Culture of Corruption Watch: Democrat Baltimore mayor resigns
Charm City’s corruptocrat mayor finally resigned. But remember what I said about corruptocrat toe fungi: They never really go away! She’ll be able to run for office again in two years and she gets to keep her taxpayer-funded pension after raiding donations for the poor for her own personal shopping sprees.
After more than four years of investigation, and a month after a guilty verdict in the first corruption trial against her, Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors Wednesday in which she pledged to resign from office.
The move ends – temporarily at least – the public career of the city’s first female mayor and a longtime force in Baltimore politics. It also concludes a political and legal drama that has consumed the city for months.
“Today is a sad day,” Mayor Dixon said at a late afternoon press conference, unusually choked up for a woman who has long projected a tough-as-nails public image. “It is a cloud. But the sun comes out.”
Earlier in the day, Dixon had entered an Alford plea to one count of perjury – a charge related to prosecutors’ assertion that she had failed to disclose gifts from her former boyfriend and prominent Baltimore developer, Ronald Lipscomb. The Alford plea means that although Dixon does not admit guilt, she recognizes that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict her.
Mr. Lipscomb’s gifts were to be the subject of a trial scheduled to begin in March. Last month, in a separate trial, a jury convicted the mayor of taking for her own use gift cards donated for the city’s poor.
Under Wednesday’s agreement, prosecutors asked the court to strike last month’s guilty verdict and give Dixon probation before judgment – a legal status that means the mayor does not have a criminal conviction. She will serve no jail time, keep her $83,000 a year pension and after two years will be able to run again for office.
In return, the mayor has pledged to step down from office as of Feb. 4. Dixon will also receive four years of unsupervised probation, contribute 500 hours of community service, and donate $45,000 to charity.
She’ll be back.
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Newsbusters catches the Baltimore Sun whitewashing Dixon’s political affiliation: Name That Party!
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If the Party affiliation is not emblazoned in the headline, front page, above the fold, the Party is Democrat.
Can anybody imagine a Republican getting a similar deal? Of course not!
If leftists didn’t have double standards they would have no standards at all!
This begs the question, “What type of felony must a Democrat commit to lose their government pension?”
This is all so far past insane that we need to find a new word…
Another resume builder?
Taking from the poor and giving to the rich.
And I thought Dems were watch dogs for the poor!
Perhaps what Louisiana’s Edwin Edwards (
democratsocialist) said:“The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.”
…at which time the stupid voters will re-elect her because, you know, she gave so much money to chairty. What a gal!
WTH? Boy, that’ll sure take a bite out of crime! At least give her a taste of the Tazer, you know, for old times sake.
Does the mean she embezzled $450,000 and only has to pay 10%? Just wondering.
Really. Bizarro World. The support of a willing and compliant Press makes this all possible. I consider them enemy collaborators. I hope that honest historians document these times accurately and completely.
michelle, get breitbart and his staff to investigate the “journalists and media mouthpieces” to see which ones are corruptocrat accomplices before and after the fact. LET SOME SUN SHINE IN ON THESE SANCTIMONIOUS LEFTISTS USING THE 1ST AMENDMENT TO HIDE THEIR NEFARIOUS ACTIVITIES.
Former Nixon Atty Gen Eliot Richardson once related that when he told Nixon about the charges of Agnew’s career-long corruption, Richardson thought that the prez would be deeply shaken.
But Nixon replied, “Oh God, that doesn’t surprise me. All of the Maryland politicians are like that.”
Some things don’t change, I suppose.
Who picks the charity? Who wants to bet it will be ACORN, ACLU, or some such nonsense.
PBS News Hour said last night that she took $500 in gift cards. Surely that is not the whole story.
Perhaps, “Semprini” has an application here.
Ah yes.
Queue Freddie Mercury again.
This is now a daily event. Love it.
Uh, . . . New Black Panther Party?
The Democrats are undergoing complete renal failure, and the body is shutting down.
Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank tend to disagree with that statement.
Sad isn’t it? In the age of the pagan and narcissist only decency and honor offend.
Brit Hume offends
Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank are honored
But only for a little while.
As usual among politicians, she pretends to be the victim rather than the criminal.
If it looks like a Democrat, walks like a Democrat, talks like a Democrat–then it must be corrupt.
$83000 pension after conviction? Man I’m in the wrong line of work.
I didn’t see “corrupt politician” as a choice at career day. I would have signed up for that program.
Baltimore is 40 miles from Washington but in many ways they are much closer than that. She’ll be re-elected in a heartbeat.
She has taken lessons from Marion Barry.
Justice is not only blind,it’s stupid too. Why do you think we have so many corrupt politicians? This form of justice breeds these rotten crooks and then rewards them for being corrupt.
Stunning example of “business as usual” in Baltimore, a whole bunch of other state/city governments, and our entire Congress. When, oh when, will voters get the message that Dem politicians have only their own self interest in mind – screw the oath they swore.
Smoke crack, steal gift cards, verbally berate police officers checking your house for burglars, call Jews names, accuse white prosecutors of rape, lie to congress about conversations regarding taking over Illinois Senate seat, put bribe money in the freezer, advise prostitutes how to beat the system and how to use underage girls, voter fraud, housing fraud, corruption etc…
Its all good because we are discriminated against. Race hustlers and criminals just trying to make a living in a racist country that somehow elected a black president.
Next thing you know, they will say we hate Islam so Muslims are ok to blow us up in revenge. Oh, that happened already.
Ummm…it’s Baltimore. Party affiliation is pretty much a given.
Not true at all. Us elite-style Democrats in DC look down on the blue collar union-style Democrats in Baltimore.
Baltimore is like the slightly slow cousin of DC who you only see once a year. Sure, when we come over for Thanksgiving, we compliment them on their mean crab cake. But otherwise we sit in awkward silence, with nothing much to talk about, except maybe the ICC connector.
Stealing gift cards for the poor…From History of the World Part I :
F@$# the Poor !
Need I say NSFW ?
As she was crying during her news conference yesterday about how she was not upset about resigning, but about leaving behind her “wonderful staff”. Never once did or has she apologized for her actions that caused this mess.
Damn Chappy, you should do the cooking-show them how it’s done.
But I am having a problem with
elite-style- Democrats
What do you mean?
You mean the slightly, slow, inbred, Mennonite cousin?
Dixon: “Just try and stay out of my way. Just try! I’ll get you, my pretty and your little gift card, too!”
As a native Washingtionian who now lives in the Baltimore area I take offense to that remark. The Democrats in Maryland have successfully destroyed enough blue collar labor jobs in Baltimore and the surrounding areas that most of the union members in the Baltimore area are gov’t employees just as the DC area.
Baltimore is home to the Social Security Administration and HCFA (Health Care Financing Adm.) aka Medi-care.
So you “elite” sytle Dems are no longer so “elite”.
The industrial Eastern Side of Baltimore City and County look like the midwestern rust belt.
Bethlehem Shipyard – gone
GM Assembly Plant – gone and torn down long before Gov’t Motors took over.
Bethlehem Steel – now employs about 4000 where almost 30,000 once worked.
B&O Railroad – gone, now part of CSX and located in Jacksonville, FL.
Glenn L. Martin Co. (Martin-Marieta, now Lockheed Martin)manufacturer of aircraft – gone and a much smaller plant for some US Navy weapons in its place.
Need I say more.
Exactly!
There are:
Elitist Democrats;
Blue Collar Union Democrats;
Granola Cruncy Democrats;
Pervert Deviant Democrats.
We all secretly hate the others, but our hatred for good old American values and apple pie is stronger.
A polygamist marriage of convenience, if you will.
Wow…Chap. ….”our hatred for good old American values and applie pie is stronger…” Don’t quite know how to say what I want to say. Are you stating that DC Elite style Dems are blatantly anti-American?
It’s a great day for black America!
Congratulations black America! Another black hero! Maybe Harvard will name a scholarship after her.
How about:
The Sheila Dixon Excellence in Public Service Scholarship
You have to make at least 2 D’s along with all of your WF’s and F’s, and, of course, have to be oppressed.
You may have to be so oppressed that Sheila stole one of your poverty gift cards to get a new Gucci bag.
Now that’s oppressed! But don’t worry, you can still win the Nobel Peace prize, you can still be chairman of the RNC, and you can still be a mayor, and steal someone else’s gift card.
Keep up the good work black America. And keep voting Democrat!