Cummings Skips Tour Of HUD
Facility In Baltimore
Daily Caller,
by
Amber Athey
&
Henry Rodgers
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/31/2019 11:25:45 AM
Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings declined an offer to tour a Baltimore Housing and Urban Development (HUD) facility with HUD secretary Ben Carson on Wednesday.
HUD invited Cummings to tour the facility with Carson on Tuesday, however Cummings rejected the invitation, the Daily Caller has learned. When asked about Cummings’ absence at a press conference, Carson said that he did not know why Cummings did not attend the tour but guessed there may have been a scheduling issue.The Daily Caller reported exclusively on Tuesday that Carson would visit
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 7/31/2019 11:37:50 AM (No. 138871)
Picking a fight with President Trump is never a smart move. It is an even greater mistake when you have a closet bulging with skeletons and a wife who is neck deep in corruption. The resulting attention is unlikely to do anything good for the Cummings' political career. And who knows, perhaps the wife (or even the Congressman) might wind up in jail for their own corruption.
People who live in glass houses should not throw rocks.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 7/31/2019 11:47:08 AM (No. 138882)
Heard the other day, that he was nearly broke just a few short years ago, but now suddenly all is well.
Wonder how he was able to suddenly find such funds
And, just saw on TV some interviews of people in Baltimore who confirm the problems of Baltimore and seemed grateful for the President of highlighting them with hopes of getting them fixed.
But seems Cummings has better things to do.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
john56 7/31/2019 11:52:12 AM (No. 138884)
Hey, the Congressional recess starts today. Cummings is off on a six week junket to all sorts of real signficant trouble spots around the world. All of which are on the beach and free booze. On Uncle Sam, of course. Flight leaves at noon today.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
rochow 7/31/2019 11:59:43 AM (No. 138892)
Carson making excuses for Cummings! What do they have in common? Your guess! I am glad a panderer like Carson did not get anywhere near the Oval!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
KanCreeper 7/31/2019 12:00:03 PM (No. 138893)
For Elijah Cummings to NOT accept the invite from Dr, Ben Carson (Secy of HUD] is the political equivalent of going to the scene of a fire and cutting the fire hoses....
Rep. Cummings is inculcated into the Maryland Democrat Party like a tick burrowed into a femoral artery. His wife Maya Rockymoore Cummings is a long time operative in the Balt-Washington Political Scene. She is Chair of the Maryland Democrat Party....
As to the multi-[$15 or so]Billion$$ Buck$$ funneled to the City of Balt, by the FEDS..... you can bet she and Elijah were standing out in "THAT RAIN"...... Rep Cummings has run for election 11 times since 1996; never getting less that 69% of the vote in his district.....He seems to be more of The Problem, than the SOLUTION......
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Nimby 7/31/2019 12:00:29 PM (No. 138894)
Jealous much Cummings? Cannot face a successful pediatric neurosurgeon of the same melanin tone?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
zzzghy 7/31/2019 12:26:58 PM (No. 138915)
Confucius says,
“Dirty politician with closet full of skeletons best not pick bone with Trump”
(Actually, that was me. I just said this).
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jacksin5 7/31/2019 12:28:11 PM (No. 138917)
Carson's making an excuse for Cummings is damming with faint praise. He was pointing out the fact that Elijah did not find his constituents important enough to change his "schedule" and appear.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/31/2019 12:54:05 PM (No. 138938)
The boy has been busted and is afraid to face the music. He and the Mrs. will soon be buying one-way plane tickets because he does not enjoy the immunity that Hillary does to steal that kind of cash.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/31/2019 12:58:19 PM (No. 138941)
Carson is a top tier human being and he knows that it's never a good idea to accuse somebody of criminal activity without proof or evidence. Only the democrats engage in that sort of thing. If Cummings is guilty he is not nearly smart enough to cover his tracks.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MISteve 7/31/2019 12:59:54 PM (No. 138942)
Darn right about Carson calling out Cummings in such a mild and polite way! Cummings probably doesn’t even realize Carson zinged him. Well played, Ben!
As for the racist comment above, keep your stupid stuff to yourself. This is a Salon! Your idiocy stains all of us who visit here.
Lucianne needs to police her site, better...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Moritz55 7/31/2019 1:24:13 PM (No. 138951)
Ben Carson is a class act. Not a panderer or a zinger, just a man whose first instinct is to respond graciously. The thing is, such class is so rare these days—especially in politicians—that it’s easy to overlook or mistake for something else.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 7/31/2019 2:30:24 PM (No. 138997)
Cummings already knows what the area looks like and what he isn't going to do about it....
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 7/31/2019 2:41:22 PM (No. 139014)
Something feels very odd. As if the world was slightly cooler for just a moment. Wonder if its what my father use to say. Hades will freeze over before a Rebublican puts a Democrat on the spot.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
RenoVet68 7/31/2019 2:57:52 PM (No. 139037)
Afraid someone might ask him a question, like "What are you going to do about it?"
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/31/2019 4:08:03 PM (No. 139086)
I guess that the buffoon Cummings still has enough sense to know what bad optics are.
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Like most DemoncRats, communists, socialists, progressives Cummings is a coward who doesn't want to see the truth... I now name him RATMAN...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
red1066 7/31/2019 4:59:52 PM (No. 139134)
I thought the entire city government was a HUD program. Who else but a federal agency could go through billions of dollars with nothing to show for it.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
skacmar 7/31/2019 5:11:10 PM (No. 139144)
Good old Esly Cummings can't be bothered with pithy things such as poverty in his district and the poor people of Baltimore. He is too busy doing more important work like snipe hunts and colluding with his Democratic counterparts on how to disrupt the Trump Presidency.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
pensom2 7/31/2019 6:51:42 PM (No. 139225)
Cummings knows that his showing up for this event/tour would extend the life of the news story about his failure to look after the needs of his constituents and his possible corruption, particularly via his wife's dealings. He may well have jumped the shark in his snarling attacks on the Homeland Security leaders concerning the crowded conditions at the border. His constituents are now asking, "What about the conditions we're living under, Congressman?"
Don't pick a fight with Donald Trump.
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