I had to move to Maryland from the Detroit suburbs about 8 years ago.
On my first day, while driving to my office in Baltimore, I heard of the radio that the Mayor had been convicted of theft for stealing gift cards meant for poor children for Christmas and buying stuff for herself.
All I thought was that it was just like Detroit, where it’s mayor was also doing time for corruption.
I think Baltimore may actually be worse and more corrupt. She was allowed to make a plea bargain AFTER conviction (Huh?) allowed to keep her pension, avoided jail time and couldn’t run for office for a few years. The idiot actually ran again last year.
Mrs. Buckeye is from Detroit. Spent some time there when I was younger.
I affectionately refer to Baltimore as “Detroit with Crabcakes”.
Yep, good old Sheila Dixon. In another time, she would have been too ashamed to show her face, but there she was campaigning last fall.
And, sadly, she did rather well in a huge field and without having the city’s Rat apparatus lined up behind her. I looked it up to see how close to she came to the winner Catherine Pugh.
Dixon 51,716
Pugh 134,848
It was only 22% of the vote, while Pugh’s showing was 58%, but Dixon was a write-in. On a slate of 9 candidates, only Dixon and 2 others reached double digits — a Republican with 10.0% and a Green with 9.9%.
So sad. Baltimore was once a beautiful, vibrant, hard-working city. It would be wonderful to see, before I die, the rise of a candidate who would cut through the garbage and make Baltimore thrive again. Where is Baltimore’s Trump? MBGA!
http://elections.maryland.gov/elections/2016/results/general/gen_results_2016_4_by_county_030.html