The spy plane is just part of the big fucking lie that Baltimore doesn’t have the resources to solve its own problems. We came up with a transit solution. @GovLarryHogan canceled it. We passed #FightFor15. @MayorPugh50 vetoed it.
We had a $22M surplus from transfer and recordation fees in FY18. Board of Estimates voted to give it to @BaltimorePolice for OT. We have a $32M surplus this year. @CouncilPresBMS and @mayorbcyoung are at an impasse because they’re running against each other.
We give TIFF and capital investments to luxury developers rather than invest directly in communities as the Fair Development Roundtable proposed in its 20/20 Vision for Fair Development that Mayor Pugh called “the Bible” when she ran for office, then ignored
Rec centers closed by @MayorSRB remain an eerie post-apocalyptic vision in Baltimore neighborhoods, a daily reminder to citizens exactly what their city and state governments think of them.
Our state’s neighbors to the south and west invest heavily in commuter rail while Gov. Hogan and his outgoing transit secretary insist that Marylanders “prefer” to drive on the overstuffed roads of this state.
We spend money to rip up alternative transit infrastructure because a community association head spoke for his association when he didn’t have the permission to.
Our police department has been found guilty of participating in and harboring participants of the mid-Atlantic drug trade, yet they remain the only investment option for insiders or outsiders when people discuss “public safety.”
Our state votes to give @JohnsHopkins its own armed police force one year after a school in its own athletic conference saw a private officer murder a student. They ignore the concerns of community members and their legislators @MayorMary2020 @reginatboyce
We remove leisure options, refuse affordable housing options, deny transit options, veto a living wage, privatize policing, then are shocked shocked when violence persists or increases. And I didn’t even start on the Gov’s lie campaign against funding schools.
