Many pieces on Elijah Cummings are noting that his Hill clout brought resources to Baltimore. Worth noting, though, the fate of one of his last big gets, $900 million he helped secure for a rail transit line for W. Baltimore: Guv Hogan killed the project and gave the money back.
I asked Cummings about this at the time and he was in disbelief about Hogan's decision. "We’re talking about thousands of jobs,” he said. “It would’ve helped a lot of small businesses. But more importantly, it would’ve helped people get to work."
Cummings also worried about residents. “It was devastating for people trying to have faith in govt. A lot of these people had never spoken to each other before they started working on the line. They became friends, they worked it out. Next thing you know...They don’t understand."
