Talk:Sheila Dixon

message: Can you explain the 2007 election thing further within the section?  I don't understand why she's running for mayor if she's already mayor.  Is she just a fill-in for O'Malley?  Is the O'Malley-Dixon term due to expire in 2007?  Is the 2007 election a scheduled mayoral election? -Taco325i 16:00, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: She's not a "fill-in", she's the real mayor, but the term that O'Malley started expires at the end of 2007 no matter who's in the office.  To use a metaphor, if George Bush died tomorrow, Dick Cheney would become the real president, not a "fill-in"; however, Cheney wouldn't automatically get four years in office, and there would still be a Presidential election in 2008.  --Jfruh (talk) 16:23, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Was she appointed by O'Malley, or is there an order of succession, or was there some other selection process? -Taco325i 16:55, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: She was the city council president, which is a citywide elected office.  The city council president becomes mayor automatically if the mayor resigns or dies in the middle of a term. --Jfruh (talk) 16:59, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: aha... -Taco325i 17:06, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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message: Like most US jurisdictions, Baltimore holds its elections on a fixed schedule, even if an office-hold dies or resigns in the middle of his or her term.  A mayoral election would have taken place in 2007 whether O'Malley had resigned to become governor or not.
The situation in Baltimore was somewhat confused by a very odd situation that arose during O'Malley's term.  O'Malley was initially elected in 1999.  During his first term, Baltimore voted to change its election date so that citywide officials would be elected during Presidential election years, in order to increase turnout and cut down on the costs of running elections; this had the effect of extending O'Malley's first term by a year, and setting the next mayoral (and city council) elections for 2004.
But as it turned out, the city could only change its general election date on its own; for reasons I was never clear on, the state legislature had to approve the change in primary election date.  This was particularly important in Baltimore, which is so dominated by the Democratic party that the Democratic primary is, in effect, the real election.  Unfortunately, different groups in the city lobbied for different election dates -- some wanted the primary to be in March, at the same time as the presidential primary, while others wanted it in September, which was the traditional date for city primary elections.  With no clear consensus coming from Baltimore, the legislature chose not to change the primary date at all, which led to the bizarre situation in which there was a primary election in September 2003 that selected candidates for the general election in December 2004.  Since all the winners of the various Democratic primary races (including O'Malley) cruised to victory in the general, this essentially meant that there were lame ducks for several offices continuing on in office for 15 months.
In the wake of this debacle, the City Council voted to restore city elections to their previous schedule, effectively reducing O'Malley's second term by a year.  Thus, there would have been a mayoral election in 2007 whether he had resigned or not, and the schedule was unaffected by his election to the governorship. --Jfruh (talk) 19:21, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't have a cite offhand but I lived here throughout the period and followed the news as it was happening.  Will see what I can find out in the next few days.  Unfortunately the Baltimore Sun puts older stories behind a pay wall, for reasons I can't really understand. --Jfruh (talk) 20:35, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Election dates

message: Although possibly a bit trivial, there have been a number of comparisons drawn with certain plotlines in The Wire, especially given her now rather ironic comment about its negative portrayal of the city, i.e.  Worthy of a mention? 86.137.128.23 (talk) 23:22, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Clay Davis|Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet]] 

message: Shouldn't the article say she "is" mayor?  To be changed on Feb 4 2010, of course.  Right now it says was. --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 01:35, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. We did not say in the article about Barack Obama that he "is" president until 1/20/09, and we said in the article about George W. Bush that he "is" president until that date, when we changed it to reflect his departure. Sebwite (talk) 02:05, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: She is definitely still mayor.  I fixed this. --Jfruh (talk) 13:40, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is / Was Mayor ? 

message: Did the newspapers save headline ink by crossing out the "N" from "Nixon Resigns" and add a "D"?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.41.204.3 (talk) 22:26, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dixon Resigns 

message: *by Obama 69.143.110.86 (talk) 03:16, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another One Thrown Under the Bus 

message: The sections on this page seem to be ordered rather randomly.  The events mentioned should probably be listed in chronological order.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.240.132.219 (talk) 19:34, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The main purpose of this page is to tell about Dixon herself. There is a separate page called Sheila Dixon trial, and events pertaining to her corruption case should be only summarized here and mostly included there. Sebwite (talk) 21:04, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page is poorly organized. 

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message: Hello, I would like to add this header and the following paragraph under her career:
"On the December 1st 2021 episode of 'Pop and Politics LIVE' the former Baltimore Mayor said at the 33:07 minute mark, that politics closed her high school, Northwestern High school because, 'The Orthodox Jews didn’t want those Black kids up there in the Upper Park Heights community.' (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVAJB92ydKM&t=1987s)
This sparked condemnation by many in the Jewish community. An alleged inside source claimed `The school board closed Northwestern and many other schools in the city to combine schools with low enrollment numbers and move them into new 21st-century school buildings. Northwestern is now Forest Park High School and is in a beautiful new building. This new school is located within the same city council district as Northwestern' (source: https://yidinfo.net/22253-2/)"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.64.76.209 (talk) 02:45, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, please make sure to provide reliable, secondary sources. The YouTube video is a primary source with your own commentary, and the second source is an opinion piece. Neither of these justify inclusion in their own (see WP:DUE). Politanvm talk 02:55, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

text: Hi, the first paragraph is a primary source and I made no commentary. The second is a report from a news site showing condemnation. However, I can remove the sentence "This sparked condemnation by many in the Jewish community." and perhaps add a different news site like: https://jewishnews.com/2021/12/15/former-baltimore-mayor-sheila-gift-card-steala-dixon-baselessly-attacks-orthodox-jews/ with similar condemnation. Clearly the allegation that "the Jewish community" shut down a school because they "didn't want to be around Black kids" is controversial because a) its making a generalization about a group of people and by definition is racist and b) is being contested. This is notable to her career, which is still active.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.64.76.209 (talk) 03:20, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversial Comments about the Jewish Community in Baltimore