Solo Closing - Most MD Elected Officials Silent

The Solo Company announced that it will be closing the large manufacturing plant in Owings Mills. The factory was previously called the Sweetheart Cup Company and filled the air with the sweet smell of melted plastics. When Solo purchased the company, the writing was on the wall that the Owings Mills plant would close. And the lack of outrage from the area's elected officials fills the air with the aroma of arrogance.

Knowing this, you would assume that locally elected officials would be doing something to help, right? I checked out State Senator Bobby Zirkin. I Googled him, checked his website. Nothing. Senator's Zirkin's silence indicates to me that this liberal Democrat doesn't really care about business in his district. And if you don't care about the businesses in your district, you must not care about your constituents.

Owings Mills has 3 House Delegates in the General Assembly.

Jon Cardin - you may remember him. He's the nephew of far-left liberal U.S. Senator Ben Cardin. But Jon Cardin is more famous for inappropriately using Baltimore City Police to fake his arrest in a marriage proposal on a friend's boat.

I was able to find the minutes to a meeting where residents have asked Delegate Cardin to do something about the noise emanating from the plant. Perhaps by doing nothing and allowing the plant to close, Cardin will be victorious is reducing the noise. Other than that - no news. I guess he doesn't care that 500 people are losing their jobs.

Dan K. Morhaim- Dr. Dan Morhaim, that is. Nothing on his website, nor any Google news. His website is very shallow of useful information. I did find a page on his website that provided the telephone number for 911. But I find little evidence of any economic initiatives. This California-born and bred liberal gives the impression that he also does not care about jobs in his district.

Dana M. Stein - I'm starting to sound like a broken record. Stein's website has very little (any?) on economic development, but plenty on the environment. What good is a district with pretty trees and ponds when there are no jobs? The only good thing that I could find about Delegate Stein is that he actually went to public schools (Milford Mill) and that he worked with Delegate Krebs on a financial literacy program for high schools. Most liberals hate anything to do with business and finance, other that to create new ways to tax and regulate them.

Congressman John Sarbanes - you know the guy who slid into Congress because of his last name, right? Can't find anything on his website about jobs in his district. However, he is against searching for new sources of oil. I guess in his mind it's okay to be largely dependent on expensive oil from hostile nations, as long as our beaches are sandy and clean. And like all of the other elected officials in this area, Sarbanes hasn't spoken a word about Solo Cup closing the plant in Owings Mills. Hello people! The men that you elected don't care about you!!!!

Baltimore County Council - I can't quite tell if the area is covered by Councilman Kenneth Oliver or Kevin Kamenetz. No worries. Neither cares about the 500 people that are losing their jobs - or at least they haven't commented about it.

What a sad state of affairs it is for the hard working middle class people in the Owings Mills area. They have elected people to represent them in government who are more worried about campaign fund raising and getting their name out for higher office than they are about the issues that are important to the area. Where's the revolt? Where's the anger? Is everyone really that content with government's inaction? These elected men push for bigger government, but they are not doing anything for you. Wake up!

A Fool and His Money

You know the expression A fool and his money are soon parted? Well in the case of Maryland State Delegate Jon Cardin, a fool and only a little tiny bit of his money are soon parted.

Delegate Cardin made the news a couple of weeks ago when he somehow finagled a deal with Baltimore City Police to conduct a marriage proposal prank. Cardin and his girlfriend were staying on a friend's boat somewhere in the Inner Harbor. The police would then come aboard and demand a search of the boat while the Foxtrot helicopter circled above. This would give the impression that they were searching for drugs or something of that nature. The police then find the ring, all the while keeping his girlfriend thinking that they are in trouble. Then Jon would get down on his knee and propose.

The good news is that she said yes. The bad news is that she is marrying a politician who abused the power of his elected position for special privileges.

Once the incident was exposed he issued a half-hearted apology. Once the half-hearted apology was exposed, he issued a real apology and said that he used bad judgment and would reimburse the city for the costs of the operation. Baltimore City Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld then determined that the total cost was $300 (or more likely some out-of-college intern calculated it and he supports it).

$300. Bad judgment? Is this insulting or what? How stupid does the city think everyone is? And if it weren't for his last name, Cardin would not be getting off so easy. His uncle is U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, one of the Maryland Senators that favors Obama's socialized healthcare plan. If his last name was Eludius he probably would have been arrested.

So when are a fool and his money not parted? When you're a Cardin.