Greetings. My name is Erik Powery. I am running for Baltimore because I am the Mayor who will expedite the extremely slow "Urban Renaissance Brandon is always talking about because he knows most Baltimoreans have not experienced it. I live Coppin Heights. I can touch Coppin State University from my house. Mayor Scott is the struggle Mayor. Trying a little bit of this or that. Never accomplishing much. Baltimore has it all. Great Mass Transit. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Thurgood Marshall International Airport. AMTRAK(from Balt-Penn Station you can get to NYC Pennsylvania Station in under 3 hours). MARC commuter trains will take you to DC on a discout. METRO subway, MTA Light Rail, Baltimore Link buses cover the city map. We will increase residential & business occupancy until we have no vacancies. When we get over 1,000,000 residents. I will talk to Commissioner Silver, his deputy, NBA Ownership Fraternity, and the NBPA, and we will win the NBA lottery(by making the case for Baltimore) and receive the Baltimore Charm. The Baltimore Charm will win in the High Technology Jordan Brand Arena between Franklin/Mulberry & Fulton/Pulaski. CSU was a hot mess 20 years ago. The city and state are investing in Coppin because parents did not want their kids in Coppin Heights/Mondawmin region right next door to Frederick Douglass High School. Target left Mondawmin because of theft of expensive over the counter drugs. Very easy to steal and make a drug cocktail with Fentanyl, Painkillers, and Valiums. Target never leaves big cities unless the circumstances really kill their bottom line. That old Target store was finally purchased by Tim Reagan(CEO of Whiting-Turner Contracting Company) and is now The Village. The Village will host businesses that are needed in the eight west and Greater Mondawmin Community But why did this take so long? There is a "BaltimoreRenaissance", but Brandon is like a snail. People of a certain age are going to be dead before it is realized because the gears grind slow with Democrats and big bureaucracy because everyone got their hands in the Batimore Treasury trying to get the most money. GREED! This is the impediment to good things happening expeditiously. Black neighborhoods have been pillaged and left for dead. No functioning school. No functioning supermarket. No community center. No trash cans. Yes, I said trash cans. No banking. No nothing! I am running with the Green Party. We have the radical, fresh ideas that will make Baltimore City the envy of America.Not in 2030
But NOW!! We will #RebuildBaltimore more expeditiously and with less taxpayer funds so we can refund education and welfare programs that help people who work hard but earn low wages. We also need to raise the minimum bwage to $22.50 per hour. Baltimore also will receive a much needed rebrand. A lot of my old friends never even been here..The question is why? Because of our reputation. That there is nothing to see here. Nothing to do here. It is so bad drug dealers from New York came down here to do business and never made it back. In the beginning of the rebrand, we must remove those hideous images of abandoned neighborhoods on Bing, Google, and Yahoo! Those images will swapped out with positive images of Baltimore. I am asking for your vote because iLoveBaltimore more. Bmore as we call it. We can really be "The Greatest City In America." Please take a peak at this 3rd Party Debate with our Presidential Candidates Jasmine Sherman & Dr. Jill Stein. I even liked some of Chase Oliver's ideas.
Sincerely yours,
Erik Powery
1701 Moreland Ave
Baltimore, MD 21216-3708