Mayor Criticizes McDonough for 'Doomsday' Budget Support
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says budget cuts supported by Del. Pat McDonough would compromise city safety.
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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Thursday she has no interest in debating Del. Pat McDonough about safety isssues at the Inner Harbor.
"I think it would be probably more useful if he debated himself, and his Republican colleagues that supported the 'doomsday' budget," Rawlings-Blake said.
Gov. Martin O'Malley called a special session of the Maryland General Assembly this spring, and passed tax increases to avoid a state budget with more than $500 million in cuts. Republicans in the state legislature opposed holding the special session.
According to figures from the mayor's office, those cuts would have resulted in Baltimore eliminating positions for 92 police officers and 18 prosecutors in the State's Attorney's office, about 10 percent of that office's work force.
Earlier this month McDonough, a Republican who represents parts of Harford and Baltimore counties, called on Rawlings-Blake to resign because of "black youth mobs" terrorizing the area.
McDonough has since called for a televised debate with the mayor on the topic of safety in the city.
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betterbaltimoredev
11:10 am on Friday, June 1, 2012
The mayor is good at diverting attention from her spending priorities which leave the city's youth without summer jobs and recreation facilities. I mean, she and the "shadow government-BDC" just gave West Baltimore developers $48,000,000 in property tax relief and another $8,000,000 to developers of the 25th Street Station. She gives away monies faster than the resident tax payer can make up....or forced to make up with increases in water bills, etc. Blaming someone else seems to be the way this "7%" Mayor runs her office.
IamGayle
11:15 am on Friday, June 1, 2012
Again, how can she POSSIBLY JUSTIFY the MILLIONS of dollars in tax breaks for developers?? (Both local and out of MD) Even some of the folks who receive these tax breaks aren't quite sure why they're not paying. SRB is simply not capable of debating ANYONE. Stop with the poor mouthing and and asking us what we think SRB as hyou are clearly not interested in your citizens.
amdactivist
9:34 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012
Go watch these developers build their highrises and see who's working.. They also contribute heavily to the corrupt politicians.. All New americans working.. Illegals maybe?
RARE MARYLAND INDEPENDENT
11:19 am on Friday, June 1, 2012
Interesting the liberal media and democratic politicians have been stating "We need a national conversation about race."
We have someone asking for that conversation, yet now the democrats don't want to have that conversation.
What gives?
amdactivist
9:33 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012
McDonough asked for more patrolling at inner harbor... I dont remember him saying to cut the budget? Got a newsletter from this pitiful mayor saying that the right wing radicals are racist.. She is no asset to either party is she? McDonough told it like it was.. Whenever "black" is mentioned its now considered a racist word.. unbelievable. Wonder how this mayor reacts when her sharpton calls the mexican heritage Zimmerman a hate crime? They are the racist bigots not mcdonaugh or so called radicals..
John Clarke
10:58 am on Sunday, July 29, 2012
The safest thing that could happen in Baltimore city would be to totally remove the mayor from office as she is a detriment to the safety of the citizens of Baltimore.