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We're all just out here running and biking in our "filthy and dangerous" city.
Another view of Elijah Cummings' district, this evening.
And another. Did I mention this city is relatively affordable by coastal standards? What better prompt to move here than to spite @realDonaldTrump?
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Alec MacGillis
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I spent much of the past year working on a piece intended to draw national attention to the surge of violence in Baltimore over the past four years, to prompt a broader reckoning and move for solutions.

Now, the violence is getting notice. As a presidential campaign punch line.
The piece: nyti.ms/2HfP0ge
Just some of the deaths represented in Trump's punchline: the Morgan State student killed outside corner store, the young man due to start carpentry apprenticeship the next day, the Amazon worker killed by her boyfriend, the student at my son's high school shot sitting in a car.
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Alec MacGillis
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@realDonaldTrump Good to see such a thoughtful statement of concern from the federal govt for the city I live in, just 40 miles up the road from the gleaming capital.
@realDonaldTrump A few quick thoughts on this, FWIW. Baltimore has indeed been going through a very rough stretch the past 4+ years. But one of the things that's been so striking is how LITTLE support or interest there's been from Washington to what's been going on here, just up the road.
@realDonaldTrump "Where is all this money going?" he asks. Well, I can tell you where some of it went. The feds did approve $900 million for a new rail transit line that would've linked W. Baltimore to jobs downtown. But the project was killed in 2015 by Gov. Hogan. So that money went back to DC.
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Alec MacGillis
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Residents of wealthy Montgomery County in the DC suburbs, where the median home price exceeds $400,000, are angrily protesting a move to allow accessory dwelling units, aka granny flats or backyard cottages, saying they will turn the county into a "slum." beta.washingtonpost.com/local/md-polit…
“'They’re blowing up single-family home zoning,' said Gail Weiss, 58. 'And for what?' The longtime Bethesda resident sees the zoning proposal as part of all-Democratic council’s 'leftist political agenda.' Residents who can't afford to live in the county, she said, should move."
"Dan McHugh, a Republican consultant, said his opposition stems from what he sees as the changing demographics of Montgomery. McHugh said [it] is 'going in a direction where it could end up like Prince George’s,' one of the wealthiest majority-African-American suburbs in nation."
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Fidelio
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Interesting prospect about #ElijahCummings Andrew Breitbart’s first pickup being @JamesOKeefeIII prostitution sting for his news website and the overbearing corruption in Baltimore that has asphyxiated any form of progress in the area. Both private and public. (1/18)
James O’Keefe performed a sting operation 10 years ago where he and an undercover journalist named Hannah Giles exposed the capability to easily operate an underage prostitution ring in Baltimore. Elijah Cummings has been a rep in this area since 1996. (2/18)
If it was this easy to get tax help for a brothel in Cummings district nearly a decade ago, imagine how much it has degraded since then. Also, O’Keefe was playing the role of a congressional hopeful, and the lady from ACORN thought nothing of it. (3/18)
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Benny
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I am in Baltimore. Rep. Elijah Cummings’ district. I spent all day speaking with dozens of people who live in Rep. Cummings’ district. Some have lived here +60 years.
I learned so much.
Before continuing, ask yourself: Do you want to know the truth?

Here it is…

*thread @tpusa*
@TPUSA First off, Rep. Cummings has represented this district for +20 years. Everyone I spoke with knew him & was aware that he was beefing with @realDonaldTrump.
I did not ask about politics - I asked about living conditions in this district.
That is all.
Here is what they said…
@TPUSA @realDonaldTrump On being 'Rat Infested':

- *Every* person I spoke with *confirmed* that the district was rat infested
- This man told me that rats the “size of cats” run through his house regularly
- One woman told me rats have “taken over” her neighborhood
- One called it a "plague of rats"
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Rev. Scott Anthony ❌
@ScottAnthonyUSA
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

IF @RepCummings is doing such a great job.... then why is crime OUT OF CONTROL in his District?

Specifically, violent crime is out of control... which is no surprise... it is in nearly all Democrat led districts and cities.
4,333 acts of violent gun crime alone as of today... since 2014.

- 1,194 deaths
- 2,763 injured
- 187 of those were kids / teens
- 6 police officers shot or killed

Yup... great district to live in! (Sarcasm)
In fact, Elijah Cummings’ District isn’t much better than Chicago, IL (IL-04) ... America’s gun violence Capitol...

So, I am not sure WHEN Liberals will learn that cities and towns do WORSE with Democrats in Congress control.

Compare it to ANY city with a Republican. Do it.
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#UnRedactedCopy Lori
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❤️🇺🇸 America wants better for you. #WeAreBaltimore #MD7
So glad you brought this to our attention #WeAreBaltimore
@RepCummings #MD7 is 34.9% White • 59.1% Black • 3.6% Asian • 1.7% Hispanic ~ More federal dollars go to his district. What are they doing with it?
#WeAreBaltimore
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Ryan Saavedra
@RealSaavedra
The media is blatantly lying about this tweet from Trump

CNN ran a disgusting segment this morning claiming this was an attack on "brown and black people"

Absolutely nothing could be further from the true

THREAD: Here is a breakdown of the backstory behind this tweet:
Kimberly Klacik appeared on Fox & Friends at 6:15 EST today where she discussed the terrible living conditions in Baltimore

Klacik said: "there's abandon homes filed with trash, homeless addicts, empty needles that they have used ... it's attracting rodents, cockroaches..."
Trump's tweet came exactly 1 hour after Klacik's appearance on Fox & Friends

CNN's Victor Blackwell ran this deceptive segment trying to claim it was a racial attack on black and brown people

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Matthew Yglesias
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Elijah Cummings’ district has above-average median income and educational attainment, I wonder what would inspire Trump to describe it as such a bleak and awful place. 🤔
Ah hilariously the explanation is a little dumber than Trump’s racism ... what happened is he’s just lazily repeating a racist Fox News segment.

Anyways, I was talking about the senate with @RichLowry @ @jbarro on @LRCkcrw a couple of weeks ago and one point I made is that the structural underrepresentation of city-dwellers and people of color is unfair *to those people* not to Democratic Party politicians.
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