Another racist Republican...
At 'Exclusive' Club, Ehrlich Goes Colorblind
Week before last, Ehrlich held a golfing fund-raiser at the Elkridge Club, out there on North Charles Street by the Baltimore city-county line. Pay a thousand bucks, and get to schmooze obsequiously with the governor of Maryland.
But don't expect to hang out with Michael Steele in that same setting, due to the conditions of birth of the lieutenant governor of Maryland. The Elkridge Club is generally referred to as "exclusive." This is intended to indicate the wealth and social connections of its members. But here it means not just blue blood, but a certain color of skin.
As several Elkridge members and former officers confirmed to The Sun last week, there has not been a black person admitted to membership in the club in its entire 127-year history, although the club has been magnanimous enough to let minorities on occasion dine or play golf there.
Uhhh...
Not quite...
1. Democrats have held fund raisers at the very same club.
2. Here are some things that have happened during Ehrlich's term:
During Democratic administrations, the schools, particularly Morgan and Coppin, have had to fight to RETAIN current funding levels.
The story broke on Saturday in The Baltimore Sun. Tuesday morning, Ehrlich called into Black talk station, WOLB, during the Larry Young Morning Show.
Larry Young, a hard core Black liberal ex-state senator refused to discuss the situation until he heard from Ehrlich. After hearing from Ehrlich, LY, himself, stated that he knows of Democrats who have held fund raisers there, starting with Kathleen Kennedy-Townsend.
LY dismissed the report and moved on to other topics.
Maryland Democrats are going to come out smelling like dung if they try to make meat of this one.
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Posted by: Temple3 at October 9, 2005 08:38 PM
Powerspeaks is a citizen activist journalism movement that was started to protest the lack of African-American members at the Elkridge Club, in Baltimore,MD. We cover the events as well as the issues, long after the established media have moved on.
Posted by: powerspeaks at October 8, 2005 05:31 PMwww.powerspeaks.blogspot.com
This is the new type of media that is being birthed in this time when our democracy is being silenced and freedom is being denied!
Everyone is trying to pit and make it a democratic or republician issue when it was the Gov. and Lt. Gov. Steele who finally spoke up. The silence of the lambs from the rest of the policitians from both parties is evidence that all of them want to be safe on issues rather than take a stand!