Veteran Maryland political commentator, radio show host and White House correspondent Les Kinsolving often calls Maryland "The Land of Political Enchantment," and indeed the Old Line State never fails to enchant natives and outsiders alike with its bizarre --William Donald Schaefer comes to mind-- and often corrupt politicos.
Yet although the state is famously blue-hued with an overwhelmingly Democratic General Assembly, you can count on the media to ignore the party affiliation of Democratic state legislators who run afoul of the law.
Such was the case with the Associated Press today ignoring former state senator Thomas Bromwell's Democratic Party affiliation. AP follows the Washington Post's lead (see my July 24 article) in ignoring Bromwell's party connections.
To its credit the Baltimore Sun -- which Baltimore-based radio host Tom Marr refers to as "The Calvert and Centre Street Democrat Club" -- noted Bromwell's Democratic party affiliation in its November 16 article:
Today's sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Baltimore wraps up a long federal racketeering case filed in October 2005, which became one of the state's largest public corruption investigations. It ended with guilty pleas from both defendants. Bromwell, a Democrat, was accused of using his political power to help Baltimore-based Poole and Kent in exchange for more than $200,000 in cash, bogus salary and discounted home-improvement materials.
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They Just Don't Get It
November 16, 2007 - 16:21 ET by NoMoreClintonsThis corrupt Dumbocrat legislator AND his wife are both going to prison because of their crimes against the people. Now they're complaining about who will take care of their children. Isn't it just like liberals not to think about the consequences of their actions? Like welcoming illegal hispanics and islamofascists to demean our culture and potentially harm us. Where does their lunacy end?
It's the same everywhere
November 16, 2007 - 18:08 ET by Steven NThe state of TN and Memphis in particular have lost a number of its most prominent democrat leaders due to a government corruption and kickback sting known as the Tennessee Waltz.
6 of the 9 convicted or admitted fellons were democrats yet the Memphis Commercial appeal only mentions party affiliation in the first sentence when it's republican.
I guess the reason they do that is that we in the great state of TN automatically assume that a politician caught in an act of corruption must be a democrat so they must let us know up front when it is a republican. (lol)
Same here in Florida
November 16, 2007 - 23:21 ET by pbthinkerThe same problem here in Florida. There was a news story, today, where Ken Jenne, the former Democrat politician turned Sheriff in Broward County, was supposed to be sentenced for his political transgressions and his party affiliation was absent without leave.
Since the MSM only leaves out the party affiliation of Democrats in trouble, I'm sure the voters can figure out that, if the party affiliation isn't mentioned, the guy or gal, must be a Democrat.
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Dogpile (I don't use Google
November 17, 2007 - 00:50 ET by MikeBDogpile (I don't use Google as either a verb or a search engine) Operation Greylord. The federal government took down a load of lawyers and judges in Cook County, Illinois. Guess which party owns and has always owned Chicago? The Democrats' claim that Republicans have a "culture of corruption" is rather weak in comparison to their own bouts of corruption. It's a shame the libmedia is more interested in "gotcha" journalism and leftist advocacy than in honest government.
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All newspapers have a style
November 17, 2007 - 04:11 ET by CooltomAll newspapers have a style book. Perhaps a lot of us could send an email to the editors and ask them to have any story about political corruption automatically include the party affiliation in the first few grafs.
If we call them on it they can't plead ignorance or say it was an inadvertent mistake.