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Regis Philbin
Jan 19th, 2009, 01:40 AM
Wouldn't happen to be that INDICTMENT would it?

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/politics/bal-dixonobama0117,0,367085.story


Dixon present at Obama's address, but not mentioned

Mayor attends president-elect's tour stop without acknowledgement

January 17, 2009

At the start of Barack Obama's whistle stop tour to Washington today, the president-elect hailed the "outstanding" mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter. In Wilmington, he acknowledged Mayor James M. Baker by name.

Not so in Baltimore.

Mayor Sheila Dixon was one of thousands of Obama supporters braving hours of sub-freezing temperatures to greet him at War Memorial Plaza. "It's an extremely huge deal for me," she said in an interview before Obama's address. "Words can't describe how ecstatic we are."

But even as he gazed at City Hall, the man who will be the nation's first black president did not acknowledge that Baltimore's first black female mayor was in attendance.

He thanked Nancy Pelosi, a Baltimore native and House speaker, as well as Gov. Martin O'Malley and all "state" elected officials, but not his municipal host.