Psychotic Nut Case Survives Primary

Mush-for-Brains Bozos in Taylorsville and Mt. Airy select bonifide nut case over sane business woman.

 

 

Yes, incredible as it may seem, a pathetic 2,200 morons from District 4 selected Richard Rothschild over the qualified, completely sane, Barbara Biller in the Republican Primary. There was no Democratic candidate running so the way seemed pretty clear for Rothschild to continue embarrassing Carroll County and wasting taxpayer money on his own frivolities under the guise of protecting the US Constitution.

 

Fortunately, since the primary another well qualified Republican candidate has stepped up to run against Rothschild in the general election as a write-in candidate.

 

While local businessman Jim Rowe has many good qualifications to be a Commissioner, his most endearing is the very fact that he IS NOT Richard Rothschild.

 

As disclosed in the Carroll County Times article by Christian Alexandersen on September 1, 2014, Rothschild and his equally nutty companion Robin Frazier have cost Carroll taxpayers over $180,000 in legal fees to defend their right to offend every other Carroll Countian not of their faith; attack the Chesapeake Bay Restoration Program and attempt to protect their e mails from public disclosure - all failures. Additionally, the Times did not disclose the $10,000 Rothschild had paid to his campaign contributor, attorney Richard Titus, to defend him against ethics charges which I brought against Rothschild 3 years ago.

 

The accounting does not include the tens of thousands squandered by Rothschild to hold an illegal anti planning conference in Baltimore County in 2011, hiring pretend experts like Lord Christopher "Baloney" Monckton to speak. Rothschild's anti sustainability, anti climate change / sea level rise philosophies are well known.

 

Not as well known is  that his major campaign contributor is Michael Peroutka, a bible churning attorney from Anne Arundel County who believes the MD legislature is unconstitutional and as a member of the League of the South, believes Maryland and other states should secede from the Union in the name of white superiority. Rothschild himself has suggested that Carroll and other counties attempt to secede from Maryland.

 

What will it take for District 4 citizens to wake up and elect a sane person who is devoid of the conspiracy theories that Rothschild thrives on? It's rather simple really. Responsible people from Mt Airy simply need to turn out in numbers this November and write in the name of candidate Jim Rowe. I have enough faith in the residents of that district to believe that they can write - and that they are fed up with the antics of the most pathetic screwball to ever occupy the County Commissioners office. I am confident that a majority will take the extra effort to put Jim Rowe in office to represent them with dignity. 

Welcome to Carroll County, July 2014

This graffiti was posted on the wall of the US Army Armory in Westminster, MD which was to be used for temporary relocation of Hispanic children from Central America to be processed, given shelter and health care.

Outside Politicans Try To Sway Carroll Election With Donations

Do you know these two men?

 

 
Edward Primoff



Michael Peroutka

 

It's not likely you do but you should get to know them because they are both millionaires who are trying their best to influence the Carroll County Commissioners election.

 

Primoff, frequently referred to as Ed Pissedoff because of his demeanor when he was a Commissioner Candidate in 2006, now lives in Florida but has recently arrived back on the Carroll scene with a new PAC called KeepCarrollConservative.com. You will see his signs now being added to the radical Commissioner Candidates least worthy of being elected: Frazier, Rothschild, Mallick, DiMaggio and Allison. He formerly partnered with that nasty old fool Hoby Wolf in conniving lies about candidates they disliked, using that newspaper rag, Northern News, to spread them.

There is no more despicable person to have ever entered the Carroll political and development scene than Ed Pissedoff, although he was such a poor candidate himself that he wet his pants at a forum in Sykesville and had to retreat from the hall.

During the Dell / Frazier tenure as commissioners, Pissedoff often bragged that he could run Carroll Government from his living room, then in Woodbine. Unfortunately, his claim was not far from the truth as he fully controlled Dell and Frazier. Now he wants to affect this election with his money and influence over conservatives who have yet to learn how to think for themselves.

 

Now Mr. Peroutka is another story altogether. He and his brother have a law firm in Anne Arundel County from which they operate The Institute On The Constitution. Michael is a candidate for Delegate this year but he's also generously given Richard Rothschild's campaign a big boost with a $4,000 contribution.

 

Although Rothschild has denied knowing Peroutka, he managed to get the Commissioners to hire Peroutka's Institute to indoctrinate County managers on the Constitution by the Reverend David Whitney of the Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church in Pasadena, MD. Staff were encouraged to attend the lessons by Chief of Staff Steve Powell. The Carroll County Times report on the issue on February 24, 2012 stated, "Having the course for county employees was the brainchild of Commissioner Richard Rothschild, R-District . Whitney met Rothschild in 2010 when Rothschild, who was not a commissioner at the time, attended his intensive 12-hour U.S. Constitution course. Whitney and Rothschild had been in contact since then and set up the course to be taught today, Whitney said."

 

Well the bottom line here folks is the question, "Do you want these two out-of-County millionaires to influence the results of our election?"

 

Over 1000 citizens have changed parties from Democrat and Independent to Republican so they can have a voice in this primary election. Now they are being called RINOS (Republicans in name only) by the likes of Pissedoff and Peroutka and local wing-nut Larry Helmaniac.

 

With only a few weeks left to the election there is no doubt they have more tricks and money up their sleeves. There will be mailers, DVDs and handouts at the election halls.

 

I'm hoping that Carroll Countians aren't going to allow themselves to be bullied by the likes of those who are so scared that Carroll might elect moderate Republicans or God forbid a Democrat or two.

 

I'm hoping that citizens are tired of their County having the state wide reputation as the home of radical politicians who accomplish nothing and who have made Carroll the laughing stock of the state.



 

A Brief Commentary

Calvin he ain't

 

Short memories

 

Carroll County Election 2014

It's All About Refreshing Our Memories

 

If there is one word to capture the essence of the 59th Board of County Commissioners it is "Comptemptuous"

 

It's so easy to put a painful past behind us and decide who to vote for on what candidates current comments are and which have the most signs up in our neighborhoods. Over the past three years, Carroll has become the laughing stock of the State and its citizens have become used to being disenfranchised by a Board of Commissioners that are more focused on ranting from their soap box at 225 N. Center Street in Westminster than quietly providing good local governance.

 

It all began with their contemptuous decision to name themselves the "Fighting 59th" right after being elected. Little did we know then how accurate that moniker would become as infighting among themselves has become their cornerstone..

 

Their contempt for transparency and open government began only a few days after their taking office when they all decided to take a secret vote by e mail to attempt to establish an all Republican Elections Board. This pattern of secrecy has plagued them throughout their terms in office and they have been admonished for it several times by the State Open Meetings Compliance Board, although once again their contempt for State law has prevailed as they dismissed the findings, brazenly and unapologetically excusing themselves.

 

The most remarkable example of their brazen contempt for citizens came in 2011, when they decided to hire Jim Simpson as their chief propagandist and then use him to assemble an illegal anti-science, anti-planning conference in Pikesville on Halloween. Simpson was a contemporary of Rongway Rothschild, a blogger about all things wing-nutty. The position was never advertised because there was never a job description written for it. Local companies and individuals bemoaned the fact that they were never give an opportunity to bid for the "job".

 

Simpson, Rothschild and Rothschild's assistant Kathy Fuller then turned all of their focus on assembling a panel of biased speakers, chief of which was England's Earl of Baloney, Lord Christopher Monckton, a renown climate change denier. An exorbitant rent was paid for a hall in Pikesville and the decision was made to charge some - but not all - Carroll citizens to attend the conference while political pals and right wing politicians from across the State were give free passes for the discussions and luncheon. The County (read that "taxpayers") paid for the speakers airfares, fees and accommodations. When challenged on the location of the event and decision to charge admission to some citizen attendees, the State naturally found the entire affair a violation of the Open Meetings Act, to which the Commissioners replied, "ho hum, so what".

 

Citizens will hopefully remember how it is that Commissioner "Rob'em Frazier" earned her title. Much to the embarrassment and annoyance to three other Commissioners, it was revealed in 2013 that Frazier had received over $7,000 in personal mileage reimbursements for travel to local church functions and boy scout meetings. She had gotten the Chief of Staff to sign off on her fiscal abuses until in the end she resorted to having Commissioner Roush do the dirty work for her. Finally the Commissioners established a reasonable personal vehicle use policy which recognized that county pool vehicles were available to all the Commissioners within just a three minute walk from their offices.

 

Mileage reimbursements, parking fees and meals were also collected by Rongway Rothschild and Rob'em Frazier for numerous trips to Annapolis as they exhibited their confusion over whether they were elected to the State Legislative Delegation or as local Commissioners. The same can be said of their attendance to Board of Education meetings where they have tried to manipulate the budget and curriculum that is the responsibility of the Elected Board of Education.

 

Slush funds have been carved from the public treasury for as much as $400,000 in legal set asides to deter the public from taking them to task and for suing state agencies that they don't agree with. Worse, $800,000 has been established for a so-called Educational Fund which is to be doled out to those in private schools or are home schooled. There is no accountability of how the money is spent because they chose to turn the funds over to the non profit Community Foundation which is not accountable to the MD Public Information Act, yet is receiving a generous fee for laundering the dough. The Community Foundation puppet is now a second Board of Education, only there are no rules governing the curriculum and no public accountability of how public funds are spent.

 

Perhaps the most contemptuous act, if not the most laughable act by these Commissioners was their decision to unanimously vote to make English the official language in a county that has a 97% Caucasian population. Their disregard for the small Hispanic population in Carroll (it's the actual working backbone here) was when Rongway Rothschild directed County staff to arrange removal of a Spanish Language billboard created by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) which encouraged people to be alert for what to do in natural disasters. This took days of staff time and the assistance of his Campaign Treasurer Bruce Holstein to threaten the outdoor advertising company with retribution if the sign was allowed to stand. Rongway was personally offended by the presence of the sign so it had to go, with the blessings of the other 4 commissioners who discussed the matter in an illegal, closed meeting.

 

Instead of their driving over county roads to see that they are well maintained we have them acting as the ethnic police. Instead they have purposefully placed blinders over building and zoning enforcement staff to assure that lawbreakers are not punished.

 

And now we have a new breed of contestants who are seeking office to further damage local government's ability to be efficient and effective. There are the three Tea Party Board of Ed candidates, Harmening, Roenick, and Nason.

In district two there are the Tea Party supported Niner and DiMaggio who think improvements to the Rt 140 Gateway to Carroll would include more automotive shops and billboards.

In District Three we have the person with the most inflated resume and who is the record holder as the County staff appointment with the shortest duration, Lyn Mallick, plus there is the ever befuddled Dave Roush, champion of any development, anywhere, and anytime. Mercer is trying to temper his tea party mindset but his cover is blown.

District One has the distinction of Rob'em Frazier who stands to benefit once again by a split vote between the qualified Wantz and the disingenuous Mawhinney.

Howard is getting a free pass in District 5 as his opponent can't seem to hide her cluelessness.

Which leaves poor district 4 and the rest of the county to the whims of Rongway Rothschild because his opponent, Biller, is running a lame, aimless and naive campaign against a pro.

 

The list of other distractions from governance attributable to the Fighting 59th including forcing county staff to attend a lesson on the Constitution which was given by a wing-nut preacher; holding regular prayer meetings in the County Office building for staff to 'voluntarily" attend; paying the so-called Chesapeake Coalition attorneys to foolishly attempt to force the federal government to deny a renewed permit for the Conowingo Dam; creating a conspiracy theory that the United Nations is interfering with County planning strategy through it's Agenda 21(a plan for 3rd world governments seeking democracy); denying that Carroll has any cause or effect on the health of the Chesapeake Bay; denying the reality of sea level rise and its potentially disastrous effects on Maryland's shoreline; creating a policy for the conduct of their meetings which denies citizens the right to ask questions and expect responses from them; assuming that Prince Georges County receives more State funding for schools than Carroll because of the "color thing" as Rongway Rothschild publicly stated and using their offices as campaign centers, unethically using the County communications network, staff and equipment for political purposes, to include giving county jobs to political chums like Roberta Windham and Republican Central Committee member Kathy Fuller.

 

The Fighting 59th Board of Commissioners has shown nothing but contempt for the citizens of this County. Their entire public persona is one of holding themselves above the law and the comments of those who try to reason with them. They have used their offices as a soapbox from which to spout inflamed, off-target and misinformed rhetoric. They have intentionally discourage public input by showing a disregard for it.

 

I do hope that Carroll Citizens will refresh their memories before voting in the primary and general elections this year - that they will reject candidates who are running to trash what is left of our local government rather than seek office to run an efficient, inclusive and effective organization. If the citizens here to not return local government to a level of normalcy in this election then the county will be permanently doomed to a future fit for only radicals and misfits.



Massive bag of Flatulence Overwhelms County

Stinks up entire State.

 

An enormous, gaseous cloud of nauseating hot air entered the local atmosphere with the election of Richard Rothschild. Allowed to trip into office by a group of soft brained residents in the Taylorsville area, the burden of his stench has grown weekly over the past four years as he has pontificated on every imaginable topic and politicized the Commissioner’s office beyond recognition. 

Beginning with an assault on sustainable practices in County government he championed the spending of over $40,000 on an anti-science, anti-planning conference held in Pikesville and then had the nerve to attempt to charge county residents to attend. The conference was later recognized by the State Attorney General’s Office as an illegal closed meeting. Among the speakers Rothschild paid to attend the conference was the infamous Earl of Baloney and climate change denier, Lord Christopher Monckton.

Rothschild has ethically abused his office by using his staff assistant, Kathy Fuller, and the county communications network to publish his political ramblings. He has tried repeatedly to politicize the County’s forthcoming Master Plan with his tired, repetitious power point presentations, wearing out his welcome with both Planning Commission members and the public. He has spread his stink throughout the state by forcing himself on elected officials in the MD Association of Counties and the General Assembly, as if he were elected to state office.

He remains the only local elected official, save the Sheriff, to wear a pistol under his jacket daily.

Among the numerous issues he has wasted taxpayer funds on (in addition to the anti-science buffet) is $10,000 to a local attorney to defend him against an ethics charge tens of thousands of dollars in wasted staff time as he ran them in circles attempting to humor his wild imaginings; tens of thousands of dollars on hiring a lobbyist that has produced only negative results for the County; stashed hundreds of thousands of dollar away in the budget as a legal reserve to intimidate citizens from suing him and the Commissioners for unethical behavior; and wasted tens of thousands of dollars to hire ambulance chasing lawyers in a foolish attempt to block the federal repermitting of the Conowingo Dam.

He alone has refused to file a complete and honest Financial Disclosure report with the County Attorney while spending over a year resisting any change in the County Ethics Law to meet State legal requirements for counties. The State law requires county officials to fess up on the real estate holdings of the office holder and their spouses. Given his engagement in a shoddy Baltimore Real Estate practice one can only conclude he is avoiding disclosure to hide conflicts of business he has with county matters. Meanwhile he has loaded up the membership of the County Ethics Commission with political buddies who would shelter him from any citizen complaints.

Relief from this hideous malodor is fortunately within sight with the November 2014 election. While he still maintains the support of the soft brained set in Taylorsville, however, the rest of his district, indeed the entire county, has grown tired of his stench.