From Harford County Councilman Jim McMahan:
Welcome
It is my distinct honor to welcome newly-elected District C County Councilman Tony “G” Giangiordano. Tony will take my seat in representing you, the most important people in the world, over the next 4 years. I stand ready to assist him in any detail he may wish, especially with the history associated with the district. Good luck Tony and Godspeed.
MY GOODBYES
I want to thank the citizens of District C for allowing me the tremendous honor of serving you as the County Councilman for the last 12 years. Contrary to what you may have read, we have accomplished much. It is not the number of bills you pass that distinguishes you as an effective Council but rather long term positive effect the ones you did pass will have on the entire county. We excelled in good decisions for the future. For 12 years. I have had the pleasure of serving on three Councils, all of which consisted of distinguished public servants. The personal integrity of each and every Council member I served with was above reproach.
I also want to thank the many citizens who helped me make decisions that in the end benefitted all my constituents and the government of Harford County.
County Executive
I am particularly glad that Mr. Glassman was returned as County Executive for the next four years. His approach to County government is sound and conservative. He is forward thinking with regard to his decisions and how they affect the citizens of this County, not only tomorrow but in years to come.
Council President
You have chosen the most qualified candidate to be your next Council President. No elected official will ever please everyone. Mr. Vincenti is noted over the last 4 years for his dedication, research, outreach, and studious decision making.
To the Council
The most important advice I can give you is, once you are sworn in, forget party affiliation and work together for the citizens of this County. Seek counsel from those informed citizens without bias before you make your decision, communicate with fellow Council members especially when it comes to issues affecting the district they represent and, finally, remember to respect each citizen that comes before the Council even though their point of view may be extremely skewed. They must always be guaranteed the right to communicate with their elected officials.
As one who has lived a lifetime in Harford County, except when serving in the military, I have been blessed to have raised my family here, been a local business owner, have served my country, to have been a Town Commissioner in addition to Councilman, and to have had the support and friendship of so many along the way.
Godspeed, take care of our children, and act CIVIL!
Your departing Councilman,
James V. “Capt’n Jim” McMahan
COL (MD) Army, R
See ya Jim. OLD NEWS. Finally put someone in there who will get something done and not just act like they are getting something done. Figure head.
Good riddance (and I’ll leave it at that!).
What exactly are these great bills that you passed? You kept the District C seat warm, that’s about it. You drank the koolaid, you never stood up against back door politics, deals with developers….etc. You didn’t get a darn thing accomplished, bye bye old man. It’s a real shame you had to write this letter to make yourself feel better.
Amen. They all do so much. Useless politicians.
What did they do? It had to be individual constituent services because they as a group can’t point to one significant thing in 4 years. Development is back. Taxes are still high. Fees are going up and so what do we have from the council – We’re a great bunch of guys with a great County Exec – but what have you done? Something is going on when the head of emergency services is out sticking Glassman signs in the ground and pulling Vincenti signs out of the same truck. We have a couple of shop keepers, a real estate dude, a finance guy in trouble with the tax man, an insurance dude, and a guy with a record now back on council. Good times coming for Barry, Billy, and da boys. Not so sure about the rest of us.
And now that Sheriff Gahler is back in the saddle, officially, for 4 more years – hopefully we’ll see more of the sheriff’s department out and about. Living in incorporated Bel Air, we don’t see to much of the blue and whites unless they are on their way back to the stable. I know the sheriff is passionate about drug abuse – but I wish he would also put some resources into traffic control – this county has some of the fastest and most reckless drivers around. You can’t drive the speed limit in most of the county without getting tail gated or illegally passed. Kind of feels like the old west.
You are not likely to get the sheriff department to come in a do regular traffic enforcement since Belair has its own police force.
I’d take a guess “Chillin in Bel Air” is speaking generally. I’d also guess that “Chillin in Bel Air” at some point in their day to day life drives on an unincorporated county road that has the primary traffic
enforcement performed by the Harford County Sheriff’s Office.
Third, Id also agree about the wreckless driving. Everyday I see people driving excessively fast with inappropriate passing only to be sitting at the red light that’s 1/2 mile up the road.
My favorite are the people who drive into empty turn lanes at long red lights and accelerate as fast as possible on green and merge back infront of everyone.
Just general bad driving, I don’t live in a neighborhood so I’m directly on a county road. Theres been several people who yelled obsene language at me because I can’t make a 40mph right turn into a driveway off the road. I have to slow down, I’m sorry to inconvenience you to make sure my driveway is safe to enter.
Actually, wreckless driving is exactly what we want.
Captain Jim always did hold himself in the highest esteem. He never noticed the people rolling their eyes whenever he was bloviating on about himself or an issue.