Maryland "Freak State PING!"
Posted on 10/13/2009 6:38:35 AM PDT by STONEWALLS
"Leaders of the Maryland NAACP, worried that a Baltimore mayor's criminal conviction could result in the appointment of a white or Republican leader who may not fully represent the majority black and Democratic city, are asking state lawmakers to strip the governor of authority to permanently fill the office.
The request, made in a resolution adopted at a state meeting of the civil rights group last weekend, marks the first time a mainstream organization has raised questions about succession should Baltimore Mayor Dixon be convicted of any of the nine charges she faces. Dixon has been indicted for theft and perjury and the first of two trials is scheduled for early next month."
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
What a choice. A felon or a Republican.
Would someone please post the picture of the little boy saying “That’s Racist” ? The current management has turned Balmur into a complete and total hell hole. It is now a third-rate sub-Saharan African city only with a cold, crappy climate.
So they are totally RACIST!
Can’t have a white guy as mayor in Baltimore, that be racist.
Maybe they should put good candidates in office; not crooks and thugs.
Obama will probably weigh in on this, the same way he pressured the governor of MA to circumvent the law and make a quickie interim appointment.
Let my people go!
if a white man can’t represent black people ... by their logic then a black man can’t represent white people??
As long as the right pretends to be race blind and all these political race groups are allowed to exist from either the left OR the right. This devolution of America will continue unabated.
I can’t wait to move.... 1 more year...
“Obama will probably weigh in on this, the same way he pressured the governor of MA to circumvent the law and make a quickie interim appointment.”
.....I would not be one bit surprised....and BTW, the NAACP is headquartered in Baltimore...the Dem Party gives them a million dollars a year...it’s a very profitable investment...because in return, the Dems get control of the voting apparatus of major inner cities across the country.
And they have such great crab cakes, too.
Friggin racialists!
Here is what bothers me...If a city that is predominently white, tried the same tactics to assure a white mayor, the villification of them would be endless. The NAACP has gotten away with this stuff for far too long. It doesn’t make much sense to me that anorganization that seeks equal rights can achieve that by stomping on the rights of others. Their antics do more to deepen the divide between people of different color. people need to wake up and realize that this organization deepens the rift in order to survive. If we achieved equality, there would be no need for them. That is why they work so hard to assure this never happens.
Our current governor, a Democrat, was the white mayor of Baltimore. And he was a disaster. Crook or not, Sheila Dixon is doing a much better job as mayor than her predecessor. Baltimore still looks like London circa 1944, but unfortunately the problems are beyond what the mayor can fix on her own.
We have a city council that holds a lot of power and runs the city like their personal fiefdoms. We also have a city states attorney that refuses to prosecute some crimes because you can’t get anyone to testify against the perps because of the “stop snitching” culture. And throw into that the fact that the police refuse to even fill out reports for a lot of crimes for fear that it will accurately record the crime statistics and show just how bad things really are in Baltimore.
If it weren’t for the first-class emergency medical system in Baltimore, our murder rate would be double what it is now. Many gunshot victims survive here because of the medical system that would die in other cities, and so our murder rate, though high, is way lower than it would otherwise be.
So to recap - Sheila Dixon is a pretty decent mayor under the circumstances, and there is not a whole lot that any other person can do to turn this city around without wholesale replacement of the city council and city states attorney. And that’s not going to happen.
Move.
The really troubling thing is that so many people find this a hard decision to make.
It’s actually easy to figure this out. Bring in an outsider to be their mayor, like Marian Barry. That’ll fix it.
Maryland has a democratic gov,,no chance of a pub being appointed.
I will never forget when O’Malley was elected mayor, the headline in the Washington Post was: “White man elected mayor of Baltimore.”
“The NAACP has gotten away with this stuff for far too long.”
....black pressure groups have had tremendous sucess in recent years...they’re much stronger than the Mafia was at it’s height....it’s because their extorsion rackets shake down fatter targets....they go after banks, major corporations, government money....they make Costra Nostra look small time by comparison.
DemoLibs...always want to break the rules, when it suits them. They are never willing to play fair or honestly.
Move or arm yourselves. Most just move. I remember a Baltimore that was a really interesting and fun city. That was many years ago; back when it could honestly claim to be an integrated city. Now it is merely a tribal preserve.
Maryland Freak State ping.
Maryland "Freak State PING!"
Now imagine if some group came out and said we should not have a black president in the United States because we’re a mostly white country. There would be an outrage. But the NAACP basically says the same thing and is still taken seriously.
Typical commie !@$##@. So much wrong here I’m not sure how to start.
OK, 1st, the obvious racial affront to worrying they won’t get their “blackness” in (oh, excuse me - “African-American”).
2nd the so typical liberal thing of “let’s change the rules since now we don’t like them”.
Never mind this is MOM we’re talking about; no way he’d put in a Repub, and likely he’d defer to blacks getting their way. What the heck are they worried about?
Why not appoint Michael Steele? LOL
Cold, crappy climate?
Actually, it’s 1 of the best all-around self-sustaining climates you could possibly have. Plus we almost never get blizzards and hardly ever hurricanes.
I grew up on the West coast, and to me the climate in this part of the world, northern VA and Maryland, is cold and crappy, and it takes forever to warm up in the spring. Then there are about three weeks of decent weather, and it turns into a steam bath. Then in the fall there are about three weeks of decent weather, and it turns cold and crappy again. Sorry. Baltimore in the winter is to me one of the saddest places on earth.
LOL, try even in western PA, then. Never mind ME and WI where my dad’s family is from.
To me it’s heavenly, including the very change of seasons (which is key to making it self-sustaining), which is actually very mild (hardly any snow - dangit).
My point is that its easy for YOU and ME to figure this out - these people are clueless. :)
Let's see: if whites want to use the concept "majority rule", minorities are offended and the ACLU starts suing. But if blacks want to use "majority rule", that's ok....
Speak for yourself. The only good snow is the one that flies after I'm dead.
Yeah, I’ll speak for myself. I like snow. The main problem is other people who are scared $!$@@less of it, including raiding the stores over a non-snowfall, never mind the wimps on the road.
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