Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz Appoints Charged Drunk Driver to Government Position

In early December, newly elected Baltimore County Councilman Kevin Kamenetz appointed fellow crony, former Baltimore County Councilman, and often-charged drunk driver Sam Moxley to a government position.

Moxley would become Assistant County Attorney if his appointment is accepted (and it may have been since the article was released).

I seem to recall Kamenetz saying he would run a responsible government if he got elected. Maybe he didn't say that. But I would say that hiring someone with a track record of disrespect for the law and reckless endangerment of the citizens of Maryland would not qualify this person to hold ANOTHER government position.

But as any political junkie knows, Baltimore County has a nice history of corrupt politicians including Spiro Agnew and Dale Anderson. Remember those guys?

Delores Kelley Throws Down the Race Card

Delores Kelley, the Baltimore County state delegate whose district covers the economically impoverished Randallstown, has been throwing out the race card lately. You'll remember back in May when I criticized her for running a stale-dated website. Now that website doesn't even exist. Is this the power of Eludius? Am I becoming a mover and shaker of the Maryland General Assembly's least effective members?

Anyway, Delegate Kelley was recently criticizing Democratic Baltimore County Executive candidate Joe Bartenfelder. She said that Bartenfelder, a farmer, donated a bushel of collard greens that were used as a donation to a food bank. Baltimore County Councilman Ken Oliver, who is black, said that Bartenfelder offered them during a meeting at Delegate Kelley's house and that everyone took some. She disagrees with the story.

Delegate Kelley said Bartenfelder's actions were offensive and stereotypical. Stereotypical of what? White people? Politicians? Racists? Oliver, meanwhile, as explained in the article, said no one else found it offensive.

And why was this brought up a week before the primary and not two years ago when it happened? Is she doing this to help Kevin Kamenentz in his bid for Baltimore County Executive?

In the last part of the article by Bryan Sears, it states: "Asked if she thought this was a campaign issue, she said: “I don’t know. I guess it depends on what point you’re trying to make.”"

So, is she saying that her point of view is that she doesn't like Bartenfelder and wants him to lose? Or that she herself is a racist? Or is she saying that she's been an ineffective state delegate for years and is now trying to play the race card, which is always effective in getting attention? Is she saying that she is trying to deflect attention away from the fact that her district is nearly in financial ruin?

There are so many open questions on this. And if Delegate Delores Kelley's website were up and running still, I would certainly pose the questions to her. But unfortunately, she neglected her website just like she seems to have neglected Randallstown and now we cannot reach her that way.

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!