM PST by Enchante (Bernie Madoff Learned His Ponzi-Investment Strategy from our Social Security System!!)
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To: South40

Poll from the B Sun site: Should Mayor Sheila A. Dixon resign?
Yes (3506 responses) 70.8%
No (977 responses) 19.7%
Not sure (472 responses) 9.5%
4955 total responses (Results not scientific)


20 posted on 01/10/2009 3:51:36 AM PST by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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