I know that would be really hard but honestly, what redeeming qualities does Nick Mosby have? What would the argument be to keep him? I can’t wrap my mind around the idea that less than 20% of voters would agree that Mosby is bad for Baltimore and we don’t need two more years of bad. Maybe that’s just because I’m so fed up.

I didn’t realize that initiative passed. 20% of the qualified voters is a very high number. I wonder if we could someone achieve this, that would take a large budget to reach that many voters.

I would love to do both. I’m just so tired of watching the city rot as these elected officials are blatantly robbing it of its resources. Nothing will get better with this kind of leadership.

> it would only take a petition signed by 20% of Baltimore city’s qualified voters to have him removed. > >

Only?????

Why would you recall someone that is being (successfully) checked by other parts of the government? Like just don't vote for his ass next time. If a recall costs tax dollars, seems like a waste of tax dollars.

Anyone who rides the early bird train to BWI knows that without it all the low income service workers wouldn’t be able to get to work. Every time you fly, thank the light rail.

It’s funny that the new MTA corridor studies basically looked at a bunch of routes and were like “yeah on these route even buses that are slow and unreliable are at capacity, so that seems like a good place to upgrade” while the dumbest people in the city go “we don’t need this, nobody takes the [route that is completely different]”

Austin may be weird, but big oil still has an iron grip on that state. Big fans of “one more lane” mentality.

while I hate both Mosbys, if we're going to try to undertake such an effort, I would rather push for ranked-choice open primaries (or at least ranked-choice partisan primaries) for mayor and city council. in theory, we can do both, but I think in practice it's hard to motivate people. in the long term I think we would be better off with ranked-choice.

my preference aside, I think you would need some kind of controversy to get signatures, otherwise people will be like "meh, no thanks"

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According to this article, it would only take a petition signed by 20% of Baltimore city’s qualified voters to have him removed.

https://foxbaltimore.com/amp/news/city-in-crisis/after-pension-bill-vetoed-what-does-nick-mosbys-future-in-office-look-like

Of course the other city council members won’t do anything, that’s why I feel like it’s time for voters to put their foot down and send a message to all of our elected officials that if you’re blatantly participating in shady bull shit like Nick Mosby then you’ll be removed.

Change the way you vote?

Yeah, while it is true that prohibiting development around our rail infrastructure has been a huge failure, this is a solvable problem as evidenced by the Owings Mills development

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they just increased the amount of time between light rail trains again. It used to be as little as 10 minutes on the main line during rush hour, now it's 30 if it's even on time. And since there's two southbound trains, if you want to go to BWI or Glen Burnie you might have to wait for up to an hour in the freezing cold (source: I did it yesterday) because only every other train can take you. The trains are also constantly broken or single-tracking, slowing them down even further. And the light rail only goes north-south, so if you wanna go east-west you're fucked since Hogan cancelled the red line.

The busses are unreliable at best. The Charm City Circulator almost exclusively serves rich white communities. In fact, this is the case for much of the public transport in the city. The exception is communities like Ruxton which rejected plans for a light rail stop in their area for "crime related reasons" (racism). Ever wondered why the ride between the Lutherville and Falls Road stations is so long? Yeah. That's why.

I have lived in Baltimore my whole life, and until my early teens I had no idea we even HAD a metro. enough said.

Baltimore has so many things we could be doing better and public transport is definitely one of them. We have a budget surplus, we're the richest state in America, for fucks sake! why can't we just build some fucking trains ugh. I hope Wes Moore will address this.

Can we recall council members? I thought initiative that didn’t make it to the ballot. We voters have to petition our own council representatives to recall Council President Mosby. The councilwoman for my area is Phylicia Porter, she voted for Mr. Mosby’s bill in the first round of voting and didn’t vote at all in the next round. From what I’m learning from neighborhood meetings Councilwoman Porter moved to this part of Baltimore only a year before the election, so she moved here to run for the office. I don’t think she would listen any petition from residents, especially not a petition to recall Mr. Mosby over a bill she voted for.

It's still a horrible, bloated mess even to this day. RIF on phone and "old.reddit.com" on PC for me.

A couple years ago it was just my podcasts

Seeing it metastasize to Baltimore has been surreal, like, oh, now it’s above me when I’m running across the Maryland Ave bridge

Flamingos. Look for the Flamingos.

> If you like sports podcasts these gambling ads are all over that shit, and not just interstitial ads, the content is shot through with it as well.

Oh man, it's everywhere. News broadcasts. Radio. Sports. Billboards. They're so pervasive.

I use an ad blocker, but they must know that because I got a piece of physical junk mail from them yesterday, wtf

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literally most people nowadays

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