Most of us don’t even have access to pensions. It’s a huge government benefit and they’re expensive to fund. Making a comprehensive plan concerning the pensions including a financial impact analysis would’ve been one thing, but to try to shove this through without even looking at the impact on the taxpayer shows that Nick isn’t even looking out for us anymore. And that’s the whole job.

I wonder if that’s allowed or if there’s no way to vet “qualified voters” on a petition site. I wonder what the requirements are to be a “qualified” voter.

Well currently we're not even trying to attract talent, we're just paying someone who isn't delivering. I definitely don't think we attract the right talent by having a reputation of not holding people accountable for their job performance.

The signature petitions for the three school board members that got recalled were organized by parents in that district who were pissed. That’s the difference though, I don’t think most people in Baltimore even care. It just is what it is.

It was nationally reported on last year that over 65% of the kids in Baltimore city public schools were failing at least one class. Some of these schools don’t have heat. How can you justify paying a CEO who hasn’t improved schools during her tenure almost half a million dollars while simultaneously saying we have no money to get heat in the schools? And that 65% figure isn’t from Fox or sinclair, that was on CNN and they reported it in WaPo. I’d be happy to pay the school CEO that much if she had results to prove she was worth the money.

The voters should be able to recall you if you’re not doing your job and you’re blatantly doing unethical shit. Nick Mosby tried to screw over the taxpayer and make it easier to qualify for cushy government pensions. He’s solicited donations via a gofundme for his wife’s mortgage fraud case and then lied and said he would return the funds, now he’s dragging out an ethics trial. He’s bad at his job and he’s not looking out for the interests of the voters so the voters should be able to fire him. Facts are facts even if they’re coming from Fox45.

I can’t imagine how much additional stuff he’s done that we’re just not aware of…

Someone needs to run on the sole promise they’ll hire an external auditor to figure out where all the city’s money is going and purge any employees committing fraud. If you want to see something infuriating, please look up the salaries for everyone from Baltimore city public schools in 2021. A janitor was being paid almost $100K. The “CEO” of Baltimore city schools makes like $450K despite graduation rates being abysmal. Some of these schools don’t have heat or AC!

Yea but they also did that to like four people. I’m only thinking we recall the one person. So maybe it’s feasible.

The article I read says it’s in the Baltimore city charter. Porter sounds like someone who’s probably very happy with Mosbys idea to make it easier for her to qualify for a pension we all get to pay for.

I feel like maybe the other members have just become desensitized to scandals surrounding him and no voters seems to be that outraged so why rock the boat? But that’s the entire issue, think of how many scandals Baltimore has had where elected officials were blatantly stealing. It shouldn’t feel normal but it kind of does.

San Francisco managed to do it this year to multiple elected officials and it was a pretty grassroots movement. But it did require a lot of citizens running around the city working to collect signatures and I think it would be hard to find people willing to do that here.

San Francisco recently managed to recall their DA and multiple school board members via petitions. It’s definitely possible but sadly it does feel like it would be pretty impossible in Baltimore.

He solicited funds via gofundme from donors to cover legal fees for his wife’s mortgage fraud case, got caught and promised to return the funds, didn’t return the funds, and now we’re paying for an ethics trial he’s continuously delaying. He spent $10K of tax dollars sending one of his aids to England for a training conference. He tried to lower the pension requirements for the city without looking at financial impact. In my mind it’s protecting our tax dollars to get him out.

I know that would be really hard but honestly, what redeeming qualities does Nick Mosby have? What would the argument be to keep him? I can’t wrap my mind around the idea that less than 20% of voters would agree that Mosby is bad for Baltimore and we don’t need two more years of bad. Maybe that’s just because I’m so fed up.

I would love to do both. I’m just so tired of watching the city rot as these elected officials are blatantly robbing it of its resources. Nothing will get better with this kind of leadership.

According to this article, it would only take a petition signed by 20% of Baltimore city’s qualified voters to have him removed.

https://foxbaltimore.com/amp/news/city-in-crisis/after-pension-bill-vetoed-what-does-nick-mosbys-future-in-office-look-like

Of course the other city council members won’t do anything, that’s why I feel like it’s time for voters to put their foot down and send a message to all of our elected officials that if you’re blatantly participating in shady bull shit like Nick Mosby then you’ll be removed.