More about Elijah Cummings’ 7th
congressional district in Maryland
Baltimore Sun,
by
Wilborn P. Nobles III
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
7/30/2019 4:51:41 PM
President Donald Trump’s latest series of tweets has placed a new spotlight on a majority-black district represented by U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland.
(Map) (Snip)"Why is so much money sent to the Elijah Cummings district when it is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there,” Trump tweeted. “Where is all this money going? How much is stolen? Investigate this corrupt mess immediately!” (Snip)Cummings’ congressional district received just under $15.7 billion in grants, benefits and other assistance from the federal government in Fiscal Year 2018,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 7/30/2019 4:56:40 PM (No. 138274)
Cummings is really, really going to regret picking a fight with this President. He is the last person, and Baltimore is the last place that the Dems want a spotlight aimed at. The corruption is very deep. The last mayor had to resign for obvious corruption that she was caught on....how much more was ignored?
Their prosecutor was so busy prosecution police officers that she failed to notice that they were all innocent, and did great harm to the police department.
There have been repeated indications that Cummings' wife is involved in crooked organizations. I will bet that if more attention is focused on Cummings wife, she will wind up in jail, or at least resigning from her job(s) in dishonor, if she manages to avoid prosecution.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 7/30/2019 5:21:28 PM (No. 138288)
$15.7 BILLION!!!
With metropolitan Baltimore having a population of 67,000, that come to $223,880 per person!
They should be able to build every family in the city a new house for that, with cute little houses for their pet rats!
Where is all this money going? Indeed.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 7/30/2019 5:24:03 PM (No. 138291)
An interesting read, but it's all a bunch of numbers. I suspect that this "from far away" look at the problems in Baltimore will backfire.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MainelySane 7/30/2019 6:08:07 PM (No. 138321)
I thought Democrats were opposed to Gerrymandering! The 7th District is a classic gerrymandered district.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
The Remnants 7/30/2019 6:28:02 PM (No. 138334)
Great article to complement this one:
July 30 article by Joe Hoft on Gateway Pundit.entitled,
"Where Did Sixteen BILLION in U.S. Grants Given to Baltimore in 2018
Disappear To?"
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
red1066 7/30/2019 6:39:17 PM (No. 138342)
The school system alone wastes tens of millions of dollars each year. The local Fox station did an investigation into the Baltimore school system and not only did the school system refuse to release public information about grades, but the investigation found the school system was paying a principal over a 100 grand a year. However, she wasn't a principal of a school in Baltimore, she was working as a principal in a school in the middle east making even more.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
davew 7/30/2019 6:43:04 PM (No. 138348)
$15 billion is a lot of money for a district that supposedly has such a high standard of living. Something doesn't add up. Why are all the employers in the district academic institutions or government agencies and not for-profit corporations?
I guess the Sun wants us to believe that there really is nothing exceptional about the Baltimore homicide rate or the fact that 12 of the last Baltimore Democratic mayors have had to resign over corruption charges or that people in the city can hunt rats with fishing gear.
Rep. Cummings in trying to intimidate President Trump and his family with Soviet style document subpoenas and third world legal tactics. Mr Cummings, people who live in glass houses should not go around looking in other people's windows.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Geoman 7/30/2019 6:47:55 PM (No. 138351)
Re: #2 - Baltimore's population is a little north of 600,000, working out to around $26,000 federal dollars per person. There are around 2.8 million people living in the Baltimore metropolitan area but your overall point is well taken, decimal point notwithstanding.
While greater Baltimore is not a hotbed of conservatism, a lot of decent folks are right partial to their progressive-dominated cities and states, like our conservative SF Bay Area friends, and are deeply offended by the comment that "No human being would want to live there."
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
FormerDem 7/30/2019 7:14:01 PM (No. 138372)
Nobles quotes one person saying that other districts in the U.S. get more than Cummings's district, then quotes someone else saying that parts of Cummings's district are well off. These two facts explain each other: part of it is a wreck but not all, and so other districts yet poorer get more money. This leaves Trump's question unanswered: why is the un-wealthy part of it so extremely bad? No Answer From Baltimore. They don't know and they don't care.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bobn.t 7/30/2019 7:59:53 PM (No. 138394)
Sets a sorry example for a congressman.
Hard to listen to, hard to look at.
Baltimore: trying to out do Chicago.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
hershey 7/30/2019 9:05:54 PM (No. 138420)
$15 BILLION???? Check his pants pockets and offshore accounts...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JimBob 7/31/2019 1:08:19 AM (No. 138524)
A look at Baltimore's education system:
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/no-students-are-proficient-math-and-english-six-baltimore-city-schools
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#4, you beat me to it!
Look at the district map in the article!
The Definition of Gerrymandering!
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