Baltimore Mayor - Idiot
Thursday, February 10, 2005
He should have let things alone. The mayor of Baltimore spoke out against rumors of marital infidelity spread by an aide to Gov. Robert Ehrlich. The Governor asked for and received the resignation of the aide. From the AP:
Mayor Martin O'Malley on Wednesday denounced rumors of infidelity spread on the Internet by a longtime aide to Gov. Robert Ehrlich, saying he was the target of an "orchestrated campaign," as his wife described the effect that the stories were having on their young children.
"These are despicable lies. These are falsehoods," said O'Malley, a Democrat who is thinking about running for governor in 2006 and is considered a rising star in his party. "I have always been faithful to my wife from our first date until this date."
Ehrlich asked for the resignation of Joseph Steffen, who confirmed Tuesday that he had discussed the rumor on the conservative Web site FreeRepublic.com and in private e-mails, which were given to The Washington Post.
Steffen, a spokesman for the Maryland Insurance Administration and who has held a series of jobs in Ehrlich's administration, told The (Baltimore) Sun the governor didn't know about his actions. "If anyone is guilty, it is me. There was no outside influence."
If he had kept his mouth shut the day before, he would have sympathy from the electorate and would have a leg up in the Democrat primary for governor.
What did the mayor say the day before? He compared President Bush's proposed budget cuts to the 9/11 attacks! From the same article:
O'Malley was among a group of mayors and other local officials who held a news conference Tuesday in Washington to criticize the president's proposal to cut spending for community development programs by $2 billion.Though he later tried to deny it to the Washington Post, this is an absolutely OUTRAGEOUS statement to make. There is no other way to interpret these comments as anything other than a equation between the cuts and the terrorist attacks.
"Back on September 11, terrorists attacked our metropolitan cores, two of America's great cities. They did that because they knew that was where they could do the most damage and weaken us the most," O'Malley said. "Years later, we are given a budget proposal by our commander in chief, the president of the United States. And with a budget ax, he is attacking America's cities. He is attacking our metropolitan core."
Advice to the mayor: When your enemies give you the upper hand, keep your mouth shut and take it.
Idiot.
UPDATE 2/10/05 @ 2:49pm: Michelle Malkin points out that this is not the first time that Mayor Martin O'Malley has used this analogy.
