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ANOTHER Bloomberg mayor goes down
Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon is on the receiving end of a 12 count felony indictment relating to receiving tens of thousands in "gifts" from a land developer and ripping off donations meant to help the homeless.
UPDATE: The two comments in Russian were spam. The website given (not in the body of the comment) were to a Russian porn site.
Comments
Does someone already have a list of Bloomberg's Mayors for Moronacy showing who has received such distinguised "honors" as the Baltimore Mayor?
Posted by: Anonymous at January 10, 2009 08:52 PM
Play background music "Another one bites the bust" with that news!
Posted by: Don Hamrick at January 10, 2009 09:34 PM
Gee, what a surprise.... Baltimore has been over the top corrupt for years. It's only one of the reasons I left that state for good....
Posted by: PeterT at January 10, 2009 10:26 PM
Do we need to guess what party affiliation? Democrat is synonymous with corrupt, isn't it?
Posted by: Mark at January 11, 2009 03:45 AM
David Codrea @ war on guns has covered most, if not all of them I think.
Ah, the people who want citizens disarmed...stealing like mad. I'd love to see the numbers of prosecutions, early releases, and crime in those cities just to confirm what I have a feeling of already.
Posted by: Tom at January 11, 2009 10:43 AM
What's with the Russian (I think) comment? Spam?
Posted by: JustinGA at January 11, 2009 12:50 PM
I copied and forwarded the non-english posting above to a Russian friend of mine at work. He agreed that it is indeed Russian but had a hard time translating word for word. Basically, it's not spam and overall said that this blog is useful for others all over the world. I don't think anything negative was meant in the wording nor intended.
Posted by: Kevin at January 11, 2009 02:37 PM
Here's what Google language tools makes of it:
Still, potryasnoe invention - a blog. It would seem normal site, but changed the presentation of information, the site passed into the hands of one person and opened another facet of communication with the world.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 11, 2009 02:47 PM
This is not the first comment on this blog from this poster. I was also curious, but never bothered to ask.
May we spread our message of freedom around the world.
Chuck
Posted by: Chuck at January 11, 2009 03:17 PM
"Comment spam" is an attempt to raise hits on the originating site's blog. The spammer relies on "one-out-of-many" to click through and raise his hit count. Direct mail relies on 3 out of 100 responses to make money, e-spam can make hundreds of thousands of $$ on 3 out of 1 million hits by stealing IDs and tracking back on hits. Russians are particularly good about using the internet nefariously to make money.
There is a nofollow tag that can be used to limit trackbacks like this.
Posted by: Jim D. at January 11, 2009 07:57 PM
I'm with "anonymous" above - is someone keeping a list of Bloomberg's mayors who have dropped out of the group or been indicted, resigned under controversy, etc.?
Posted by: Bill at January 12, 2009 10:28 AM
Passaic, NJ Mayor Samuel Rivera
Frank Melton, of Jackson MS
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
Birmingham, Al Mayor Larry Langford
Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon
Are those indicted that I can recall.
Posted by: thirdpower at January 12, 2009 07:05 PM
Thanks Thirdpower for the list. I think a web page with pics of the "Bloomberg mayors" with a big red "INDICTED" and/or "CONVICTED" stamp across their faces would be charming.
Eric
(the "Anonymous" first poster -- I just forgot to put in my name when I hit the submit button...)
Posted by: Eric at January 12, 2009 07:15 PM
