Posted on 08/23/2020 8:06:32 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Maryland governor Larry Hogan (R.) on Thursday said Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) has "lost touch" with her childhood city of Baltimore after she expressed indifference about the toppling of a statue of Christopher Columbus.
"It’s disappointing that Speaker Pelosi has lost touch with the Baltimore community that her family served," Hogan wrote on Twitter. "While efforts towards peaceful change are welcome, there is no place in Maryland for lawlessness, vandalism, and destruction of public property."
Pelosi said Thursday that "people will do what they do" after a reporter asked about the statue being brought down from its perch in Little Italy and tossed into the harbor. The statue had to be recovered piecemeal by divers organized in part by Baltimore's Italian-American community—Pelosi's own community from her childhood. Both her parents held public office in the city, and she helped her father, Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., with his campaign for mayor.
"We will not let mobs ‘do what they do.' They do not represent Baltimore," Hogan said.
Pelosi had tried to pass the vandalism off as a community decision during her press conference.
"If the community doesn’t want the statue there, the statue shouldn’t be there," Pelosi said. "I don’t care that much about the statues."
Her comments drew an interjection from another reporter who explained how a mob had carried out the statue's chaotic removal, but she shrugged the issue off.
pelosi doesnt care
now if they toppled over a few freezers full of ice cream...
This is nice, but why posting this long-old now?
Antifa/BLM are the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party.
That is why the Democratic Party refuses to name them, condemn them, and demand their arrest for domestic terrorism.
Hogan is lucky he has that adorable little girl who is running for the House seat.
Her line, after explaining how far Baltimore has fallen, is so powerful that I sent a contribution.
She claims politicians haven’t walked the streets of Baltimore, and then she says:
“Walk with me...” through the devastation that is the city.
And what she shows us is mind-altering. and I live no where near Baltimore.
Lockdown Larry will do nothing to stop them.
ALL he cares about is getting rid of Trump.
He finally got his payoff he muzzled us all for, and yet, it continues.
Believe NOTHING from his lying RINO/Dem worshiping yap.
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