Sunday, May 3, 2015

Maryland Democrat pinpoints Baltimore’s problem: Wealth hasn’t been spread around enough



For partisan liberals, the spate of urban violence that has characterized anti-law enforcement demonstrations and riots for nearly one year has presented both an opportunity and a challenge. While many Democrats have welcomed the spotlight on policing, urban poverty, and the plight of inner city minorities, they have also been confronted with the unsatisfying results of generations of monopoly Democratic governance.

Some on the left have chosen to ignore this annoying reality entirely.

From prisons, to crumbling infrastructure, to overzealous police, to outsourcing, Baltimore’s predicament is everyone’s fault but the party that has enjoyed prohibitive control over the levers of power in that city for over a half century.

On Sunday, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace confronted a Maryland Democrat with the failures of America’s Democrat-dominated urban centers. And not just any Democrat. Wallace sat down across from Rep. Donna Edwards, a progressive Democrat who is running against fellow Maryland Democrat and chosen successor to Sen. Barbara Mikulski, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, for an open U.S. Senate seat in the Old Line State.

Wallace asked Edwards whether it was fair to note that Baltimore has been governed from the left for generations and if it was true to claim “liberal policies have failed” that city. Edwards did not seem to dismiss that comment as invalid, but she also indicated that the only solution to the problems of Democratic governance was more Democratic governance.







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