Posted on 01/23/2019 1:09:18 PM PST by 11th_VA
County executives from across the region joined Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh Wednesday in Annapolis to call for an end to the federal government shutdown, saying they’re having to address services lost as a result of the month-long stalemate in Washington.
In a news conference inside the state Senate building, Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman joined executives from Baltimore, Harford and Howard counties in a bipartisan call for an end to the shutdown.
They focused on tens of thousands of residents affected as well as the impact at military bases such as Fort George G. Meade and the Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
Pittman, whose county is home to Fort Meade and thousands of federal employees, said Anne Arundel County might need to explore supplementing federal rental and utility assistance programs affected by the shutdown.
The county has received an influx of calls looking for monetary assistance and the Pittman administration is exploring the use of flexible funding to help furloughed federal employees unable to make monthly payments. Pittman did not know how much funding would be available.
“Now is not the time to say ‘We want to shut down the government because we want to pass a law,’” Pittman said...
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You can tell where the real pigs are by who squeals the loudest...............
No
Baltimore?
Well OK, if Baltimore wants it, make it so.
Keep it shut down. Belgium was without a government for a year and survived. Surely freedom-loving Americans could do it and hopefully get rid of a ton of dead wood on the government payrolls.
Baltimore is a liberal dump.
you mean the same idiot mayor who removed statues of CW generals and lied about the NRA with Laura Ingraham?
So???
FettGubb is too large, too intrusive, and too involved in matters best left to localities.
Is she telling Nancy ?
Some one should shut down Baltimore......permanently.
I lived in Baltimore City for nearly 4 years. Believe me, if you have a State or Federal Government Job you aren’t living in the city.
Well yeah, they are all Democrats. So this is not really news at all.
I f Baltimore were abolished, Baltimore county would be better off.
While they’re at it, why not call for an end to poverty, starvation and stupidity.... The very least they can do is contribute to ending stupidity and stop making fools of themselves by calling for and end to something they have no control over.
DPRM’s teat is running dry.
Fearing the death of food stamps and the riots it will cause
Democrats running out of money? They should address their concerns to Pelosi and Schumer.
Who hold the key to reopening the government.
The only thing worse than a RAT-run big city is a Black Female RAT- run city. Baltimore is now suffering with the second Black Female mayor. Stephanie (”let the black looters have some fun before we stop them”) Rawlings-Blake was their first. And let’s not forget Baltimore’s “contribution” to our House of Representatives, Nancy D’Alessandro (Piglosi), who crapped up her nest in Baltimore before moving to San Francisco.
Call their democrap representatives, maybe they will cave.
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