It looks like Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon (D) remains the target of those who recognize Circuit Court Clerk Frank Conaway’s authority over administering the oath.
The Baltimore Sun says that paralegal and drug rehab counselor David Wiggins has filed suit asking that Dixon get’s removed from office, citing that she was suppose to be sworn in by Conaway, who ran against her in 2007. Dixon was sworn in by Governor Martin O’Malley (D), her predecessor.
Now the kicker…Wiggins wants to be installed as interim mayor.
At this time, I think a state of the blog address is in order. This is more of a state of an endeavor address. First and foremost, let’s get this out of the way, I am not going anywhere. Maryland Politics Today will be around for a good good while. The reason that this blog has not been as active as of late is because of several. The first thing topping the lost was school. School will come first for the foreseeable future. I am currently in the home stretch of an accelerated science course. In addition, the end of the semester is always a big push for me.
The next big thing affecting this site is also a big announcement. That announcement is that Maryland Politics Today is moving it’s home base from Laurel, Prince George’s County to Baltimore County. Yes folks, the Burns Media Centre is moving north. While the phone number will remain the same, there will be a new address to follow. However, the time being, the current mailing address is good. Maryland Politics Today will be in Baltimore by the end of this month.
As always, thank you for your supporting this blog over the past three years.
Picking up where I can (because I am taking an accelerated summer course,) it’s time to add another name to the dishonor roll, Maryland PT’s E-List…
For those of you outside of Central Maryland, allow me to introduce to you a new nutjob to take note of, that I recently discovered myself. Brother Daren Mohammed, host of “State of the City,” heard on WFBR (1590AM) in Glen Burnie, serving the Metro Baltimore area.
Mohammed moved his show here after he was kicked off of WOLB (1010AM) for…let’s just saying making a lot of hay…at least what I can gather from google. Specifically, according to a press release, he was “censored” for speaking out about the murder of former Baltimore City Councilman Ken Harris. More information can be found here.
Mohammed is not convinced that the shooting yesterday at the Holocost Museum in Washington was allegedly perpetrated by 88-year-old James Wenneker von Brunn. Mohammed wants to know where is the videotape, stating that there are cameras all over DC, why don’t they have one in the museum. He also said that the hate crimes bill favor “zionists” because it would prevent people like him from speaking out against them.
OK, here’s the real deal on earth. The hate crimes bill affects Christians more because of our stance against the homosexual lifestyle with some of us openly disagreeing with it, calling it what it is, a sin. As far as the conspiracy theory, we can say a number of things about the government, but reeking havoc on it’s own citizens in this day in age is something I think they would not do.
By the way sir, I agree with you that Marvin ‘Doc’ Cheatem with the Baltimore Chapter NAACP does not speak for all Black people, however, neither do you. I should also continue on and let you know that you are probably the most entertaining ignorant person I know. As a matter of fact during your rant, part of it sounded like you don’t care for Jews, which I find offensive. I believe that you reap what you sow. If you sow hate, you are going to get it in return, and I mean from everyone…even Black people.
Brother Daren Mohammed of the “State of the City” radio show on WFBR, whose views are not that of the owner of WFBR, THANK GOD…you are…
I have been to Aberdeen and Havre De Grace, but I have never gone to Bel Air. That opportunity came earlier this evening when I spoke to the Republican Club of Harford County. I talked about the state and the direction of the Republican Party, a topic that I did not think I would be talkjing about, but as usual current events dictated things, especially with General Powell’s recent appearance on CBS. Thanks to the Republican Club of Harford County for the opportunity and your hospitality.
Annapolis Mayor Ellen Moyer is hosting a charrette, an intensive effort in other words, to solicit ideas to get Market House re-opened. It will happen this Friday at city hall starting at 9:30a.m.
The city regained control of Market House earlier this month from Market House Ventures LLC, but they did not leave with heavy pockets. The city had to pay $2.5 million to get out of a 20 year master lease.
The Mayor is hoping to have Market house re-opened at some point this summer.
Longtime Prince George’s Delegate Pauline Menes (D-Dist. 21) died over the weekend. She was 84.
The Baltimore Sun says that Menes was apart of the Democratic wave of 1966 that brought Ben Cardin and Paul Sarbanes to the House and Steny Hoyer to the state Senate. Cardin is holding the U.S. Senate seat that Sarbanes once held, while Hoyer is U.S. House Majority Leader.
Menes was born in New York, a graduate of Hunter College. She went on to become co-founder and first chair of the caucus of women legislators in Annapolis. In addition, she was also the first woman to sit on the House Judiciary Committee.
Her husband, Melvin Menes, preceded her in death in 2000. She is survived by three daughters.
In leiu of flowers, expressions of sympathies can be made to:
The Pauline Menes Fund at the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center
PO Box 719
Brooklandville, MD 21022-0719
A dozen women who work with Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold (R) came defended his character Friday. The Baltimore Sun say that the women organized the press conference without Leopold’s prompting and on their own personal time. WBAL-TV (Channel 11) reporter John Sherman gives a good recap.
As you can tell, the last couple of week’s I have been M.I.A. In case you were wondering why, I would kindly refer you to the information about this site to explain the outages. But to specifically address things, I am close to finishing my junior college tour and decided to concentrate on that.
First and foremost, I will look forward to seeing many of you at the Harford County Republican Club on May 26th. The meeting will be held at MaGerk’s Pub in Bel Air. Dinner starts at 6:00pm, The meeting will start at 6:30p.m. For more information, contact the President, Allison McCord at awmccord@comcast.net.
Here is the alleged handwritten note that was sent from Baltimore City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to Laura Richardson, who was the victim of a tongue lashing from Rawlings-Blake during a recent hearing on the Live Entertainment Bill that is not getting the support that the council envisioned. The PDF file was originally posted by the Baltimore Sun…but for those who don’t feel like downloading Acrobat, here it is.
No word on if the apology was received or accepted.
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is scheduled to appear on The Marc Steiner Show this evening at 5:00p.m. on WEAA (88.9FM). If you call in, tell them that you heard about from Maryland Politics Today where she was rated the Worst of Maryland for her exchange.
The Anne Arundel County Council is holding off voting on any potential changes to the slots proposal near Arundel Mills Mall until Councilman Ed Middlebrooks (R-Dist. 2) has recovered from neck surgery.
The Capital says that the consensus between slots friends, slots foes and the council is that all members should be present for the amendments in addition to the final vote.
Anne Arundel Senator Janet Greenip (R-Dist. 33) announced that she is retiring to spend more time with her family. The 61-year-old has one year left in her term and had been in office for 15 years., the first eight of those were in the House of Delegates.
