FEATURED JOBS
Comments (0)For several years now , I have been making very modest donations to various candidates that I felt worthy of my limited financial support. I gave donations to mostly state candidates , all Democrats . Most of them were local or statewide races, with some national candidates thrown in when I thought they were worthy [Al Franken] . One of the by-products that you receive from your donation is that your email gets forwarded to the campaign committee and you are then listed on the candidates list serve and you receive all the campaign info and it makes you engrossed and vested to the campaign. Good idea and it certainly beats those goddamn pain in the ass robo calls that do nothing but turn you off.
Last week , I got a campaign missive via email from none other than our Governor Martin O’Malley . Now ,I have never made a contribution to his campaign, so my info was sold to his minions and I’m already pissed off enough at him . This now makes it official. He is in full campaign mode and the email was all about his leadership ability to make the pending budget cuts that are being initiated . What a crock! This complaint is nothing new . I have been railing about the lack of leadership by O’Malley since I began the Organ , but this takes the cake . He has had three years to govern and instead of phasing in gradual cuts and reinventing the government in a way that would be beneficial . He , instead , has taken the axe out , and managed to slash , where no man has gone before . This , was after he did us a favor , by raising taxes , in his first year of his term . This guy has lost me . Unfortunately , he’ ll most likely be reelected easily , because there is no one viable enough to challenge him , let alone throw a scare into him.
Several weeks ago , I bumped into State senator Bobby Zirkin , and had a very interesting chat with him . He is not my Senator . I‘m in the 42nd District and my Senator is Jim Brochin . Zirkin is a big O’Malley supporter in the Legislature , and we talked about the upcoming session in January , when all these cuts will have to be approved for the fiscal budget of 2010-2011, and he told me that this session was going to be [in my words] a huge downer , and he was not looking forward to it . Now if this guy is one of O’Malley’s backers , can you imagine what the critics and cynics are going to be like? January in Annapolis is going to be like no previous session.
The other cause celebre, that I have been following , is the slots ripoff . Here’s the latest with that one . The City , which was given the right to choose it’s location , has moved to a bigger site , and the slots operators are going to build a upscale palace that could hold upwards of 50,000 bandits and will have an upscale dining and shopping facility attached to it . It will have a garage built next door , that will also , be utilized for Ravens and O’s games . This is unbelievable to me , that the slots commission will let this go through .The operators of this bonanza are not casino operators . The lead spokesperson is the former head of the state Democratic party . This thing is so huge that the forlorned owners of Laurel are bitching about the size because it might destroy competition with the Anne Arundel site. At this juncture , Laurel , can’t even bid on the Anne Arundel site , because they couldn’t pony up the application fee. So the one left holding the bag is the Cordish company , which still insists that the best site is by Arundel Mills Mall, even though the Anne Arundel County Council hasn’t cleared the way . I guess what , I’m trying to say and impart to you is that , this deal is for shit , and worse still is the Governor’s mishandling and support of this disaster Your governor has screwed this up from the very beginning and it just compounds daily. Michael Corleone running the casinos in Vegas , he aint .He’s more like Fredo Corleone .passing himself off as the Don.
Next time I get the email from our governor , I’ll be in touch.
