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A Baltimore grand jury indicted Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon Friday on charges of theft, perjury, and misconduct stemming from her romantic relationship with a Baltimore developer...

...Ms. Dixon, a prominent black Democrat who in 2007 was elected the city's first female mayor, was also charged with four counts of perjury for not documenting gifts from two developers doing business with the city.

Ms. Dixon said she would not step down as mayor and defended herself Friday afternoon...

...The state prosecutors office, an independent state agency tasked with investigating public corruption, announced the indictment on its web site Friday, two days after securing indictments againt one of Ms. Dixon's allies on the Baltimore City Council and against her brief love interest: Ronald H. Lipscomb.

The indictment also makrs the third black Democrat the state prosecutor's office has indicted this week, after filing charges against Baltimore County Councilman Kenneth Oliver Monday, Mrs. Holton Wednesday and Miss Dixon Friday.

BigApp wrote:CHANGE!!! has come to Illinois and Detroit and now Baltimore. Ah, who the hell am I kidding? they'll keep voting for the same Dems...

CHANGE!

citdog wrote:wonder how many of those gifts were fried chicken and watermelon?

andy7171 wrote:FWIW, the mayor has been under investigation for close to three years on these charges. She wasn't mayor when these offenses began, she was the City Council President. Hlaf the charges involve gift cards from Gap, Circuit City and Eddie Bauer that a contractor gave her whilst they were dating. She didn't claim them on her income tax or something.

I think it's much ado about nothing.

AshevilleApp wrote:

andy7171 wrote:FWIW, the mayor has been under investigation for close to three years on these charges. She wasn't mayor when these offenses began, she was the City Council President. Hlaf the charges involve gift cards from Gap, Circuit City and Eddie Bauer that a contractor gave her whilst they were dating. She didn't claim them on her income tax or something.

I think it's much ado about nothing.

Come on Andy, don't rain on everyone's parade.

dbackjon wrote:Thanks for that local voice of reason, Andy!

andy7171 wrote:

dbackjon wrote:Thanks for that local voice of reason, Andy!

I haven't figured out why the dogs were called out on her in the first place. Unless she did something to make, then Mayor/Governor O'Malley angry. He is extremely vindicitve.
There is SO much wrong with the City governemnt its just odd that they are making a huge deal out of a glorified gift card scandal.

BTW, murder count is up to 13 already. And only 12 days into 2009.

AshevilleApp wrote:How long has the murder rate been so high in Baltimore? The only time I visited, 1995, it seemed like a pretty safe city.

andy7171 wrote:

AshevilleApp wrote:How long has the murder rate been so high in Baltimore? The only time I visited, 1995, it seemed like a pretty safe city.

HA! It was at it's worst in the mid 90's. I think the record high was 350 something in '95. It's gone down. I think there were "only" 230 in '08.

It is a safe place for the most part in the touristy areas. It's flat out hell in the bad neighborhoods. The Corner, Homicide, The Wire, all very accurate depictions of Baltimore's residential areas.

AshevilleApp wrote:

andy7171 wrote: HA! It was at it's worst in the mid 90's. I think the record high was 350 something in '95. It's gone down. I think there were "only" 230 in '08.

It is a safe place for the most part in the touristy areas. It's flat out hell in the bad neighborhoods. The Corner, Homicide, The Wire, all very accurate depictions of Baltimore's residential areas.

Ignorance is bliss I guess. Are those neighborhoods comparable to some of the ones on D.C.? I got lost there a couple of years ago and very quickly found myself in a place I didn't want to be.

andy7171 wrote:

AshevilleApp wrote: Ignorance is bliss I guess. Are those neighborhoods comparable to some of the ones on D.C.? I got lost there a couple of years ago and very quickly found myself in a place I didn't want to be.

In some ways SE DC has got nothing on parts of East or West Baltimore.

AshevilleApp wrote:I'll stick to the ballpark and the inner harbor when I go back. Thanks.