Posted on 04/27/2015 9:42:35 PM PDT by Enterprise
With the violence sweeping Baltimore threatening to scare away tourists and the city's huge convention industry, officials are working overtime to build in new security around the downtown convention center and promising to keep people safe.
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#1. LA ‘92
The biggest most violent riot in modern American history by a series of magnitudes.
What makes you think the ones who voted her in will now want to vote her out?
Write off Baltimore. Let it go the way of Detroit!
We need some more civic object lessons!
A couple of young black hookers saw me go in and pre pay for the gas and get a diet coke. They came up to me and asked me why a skinny guy like you would buy a diet pop. They promised me a good time. I gave them my Coke and told them that I already have a girlfriend and wished them well .
Being a little street smart, I gave them my Coke and was polite and got out of there after filling up. I suspected a pimp might be nearby.
Never been back.
It takes a village.
If you think of Baltimore as a tourist destination, you either
1. Have no life or
2. Live in Newark (see #1).
you know this Stephanie Blake-Rawlings is a newcomer to the MD political scene. Most mayors of Balto see that office as a stepping to Congressional or Senatorial seats.
All she has to do is abide by Obama’s policies, the black congressional caucus , the boys from the money store and voila! She’s outta old Balto & on the track to a financial future that couldn’t imagine even in her own lifetime;albeit she attended Oberlin College and law school but there is a prize for her in the end.
Her resting bitch face as one who is perpetually dis-satisfied and appeared on national news represents
the chip on HER shoulder and NOT what she could do in
financially rehabbing the City of Balto. She is simply a stand-in.
What has disappointed me most is her statement made after the O’s Ball Game let out where she stated she was allowing protesters space to destroy.
Granted, thru live stream video you could see how the Balto City PD was trying to clear space for safe passage for the people at the ball game. BUT! and I mean BUT! She also effectively put taxpayers who were at the game in Camden Yards on LOCKDOWN and THEY were instructed to stay in their seats.
This to me is some kind of bass akwards messaging to me because she did NOTHING prior nor during the game & just sent out officers & officers from other counties in the ALLOWANCE of the protesters to do what they wanted to do.
Rawlings allowed bunnies to create civil disobedience during a peaceful event of people watching a ball game.
Her statement after the O’s game did not reflect any future plans from her office to contain protesting individuals, rioting or smash & grabs. She did not state at that press
conference there would be a curfew. I watched her whole time on that video and I could tell she mouthing hollow words.
And here’s the problem: She knew poor Freddie Gray’s funeral was to be held and she must have operated under the assumption that after he was laid to rest there would be no demonstrations or rioting like we have seen on Monday afternoon and into the night.
OR she was fully aware of the Bloods & Crips working together in martialing black citizens to PURGE last night.
This is a a very serious lack of judgement on her part and I will be writing a letter to Gov Hogan of MD expressing this same opinion and also suggesting she be removed from office as Mayor of Balto City.
She has put her position of the Mayor in serious jeopardy by the allowance & creation of civil disobedience. With her connections as far as I am concerned imho she was in contact with Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson & all the other race hustlers nationwide and those sitting in the DOJ to propagate, inflame and perpetuate on-going civil disobedience in Balto MD.
I’m calling Gov Hogan’s office in the morning and writing a letter to see Stephanie Rawlings is removed from office.
I also listened to Elijah Cummings remarks at poor Freddie’s funeral and HE also made inflammatory statements.
One dumb ass woman Baltimore has there.
But hey,
They elected her sorry ass, they can have her as the filthy, worthless city burns.
Yeah, she said that twice.
She said that twice.
Never been to NO. Once considered taking a contract job there (1990’s).
What about disparate impact? Don't think there are too many honkies involved...
Good link to 10 Largest Riots in US History. And what is the common element (skin color) in every one of these riots?
You haven’t been there recently, it is overrun by gangs not only at night but also during the day, not a safe place anymore. SAD
Christmas in Baltimore for the Obama-Holder people. I bet they regretted that CVS doesn’t carry the big flat screen tvs.
They all have paved streets? :)
I predict that their #1 tourism boom will come from all the cheap big screen TVs and laptops appearing on the Balto Craigslist, soon.
But lots of drugs, in the back.
Just over two weeks ago, I came back to Baltimore from a cruise that is based in their port. Being in Baltimore was a surprisingly fantastic experience. The city hotel and its surroundings, how well everything was run, the number of activities in Baltimore are outstanding. The cruise from that port was excellently efficient, with a short turn around time and lots of people to get where they're going.
To think that the idiot mayor might have undone all the good work that was done to make Baltimore desirable to tourists is beyond comprehension. "Black lives matter"? How about "Black jobs matter"? A very large percentage of workers benefitting from the encounters I had in the city were black, and they were all professional and pleasant. Why aren't they speaking up against the mayor and the anarchists?
Many policies specifically exclude damage caused by “civil disturbances” from coverage. I think those poor property owners in Baltimore are just out of luck.
re no 1 - rest assured I do have a life
re no 2 - I do not live in Newark ; neither one.
Inner harbor is/was a great place to visit.
If you like I can send you a list of attractions.
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