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Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« on: January 09, 2009, 03:32:13 PM »
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new_beawr  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jan-09-09 02:19 PM
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Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
 Advertisements [?]Source: Baltimore Sun

Baltimore Mayor Sheila A. Dixon was charged today in a 12-count indictment, according to the Maryland State Prosecutor's Office's Web site.

Dixon was charged with perjury, theft, fraudulent misappropriation and misconduct, stemming from gifts she received from former boyfriend and developer Ronald H. Lipscomb, who was also charged earlier this week.

Dixon has been the target of a nearly three-year probe by State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh into corruption at City Hall, an investigation that has centered on allegations that Dixon has used her office to award lucrative contracts to various people including her sister, her then-boyfriend and her former campaign chairman.

Dixon is expected to appear this afternoon at a news conference at the Clipper Mill offices of her attorney, Arnold M. Weiner.

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/b...

 
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musette_sf  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jan-09-09 02:26 PM
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2. i'm all for exposing corruption
 but honestly, doesn't this seem like just a bunch of petty political SOP BS? looks more like a smear of Dems to me.

while Bu$hCo remains unindicted for "awarding lucrative contracts" to Halliburton/KBR, Blackwater, Brown & Root, etc etc etc.

and the Bu$h Crime Family wrote the book on "awarding lucrative contracts".

just google "bush contract lucrative awards".

makes Mayor Dixon seem like a Sunday School teacher. 
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anotheryellowdog  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jan-09-09 03:51 PM
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10. Re: "...doesn't this seem like just a bunch of petty political SOP BS?"
 Au contraire! It would be both naive and hypocritical for us to assume corruption doesn't exist on our side of the fence. Even before Blago and now this, you don't have to look far for examples. Senator Reid, Speaker Pelosi and, with few notable exceptions (Dennis Kucinich being the most obvious), the entire 110th Bush ass-kissing Congress come to mind. Republicans are unique only in the degree of their greed, hypocrisy and bigotry. No one would like to see Bushco prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law more than I, but whether or not that happens, we as Democrats and thus the party of the rule of law and the Constitution have an obligation to keep our own house clean. Moral relativism has no place in a democratic republic.
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new_beawr  (1000+ posts)        Fri Jan-09-09 04:25 PM
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15. About the only thing I can say in favor of Democratic Party corruption is...
 it tends not to kill as many people.......Unless you want to count LBJ and Viet Nam
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3682175

They are in two minds as to whether this is bad or not. The concensus seems to be that while it is bad, the Republicans are worse.  How unexpected of DU. :-)
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2009, 03:37:37 PM »
Oh man.

The other yeller dog primitive has no idea.

No idea at all, of the corruption of the Democrat party since Aaron Burr.

When the final chapter of the history of the United States of America is all written, all wrapped up, I think those future historians will agree that the Democrat party was the most corrupt institution ever to exist in America. 

Even worse than organized crime.
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2009, 03:41:00 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on January 09, 2009, 03:37:37 PM
Oh man.

The other yeller dog primitive has no idea.

No idea at all, of the corruption of the Democrat party since Aaron Burr.

When the final chapter of the history of the United States of America is all written, all wrapped up, I think those future historians will agree that the Democrat party was the most corrupt institution ever to exist in America. 

Even worse than organized crime.

Wasn't Capone a Democrat?

LOL
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2009, 03:47:05 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on January 09, 2009, 03:41:00 PM
Wasn't Capone a Democrat?

LOL

Al Capone was a piker, a rank amateur, compared with the Democrat big city bosses of yesteryear and even today.  Ditto for Charles "Lucky" Luciano and the rest of them.
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2009, 03:55:17 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on January 09, 2009, 03:37:37 PM
Oh man.

The other yeller dog primitive has no idea.

No idea at all, of the corruption of the Democrat party since Aaron Burr.

When the final chapter of the history of the United States of America is all written, all wrapped up, I think those future historians will agree that the Democrat party was the most corrupt institution ever to exist in America. 

Even worse than organized crime.


The Demonrats ARE organized crime.
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2009, 03:59:30 PM »
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15. About the only thing I can say in favor of Democratic Party corruption is it tends not to kill as many people......

Well then, I suppose standing by while others are being killed doesn't count against you,......... unless you're a Republican, of course.

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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2009, 04:08:54 PM »
Quote from: USA4ME on January 09, 2009, 03:59:30 PM
Well then, I suppose standing by while others are being killed doesn't count against you,......... unless you're a Republican, of course.

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That's about the size of it...  For the DUmmies anyway.
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2009, 04:21:48 PM »
The infallible law of a non-partisan politician: when a democrat is corrupt or indicted the MSM magically makes them non-partisan.
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2009, 05:45:46 PM »
Baltimore, like almost every large city, is a Dem satrapy.  When you have uninterrupted one-party control for very extended periods, it would be a miracle if the place wasn't rancid with corruption...and Baltimore is no miracle.
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2009, 06:00:33 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on January 09, 2009, 03:41:00 PM
Wasn't Capone a Democrat?

LOL

All Irish immigrants were democrats. You could be killed if you weren't. I (my generation of brothers and cousins*) may be the 1st in my entire family, which is from the Appalachian region, that votes Republican.



*my brother is not my cousin :-)
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2009, 06:10:12 PM »
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musette_sf  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jan-09-09 02:26 PM
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2. i'm all for exposing corruption
 but honestly, doesn't this seem like just a bunch of petty political SOP BS? looks more like a smear of Dems to me.

while Bu$hCo remains unindicted for "awarding lucrative contracts" to Halliburton/KBR, Blackwater, Brown & Root, etc etc etc.

and the Bu$h Crime Family wrote the book on "awarding lucrative contracts".

just google "bush contract lucrative awards".

makes Mayor Dixon seem like a Sunday School teacher. 

You can always trust one of these idiots to try and change the subject.  :whatever:

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musette_sf  (1000+ posts)      Fri Jan-09-09 02:26 PM
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2. i'm all for exposing corruption but honestly, doesn't this seem like just a bunch of petty political SOP BS?
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Dixon was charged with perjury, theft, fraudulent misappropriation and misconduct,

Yeah, sure looks that way to me.  Poor Sheila Dixon.
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2009, 06:15:18 PM »
Quote from: Chris on January 09, 2009, 06:10:12 PM
You can always trust one of these idiots to try and change the subject.  :whatever:

Yeah, sure looks that way to me.  Poor Sheila Dixon.
How could you Chris?



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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2009, 07:13:28 PM »
Yeah its always the Conservatives that leave 90 K frozen in the basement freezer or have faulty real estate deals in Nevada or find their city underwater after 3 days warning or their mayors impeached.
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2009, 09:56:22 PM »
Not only was Dixon corrupt, she was in your face corrupt according to all accounts. Of course the Dems always are. I wonder what sweet little San Fran Nan has to say about her daddy's town now?
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2009, 10:43:05 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on January 09, 2009, 05:45:46 PM
Baltimore, like almost every large city, is a Dem satrapy.  When you have uninterrupted one-party control for very extended periods, it would be a miracle if the place wasn't rancid with corruption...and Baltimore is no miracle.
The sad thing is this isn't even has as bad as their school system.  They could literally turn the kids in to the street to learn what they may and the kids would wind up with a better education.  Baltimore public schools are at least on par with DC public schools.
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #15 on: January 10, 2009, 07:12:43 AM »
Quote from: Tucker13 on January 09, 2009, 06:00:33 PM
All Irish immigrants were democrats. You could be killed if you weren't. I (my generation of brothers and cousins*) may be the 1st in my entire family, which is from the Appalachian region, that votes Republican.



*my brother is not my cousin :-)

Probably not a stretch.  Go to some Irish Catholic homes in Boston and you'll see larger shrines to Bobby and John Kennedy than to Jesus.
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #16 on: January 10, 2009, 10:36:06 AM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on January 09, 2009, 09:56:22 PM
Not only was Dixon corrupt, she was in your face corrupt according to all accounts.

Why did that raise the hair on the back of my neck? Why did that send me off on a search of the net? Why wasn't there a picture of her with the story? Yep....just what I thought.....she's black.

Go ahead, call me racist, but after you live with blacks in positions of power for awhile you get these....these....feelings.
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #17 on: January 19, 2009, 10:33:05 AM »

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Dixon present at Obama's address, but not mentioned
Mayor attends president-elect's tour stop without acknowledgement

By Gadi Dechter | gadi.dechter@baltsun.com
    6:52 PM EST, January 17, 2009

At the start of Barack Obama's whistle stop tour to Washington today, the president-elect hailed the "outstanding" mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter. In Wilmington, he acknowledged Mayor James M. Baker by name.

Not so in Baltimore.

Mayor Sheila Dixon was one of thousands of Obama supporters braving hours of sub-freezing temperatures to greet him at War Memorial Plaza. "It's an extremely huge deal for me," she said in an interview before Obama's address. "Words can't describe how ecstatic we are."

But even as he gazed at City Hall, the man who will be the nation's first black president did not acknowledge that Baltimore's first black female mayor was in attendance. ... Officially, the line from both the Obama and Dixon camps was that the 12-count indictment levied by a state prosecutor against the mayor last week had no impact on the ceremony.

Demaune Millard, Dixon's chief of staff, said the indictment, which includes charges of theft and perjury, never came up in conversations between the mayor's office and the inaugural committee organizing Obama's triumphant train trip to the White House.

Chris Mather, a spokeswoman for the inaugural committee, deflected questions about Dixon, insisting that the team's entire focus was on "renewing America's promise."
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Dixon endorsed Obama almost a year ago today, before the Illinois senator was the front-runner. On Jan. 22 last year, at an historic Baltimore church once used as a safe house for slaves, Dixon said Obama's election would help fulfill the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dreams. Today, she repeated that hope and expressed her pride in taking her children to see Obama speak in person. ....
That's not the Sheila Dixon I knew.
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2009, 11:36:18 AM »
Is there room under that bus? I can see the tiremarks on her back from here :-)
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2009, 11:43:24 AM »
Even the HuffPo ran this. Ouch :-) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/09/baltimore-mayor-sheila-di_n_156687.html

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BALTIMORE — Mayor Sheila Dixon was indicted Friday on charges that she accepted illegal gifts during her time as mayor and City Council president, including travel, fur coats and gift cards intended for the poor that she allegedly used instead for a holiday shopping spree.


The State Prosecutor's Office, which has been investigating corruption at City Hall for nearly three years, said Dixon received holiday gift cards for four years from several people. Prosecutors said the gift cards were to be distributed to needy families, but were instead used by Dixon to buy electronics _ including an Xbox, a PlayStation 2 and a camcorder _ clothes and other merchandise and also handed out to members of her staff.

"I am being unfairly accused," Dixon said in a statement. "Time will prove that I have done nothing wrong, and I am confident that I will be found innocent of these charges."
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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #20 on: January 19, 2009, 11:51:24 AM »
The mayor of Pittsburgh is named Ravenstahl and as joke for the game yesterday he was changing his name to Steelerstahl.

Someone on the radio commented "he could change his name to "Toiletstahl" and he'd still have a better name than the mayor of Baltimore.   :-)

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Re: Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted
« Reply #21 on: January 19, 2009, 09:53:27 PM »
Lets not forget Portlands mayor. Democrat Party of Corruption strikes again
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