Time waits for no one and it won't wait for Catherine Pugh, Mayor of Baltimore
I first wondered whether or not there was a "Healthy Holly" book on how to act in the presence of police.
Anyway, this morning I thought about this in terms of this Rolling Stones song. She can put it off, but she's going to have to resign.
And I've had bronchitis before, I was very sick, but fully lucid... "Pugh Attorney: She Is Not Lucid Enough To Decide Whether To Resign," WBAL-radio).
Labels: ethics, governance, government oversight
posted by Richard Layman @ 9:18 AM&Permanent Link
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Also goes to why it is hard to be a third party.
Politics is a career.
You've got to spend most of your 20-30 going to public meetings and dealing with a lot of crap. Kills your social life. Not fun.
And once you get in, you need to move up the food chain.
Baltimore is a exemplar in that party politics has completely failed the city. Entire political class needs to be removed, permanently.
And yet third party movements won't move up -- and one reason if if you could be city council or mayor as a third party you're not moving up further.
practicality vs. theory.
Incisive point as always...
Unless, in the parliamentary system, you can finally grow to a preponderance, like in German states or PEI.
3 Green Party seats helped the NDP form a majority in BC, but still the NDP stymies them when they can...
So yes, you're very much right.
(Ruefully)
I guess the point is that the secondary party affiliation always has to be secondary to the primary affiliation, but a
Democrat/Green or a Democrat/Social Democracy kind of sub-caucus could be made more prominent and direct as part of the election process, as opposed to caucuses created within the legislation.
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and yep, not being into that kind of stuff, party meetings, etc., is why ultimately I didn't go that route.
Politico had a good piece on why AOC is so hated in NYC -- and that is basically it. She skipped that 20+ years and just did it on twitter.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-new-york-226578
Is that good? I don't know. Disruption isn't always good.
Likewise, I'm no Bowser fan but she is keeping the lights on and hasn't been arrested. DC can never be baltimore -- federal government and federal control make that -- but we can get pretty darn close.
... I startled MB at a meeting a couple weeks ago when I made a comment to her about Catherine Pugh and women mayors.
Umm, I'd been meaning to write a reform agenda piece wrt Baltimore after the NYTM piece, just like my long unwritten piece about Chicago, in response to the book _The New Chicago Way_, which I am supposed to review.
The thing about Baltimore is my quantum approach to change is to merge the city and county. But that would be very controversial, not unlike "turn it down" vs. "turn it off" on U Street and it would become almost impossible to work through the noise.
You might not believe it but lately I am really depressed in terms of thinking about my big systems oriented reform pieces.
I just don't think the political system and leaders in the cities that need significant jump starts, Chicago and Baltimore being two of those places, have the capacity to do what needs to be done.
And more and more I am thinking, given the ongoing limitation on resources and the "bigness-ness" of the problems we face, that incremental innovation just isn't enough.
argh, not unknown, me.
That's what I get for letting Marina use the computer...
Or DeBlasio and Cuomo (not to mention NJ pols) and transit.
Etc.
Oops. Not totally fair to Cuomo/DeBlasio because the congestion charge did move forward, but kinda along the lines of my point that politics is about doing everything in your power to disregard economics, until you have no other choice.
I didn't realize the story is much bigger than Pugh; it is about p corruption at UMMS and self-dealing board members.
Yes, but the Pugh element mutates because other organizations having business before her (Kaiser, and another organization) also bought the books, separately and independently of the morass at UMMS.
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