Dixon To Resign On February 4th
By Bmore Fab • January 6th, 2010
They say what goes around comes around and that seems to be the case when it comes to the recent trials of Mayor Shelia Dixon. She sat down with the Baltimore Sun yesterday and spoke on her affair with Lipscomb and the prospect of stepping down. A snippet from the interview is below:
“The bad choice I made was getting in a relationship with Ron Lipscomb,” said Dixon, who dated Lipscomb while she was president of the City Council and voted on a spending panel to award tax breaks to his projects.”If he had testified,” she said, “I would have testified.”
At a hearing today, Dixon’s attorneys will argue that the mayor deserves a new trial because of juror misconduct, coercive instructions from the trial judge and confusion they believe resulted from jurors’ being instructed to ignore large chunks of testimony about Lipscomb.”
Read the entire article here.
*Updated*
Mayor Shelia Dixon will resign from office on February 4th. The soon to be former Mayor entered an Alford plea to one count of perjury and pledged to tender her resignation effective Feb. 4 as part of an agreement to settle criminal cases against her. The agreement means that City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will become mayor and also allows Dixon to keep her 83,000 yearly pension amassed to her during her career of public service.
Sad that this is what she’ll be remembered for….
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[ January 6th, 2010 at 12:59 pm ]
I don’t think she got what she deserved. Honestly, Baltimore has always been a grimy town and she is 100% not the first person to take gift cards or whatever freebies run around City Hall. They just have it out for many democrats in Baltimore — they were trying to get O’Malley before he became mayor. And the lack of Black leadership support in the City is probably what led to all of this. But that’s all I’m going to say about that.
[ January 6th, 2010 at 1:00 pm ]
I meant “…before O’Malley became governor”. That is all.
[ January 6th, 2010 at 1:13 pm ]
stealing gift cards…from the homeless…there’s just no excuse. She’s a grown woman…she knows what’s right and what’s not. Choices. Choices.