June 7 - Infamous Day for Baltimore County Councilman David Marks

June 7, 2011 - Two years ago.

Credit: Baltimore Sun

That was the day Baltimore County Councilman David Marks falsely announced that he had secured the signatures of four of his council colleagues on a letter denouncing our DREAMERS.

Despite several requests Mr. Marks has never produced such a letter.

Once again I ask - Mr David Marks, produce the letter you claim to have passed around and gotten signed by four of your council colleagues?

In his enthusiasm to align himself with bigotry, David Marks also announced that he had diverted campaign funds from supporters into the effort to collect signatures on petitions to place Maryland's new DREAM Act before the voters in the election set for November 2012.

According to Brian Sears, writing in the TOWSON PATCH, June 8 2011:

"Marks, a Perry Hall Republican, has signed the [anti-DREAM Act] petition. In fact, Marks said he used his campaign account to pay for half of a booth he shared with volunteers collecting signatures at the Towson Spring Festival." 

Well, sadly for simple fairness and also needlessly expensive for Maryland taxpayers, signatures were collected, counted and verified and the anti-Hispanic, anti-high-school kids referendum was placed on the ballot.

But guess what? 

On November 6, 2012 bigotry and David Marks, lost.

The voters of Maryland upheld the state's DREAM Act.

End of story? Not quite. Next year, November 2014, David Marks will be on the ballot.

Time for the voters of the Fifth District to send Mr. Marks where the anti-hispanic referendum was sent. . . . away, 

away,

away. Dixieland

David Marks - (1) hostile to immigrants (2) anti-education (3) abusive of his public trust; that's 3 strikes.

December 7th:

This date marks the anniversary of the attack by the nation of Japan on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.

December 7 is also the birthdate of Noam Chomsky who said, "We should not be looking for heroes but for good ideas."

December 7 also marks the date 18 months ago in Baltimore County, which gave us no heroes and a very bad idea. 

June 7, 2011 is the date that Baltimore County Councilman David Marks proudly and falsely announced that he and four other members of the Baltimore County Council signed a letter denouncing the newly passed Maryland DREAM Act. (If there ever was such a letter, let Mr. Marks produce it, with the signatures of his County Council colleagues affixed to it.) 

In 2011 Mister Marks claimed that he had arranged for four other members of the County Council to join him in opposition to Maryland Dreamers, children without legal status in the US who want and need to continue their education in junior college and beyond.

David Marks is so zealous against higher education for Hispanic and other immigrant kids that he claimed, back in 2011 he diverted a portion of his campaign funds into the effort to place his prejudices on the November 6 2012 ballot - where he was resoundingly defeated - Maryland's DREAM Act garnered almost 60 percent of the statewide vote.

No doubt, at this point, 18 months down the road, and having been repudiated by the voters of Maryland,  Mister Marks would prefer that everyone forget that he is no hero to education, or to children or to his constituents. David Marks would dearly hope that we would all forget that he has shown himself willing to use his position as a locally elected official to lobby for his prejudices to gain purchase across Maryland.

Mister Marks, now that you and a handful of like-minded bigots have lost in your effort to keep immigrant kids on the lowest economic rung , you may want to change the subject.

But you cannot change your character.

THE STINK BUGS ON THE BALTIMORE COUNTY COUNCIL

June 8, 2011 - Ten months ago, five members of the Baltimore County Council told the immigrant residents of Baltimore County that they had no representation on the Council:

TowsonPatch June 8 2011: “Council Majority Supports Repeal of In-state Tuition for Illegal Immigrants. Opponents of the ballot initiative say effort is representative of the county’s difficult history with racial issues.”

Emma Lazarus wrote give me your tired, your poor

Kathy Bevins of the 6th District, says send them away -

especially if they graduated high school

Lady Liberty announces huddled masses yearn to breathe free

Chairman of the County Council John Olszewski (7th District), says

Unless they are doing my lawn, I don’t give a shit

Lady Liberty pleads, send the homeless, tempest-tossd to me

Fifth District’s David Marks says, the homeless and the tempest-tossed

are not part of my constituency

Don’t turn away the wretched refuse, Lady Liberty pleads

Third District’s Todd Huff says, they are human garbage!

They get no sympathy from me

Lady Liberty announces, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Lemming Vicky Almond (2nd District) signs on, says nothing, and by that,

snuffs out the Lady’s lamp

Hatred is not a line item in the county budget

Oh, yes! says David Marks
Fear-mongering is not a line item in the budget
Oh, yes! says John Olszewski
Denigration of high school graduates is not a line item
Oh yes! says Kathy Bevins

Cowardice, facing racism, is not a line item
Oh Yes! says Vicky Almond
To demean innocent moreno kids is not a line item
Oh Yes! says Todd Huff

My Baltimore County, you have given us Spiro Agnew
and now these five . . .