Election Integrity is essential. The process will fail without full trust in the system.  Full trust requires due diligence by authorities such as the Baltimore Board of Elections to do everything in its power that every lawful vote is counted, and only lawful votes are counted.

Read the Baltimore Brew article here: https://bit.ly/3xDCJtL

From the article: 

“It’s not a lot. A couple of thousand voters, I think, is all,” Armstead B.C. Jones Sr., director of the Baltimore City Board of Elections, said. “We’re still trying to get a handle on it.”

One wrong vote is too many.

Baltimore Council President Nick Mosby violated ethics law by accepting money from city contractors via legal defense fund, board rules

Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby violated the city’s ethics ordinance by indirectly soliciting for a legal-defense fund that took donations from at least two city contractors, the city’s Board of Ethics said in a ruling Thursday that ordered Mosby to stop accepting money from the fund.

The fund was established for the legal defense of him and his wife, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, as they faced a federal criminal investigation last year into their financial dealings. While Nick Mosby has not been charged with anything, Marilyn Mosby was charged this year with perjury and making false statements related to the purchase of two Florida houses.

Re-Fund The Police: Governor Hogan Announces $150 Million Initiative to Increase Support for Law Enforcement, Crime Control, and Victim Protection Efforts

“We Cannot Defund The Police, We Need To Re-Fund The Police”
$120 Million to Dramatically Increase Local Police Aid, Fund Salary Increases and Hiring Bonuses
$20 Million for Safer Neighborhoods, Witness Incentives
$10 Million for Victim Protection, Reversing Dangerous Cuts By Congress and General Assembly to Support Vulnerable Marylanders

It is with great sadness that we heard the news report about the eleven shooting victims throughout throughout the City of Baltimore on Wednesday, October 6, 2021.

Our condolences and prayers go to the families of the victims who survived and the souls that succumbed to their injuries. We pray that God provides their families grace, patience, ease, and comforts their hearts during this difficult time.

But now we must face the facts.

As of today, there have been 265 murders in our city and at least 533 non-fatal shootings.  This simply cannot continue at the rate we are going, approaching the seventh year of the same repeated cycle of violence. 

In order to address the continuous crime in our city, we must seek a prosecutor who will actually apply the law and prosecute those individuals who feel the need to take lives and harm others.  Further, we must seek understanding of how the foundation of violence was laid and an understanding of how this problem has gotten so far out of hand. We must acknowledge that this type of behavior often stems from broken homes, destruction of the family unit, poverty, and a mindset for violence.

As the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated, "Riots are the language of the unheard."  So, too, murders and shootings are the language of the unheard.  Crying out for help to get out of their dire situations, for love, and community support! 

When we continue to kill or harm each other we commit injustices and oppress ourselves. We need to rebuild our communities as places where we can raise our children to be healthy and successful. We accomplish this by holding ourselves accountable (help someone in need, own your mistakes, be kind) and by demanding our elected leaders be accountable (vote for different people, write your council members, learn about the issues that matter) for neglecting the situation for decades.

Now is the time to unite across the city. Only by speaking with one loud voice which our leaders can’t ignore, only in this way can we fix a system that is so fundamentally broken.

We ask all clergy, violence prevention organizations, non-profit groups, educators, and community activists to work with us, by reaching across political, religious, social, and economic lines, thus empowering and helping us effect meaningful change to combat the senseless murders and shootings.

We all live in this city together, and we will all suffer together unless we can come together.

Now is the time to try something different.

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