Jack Young faces a dubious city as possible candidates eye a potentially tumultuous 2020 mayoral race.
Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young chats with Mark Tomizawa, left, at the Baltimore War Memorial last week. By Paul Schwartzman Paul Schwartzman Reporter specializing in political profiles and narratives about life, death and everything in between Email Bio Follow May 13 at 2:51 PM BALTIMORE — On his first weekend as mayor, Bernard C. “Jack” Young visited a neighborhood where a gunman’s stray bullets outside a corner market wounded five people, including two toddlers.
Yet crucial questions remain unsettled, the main one being who will emerge to lead Baltimore and restore trust in a city where corruption has shrouded the police department and forced two mayors to quit in the past nine years. “The fact that corruption has run so deep in the police department and political system itself has created a complete loss of public confidence,” said the Rev. Andrew Foster Connors, a community organizer. “It creates a lot of uncertainty and becomes a distraction when we need to focus on the real issues.”
At the moment, the person steering the city is Young, who moved from council president to acting mayor when Pugh went on leave April 1, then formally took over the role when she resigned a month later. Young says he won’t run for mayor next year, though many Democratic leaders say his thinking may change as he adjusts to the spotlight and trappings of the job.
“You’re not going to change anything,” Stewart Nash, 73, who grew up in the neighborhood, snapped as Young and Police Commissioner Michael Harrison arrived at the corner where the shooting had occurred 40 hours earlier. “Nobody’s doing anything. It’s just a bunch of talk.” Baltimore City Council President Brandon Scott The promotion will raise Scott’s profile as he, too, considers running for mayor next year. At 35, Scott is part of a group of young liberals seeking to redefine the 14-member council, in what some touted as a silver lining after Pugh’s departure. Seven of the council members were elected in 2016, a cast that includes a schoolteacher, the owner of a software company, an art school graduate and a political science professor.
At the moment, former prosecutor Thiru Vignarajah is the only declared mayoral candidate, though a large field is expected. As someone who has never held political office in Baltimore, Jealous, the former head of the NAACP who recently bought a home in Fells Point, is signaling that he would cater his message to voters who are fed up with the Democratic establishment.
“I know how to get this city where it needs to go,” said Dixon, who was sentenced to probation as part of the plea deal. “There are a lot of people who’ll be running. There will be a lot of splitting of votes. It may not take a whole lot to win.”
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