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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?

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...
a
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!

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."
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(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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