Showing posts with label Baltimore Mayoral Race. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baltimore Mayoral Race. Show all posts
8.16.2007
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5.29.2007
Andrew Smith for Mayor?
I am not even sure if third party mayoral candidate Andrew Smith has gotten himself on the ballot yet, or if he ever will.
I don't know what he looks like, who he voted for in the past three elections, where he lives, anything beyond the 4 simple points on his website, yet I find him to be the most appetizing mayoral candidate for Baltimore yet.
Why? From Smith's website.
Simple facts, but powerful in the vacuum of talking points from city pols. One word, REEVALUATE just makes my day. Now whether Smith means this in modest or radical terms, I am not concerned. Here is a man who sees the status quo is no longer working, and that a fundamental change in our THINKING about the "drug war" is necessary before any changes happen.
Its a shame the only one saying it has little chance to win in Baltimore, where the Democratic Primary picks the next Mayor.
I don't know what he looks like, who he voted for in the past three elections, where he lives, anything beyond the 4 simple points on his website, yet I find him to be the most appetizing mayoral candidate for Baltimore yet.
Why? From Smith's website.
Education
Baltimore's failure to invest in our children is a failure to invest in our future. The sorry state of our school system has created generations without hope who see the only way out as a life filled with drugs and guns.
Crime
Baltimore's infamous homicide rate is the direct result of the drug war that rages in our neighborhoods. Until we reevaluate the War on Drugs we will never get rid of the gunmen that terrorize our streets.
Simple facts, but powerful in the vacuum of talking points from city pols. One word, REEVALUATE just makes my day. Now whether Smith means this in modest or radical terms, I am not concerned. Here is a man who sees the status quo is no longer working, and that a fundamental change in our THINKING about the "drug war" is necessary before any changes happen.
Its a shame the only one saying it has little chance to win in Baltimore, where the Democratic Primary picks the next Mayor.
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