Saturday, August 31, 2019
Larry Elder - Obama made MANY Racist Remarks while 'president', BUT President Trump plays the Race Card?
Larry Elder - Obama made MANY Racist Remarks while 'president', BUT President Trump plays the Race Card?
Mayor of Baltimore - CONTROLLED by Democrats
Mayors of Baltimore - Since 1967 the City of Baltimore has been CONTROLLED by DEMOCRATS and from 1947 to 1963 Controlled by Democrats
This is a list of mayors of Baltimore, Maryland.
| Mayor | Term Began | Term Ended | Political Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Calhoun | 1794 | 1804 | |
| Thorowgood Smith | 1804 | 1808 | |
| Edward Johnson | 1808 | 1816 | |
| George Stiles | 1816 | 1819 | |
| Edward Johnson | 1819 | 1820 | |
| John Montgomery | 1820 | 1822 | |
| Edward Johnson | 1822 | 1824 | |
| John Montgomery | 1824 | 1826 | |
| Jacob Small | 1826 | 1831 | |
| William Steuart | 1831 | 1832 | |
| Jesse Hunt | 1832 | 1835 | |
| Samuel Smith | 1835 | 1838 | Democrat |
| Sheppard C. Leakin | 1838 | 1840 | |
| Samuel Brady | 1840 | 1842 | |
| Solomon Hillen, Jr. | 1842 | 1843 | Democrat |
| James O. Law | 1843 | 1844 | |
| Jacob G. Davies | 1844 | 1848 | |
| Elijah Stansbury, Jr. | 1848 | 1850 | |
| John Hanson Thomas Jerome | 1850 | 1852 | |
| John Smith Hollins | 1852 | 1854 | |
| Samuel Hinks | 1854 | 1856 | American |
| Thomas Swann | 1856 | 1860 | American |
| George William Brown | 1860 | 1861 | |
| John C. Blackburn | 1861 | 1862 | |
| John Lee Chapman | 1862 | 1867 | |
| Robert T. Banks | 1867 | 1871 | |
| Joshua Van Sant | 1871 | 1875 | Democrat |
| Ferdinand C. Latrobe | 1875 | 1877 | Democrat |
| George Proctor Kane | 1877 | 1878 | |
| Ferdinand C. Latrobe | 1878 | 1881 | Democrat |
| William P. Whyte | 1881 | 1883 | Democrat |
| Ferdinand C. Latrobe | 1883 | 1885 | Democrat |
| James Hodges | 1885 | 1887 | |
| Ferdinand C. Latrobe | 1887 | 1889 | Democrat |
| Robert C. Davidson | 1889 | 1891 | |
| Ferdinand C. Latrobe | 1891 | 1895 | Democrat |
| Alcaeus Hooper | 1895 | 1897 | Republican |
| William T. Malster | 1897 | 1899 | Democrat |
| Thomas Gordon Hayes | 1899 | 1903 | |
| Robert McLane | 1903 | 1904 | Democrat |
| E. Clay Timanus | 1904 | 1907 | Republican |
| J. Barry Mahool | 1907 | 1911 | Democrat |
| James H. Preston | 1911 | 1919 | Democrat |
| William Frederick Broening | 1919 | 1923 | Republican |
| Howard W. Jackson | 1923 | 1927 | Democrat |
| William Frederick Broening | 1927 | 1931 | Republican |
| Howard W. Jackson | 1931 | 1943 | Democrat |
| Theodore R. McKeldin | 1943 | 1947 | Republican |
| Thomas L. J. D'Alesandro, Jr. | 1947 | 1959 | Democrat |
| J. Harold Grady | 1959 | 1962 | Democrat |
| Philip H. Goodman | 1962 | 1963 | Democrat |
| Theodore R. McKeldin | 1963 | 1967 | Republican |
| Thomas L. J. D'Alesandro III | 1967 | 1971 | Democrat |
| William Donald Schaefer | 1971 | 1987 | Democrat |
| Clarence H. Burns | January 26, 1987 | December, 1987 | Democrat |
| Kurt L. Schmoke | December, 1987 | December 7, 1999 | Democrat |
| Martin J. O'Malley | December 7, 1999 | January 17, 2007 | Democrat |
| Sheila Dixon | January 17, 2007 | February 4, 2010 | Democrat |
| Stephanie Rawlings-Blake | February 4, 2010 | – |
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Catherine E. Pugh 2016 2019 Democrat
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Arrogant NY City Mayor DeBlasio - De Blasio’s ‘arrogance’ is killing his policy initiatives: critics
Arrogant NY City Mayor DeBlasio
De Blasio’s ‘arrogance’ is killing his policy initiatives: critics
‘The mayor’s close staff are very arrogant and not responsive. I personally believe we have an absentee mayor’
- State Sen. Tony Avella
There’s only one person Mayor de Blasio listens to, his critics' charge — and that’s Mayor de Blasio.
The mayor pledged to tackle the city’s housing crisis — one of the lynchpins of his campaign — by creating or preserving 200,000 affordable apartments for half a million people over the next decade.
De Blasio’s team, led by Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen, developed a $41 billion plan with zoning changes and incentives to spur development.
But thanks to an arrogance that critics say is typical of de Blasio’s management style, community-board leaders in all five boroughs sacked the plan.
Tenant organizer Michael McKee attended two meetings last spring with Glen, city Housing Commissioner Vicki Been and three dozen real-estate industry and community leaders at City Hall.
He said so many people attended the “cattle calls,” he couldn’t get a word in.
“No one asked me my opinion about this, and I had real concerns with the mayor’s proposal,” he said. “People were complaining about how it could unleash the forces of gentrification in low-income communities.”
Another advocate privately warned de Blasio last year the apartments’ income requirements were too high for the poor.
De Blasio promised to adjust the plan and asked for support. But when administration officials released the blueprint in July with few alterations, advocates howled.
“We are all supporters of Bill de Blasio, but I have serious concerns about it,” said McKee. “There’s just been so much botching. The way they roll everything out is f–ked up.”
Now de Blasio is trying to pressure City Council members to push the housing plan through. The miscalculation has left lawmakers “shaking their heads.”
“This is the mayor’s most important campaign promise, and it’s getting voted down right and left,” grumbled one member.
“They didn’t do any groundwork or reach out to people or communicate it. The only opportunity for feedback was voting no.”
De Blasio insisted Thursday he will win over the public.
“When I go out and explain it, when we listen to people’s concerns and answer them and we show them how their concerns are actually being met, a lot of people’s minds change,” he told reporters last week.
But the mayor’s record of unilateral miscues suggests otherwise.
“The mayor has this horrible trait [of] thinking he knows what’s best for everybody, and his people either tell him what he wants to hear or tell him nothing at all,” said political consultant Susan Del Percio.
“They’re only calling in like-minded people, who would agree with the mayor’s agenda.”
De Blasio has held two invitation-only town-hall meetings in the past two years. On issues from carriage horses to Uber, he’s been forced to back down when unilateral decisions were opposed.
Queen's state Sen. Tony Avella, a Democrat who served in the council with De Blasio, tried to warn the mayor about the homeless crisis but said his calls and letters to City Hall were ignored.
“The mayor’s close staff are very arrogant and not responsive,” said Avella. “I personally believe we have an absentee mayor.”
Source: https://nypost.com/2015/12/13/city-officials-tired-of-absentee-de-blasios-arrogance/
Elizabeth Warren Complaints about the cost of College for Students, Remember when she was paid $400,000 to Teach one Class?
Elizabeth Warren Complaints about the cost of College for Students, Remember when she was paid $400,000 to Teach one Class?
Elizabeth Warren got nearly $430,000 teaching at Harvard
By ANDREW MIGA, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren was paid $429,981 as a Harvard law professor from 2010 to 2011 and got nearly $134,000 in consulting fees on legal cases in 2010.
Warren's new personal financial disclosure report filed recently with the Senate shows she got $90,000 from a Florida law firm for her work as an expert witness against credit card companies in an antitrust case.
She also got $43,938 in consulting fees from Travelers Insurance on a legal case involving asbestos victims. Warren worked defending Travelers in a Supreme Court case involving a mining company that set up a trust fund for asbestos victims.
Warren, a bankruptcy expert, argued that the insurance company should be protected from future lawsuits from victims because such suits would prevent similar trusts from being created, making it impossible for all victims to be paid.
"Elizabeth served as a consultant and wanted to ensure that all victims got a fair shake and had an equal chance to get paid," Warren spokesman Kyle Sullivan said in a statement. "That is why she supported all insurance proceeds being put in a trust rather than fighting lawsuit-by-lawsuit until the money ran out."
The case drew scrutiny in the Senate race last year after a Boston Herald story on Warren's role.
Aspen Publishers in New York paid Warren $136,946 in royalties during 2010 and 2011 for books such as "Chapter 11: Reorganizing American Businesses" and "Bankruptcy and Article 9."
The report does not provide salary figures for Warren's recent government jobs. But her campaign said she was paid $192,722 during the period from 2008 to 2010 for heading the congressional panel that oversaw the government's bank bailout. She launched the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for President Barack Obama, earning an annual salary of $165,300 from September 2010 to July 2011, her campaign said.
Warren and her husband, Bruce Mann, who also teaches at Harvard, have financial investments, bank accounts and other various holdings worth more than $3 million, the report showed. They have several mutual fund investments through TIAA-CREF, the financial services company. Warren's holdings include IBM Corp. stock valued at between $100,000 and $250,000.
Warren said her home near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass., is worth between $1 million and $5 million. She rented it out for a few months while she was working in Washington, earning between $5,000 and $15,000.
The longtime consumer advocate, who is on leave from her Harvard teaching job, is the Democratic favorite to challenge Republican Sen. Scott Brown. Brown is seeking his first full six-year term after winning the special election in 2010 for the seat formerly held by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.
The issue of personal wealth is expected to play a prime role in what is shaping up as one of the biggest Senate races in the country this year. Outside groups are expected to pour tens of millions of dollars in TV ads into the race. Brown holds one of the few Republican seats that Democrats believe they can flip in 2012 as they try to keep control of their narrow Senate margin.
Warren has cast herself as a crusader on behalf of the middle class against Wall Street abuses, while conservatives have attacked her as an out-of-touch liberal from Harvard. Brown has painted himself as a moderate Republican, but Democrats say he's too beholden to powerful Wall Street interests who they say have lined up behind the Republican freshman.
Brown's financial disclosure form filed last spring showed received a $700,000 advance from publishers HarperCollins for his memoir "Against All Odds" that told of his rise from a hardscrabble childhood to the Senate and revealed he was sexually abused as a child. Brown earns a base pay of $174,000 as a U.S. senator.
Brown and his wife, Gail Huff, reported owning a home in Wrentham, a law office and three rental condos in Boston. He reported assets between about $1 million and $2.3 million, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks money and influence in politics.
Source: https://www.masslive.com/politics/2012/01/elizabeth_warren_got_nearly_43.html
Puerto Rican Government is Corrupt - ‘Inept’ Puerto Rican government ‘riddled with corruption’
Puerto Rican Government is Corrupt
‘Inept’ Puerto Rican government ‘riddled with corruption’: CEO
September 30, 2017
Jorge Rodriguez, 49, is the Harvard-educated CEO of PACIV, an international engineering firm based in Puerto Rico that works with the medical and pharmaceutical sectors. The Puerto Rican-born engineer says he has dispatched 50 engineers to help FEMA rehabilitate the devastated island — a commonwealth of the United States — after Hurricane Maria. He refuses to work with the local government, which he called inept and riddled with corruption.
For the last 30 years, the Puerto Rican government has been completely inept at handling regular societal needs, so I just don’t see it functioning in a crisis like this one. Even before the hurricane hit, water and power systems were already broken. And our $118 billion debt crisis is a result of government corruption and mismanagement.
The governor Ricardo Rossello has little experience. He’s 36 and never really held a job and never dealt with a budget. His entire administration is totally inexperienced and they have no clue how to handle a crisis of this magnitude.
For instance, shortly after the hurricane hit, the government imposed a curfew from 6 pm to 6 am and then changed it. Now, it’s 7 pm to 5 am and makes no sense. The curfew has prevented fuel trucks from transporting their loads. These trucks should have been allowed to run for 24 hours to address our needs, but they have been stalled, and so we have massive lines at gas stations and severe shortages of diesel at our hospitals and supermarkets.
I’m really tired of Puerto Rican government officials blaming the federal government for their woes and for not acting fast enough to help people on the island. Last week I had three federal agents in my office and I was so embarrassed; I went out of my way to apologize to them for the attitude of my government and what they have been saying about the US response. When the hurricane hit we had experts from FEMA from all over the US on the ground and I was really proud of their quick response. The first responders and FEMA have all been outstanding in this crisis and should be supported.
I have 50 engineers that I have sent out pro bono to help local companies get back on their feet. This includes getting people gasoline and cash and helping them connect to others that can assist with repairs without delays.
I won’t allow my people to work with the local government.
I have a message for the U.S. Congress: Watch out what relief funds you approve and let our local government handle. Don’t let the Puerto Rican government play the victim and fool you. They have no clue what they are doing, and I worry that they will mishandle anything that comes their way.
They don’t need another aircraft carrier. They need experienced people to run a proper disaster command center.
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