Posted at Baltimore City Green Party:
The Baltimore City Green Party thanks the jury for their service in Mayor Sheila Dixon’s trial and hopes that despite Tuesday’s embezzlement conviction the people and government of the city of Baltimore can move forward and work to build a truly sustainable, ethical, and economically-just city for all its residents.
The party is disappointed that Mayor Dixon betrayed the public trust, embarrassing not only herself but the city of Baltimore. As long as our city’s elected officials continue questionable relationships with developers and accept campaign contributions and other unaccounted gifts from them, continued embarrassment will be the result.
The party hopes that in the coming year the leadership of Baltimore will show signs of subscribing to Green Party values, particularly grassroots democracy – where people, not profits, drive decision-making – and social justice – where poverty is considered a problem to take on first and foremost, not an excuse for developers to pass gift cards through City Hall.
The party also challenges all of Baltimore’s elected officials to strive for the high standards set by the Green Party and its candidates. The Baltimore City Green Party and its candidates refuse all contributions from business entities, corporations, and political action committees (PACs).
“The Green Party will continue to provide an example for our city leaders to follow,” notes Brian Bittner, Co-Chair of the Baltimore City Green Party. “If they can’t follow suit and give up their contributions – both duly recorded campaign contributions and unmarked gifts – from developers, we hope they will at least use some of their taxpayer-funded resources to publicly list those contributions in a timely manner so city residents know who is influencing their decisions.”
The Baltimore City Green Party can be reached at 443-876-8522.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Don Lake .......... John Anderson volunteer 1980 // Dec 4, 2009 at 2:30 am
Spank em, hit em, kick em, no mercy!
This is a public trust not a Tiger Woods episode!
2 Green Party fan // Dec 4, 2009 at 10:39 pm
The Baltimore Green Party is an impressive, inclusive, positive, and growing group.
Among their leaders is that dynamo Kevin Zeese.
Zeese is an smart attorney, and NGO wiz.
…and finally,
It is sad and disappointing that the incumbent got in such an unfortunate situation.
Showing some understanding, sympathy, and mercy serves us all well.
Zeese was the joint nominee of the Green Party, and the Liberatian Party for U.S. Senate 2006 in Maryland.
That wasn’t the only miracle Zeese and his hardworking team of Maryland Green Party folks achieved.
Zeese got in three TV debates with the two larger party candidates, and won those debates hands down.
Zeese would make a strong Green Party candidate for Mayor. Or perhaps his close Green Party associate Linda Schade (believe that spelling is correct).
Thanks for the story.
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