Now on Ch 8 - Baltimore - City in Crisis
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Anonymous
Still waiting to hear about these R-controlled cities we can compare against Baltimore, etc. |
Anonymous
True. But when the population is predominantly people of color it's harshly criticized as a cess pit and people frown. When the population is predominantly white people it's sympathetically described as an industrial area and people smile. |
Anonymous
You haven't spent enough time on DCUM, I see. |
Anonymous
I was intrigued and looked up big city mayors online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_the_50_largest_cities_in_the_United_States Many more Dems than Reps across the board but Republican mayors include San Diego, Fort Worth, Jacksonville, Omaha, Colorado Springs, Oklahoma City etc, which aren't known for being riddled with opoids. But boring white collar cities. Miami, though, is an interesting one. But looks likely due to the Cuban presence. |
Anonymous
The major difference between old industrial towns in WV or PA and places like Baltimore or Chicago or Cleveland is crime. That is a major part of why they're referred to as cesspits. |
Anonymous
Citation please 
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Anonymous
| Lived there for years and got out of that hell hole. Baltimore is a Democrat cesspool of corruption. They reap what they sow. |
Anonymous
There is no citation. She is just another one of the DCUM posters who gets off on other peoples opiate addictions and related deaths. |
Anonymous
Pales in comparison to the corruption on Capitol Hill. |
Anonymous
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Why on earth would AA voters in Baltimore trust a party that openly and frequently refers to them as animals living in a cesspit? If Republicans want political power in Baltimore, they'll have to start treating Baltimore -- and AA voters -- with a modicum of respect and decency.
It ain't gonna happen, because at heart, the Republicans believe that AA Baltimoreans ARE animals who deserve either misery or iron-fisted martial law. As long as we have a democracy (tick tock), citizens aren't going to vote for a party that shows them open contempt. |
Anonymous
Not really. Local politics affects your life a heck of a lot more than national politics. Capitol Hill's partisan bickering affected me no where near as much as insane liberal Democrat policies of giving violent criminals in Baltimore a slap on the wrist and letting them walk the streets freely when I was in Baltimore. Baltimore gets what it deserves. Andnyiunk is what's even more insane? The Democrat lunatics that live in Baltimore now want to annex other areas like Baltimore County where crime and taxes are much lower. Because when you completely fail to run your own city due to the idiotic way you vote, the solution is of course to call for a hostile takeover of your neighbors because you deserve it. |
Anonymous
well said |
Anonymous
Also, if you want to talk about corruption in baltimore: - landfill city workers were getting millions in kickbacks and bribes to let out of City people dump their trash on the city - something like over half of all police and fire fighters in Baltimore claim workman's comp at one point. - it was uncovered a little while ago that the city comptroller hadn't even audited some departments in decades, even though that was literally what she was getting paid $200k per year for and why they are the #3 rnaked politician in the city. - Baltimore City schools 'lost' over 1000 computers one year - many unauthorized individuals in the baltimore City school system were caught at one point changing their hours to increase their overtime pay costing tax payers tons of money - school officials spent huge sums of cash to renovate their office and to buy expensive furniture while kids in Baltimore didn't have heat in the classrooms. - numerous instances of City officials using taxpayer dollars to fund things like booze cruise dinners for themselves, to get their hair done, and for swanky get aways for 'conferences' - millions upon millions spent on consultants who don't seem to solve anything and do work that city employees should bebcoabskr of doing. At one point they were paying a former police chief turned consultant something like $300-500 per hour just for advice on how to police. Iirc, the consultant nwad also a friend of the mayor. - Stephanie Rawlins Blake was always tied up in scandals with her while phone line debacle a while back that wasted tons of tax payer money. She also had a fancy dinner at one point at an inner harbor restaurant and spent $54,000 of campaign money on her going away party. SRB was also famous for blowing millions on consultants and left to go do consulting work for a high salary after being mayor. - Baltimore spends something like 40+% of its entire budget on police, which is unheard of for a city. Huge numbers of police get massive amounts of OT pay and some even make more money than the mayor or even the police commish. Then you have the whole corrupt gun task force and a heroin smuggling ring between Baltimore and Philly cops. - Pugh taken down by the FBI for healthy Holly - before SRB there was Dixon who was also indicted for allegations that she was stealing from children - back to Joan Pratt, the comptroller who never does her job for $200k per year, she was also recently mired conflicts of interest because she had an accounting firm on the side with multiple businesses in the city that also had to deal with the city for things like licenses. She hid it for years. - city officials have been caught before charging huge bills to the city taxpayers for consulting firms that City officials themselves were running out of their own homes. - the school system is so bad at accountability that it was once revealed that the bus company the city was using to bus kids was charging the same amount of money for fuel and mileage on every single bus, which is impossible if they all have different routes. - thanks to Jack young, Columbia businessman JP grant who funneled $150,000 to Pugh's bank account and who got $358,000 in commissions on a lucrative leasing aggrrement, will get *another* $300,000 on another deal. This is just the tip of the iceberg for corruption examples in Baltimore. Sorry, but the whole city is a cesspool of Democrat led corupption that bleeds the taxpayer coffers dry before any of the money gets used to actually do anything for the citizens of Baltimore. They then complain that they don't have enough tax money and subsequently subsequently raise taxes. They bleed it even more and the cycle repeats while crime gets worse, the population declines, and everything gets worse. Sorry, but it is much worse at the local level than capitol Hill because it affects you directly much more. |
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Anonymous
Uhhh there are entire STATES run by Rs that are complete sh*tholes! Red States by far are the worse run states and use up more government aid than blue states. |