I think we may need a separate thread for Baltimore and Cummings memes… I would love to have a repository of memes and data about how much money Baltimore has received in federal aid… specifically to counter news articles like this:
https://www.ketv.com/article/baltimore-mayor-says-trump-should-send-federal-assistance-instead-of-childish-tweets/28548915
Cummings' net worth is $1.5M.
Went from $267k in 2007, to 1.5M in 2008… held steady there since then, probably because his graft is being redirected to other accounts and under shell corps to hide his net worth and his graft.
BBS report, from February 2017…
LOL, when I was 16 I ran a BBS on my old 8086 on a 14.4k modem… 2x 5.25" floppy drives, 20MB hard drive… :)
https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-pol-trump-baltimore-analysis-20190727-wsnwhl6so5hlhfo5uhmmiz5zfa-story.html?
VERY interesting.
53% black population in this district… notice how gerrymandered the district is… all of the rural areas that were added to it while maintaining a majority black population from the city to get rid of the rural republican representation.
>"Cummings’ congressional district received just under $15.7 billion in grants, benefits and other assistance from the federal government in Fiscal Year 2018, according to Newsweek’s analysis of the federal awards data compiled by USAspending.gov. By comparison, districts like Indiana’s 7th (at $16.5 billion), New Jersey’s 12th (at $17.2 billion) and Pennsylvania’s 4th (at $27.4 billion) all received more money in the same period, according to Newsweek’s website."
Notice how they only give a comparison to other districts who got MORE money in federal funding…
that's some POWERFUL gerrymandering, huh? Notice how there's a huge geographical area of rural area…
Prior to the previous census, there was a majority-white majority-Republican district in Maryland… since the redistricting, Maryland maintained the same number of districts, but they are now all blue… all of the districts seem to have a small portion of them reaching into the major metro areas of Baltimore and those counties just outside of Washington DC.
Notice in the attached image… DC is near the center, bordering MD 8, and MD 4… but notice how MD 5 is made to get VERY CLOSE to DC… MD 6 is the very white, very rural area of MD that is NW of DC… but it's been made to be close to the city as well. MD 3 is VERY gerrymandered… all around Baltimore, but includingg a lot of the more rural areas…
MD 7, 2, 3, and 4 all somehow include a ton of Rural area, but also all have portions of their districts in Baltimore itself…