When Sheila Dixon isn't fighting the State Prosecutor, she is forced to fight some of the Baltimore residents. It's pretty easy for a mayor to make enemies when everything goes well in the city, but when the money is low just when the residents need services the most, well making enemies is part of the job.
There's the threat of layoffs to city workers,
The review of police and fire department pensions (Man... didn't anyone ever teach you to pick your fights?),
The possibility of a one day a week trash collection (City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke:
"You’ve got people putting garbage out, crab shells in their trash. We’re not talking recyclables here. We’re talking garbage, and it would be sitting for a week and not just a couple of days."Whatever. Keep your crab trash in your house and stop whining. Or even better, use the recession as an opportunity to eat healthy food),
And higher fines for dog owners who are also douchebags (one opponent to the new rules wrote in ohmidog.com,
"As one who religiously scoops poop, but flagrantry violates the leash law — under the belief that dogs gotta run, and a well-behaved dog under voice control shouldn’t require constant leashing — I’d like to know, especially amid the crackdowns that have been going on: Precisely when does letting my dog run free become akin to a felony?"Akin to a felony? Well, that's not a felony, is it? And if you let your dog go and my leashed dog attacks your dog? I have no sympathy for these people. Move to the country and build a cabin. And stop complaining).
It's not an easy time to be the mayor. With or without the State Prosecutor.
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Sheila's looking pretty stressed these days.
I gotta say, I'm not a fan of the once a week trash pickup either. People are already terrible about not having cans with tight fitting lids and the rats are horrendous. I don't eat crabs, but if I did, I wouldn't keep them in the house for a week. Phew!
I think this picture is from that brick-wall press conference after the indictments. Things have gone well after that, no? Other than that whole "Sheila Who?" by Obama.
Maybe the way we could all chip-in during these difficult times is to limit our crab intake to the-day-before-trash-day delicacy? It's just temporary, after all. Once the country is back to normal they can throw away the salads. (I know it's not very Baltimorish of me, but I never got the crib thing.)
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