Lexington Democratic Mayor Jim Gray denies he is a KKK member...

Hmm...

Via USA Today:

The mayor of Lexington, Ky., says he's not a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Anonymous postings saying otherwise are "false, insulting and ridiculous," Jim Gray said in a statement on Monday.
Gray, the city's Democratic mayor, was responding to the release of names of purported KKK members by someone claiming to be with the hacktivist group Anonymous.
"I have never had any relationship of any kind with the KKK. I am opposed to everything it stands for. I have no idea where this information came from, but wherever it came from, it is wrong," Gray said.

Unbelievable: Boston Mayor brags about her response to Boston rioting...

Delusional... 

MayorSRB on riots "lasting only a few hrs": "There's a lot of cities that would love to have that record" pic.twitter.com/zP4LCYGd8c

— Justin Fenton (@justin_fenton) July 19, 2015

Tweet of the Day: Baltimore Mayor Threw Business Owners Under the Bus...

Well, Democrats do hate businesses...

.@LelandVittert reports senior law enforcement source told him @MayorSRB said, ”Let them loot, it's only property." pic.twitter.com/YruIjVIC2k
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 29, 2015

New Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser: “You have a mayor who hates guns”

Another brain-dead Democrat...

Via Free Beacon:

“You have a mayor who hates guns,” new Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser told a crowd at the St. Augustine Catholic Church last Tuesday. The Washington Interfaith Network was gathered at the church to discuss a number of different issues, including the city’s new gun carry law.
“If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have any handguns in the District of Columbia,” the Washington Post quoted the mayor as saying. “I swear to protect the Constitution and what the courts say, but I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible.”
The mayor’s comments came after the D.C. city council finalized changes to its concealed carry law. The city’s latest move included several increased restrictions on where permit holders may carry firearms. Among the restrictions is a ban against the legal carry of firearms in places of worship unless the house of worship specifically states otherwise.
Keep on reading…

Make fun of the Peoria Mayor with a parody twitter account...That's a swat raid...

Parody Twitter account @peoriamayor pissed off mayor of Peoria, who sent SWAT; college kid now facing drug charges. http://t.co/j9XQSdxZ9z
— Nameless Cynic (@NamelessCynic) September 20, 2014

This is what it has come to in America. Sadly, an activist judge ruled this swat raid was legal. 

The police hadn’t even come for him. When four fully-armed officers of a Swat team burst into Jacob Elliott’s house in Peoria, Illinois in April they were looking for the source of a parody Twitter feed that had upset the town’s mayor by poking fun at him.
It transpired that one of Elliott’s housemates, Jon Daniel, had created the fake Twitter account, @peoriamayor, and so incensed the real-life official, Jim Ardis, with his make-believe account of drug binges and sex orgies that the police were dispatched. Elliott was just a bystander in the affair, but that didn’t stop the Swat team searching his bedroom, looking under his pillow and in a closet where they discovered a bag of marijuana and dope-smoking paraphernalia.
Elliott now faces charges of felony marijuana possession.[snip]
A Peoria judge this week ruled that the police were entitled to raid the house on North University Street on 15 April under the town’s “false personation” law which makes it illegal to pass yourself off as a public official.

Amusing: Crack smoking Toronto mayor has a higher approval than Obama...

This will leave a mark...

Is it possible for a politician who admitted to smoking crack cocaine and was reportedly heard threatening to kill someone to be more liked than the President of the United States? According to the latest polls and surveys, the answer is yes.
Based on the latest poll done by Forum Research, Rob Ford, the foul-mouthed, irascible Toronto mayor continues to enjoy a 42 percent job performance rating, while a CBS poll released this week had President Barack Obama’s approval rating at an all-time low of just 37 percent.

Unlikely: DC Mayor declares all employees "essential"

Democrats and the games they play...

Via NBC Washington:

The District of Columbia is still waiting to see if it will be allowed to keep city services running with an unusual gambit: declaring all city employees as “essential” workers.
Essential workers would stay on the job in the event of a government shutdown.
In past government shutdowns, some city services, including libraries, recreation centers and trash pickup, have been curtailed. The federal government has final say on how the District spends its money, even when that money is collected from local taxes — an issue that led to a successful, though toothless, referendum on the issue in April.
District Mayor Vincent Gray made the declaration Wednesday in a letter to the federal Office of Management and Budget. But it’s not clear how the federal government will respond; the White House Budget Office has the final say on the issue.
As of Monday morning, the OMB had not yet rejected the mayor’s declaration.
The good news is, the District has money on hand that’s already been authorized by Congress — enough to wait out a couple of weeks of a shutdown.

Meet the man who scares New York Democrats...

 MTA / Creative Commons

 Joe Lhota is a Republican and he is running for mayor...

Lhota said he’d make a great partner in the game of Trivial Pursuit because he has a storehouse of knowledge about a whole lot of things. But there’s nothing trivial about his desire to be mayor of New York City.

“New York is in my DNA,” Lhota told Kramer.

Lhota, who resigned last month as head of the MTA to seek the city’s top job, has both public and private sector experience. He was first deputy mayor under Rudy Giuliani. He is a frank, law and order kind of guy who minces no words. Take the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk program.

“Anyone who says we should eliminate stop-and-frisk really is putting the city in danger,” Lhota said.

He has equally strong views about taxes. They should be reduced or eliminated. As for tickets, the Bloomberg administration gives out far too many of them. Keep on reading...

Confirmed: Ray Nagin was nuts

Not only was Ray Nagin may have been the world's worst mayor, he was nuts too.

Ray Nagin:

“I started wondering if during the night I would be visited by specially trained CIA agents. Could they secretly shoot me with a miniature, slow-acting poison dart?"

(Fox Nation) — Since Hurricane Katrina’s winds died down, Ray Nagin has cast his role as mayor of New Orleans as a me-against-the-world struggle to save his hometown against inept government officials and racist forces, sometimes even laying out vague conspiracy theories to bolster his worldview.

But that perspective has never been laid out as starkly as in Nagin’s self-published memoir, “Katrina’s Secrets: Storms After the Storm,” released Wednesday . . . The former mayor, who left office last year, also admits in the 330-page paperback that the infamously botched nature of the disaster response led him briefly into a state of paranoia. Nagin writes that he suspected the federal government of trying to poison him, and he believed at one point that the city’s wealthiest, most powerful residents were trying to bug his hotel suite. . .

Nagin also worried about becoming a target of sinister forces after his famous Sept. 1, 2005, rant on WWL-AM, which the former mayor writes was prompted by reports that Blanco and U.S. Sens. Mary Landrieu and David Vitter had bragged “about how well things were going,” even as evacuees continued to suffer at the Superdome and Convention Center.

“I thought to myself, ‘I’m a dead man! I have just publicly denounced the governor, U.S. Senators, FEMA and the president of the United States,’” he writes. “I started wondering if during the night I would be visited by specially trained CIA agents. Could they secretly shoot me with a miniature, slow-acting poison dart?

Heartless Alabama Mayor refuses to let homeless residents stay in trailers provided by FEMA

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If there is any justice in this world, the next tornado will flatten his house.

(MailOnline)- A mayor in a small town devastated by a tornado has sparked outrage over his refusal to let homeless residents stay in trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Jack Scott has been branded heartless after his decision not to waive a local law banning single-wide trailers in the town of Cordova, Alabama.

He said he fears the temporary accommodation could become permanent and says he doesn't want run-down mobile homes parked all over town.

NY Mayor Bloomberg Speculates Bomber Was Mad About ObamaCare

Liberals like Bloomberg would love to pin this on the Tea Party movement, but it looks like they are out of luck. FOX News is reporting new developments. Wizbang Blog has a nice summary:

* The license plates on the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder were stolen from a repair shop in Connecticut.

* The Pathfinder itself was sold three weeks ago through Craig's List. The last registered owner says he got $1300 in cash from a young man who looked "Middle Eastern" or "Hispanic."

* The FBI says they have a "person of interest" in the case -- a naturalized American citizen of Pakistani origin who recently returned from an extended visit to Pakistan.

* There is also apparently physical evidence within the Nissan that indicates that at least one of its recent passengers had been in contact with someone in Pakistan. (No, I don't quite know what that means, either. My hunch is a cell phone was found and its memory of recent calls examined.)

* The bomb had some serious flaws in its design. Some have likened it to one constructed using sources as the infamous "Anarchist Cookbook."

Caption This Photo of Obama Bowing to Tampa Mayor

Caption this photo of President Barack Obama bowing to Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio at MacDill Air Force Base on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 in Tampa, Fla.



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Winner: Come'ya Conservative said...

Hey how many carats are on that diamond ring? Hey, just gave me a great idea for raising revenue, carats & tax!

Honorable Mention: xshartman said...

Wait... Do I see some jobs stuck to your feet? We could use a few of those.

Pittsburgh Mayor to nonprofits: pay up or else

The Mayor Of Pittsburgh, Luke Ravenstahl, has told nonprofits to increase voluntary contributions or he'll create laws to make them pay more.

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

One way or another, you're going to pay.

That was Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's message to big hospitals and universities, and to commuters yesterday, as he outlined his strategy to win new revenues for the city -- either through changes in state law or surcharges that he thinks he can impose unilaterally.

"As we see the reductions [in voluntary contributions from nonprofit organizations] continue, and not meet what we need, this is our alternative," he said of surcharges on hospital admissions, undergraduate students, all-day parkers and nonprofit water users. A move toward fees "potentially would be the best way to compel the nonprofits to come to the table." The mayor discussed the issue during a session with the Post-Gazette editorial board.

While the city's two big universities did not comment, its major hospital systems argued that they already contribute much.

Whatever happened to former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry?

He has turned up at a gala at the Ritz-Carlton where there was a charity auction for cancer. Despite owing thousands in back taxes, former DC Mayor Marion Barry payed $800 bucks for an opera coat at the auction. He outbid CNN's Wolf Blitzer. MyFoxDC.com reported:

WASHINGTON - Former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry owes thousands of dollars in back taxes, but that hasn't stopped him from buying his girlfriend an $800 coat.

Barry tells The Washington Post he bought the opera coat with his own money Saturday at a cancer auction. He says he topped CNN's Wolf Blitzer during the bidding.

An opera coat is an elegant evening wrap, typically made of velvet.