Editorial - 25 Apr 2010
Padding Census with Displaced Prisoner Count a Black Eye for Maryland
W
e had to read the article "Baltimore will gain residents in prison count shift" twice.
Sometimes it's best to be first in the nation. Yet in the case of Maryland, we often end up embarrassing ourselves.
That's clearly the case here.
The notion that prison inmates should be used to pad the census statistics of their hometowns,
despite the fact that they no longer live there and will in many cases never live there again, is laughable.
It is just another shameless power grab by Baltimore City, P.G. County, and our entrenched Democrat Party Machine.
Maryland has, once again, hit yet another new low under Martin O'Malley.
Not only does the rest of the state have to suffer the consequences of the crime-prone citizens of Baltimore and P.G.,
but now those same jurisdictions will reap the benefit of their crime-ridden ways. They will get additional government
representation and the ability to enact yet more failed liberal social policies while at the same time bearing no
responsibility to care for the social, economical, emotional or infrastructure needs of the people they are counting.
The Democrats in the legislature have put into place legislation that will enable the city to send even more liberal
Democrat representatives (the only kind the city knows) to enact even more of the same failed legislation they've been
enacting for 50 years, leading to even more social chaos across the state and the nation. Just what we need.
Until now, politicians in both localities understood that the entire notion of displaced prisoners was an indication
of the immense failure of their policies, their hometowns, the residents of those jurisdictions and the politicians
themselves.
Only in the era of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Martin O'Malley would anyone even consider having the gall to enact
legislation to reward themselves for their obvious failures. The sheer number of prisoners from these two jurisdictions
is evidence of the failure of their politicians and their policies, and it's an abomination that these same miscreants
have found a legislative way to flip the situation, and a legislative ally in Governor O'Malley.
Editor - bethesite.com
