Posted on 08/16/2015 3:30:39 AM PDT by markomalley
Another email arrived the other day from a citizen who blames Democrats for everything bad about Baltimore — for the poverty and the potholes, the homicides and homelessness, the high property taxes and the trash in the Inner Harbor. These assertions have been arriving in a moderate flow since the April riot, framed between harsh criticism of Baltimore's Democratic mayor and soaring praise for Maryland's Republican governor who "saved the city."
The most recent email came from an "interested friend" — few writers of these letters sign their names — who declared: "Democrats have had Baltimore in its grip for 50 years and it's an incorrigible mess."
Of course, blaming Democratic politicians for the complex, multi-generational problems of Baltimore is easy because it's your only choice. The city has not had a mayor from the Grand Old Party since Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin in 1967, and as of this writing, no Republican has entered the field of candidates for the 2016 municipal election.
So, for all of my "interested friends" who have written since the April riot to state the obvious — that Democrats have been in charge of Baltimore for a long time, thus to blame for all its failings — allow me to provide some perspective. Otherwise, you can stop here and return to designing memes ridiculing the mayor.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Our local pubbie party is completely hidebound. They know what they’re doing isn’t working but they can’t bring themselves to do it any differently.
I got curious and had to look up the timeline for mayors in Seattle. The last pubbie left office in 1969 and there hasn’t been a serious contender since. The mayor three mayors ago was a nincompoop named Schell. He looked and acted like Mel Brooks - only a decidedly unfunny Mel Brooks. The last two have been flaming phags.
There hasn’t been a competent administrator in 45 years. How they’ve avoided becoming another Baltimore or Detroit amazes me.
Dan Rodricks is a Partisan Media Shill.
I suppose the GOP could run a black conservative for Baltimore mayor, but the poor guy would keep having Oreo cookies thrown at him.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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