It’s even worse when local news leaves one slightly embarrassing tidbit off their coverage: that you’re a Democrat.

You have to go out-of-state to get more professional coverage.

She’s running.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has skipped town, following Thursday’s FBI and IRS raid on her home, according to a report.

No one has seen the Democrat, who is being investigated over sales of a children’s book she authored, since the raid and even her spokesman James Bentley said he has no idea where she is.

The Baltimore City Council has asked her to step down as mayor, but it’s still unclear whether she’ll resign.
— New York Post, 4/25/19

The dollar figures involved are too impressive for Mayor Pugh to easily skate on this one and normally stubborn Democrats have thrown her under the bus.

It’s appreciated that as the mayor of a major metropolitan city these things have to be handled delicately, but if the feds raided our offices, our lawyer’s office and our homes, chances are they wouldn’t ask us to drop by when we got a few minutes to spare.

The fact she’s black and her last name isn’t Clinton is more of the obvious detriment.

UPDATE

Is this just the tip of the Pugh iceberg?

“She’s in a terrible spot,” said Arnold M. Weiner, the lawyer who defended a previous mayor, Sheila Dixon, against charges of theft, perjury and misconduct in office. “There aren’t any moves she can make at this point,” he said.

“The books might just be a shiny object,” he said. “My guess is there’s something bigger.”

Lawyers said federal agencies likely are looking for possible tax violations, such as whether she reported income from the books. And indeed, among the agents who descended on seven locations in Baltimore associated with Pugh — including her former campaign treasurer’s office, an aide’s apartment and a nonprofit job training center that she once led — were some wearing Internal Revenue Service jackets.

“When money is involved, there is potential for tax crimes,” said David Jaros, a University of Baltimore Law School professor. “And they’re easier to prove.”

“It’s easier to make a deal with state than federal prosecutors,” Weiner said. And Pugh might not have much to bargain with at this point, he said.
— Baltimore Sun, 4/26/19

Yeah, the IRS was grabbing stuff. That’s never a good sign.

Following FBI and IRS raids on her two homes, City Hall and the offices of some of her allies Thursday, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is said to be in poor health and not “lucid” enough to make a decision as to whether or not she will resign from office amid a financial scandal and controversy surrounding her self-published children’s books.
— The Root, 4/26/19

An “indefinite leave of absence” and now this.

Obviously, a Democrat doesn’t need to be “lucid” to run Baltimore.

U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California is hardly an anomaly when it comes to Democrats using the church for political events, which ARE a violation of the IRS code on the Restriction of Political Campaign Intervention by Section 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Organizations. Unfortunately, those rules only appear to apply to Republicans.

In 2008, I ran for State Representative in Massachusetts and requested to speak on a local church property on issues that were pertinent to the district and was respectfully declined because for me to do so would put at risk their 501(c)(3) nonprofit status.

Note how Democrats have actively campaigned in churches because they knew what kind of racial hell would be brought down on any IRS official who dared threaten the 501(c)(3) status of a black place of worship.

Political office holders and candidates should be able to speak to members of a congregation. Nonprofit, tax-exemptions are another issue as despite the rules against partisan politics being a no-no, it’s something Republicans and conservatives are quite cognizant of and adhere to while Democrat and liberal groups cross that line often and with impunity. It could be we have the traditional career federal workers who sympathize with the left (see: Lois Lerner) and would never hold the left to the rules while the right has to obey the IRS code to the letter.

Time to do away with the rules against nonprofits and political speech?

Maybe this is something President Trump will get around to and be prepared for the progressive screech of all screeches when the possibility of their liberal career mills having to, heaven forbid, either stop being blatantly partisan or pay their fair share of taxes.

Bless their hearts.

UPDATE

In yet another move of desperation, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe called out the big guns. Barack and Michelle Obama, Joe and Jill Biden but he’s saving the best for last!

More than 300 “black churches” in Virginia will be shown a video featuring Vice President Kamala Harris urging members to vote for Democratic gubernatorial candidate and former governor Terry McAuliffe ahead of the Nov. 2 election in a presentation some have suggested is unconstitutional and illegal.
— BizPac Review, 10/17/21

Aside from talking down to black people like children, Kamala Harris appears to be fighting to keep a straight face….

Pitiful, but expected from Democrats.

1. You can either cut the government a check
2. You can contact the IRS and set up a payment plan
3. You can knowingly withhold those taxes until the demand is too large to ignore, and then you can request a Geithner waiver.

Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner apologized for his $34,000 tax mistake . He said, “These were careless mistakes. They were avoidable mistakes. But they were unintentional. I should have been more careful.”

I take him at his word. That’s why he should not be confirmed as Treasury Secretary.

We should first notice that $34,000 is not a small amount. And that is the tax, not the underlying income on which tax was not paid. As Treasury Secretary he would be in charge of the IRS.

Is this an example of President Obama’s new ethics?

No, it’s the recurring example of liberal elitism, with a little change and hope tossed in.