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.
