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Admirable_Story_5063 t1_iyf78f5 wrote

But they can’t though. The pension is for elected office and they’re honestly not that many elected offices. Plus with this bill they can only run twice in 12 years. So essentially no one is getting a pension.

Again this is a horrible bill that will not solve the problem of corruption in Baltimore politics. Instead it will just make it worse.

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S-Kunst t1_iyf6qe7 wrote

Dream on. I grew up, just outside of DC. They think the sun rises and set in that town. Most DC area people are not from that area, so anything which happens outside of DC is off their radar as they are starry eyed about getting their pile of $$. They still are puzzled that Social Security Administration in just out side Baltimore, and at one time the regions IRS was in Baltimore. Most know Baltimore only as a name on I-95 highway sign, and a place which is about cops and robbers on TV.

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lexabear t1_iyf2xg1 wrote

I recently contested a ticket and the court proceeding was over Zoom. This was as of August.

I was one of the last people in the docket so got to see a lot of other people's cases. Something like this, where there was a legitimate issue with the signage, the judge would throw out entirely.

Look at the picture the meter reader took (you should be able to view this online - check the instructions on the ticket) and it might show the sign, depending where your car was. If you contest the ticket, there's an opportunity to upload a picture, where you can put this photo too. The judge will look at the picture the meter reader sent along with any pictures you present.

Since there obviously is a sign, and it says something about parking, I can't say for certain that yours will definitely get thrown out. But the judge definitely did not like Baltimore City's parking enforcement and threw out a lot of tickets.

Basically anything that didn't have a legit excuse was reduced to $50 total with absolutely any excuse, including "oops, I didn't mean to". (Which was mine, TBF.) (Except handicapped parking issues because those are way more expensive.)

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