Ben Jealous removes twitter like of vulgar rant against police

22AcaciaAve

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Twitter user @CaponeOFFICIAL retweeted a @BenJealous tweet that linked to an article about corrupt Baltimore police. The Jealous campaign’s tweet states, “Among the many reasons to end the failed war on the drugs is the way it has corrupted too many police officers.” The attached article from The Root included the mug shots of seven convicted Baltimore police officers. @CaponeOFFICIAL, which has 22,600 followers, added vulgar commentary when retweeting the Jealous post.

“Yet people still believe cops are saints, and Freddie Gray killed himself,” the tweet states. “F--- #BlueLivesMatter and all these dirty [expletive] cops. You aren't a cop if you're dirty...you're a target to the criminal world. If you get killed...that’s on you.” The tweet was liked by @BenJealous. The Jealous campaign removed the “like” of the @CaponeOFFICIAL tweet Tuesday and said Thursday that Jealous had no knowledge of it.

Gene Ryan, president of Baltimore’s FOP Lodge 3, called it “outrageous.” “It’s disgraceful,” Ryan said. “Police officers put their lives on the line every day. He likes a post that likes the idea of police officers being killed? It’s insulting.”

Todd Eberly, a political science professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, said Jealous needs to be running a more disciplined campaign against a Republican incumbent who leads Jealous in most polls. “He has to run a near flawless campaign to close that gap,” Eberly said. “On a day like this you don’t want anyone writing about this. You want them writing about the Miller and Busch endorsement. “When you’re trampling on you’re own story, you need to make a course correction,” he added.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/ma...-ben-jealous-police-tweet-20180823-story.html

Is Jealous seriously the best democrats could do? Double digits down and you have to defend this. As noted, he needs a near perfect campaign to even get close. And the best part is the tweet occurred back in early February. It took until late August for someone to figure out that liking it needed to be taken down? I thought Anthony Brown ran a bad campaign against a relative unknown republican in Larry Hogan. Jealous looks like he will at least take Brown and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend off the hook for the worst candidates run in a state that is 2-1 democrat. :faint:
 

littlelady

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Is Jealous seriously the best democrats could do? Double digits down and you have to defend this. As noted, he needs a near perfect campaign to even get close. And the best part is the tweet occurred back in early February. It took until late August for someone to figure out that liking it needed to be taken down? I thought Anthony Brown ran a bad campaign against a relative unknown republican in Larry Hogan. Jealous looks like he will at least take Brown and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend off the hook for the worst candidates run in a state that is 2-1 democrat. :faint:

Thanks for posting. Very interesting.

I was having a problem with getting past his surname. :lol:
 
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22AcaciaAve

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The interesting thing is the total lack of enthusiastic support that Jealous seems to be getting from the democratic leaders in Maryland. Mike Miller cherry picked education endorsing Jealous. Mike Busch attacked the Republican governors association for ads against Jealous. Neither showed any real passion for supporting his policies. Comptroller Franchot announced that he would not endorse anyone. Contrast that with their support of O'Malley when he challenged Ehrlich. I think they are distancing themselves from Jealous because they would rather not have to shoot down his policies in the GA. It just wouldn't look good to have a democratic GA blocking a democratic governors policies. At least with Hogan they know he can't drift too far to the right spectrum because they will still have the numbers in the GA.
 

Hijinx

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I believe that Jealous was the only Democrat stupid enough to run against a sure thing.
He has shown in his campaign, that he really is not a smart person.
He will get a lot of votes from the darker side, but most people have seen Hogan's successes and accept them.
What Jealous promises he cannot deliver on even with a democrat legislature.
 

stgislander

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Mike Miller cherry picked education endorsing Jealous. Mike Busch attacked the Republican governors association for ads against Jealous. Neither showed any real passion for supporting his policies. Comptroller Franchot announced that he would not endorse anyone.

Damn that must have left a bad taste in Miller's mouth.
 

GregV814

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Steny and mike were both ambulanc chasing defense attorneys in p.g. County... mikes daughter is now an ambulance chasing lawyer I so md. She somewhat of a celebrity and will probably be a district court judge when Cappo Don Coreleone “take a hike Mike” dies.
 
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