Editorial - 15 Jan 2012
Democrat Party Corruption in Maryland
I t's getting increasingly difficult to keep up with all of the local scandals of the Democrat Party. Let us see if we have this right:
Governor O'Malley appoints campaign contributor Richard Stewart to the Governor's Redistricting Advisory Commission, and Stewart is soon thereafter convicted for cheating on his taxes. Apparently, while Stewart was contributing money to O'Malley he was not paying the taxes he owed to the government.
State Sen. Ulysses Currie is found not-guilty of extortion and conspiracy charges by a jury that accepted his defense that he is too stupid to function as a human and therefore too stupid to conspire to do anything more complicated than changing his clothes. Absurdly, a string of high level Maryland politicians lined up as defense witnesses to testify that yes, in fact, Mr. Curry is just about as dumb as a human can be, and couldn't possibly formulate any type of plan to do anything complicated. Apparently 32,000 residents of PG County think Curry is smarter than they are, because that’s how many people voted for him in the last election. And Senate President Mike Miller thinks he's pretty smart too, because among his other committee assignments he's the Chairman of the powerful Budget and Taxation Committee. Oh, and the man whose criminal defense is that he's as dumb as a rock also worked for 25 years as an educator in the Prince George's County Public Schools.
A third Democrat, Anne Arundel County Councilman Daryl Jones, was sentenced to five months in prison for failing to file 35 tax returns between 2002-2007, resulting in over $100,000 owed to the IRS. Currently, Jones and other members of the powerful Democrat Party are trying to find ways to allow Jones to continue to represent his constituents while serving time. Some of Jones's supporters have no problem with the fact that he raises their taxes while not paying his own taxes, and are urging him to retain his seat during and after his prison term. Among those who feel this way is Carl Snowden, who we'll read about next.
Snowden, the Civil Rights director of the Maryland Attorney General's Office, remains on the job while fighting against a jail sentence for his second DWI conviction in seven years. It was Snowden's fourth arrest, and second conviction for Driving while Intoxicated. Obviously, Marylander's lives are in jeopardy whenever Mr. Snowden is within ten feet of a car, yet we continue to pay his salary and lavish him with awards.
A fifth Democrat, Annapolis Alderman Kenneth A. Kirby, started the new year being rounded up in a public housing complex drug sting. Nobody yet appears able to piece together the details as to how Mr. Kirby was able to live in public housing while poor families face a two year waiting list, or the complex inter-family relationships that resulted in Kirby living there and being rounded up in a family operated drug sting. As bad timing would have it, the most recent version of this article appeared on the same day Governor O'Malley announced an additional $15 million for public housing initiatives state wide. Perhaps $1 million for an audit of public housing tenants would have been more appropriate.
2011 was a horrible year for Democrat political scandals in Maryland. 2012 is shaping up to be even worse. Author Frank Herbert once said "Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible."
In the Democrat dominated state of Maryland, we are witnessing case after case of absolute corruption by a political party drunk with power, incompetence and greed.
Editor - bethesite.com
