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Are Blacks Entitled to Have a Black President?

By Kenneth C. Rossignol

ST. MARY’S TODAY

This year marks the third time there has been a serious contender for President of the United States that is a black American.  The late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm was the first, the next was black activist Jesse Jackson and this year the third is within closing distance on locking up the Democratic Party nomination for President.

Because Sen. Barak Obama is a serious contender does that entitle blacks to have him as President and does it make those who vote against him racists? 

In the minds of many misguided and uneducated blacks the answer to this question is a resounding yes.

Blacks in America have been used to a special set of rules that applies to them, against them and for them.  These rules are mostly unfair and since unfair rules have been applied to blacks for decades and even centuries, somehow opportunist blacks who are indeed lazy and don’t want to earn their way in this world think that to even the score of massive injustice that all they have to do is be loud, obnoxious and persistent and the white world will hand them everything they want, just by throwing a tantrum.  They think so because it usually works. But that day is about to end.

The truth of the matter is that whites are barely a majority any more, since an influx of Latinos have snuck over the border, under the border or around the border and started having children at rates that exceed the number of black men who have headed into prison as they sought to take what it is that they don’t wish to work hard to earn, use drugs as a crutch or act as greedy street corner crack dealers.  

What the loudmouth blacks who would rather bloviate than work don’t realize is that there is a large contingent of whites who have learned from their black brothers and are duplicating their misadventures with about the same results, filling up subsidized housing projects, committing crimes and going to jail. 

While an impressive black middle class has emerged in this land led by hard-working God-fearing two-parent families who fill the temples and churches on Sundays in areas such as Prince George’s County, the bi-racial surge of low-achieving, chronic substance abusing lazaholics have spread out on the bottom layers of American society, unwilling to work, unwilling to achieve, unwilling to learn but mastering all of the finer elements of thug fashion, electronic wonderland and music.

The Rooster Society of both white and black races have evolved as they were put on the dole by liberal Democrat philosophies that it is better for a man to get a welfare check than it is to work for a living.

The women who act as breeders for these Roosters also learned that they can control the money by making sure the Rooster is out of the henhouse when the paymaster comes by to check on how many eggs have been hatched.

The more little chicks, the more feed for the Rooster.

Therefore, the money provided to the U.S. Treasury feed store by those who do work for a living gets put in the feed bins for the hens, the chicks and even the Roosters.
The blacks who want the white man to pay for everything for them will soon be presenting that argument to those of Asian and Latino descent, both of which are hard-working groups of people and not likely to think that now they have to bear the white man’s burden.

When you’ve been working for 25 years at two jobs and taking night classes in order to get ahead, buy your own business and raise your family, it’s going to be a tough sell to the Asians and Latinos, that now they have to take over running the feed store so the black and white roosters and hens can live off of those who earn.  Don’t even try to convince the hard-nosed black middle class they have to dig in their pockets to pay for the black and white breeders and roosters.

Obama has been handed everything to him on a platter by a guilt-ridden white society, his campaign is propped up by limousine liberal whites who likely rarely practice the principles of fair play and equal opportunity and simply embrace the theory. 

Obama’s campaign has been aided by the foul play of the politically correct Clinton machine, who now is drowning in their self-serving legacy of cheap tricks and politically correct manipulations which marked their actions in the 1990’s.  In short, they are getting what they deserve but don’t count them out.  They are tough, smart and resourceful and until they open her sleeping place and drive a silver stake through her heart, it is likely she will win the nomination before it’s all over.

But this is the first time that many blacks are paying attention to the election process and some think that this is “their turn” and if denied the presidency, they have been cheated one more time.

What these very foolish people don’t realize is that every time they espouse this view they lose votes for Obama. 

It must be pretty frustrating for the Obama campaign to have to deal with the many sloppy word choices of the candidate, his wife, his pastor and his campaign operatives, nearly matching the twisted verbal choices of the Clintons. 

The truth of the matter is that most voters are willing to vote for a black American to be president. But the views, opinions and likely actions are the chief factors that voters will consider.   Since Obama’s propensities are to raise taxes, play bridge with crazed dictators and ask his crazy pastor for advise on what to do about all the blacks who got AIDS from the government; his views are now becoming known to what had been an electorate very willing to hire him for the job.  But the interview is now revealing more about him than can stand a good, hard look.

While black voters appear ready to vote for this man even if he is revealed to have been with O. J. Simpson when the football player killed his wife and her white boyfriend, helped blow up the World Trade Center or is part of the Bin Laden glee club, other voters are not likely to drink the grape Kool-Aid. 

Does this make black voters wrong?  No, this is America and they can use any reason they want in deciding who to vote for, silly or high-minded, any reason is valid.  After all, we saw all the stupid Florida voters who thought later that they may not have voted for who they intended to vote for in 2000.

That is why when 90 percent of black voters show that they believe that the color of a man’s skin is more important than what is inside him when hiring for a job shows that they are simply practicing what has been perpetrated upon them for a long time.  Not right? No, but understandable.

The only way Obama will become president is if he can convince the voters that even though he stands with fruitcakes, he doesn’t really like them or partakes of the not-too tasty dessert. 

As long as Obama continues to reveal himself to have the views of an elitist, a Marxist and a religious opportunist, he will leak votes on a daily basis, until the last votes are counted at either the Democratic convention or the general election and find that when all is said and done he gets to keep the day job as a member of the U. S. Senate.

America will likely one day elect a black and a woman as President but it won’t be Obama or Clinton.  It will most likely be Condi Rice and when the time nears, the radical blacks, the mouthy and “the entitled” will forget about their disdain for her brains and her conservative views and once again will embrace her skin color.  But Rice will have earned the support of others for what she thinks, not because of her race.




Suspense Slithers to Bitter End; Bill to Gut Glut of Slots Sluts Slogs Through

ANNAPOLIS — When it came down to the last minute of this year’s session of the Maryland General Assembly it wasn’t the Fat Lady who sang but it was the Cash Cow, Del. Johnny Wood, who tried one last time to help out all of they mystery money of the unregulated and corruptible slot machine interests, but he failed. The House passed the Senate version of the dump out the illegal slots bill in the last 30 minutes of the session, according to Del. John L. Bohanan (D. Lexington Park).

An amendment by Del. Johnny Wood (D. Mechanicsville) was offered at about 11 pm Monday to make legal all the machines which were in place Feb. 28th, would have made legal statewide. Like most of Delegate Wood’s bills, a veteran delegate from St. Mary’s County who was demoted from being a committee chairman by current Speaker Michael Busch, the Wood, anything goes slot machine amendment failed on a 74-49 vote. A last minute amendment on Monday to make slots legal at any commercial bingo establishment, which essentially would have done the same thing as Wood’s amendment, passed but was then defeated in the last minutes of the session. Wood and other sleazy advocates for the illegal slot machine operatives in the House then began a strategy of talking to death every bill as it came up, effectively avoiding a filibuster but still slowing everything down to a snails pace.

The real deal now appears to be that ADF Bingo won’t have slot machines, that the corner casinos are out of business and will now have to go back to running businesses which serve their customers well without having a slot machine parlor. Charitable groups will be able to have the devices as long as all proceeds go to the charity and not to others.

Millions were made by slots mafia

While local yokels involved with various charities such as the Leonardtown Volunteer Fire Department, Little Flower School and the Mechanicsville Lions Club, groups which were suddenly laden with big bucks, enough to turn them into prostitutes for an illegal group of casino owners, all of which have vanished as fast as they appeared; the big money was unaccounted for and wound up being split up by characters as diverse as out of state slot machine kings, local saloon keepers and a guy who runs a business which makes claims that it saved three local schools from closing but the reality is, he and the bars which had them machines in place, were the ones making all the money.

The single most disappointing revelations about this sleazy drama was seeing really fine folks in this county empty their heads of all brains, put aside their scruples and ignore the reality that these slot machine kings were ripping everyone off, giving a minor tip to the charities and keeping millions for themselves. The gambling addicted were leaving behind their paychecks, the cheapskate parents who didn’t want to pay realistic tuition at Little Flower and the lazy firemen who, unlike the generations who have gone before them, won’t put out the work at the Leonardtown Carnival, were happy to take blood money to buy new fire trucks. What the hell is going on to have these fine people prostitute themselves to crooks and Mafioso’s, the way they did? Shame on Leonardtown’s fire department and rescue squad to hoodwink the people of Virginia into playing the machines at Coles Point Tavern. Shame on the Mechanicsville Lions who got $3600 while the slots kings split more than twenty thousand from the "Lions machines".

There have been at least four generations of heroes who have jumped from the beds and left their jobs to rush to the aid of others at Leonardtown VFD and the rescue squad over the years. What turned them into such whores now? They get a fire tax, they have the genuine respect and admiration of the community but they signed up on the side of crooks? The people of this county have supported their carnival over the years and many people who were too old or infirm to be firefighters worked at the carnival. True, the bloodsucker developers put in a huge injection of slum housing which provided a fresh round of hooliganism at the carnival, but the cops are paid to keep order and the fire department should have demanded they do their job.

All of the fraternal and civic groups are going downhill due to the selfish slobs of the younger generation who won’t volunteer and work the way their parents and grandparents did. Too bad, but having unregulated slots which produces money for paying off politicians isn’t the way to go.

Who the hell are the creeps from the Alternatives for Youth who showed up in Annapolis to say that poor little kids won’t get mental health services if this crooked business didn’t continue. It is quite likely that the overpaid staff of these blood-sucking and bloated "non-profits" saw a way to make more money. Who the hell was giving all of this counseling before the slot machines arrived last fall? Just more crap from the touchy-feely do-gooders who pad their own pockets at the expense of everyone else.

This wasn’t St. Mary’s County’s finest hour.

It is one thing to have legalized slot machines run by the State of Maryland, keeping all of the profits after payouts to players and putting the money into the General Fund or for education, where the usual subjects will steal the money by rigged bids and over-priced contracts, but to let this blatant corruption take place with real live church people waddling sideways as they attempted to keep their hand in the same till with crooks is beyond belief.


 

A Bionic Heart for Johnny Wood?

The end is near for this year’s session of the General Assembly and for yet one more year, Del. Johnny Wood is still fuming over being sacked as a committee chairman, where he used to do a lot of good for the county. But Johnny is still active enough to maintain his political support and two of the plotters for his job are Taxing Tommy Mattingly and the guy who wants to be the Benevolent Dictator for the county, John K. Parlett. With possible replacements like these guys, the voters ought to chip in for a bionic heart for Johnny Wood, with him not being a real tiger its better than having one of these guys as delegate. Others loom on the horizon, as many friends of Helen Dorsey urge her to run, as she has plenty of appeal and no baggage like the other three. Its only two years away and Wood is drying out, Mattingly is cooking his goose by doing his part to make sure taxes go up even more and Parletts attempt to once more put that lame charter government on the county, with himself taking the Throne of Government, makes it a wide open race.

The Republicans are sure signing up plenty of voters but they lack leadership. But Tom Haynie, the GOP chairman needs help. Republicans new to the county will find that there is a group of liberal Republicans like old Babs Thompson, who are really liberal Democrats. There are some Republicans who are so far to the right that the world they live is indeed flat. The Democrats are sinking fast and due to some of them being simply effluent, find that their natural composition makes it impossible for them to sink, instead they float.

Just 30 years ago, the Democrats outnumbered the Republicans by 4 to 1. Then Steny Hoyer did such a good job of moving military missions to area bases and the civilian and contractor work force turned out be mainly Republicans, as well as the folks fleeing the DC area, all change to the GOP.

Now we have about 20,000 of each party and about 8,000 independents. The independents could be Democrats but know better and still don’t sign up as Republicans. But they tend to vote Republican.

The best thing going for the local GOP is St. Mary’s Sheriff Tim Cameron and Commissioner Larry Jarboe. These two bright officials do a good job and are responsive to the people. They both have a good future with the voters.

The courthouse officials are also well established due to their performance. Register of Wills Diane McWilliams has filled in well and is now in her second term. Joannie Williams was well versed in the Clerk of the Court job serving under Evelyn Arnold and has a firm grip on her post. The Orphans Court Judges are solid with long-standing Judge Russ Cullins being put out to pasture last time, and not likely to try another time.

The states attorney would have been ditched in the last election but he was smart enough to figure out that the only pool of replacements came from the local bar, so he spent all his time intimidating them into not running. It worked, but next time will be different. John Mattingly is about as bright as they come, he is Fayreen’s grandson and would return the post to a level which was held by Walter B. Dorsey. Fritz has all his family income, his retirement and could return to representing drug dealers. If John A. Mattingly files, watch for Fritz to announce he will step down. He can’t take losing another election after the shellacking he took from the woman he bragged he would easily beat. Even Fritz’s own Republicans voted against him. Fritz, a clever attorney and yet polarizing figure, is one of the most difficult officials to understand. Blind ambition must be the only way to understand how such a promising lawyer became the chief shepherd to a rag tag army of good old boys stuck in a time warp of the seventies. Fritz must lead the way to shield them from being accountable for their speeding tickets, boozing, drugging and other petty crimes or he isn’t happy. An examination of the use of the prosecutorial discretion would yield a field day of high drama and backroom fixes. Fritz inherited a pretty good staff from Dorsey and was smart enough to keep people around to do the work for him, but they must have a hard time keeping a straight face with some of the people he likely orders to them to cut loose and to drop charges.

In any event, Fritz’s day has come and gone and its doubtful anyone really wants to see him charging out with his buddy Lyle Long, who he gave a job to after Long’s retirement as a cop, gave Long a big raise and even pays for his laundry bill for cleaning his expensive trenchcoat, if history is relevant. The boys can have fun for a while, maybe Fritz can clean his shotgun and the two can relive the annals of yesteryear, they could ride out to a local crackhouse and roust Knoxie, count the cash in his pockets and send him off to the big house once more, of course, with the media there to take pictures as the pair works the public one more time with the War on Drugs. There is no way we should legalize drugs, but can’t we manage to win a war once in awhile?

The drug-free zone signs near our schools were a joke the day they went up. Only in the past year does it appear that meaningful drug investigations are yielding real results. But then again, maybe its because Fritz and Long aren’t along for the ride.

Well, we shall find out what Wendell got in the next week, but its clear that no one who took the Loot from the Sheriff’s secure storage went to jail. No cop was charged, no one paid a fine, only the dumb black guys are going to jail, on drug charges, which the deserve. But what about the cops who stole a tractor-trailer load of loot? At least Voorhaar slinked away in disgrace while Capt. Crook stewed in a cash-lined pot while Sheriff Dave Zylak pondered what a real sheriff would do….and then did nothing.

Where’s the Loot? It was found but a taint will be on the local cops for a long time to come. Fritz was part of the cover up and failed to bring charges, his election campaign treasurer was the wife of the guy who took the loot. Gee, what do you call that?



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Huck Chucks Mitt; Thompson and McCain lag in GOP Iowa Vote


Hillary, dillary dock; the mouse ran down the clock, the voters struck one and Hillary was done...Hillary, dillary dock...

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virtually unknown black guy with a year's experience in the US Senate, came out of nowhere and POW, Batman, hit Clinton in the kisser....more than 2/3rds of Democrats in Iowa said NO to Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Barrack Obama might get his name put into spell checks all over America...Mike Huckabee cleaned the clocks of all the GOP candidates and put himself forward as the fresh new candidate, outside of Washington and able to hold the White House for the GOP.  Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee came from nowhere just a month ago and is well on his way to being president, much like the little known Governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, or the little known Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton, who both also came from nowhere to knock off Presidents Gerald Ford and for Clinton,  George Herbert Walker Bush, who had a 91 percent approval rating in June of 1991, in the November of 1992 general election.  Huckabee has a genuine article feel to him and has a down to earth oratory reminiscent of Ronald Reagan while Obama tries to do the JFK type of inspirational and visionary speech, drawing praise for his election night effort thanking his supporters.
Hill and Bill? or Obama, yo Momma!   
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Hillary's only hope to win is to name Bill Clinton as her vice-presidential choice, that would put him just a heart beat away from being president again...should Hillary make this choice, Clinton would become the first ex-president to win another office other than another term as president.  Grover Cleveland's two terms were not consecutive and FDR was elected to four terms.  It was President John Quincey Adams who won a seat in the U. S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts after he was president.   Hillary even lost among younger women while Iowa, which is 95 percent white, showed that Democrats in that state would easily choose to vote for a black man. Obama will now try to convince blacks, who didn't think he could win white votes, to drop Hillary and join him, in such states as South Carolina, which have a big percentage of the total Democrat vote, already committed to Hillary.

Sen. Joe Biden and Sen. Chris Dodd have dropped out after winning less votes than Harold Stassen, the late three-term Governor of Minnesota who ran for the GOP presidential nomination every year from 1948 to 1992.   Sen. John Edwards came in second, but who cares? The real story is that Hillary was trounced so badly just as the coronation was set to begin.  The Clintons should have switched us over to a constitutional monarchy when they had the chance. 

Iowa as a predictor of the final result?  Of the last four Presidents, three of them did not win the Iowa caucus vote.


the Maryland primary election is Tuesday, Feb. 12th...

Congressman Steny Hoyer is opposed in the Democratic primary by James Cusic.  If any Democrats or Republicans are worried about winning this state's presidential primary, it's sure hard to tell....Del. Anthony O'Donnell is helping Sen. Fred Thompson run his stealth campaign by making sure there is no visible indication that the candidate is even alive.
Watch for Obama supporters to bring on a big effort in Maryland, not just in the PG county and Baltimore City black-majority election districts but all over the state.  As Maryland politicians are noted for being quick to switch allegiance, lots of officials will soon dump Hillary and find a ticket to get on the back of the Obama bus.  Will the powerful O'Malley Administration stick with Hillary, whom Martin O'Malley committed to months ago, or will they drop her like a hot potato as O'Malley primps for a possible pick as Vice President. That move would make Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown the first black Governor of Maryland and only the third black governor in the nation, with the first, being former Governor Doug Wilder of Virginia, and the second taking place last year in Massachusetts, Governor Deval Patrick.
Will the Democratic ticket be Obama and O'Malley?  Why not have two inexperienced and ambitious men who have yet to be tested as the nation heads into more rough international waters filled with terrorists and world competitors intent on defeating the worlds only superpower.  The strongest GOP ticket?  Huckabee and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.   Or, Huckabee could team up with Romney, the way Reagan did with Bush.

Who is responsible for the insane real estate property assessments?  Are these silly doubling of property taxes the work of the Ehrlich Administration stooges left behind in the county assessment offices, party hacks like Sean Powell, the lackey of Hambone McKay who is the assessment officer in St. Mary's.  The O'Malley Administration is proving to be as inept as the Glendening Administration was in its first two years. But then, Glendening never dared raise taxes the way O'Malley has done.  Combined with the record tax hikes in the special session of the General Assembly last fall and the new property tax assessments, watch for Democrats to be tossed out in ways never imagined.  Ronald Reagan won Maryland in 1984, the state elected Republicans to local offices in a big way in 1994 and Republican Bobby Ehrlich won the Governor's post in 2002.  There is an equal registration for GOP and Democrats in St. Mary's and from this vantage point, times will be changing....
 

 

(12/09/07) "Now, Larry, my wife had some real good advise on how to deal with those pesky citizens like Clare who always pop off about county policies," said Jack No Terrier Russell. "She had those nosey busy-bodies wanting to know things about the finances of my boat-lab and what we were doing with the money. Can you imagine someone wanting to know what we were doing with the money, for God’s sake! Its a boat, spelled B-O-A-T, that's Break Out Another Thousand, a Boat, a hole in the water surrounded by wood into which one throws money. Hells bells, just going down the road in my stinky car bellowing out grease balls out the back end makes me smell like a sub shop when I get to a meeting. There is no smell like French fries. When I stop to pick up a case of beer for the boys at the dock, they all smell me coming before I come around the bend."

"So what was the big advise from Vicki," asked Larry. "I have to get back to the mill, I have a hydrogen bomb cooking and if I don’t hurry up and get back there might be a mushroom cloud rising over Charlotte Hall."

"Really, a bomb, what does one cost, I have a couple of things I’d like to blow up," said Dandy Dan Raley.

"That was a joke, Dan. Its not really a bomb, but it is hydrogen and I am working to put it in my car to save on gas, I’ll get 100 mph to the gallon after I get through cooking up my engine in my truck," said Commissioner Moonbeam.

"We could use a hydrogen bomb for that blasted boathouse," said Kenny. "We could sell tickets and have a fundraiser for my next campaign. How long does the mushroom cloud hang around?"

"We can’t joke about things like that, this room might be bugged and the Rag will put it all in the paper and that screaming ninny Maggie will be calling the ATF, the FBI, the SEC, the FCC and the Women's Temperance Union to come to the Walled City of Leonardtown and find us, cut off our heads and put them on pikes and parade around Leonard Hall," said Taxing Tommy Mattingly.

"Yeah, no joking about anything, no remarks about burning anything down, having anyone whacked or other inappropriate behavior, except some pinpoint flatulating at public events," said Jackie. "That is one advantage of my car, people are so used to the way I smell I don’t have to blame anything on the dog, I can blame it on the car."

"Can we have a commissioner’s fact finding trip to Alba, Italy and to Gambia to see the new St. Mary’s College campus that they built in those countries," asked Tommy. "I can go, I like to travel, I am good at it, I collect all the receipts for reimbursement and I find ways to really pad the bills, it makes for a little extra change to be able to afford this public life."

"Careful, Tommy, I swear this place is bugged," mumbled an unidentified commissioner. "In the old days you could make an extra $50,000 a year just taking envelopes with cash in it in return for good decisions. Now there are too many people watching and asking questions, ethics disclosures and paper trails....they take all the fun out being in office."

"I can’t stay in here if you all are going to talk like that," said Commissioner Moonbeam. "I know this place is bugged, hell’s bells, almost everyone of our secret meetings ends up in Cheap Shots and I can tell you who blabs, its’ Danny, its Kenny, its me, even Tommy talks, the only one who doesn’t is Jackie and that's because his wife won’t let him, she does all the talking."

"Well, is it true that there are big wine cellars, a 5 star hotel and special massage rooms at that Eye-Talion campus of the college?" asked Danny. "I could use a little trip to Italy, on business of course, and leave Ann home."

"How about Gambia, are they using waterboarding for political enemies like I read about in the Washington Post," asked Kenny. "Its a lot like that country over there in GitmoCuba, what a shame they are doing that to those poor Ragheads. Maybe we should go there and rescue them before they put them down the well again, hell that's what we did when we were kids, we just used to lower the girls down the bucket and then tied off the rope and left them there for a few hours until they got friendly again."

"Was that waterboarding, Kenny?" asked Moonbeam.

"Sure, what's wrong with it, it changed their behavior quick."

"Well, Kenny, we can’t go rescue those Ragheads at Gitmo, as we are the ones who are doing it," said Tommy.

"Well, it that case, stuff some more Ragheads down a well, its high time that stopped acting so damn weird," said Kenny.

"Wouldn’t that be called waterbucketing," asked Dandy Dan.

"Now you know why we shouldn't have these secret meetings," said Jackie. "We just get in even more trouble, my wife is going to go ballistic when she reads the Rag."

(9/27/07) “How come we don’t have any action in the Park,” said Dandy Dan Raley at the weekly secret backroom meeting of the St. Mary’s Commissioners.  “People are beginning to talk and you know what that means.”

“Yeah, we get to appoint 15 people to a task force and send them out to lunch a bunch of times and this time I want to be invited and I’m bringing my doggie bag,” said Commissioner Dement.

“I’m talking about Robin and why we don’t have anything going in Lexington Park,” said Dan. “We have more street lights burned out than ever, there are no decorations up along the roads at Christmas, our grand government scheme has systematically eliminated virtually all low income housing in Lexington Park and we are doing nothing but shoving the poor people around into a revolving door from one place to another and that damn Rag is starting to nail us for being so stupid, and lots of people agree.”
 “Don’t worry about a thing, Capt. Dan,” said Jack Russell (No Terrier).  “My wife is in my office at this very moment sending me text messages of what to say, just like she does at all the commissioner’s meeting, having these dang Blackberries is a lot better than trying to write all this Governmint stuff on my hand, I tried once and my notes ran right up my arm, across my chest and down to my other elbow.  It looked like I was scratching myself every time I wanted to check my notes.”

“Danny, we have Leonardtown making us look sick,” said Tommy Mattingly.  “In Leonardtown they have new businesses going up left and right, a new town hall, a huge new bank, another shopping center and Best Western, a new town waterfront development, new restaurants opening every month, more private investment than you can shake a stick at and what do we have in Lexington Park where we commissioners allowed Hambone to talk us into “urban renewal”. We don’t have a daggone thing in the Lexington Park development district.  Putting the new library across from the worst slum in town was really dumb, we have the crazy bums sleeping in the woods next to the library and having the firehouse next door is no help, heck Bay District is lucky to have some of the old guys around to run fires, they aren’t much to make the library safer.”

“I thought Robin Finnacom was the guru of modern government marvels,” said Commissioner Moonbeam Jarboe. “She was going to wrap up a developer into a model of public private partnership and twelve other buzz phrases of techno-speak eco-develop lingo.”

“Say what,” said Kenny.

“He said she was supposed to be a miracle worker,” said Dandy Dan,” but the only miracles she has performed is moving tax money into her paycheck.”

“How come Leonardtown has a 3-story motel with retail on the first floor replacing the old crack house motel and we can’t do anything but tear things down in Lexington Park?” said Mattingly.  “We tore down the old Lexington Park hotel and the whole block of retail stores.  We tore down a couple hundred cheap rent homes, we closed the library and rented out the fine brick building for a buck a year.  We didn’t even put it out on bid but the people of this county are so dumb no one ever held us to task for breaking the law.”

“Hey, be careful, that could still happen, but I had nothing to do with that, you boys pulled that one without me onboard,” said Jack Russell (No Terrier).

 “It was Hambone’s fault, it was all his idea,” said Mattingly.

“I see no reason to mince words here, after all this is a secret meeting and no one will find out what we are talking about back here in this secret meeting, “ said Dandy Dan. “As long as Larry keeps his mouth shut and doesn’t tell the Rag, we can talk about anything back here, after all, this is litigation, we can be sued for anything we say or do, so what’s wrong with talking about anything?”

“Dan, you know better than that and besides, I don’t have to tell the Rag nothing, they have this place bugged and have had it bugged for years, this whole meeting is likely going to be in the paper so I need to think up something bright to say so I look good,” said Larry.

“Well no one expects anything bright from me,” said Kenny, “I am no rocket scientist, I just told people to vote for me and I would listen to them, I never claimed I would understand anything. That works for me, I vote right a few times and there is no way I would ever vote for another tax hike after that damn 911 tax, but I listen to a few smart people and I vote right and people like me.  It helped to run against a stone communist and a woman with a squeaky voice.”

“Do you think we can hire those Leonardtown people to come down and show the Lexington Park crew how to rebuild an old worn out commercial area?” asked Dan.

“Why not just drop our option and let the owner sell to someone who knows what they are doing, like Rachelle Millison,” said Mattingly. “We have played developer and we have one side of town that has renovated buildings, retail space that stays full, nicely kept landscaped properties, new office buildings and attractive sidewalks and lighting.  Where we built the new street lights, they don’t work, we put in a new sidewalk in front of Lindas and no one from the county bothered to put in any trash containers, the weeds are back to growing through the cracks in the sidewalks and the word I have is that its going to be another two years for anything to be done.  The firehouse area looks like hell and we have bums bothering people at the Methodist Church. Its so bad even the soup kitchen moved.”

“How long did it take to build the Pentagon, the world’s largest building,” asked Kenny.

“Just two years, but don’t bring that up now, Kenny, it just makes what we have done look that much more stupid,” cautioned Commissioner Moonbeam.

“I’ve got it, lets turn the whole block into a ball field, I could have teams playing there every day, it would bring a crowd,” said Kenny.  “We could let Robin sell hot dogs to the crowd to make money.”

“Hey, we deserve some credit for Lexington Park, we have the Toyota dealer abandoning Great Mills Road to move up to Rt. 235, that’s good, isn’t it,” said Kenny.  

“NO, it just gives us another empty building along Great Mills Road,” said Danny.  “How much have we spent on options and this Lexington Park Development Corp.?”

“Shhhh.” Said Mattingly, “I’ll write it down, Larry is right, the Rag has this room bugged but I don’t think there is a camera in here.”

 

(12/02/07)  Wow. It’s hard to believe but the politicos are already out there assembling the wagons for the 2010 elections. Patty Robrecht is being mentioned as the Democratic Party standard bearer, at least for some Democrats, to replace Tommy Mattingly who will go on to Annapolis as delegate.

Johnny Wood, seeing that he will be beat in the primary will likely just switch to the GOP, which is about where his politics really lay. Then, Wood just might stay in the House of Delegates. But Patty will see 5 or 6 Democrats vying for the commissioner post serving Leonardtown and Hollywood. And in 1994 a GOP candidate mopped the floor with Democrat Joe Anderson, beating him by 3,000 votes. The GOP can still romp over any Democrat in this district, and in 2002, Joe Gass was beat by McKay, who only a Republican for about six months, formed a secret alliance with Democrats to beat out Vernon Gray and Gass. Republicans with a long memory paid McKay back big time last year, but old Hambone just couldn’t figure it out. That was just part of that story.

Danny Morris is considering running for county commissioner in that Hollywood / Leonardtown district and he is a hard worker, a good campaigner and by switching to Republican, he will be dragging along plenty of conservative Democrats who likely spend a lot of time voting Republican anyway. The liberal Democrats spend a lot of time driving the conservative Democrats out the party and then they just shake their heads wondering what happened every time the GOP wins an election.

The Democrats wouldn’t listen to advise that Zylak was not going to win reelection but the trouble with party people is that they put party ahead of logic, sensible decisions and good government. But both parties do it and so they are evenly stupid.

Both parties underestimate the ability of the citizen to make good choices, to know when an elected official is competent and when they are not. Look at Kenny Dement. A folksy old guy who just happens to have uncommonly good sense, not too much ability to express himself and enough sense to keep his mouth shut. He votes right. That’s why he will be elected again.

But Jackie Russell. Watch him as he votes on the Piney Point project where his vote is so important to the Baltimore developers who bought the property from the Seafarers union, Russell’s employer. Jackie is promised on this vote, but the more people understand his conflict, the harder it will be for him to vote. Jackie is going to have to make a full disclosure of who bought tickets to his Chesapeake Bay Lab fundraiser. The wheels and deals were all there and Jackie gets a paycheck from that non-profit boat. More potential for conflict. But nowhere is there more conflict than at Metcom. Who can figure why the residential rate payers are being squeezed for paying for upgrades to water storage and distribution for the big developers. Because they will get away with it.

 

 

 

                           

 

 

 
 

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