Apparently our county commissioners voted 3-2 yesterday to hire a lobbyist for the upcoming legislative session in Annapolis. WTF is our local government hiring lobbyists?!? As Matt Morgan stated today, they have been getting everything they’ve asked for the last couple of years. This is the kind of sh!t that pisses me off! Do they really thing a lobbyist hired by republican commissioners will make a difference in a democrat majority legislature? Apparently Todd Morgan and Jack Bailey were in favor of this - tells me all I need to know about these weasels.
They hired likely the most effective Annapolis lobbyist in history, Bruce Bereano, for what amounts to what he would have left as a tip for a dinner with Legislators at Treaty of Paris a few years ago.
What this is is a slap to the face of the County's delegation letting them know that they're, not even Crosby who's deep into the Progressive Caucus in Annapolis, not getting it done for the County.
I expect Calvert to do the same thing soon. Since Mike Miller died the money spigot for the County has slowed to an annoying slow leak. That's why there's not money allocated to a TJ study now, it was yanked a couple years ago, and Jackson doesn't see any reason to have it reallocated. Long is too busy being himself and Fisher is just Fisher.
