- Home
-
Cindy Walsh for Mayor of Baltimore
- Mayoral Election violations
-
Questionnaires from Community
>
- Education Questionnaire
- Baltimore Housing Questionnaire
- Emerging Youth Questionnaire
- Health Care policy for Baltimore
- Environmental Questionnaires
- Livable Baltimore questionnaire
- Labor Questionnnaire
- Ending Food Deserts Questionnaire
- Maryland Out of School Time Network
- LBGTQ Questionnaire
- Citizen Artist Baltimore Mayoral Forum on Arts & Culture Questionnaire
- Baltimore Transit Choices Questionnaire
- Baltimore Activating Solidarity Economies (BASE)
- Downtown Partnership Questionnaire
- The Northeast Baltimore Communities Of BelAir Edison Community Association (BECCA )and Frankford Improvement Association, Inc. (FIA)
- Streets and Transportation/Neighbood Questionnaire
- African American Tourism and business questionnaire
- Baltimore Sun Questionnaire
- City Paper Mayoral Questionnaire
- Baltimore Technology Com Questionnaire
- Baltimore Biker's Questionnair
- Homewood Friends Meeting Questionnaire
- Baltimore Historical Collaboration---Anthem Project
- Tubman City News Mayoral Questionnaire
- Maryland Public Policy Institute Questionnaire
- AFRO questionnaire
- WBAL Candidate's Survey
- Blog
- Trans Pacific Pact (TPP)
- Progressive vs. Third Way Corporate Democrats
-
Financial Reform/Wall Street Fraud
- Federal Healthcare Reform
- Social Security and Entitlement Reform
- Federal Education Reform
- Government Schedules
-
State and Local Government
- Maryland Committee Actions
- Maryland and Baltimore Development Organizations
- Maryland State Department of Education
- Baltimore City School Board
-
Progressive Issues
-
Building Strong Media
-
Media with a Progressive Agenda (I'm still checking on that!)
>
- anotherangryvoice.blogspot.com
- "Talk About It" Radio - WFBR 1590AM Baltimore
- Promethius Radio Project
- Clearing the Fog
- Democracy Now
- Black Agenda Radio
- World Truth. TV Your Alternative News Network.
- Daily Censured
- Bill Moyers Journal
- Center for Public Integrity
- Public Radio International
- Baltimore Brew
- Free Press
- Far Left/Socialist Media
- Media with a Third Way Agenda >
-
Media with a Progressive Agenda (I'm still checking on that!)
>
-
Progressive Organizations
- Progressive Actions
- Maryland/Baltimore Voting Districts - your politicians and their votes
- Petitions, Complaints, and Freedom of Information Requests
- State of the Democratic Party
- Misc
- Misc 2
- Misc 3
- Misc 4
- Untitled
- Untitled
- Standard of Review
- Untitled
-
WALSH FOR GOVERNOR - CANDIDATE INFORMATION AND PLATFORM
- Campaign Finance/Campaign donations
- Speaking Events
- Why Heather Mizeur is NOT a progressive
- Campaign responses to Community Organization Questionnaires
-
Cindy Walsh vs Maryland Board of Elections
>
- Leniency from court for self-representing plaintiffs
- Amended Complaint
- Plaintiff request for expedited trial date
- Response to Motion to Dismiss--Brown, Gansler, Mackie, and Lamone
- Injunction and Mandamus
-
DECISION/APPEAL TO SPECIAL COURT OF APPEALS---Baltimore City Circuit Court response to Cindy Walsh complaint
>
-
Brief for Maryland Court of Special Appeals
>
- Cover Page ---yellow
- Table of Contents
- Table of Authorities
- Leniency for Pro Se Representation
- Statement of Case
- Questions Presented
- Statement of Facts
- Argument
- Conclusion/Font and Type Size
- Record Extract
- Appendix
- Motion for Reconsideration
- Response to Defendants Motion to Dismiss
- Motion to Reconsider Dismissal
-
Brief for Maryland Court of Special Appeals
>
- General Election fraud and recount complaints
-
Cindy Walsh goes to Federal Court for Maryland election violations
>
- Complaints filed with the FCC, the IRS, and the FBI
- Zapple Doctrine---Media Time for Major Party candidates
- Complaint filed with the US Justice Department for election fraud and court irregularities.
- US Attorney General, Maryland Attorney General, and Maryland Board of Elections are charged with enforcing election law
- Private media has a responsibility to allow access to all candidates in an election race. >
- Polling should not determine a candidate's viability especially if the polling is arbitrary
- Viability of a candidate
- Public media violates election law regarding do no damage to candidate's campaign
- 501c3 Organizations violate election law in doing no damage to a candidate in a race >
- Voter apathy increases when elections are not free and fair
- Maryland Board of Elections certifies election on July 10, 2014
- Maryland Elections ---2016
The Maryland General Assembly
meets in Annapolis each year for 90 days to act on more than 2300 bills including the State's annual budget. The 430th Session began January 11, 2012 and adjourned April 9, 2012.
Maryland legislature likely to return, officials speculate
By John Wagner and Aaron C. Davis, Published: April 10The Washington PostFollowing the eye-popping collapse Monday night of a package of tax increases, the talk in Annapolis on Tuesday was that the Maryland General Assembly would probably be forced to come back in a few weeks to try to finish the job.
Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) chided lawmakers Tuesday, saying it was “a damn shame” that cuts to education would be among more than $500 million in funding reductions triggered by their inaction in the final hours of the 90-day session.
Md. leaders are looking at two special sessions John Wagner 11:12 AM ET
One session could be devoted to a revenue package, the other could be on gambling legislation.
U-Md. chancellor warns of budget cuts John Wagner 7:40 AM ET
In Baltimore Sun column, Chancellor William E. Kirwan says failure to enact new tax package will mean tuition increases and cuts in financial aid, university programs.
Baker, Rawlings-Blake eye special session to push gambling bill John Wagner APR 23
The heads of two of Maryland’s largest jurisdictions see an opportunity to ramp up their push for a gambling bill if the General Assembly has a special session.
“Our leaders weren’t able to come to the consensus necessary to protect education,” an agitated O’Malley said at a previously scheduled bill-signing ceremony in Annapolis, where the legislature’s two presiding officers sat stone-faced on either side of him.
He made no mention of plans to call a special session, a move that would be necessary to enact a proposed tax increase on high earners and a series of other revenue plans that died at midnight Monday.
But leading lawmakers predicted that the governor would summon the General Assembly back once the impact of the forced spending cuts had time to sink in and he and legislators could reach an informal agreement on what to pass.
“This is a minor bump in the road,” said Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. “We’ll deal with it in a one- or two-day session, and everything will be fine.”
Not reaching an agreement by July 1 would probably result in the elimination of about 500 state jobs, cuts to local police aid and higher tuition at public universities, among other steps.
What else might be taken up in a special session is not clear. Miller (D-Calvert) said he is hopeful that a gambling bill would be part of the mix, along with a tax increase for transportation projects.
A late-moving gambling bill, which could have allowed a full-fledged casino in Prince George’s County, became entangled in budget negotiations in the session’s final days — but was not a priority for O’Malley or House Speaker Michael E. Busch (D-Anne Arundel).
Busch said that rounding up votes for proposed tax increases to offset the cuts could be more difficult than during the regular session, when the agenda was far broader. “It’s going to be a bigger lift when you’re coming back to town and everyone says you’re there to raise taxes,” he said.
State budget analysts were still working to unravel the full effect of the legislature’s having passed only two of the four interconnected bills that made up Maryland’s spending package. In all, it appeared general-fund spending would have to decrease by about 1 percent over the current fiscal year, to about $14.8 billion, though some parts of the budget would be reduced far more.
The budget as passed Monday would cut 10 percent, or more than $60 million, from higher education, probably necessitating tuition increases at state universities and community colleges.
Funding for grade-school students would be reduced by $44 a pupil. Grants to cover the higher cost of education in the suburbs of the District and in and around Baltimore would be cut, accounting for nearly $129 million.
meets in Annapolis each year for 90 days to act on more than 2300 bills including the State's annual budget. The 430th Session began January 11, 2012 and adjourned April 9, 2012.
Maryland legislature likely to return, officials speculate
By John Wagner and Aaron C. Davis, Published: April 10The Washington Post
Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) chided lawmakers Tuesday, saying it was “a damn shame” that cuts to education would be among more than $500 million in funding reductions triggered by their inaction in the final hours of the 90-day session.
One session could be devoted to a revenue package, the other could be on gambling legislation.
U-Md. chancellor warns of budget cuts John Wagner 7:40 AM ET
In Baltimore Sun column, Chancellor William E. Kirwan says failure to enact new tax package will mean tuition increases and cuts in financial aid, university programs.
Baker, Rawlings-Blake eye special session to push gambling bill John Wagner APR 23
The heads of two of Maryland’s largest jurisdictions see an opportunity to ramp up their push for a gambling bill if the General Assembly has a special session.
He made no mention of plans to call a special session, a move that would be necessary to enact a proposed tax increase on high earners and a series of other revenue plans that died at midnight Monday.
But leading lawmakers predicted that the governor would summon the General Assembly back once the impact of the forced spending cuts had time to sink in and he and legislators could reach an informal agreement on what to pass.
“This is a minor bump in the road,” said Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. “We’ll deal with it in a one- or two-day session, and everything will be fine.”
Not reaching an agreement by July 1 would probably result in the elimination of about 500 state jobs, cuts to local police aid and higher tuition at public universities, among other steps.
What else might be taken up in a special session is not clear. Miller (D-Calvert) said he is hopeful that a gambling bill would be part of the mix, along with a tax increase for transportation projects.
A late-moving gambling bill, which could have allowed a full-fledged casino in Prince George’s County, became entangled in budget negotiations in the session’s final days — but was not a priority for O’Malley or House Speaker Michael E. Busch (D-Anne Arundel).
Busch said that rounding up votes for proposed tax increases to offset the cuts could be more difficult than during the regular session, when the agenda was far broader. “It’s going to be a bigger lift when you’re coming back to town and everyone says you’re there to raise taxes,” he said.
State budget analysts were still working to unravel the full effect of the legislature’s having passed only two of the four interconnected bills that made up Maryland’s spending package. In all, it appeared general-fund spending would have to decrease by about 1 percent over the current fiscal year, to about $14.8 billion, though some parts of the budget would be reduced far more.
The budget as passed Monday would cut 10 percent, or more than $60 million, from higher education, probably necessitating tuition increases at state universities and community colleges.
Funding for grade-school students would be reduced by $44 a pupil. Grants to cover the higher cost of education in the suburbs of the District and in and around Baltimore would be cut, accounting for nearly $129 million.