Experts say the most important thing to remember in a hostage situation is to not attempt to negotiate or argue with the hostage taker. They also recommend against making threats, demands or personal attacks as a means to diffuse the situation. On Thursday, the Aberdeen City Council got about half the guidelines right – avoiding […]
Stop the Election!: Candidate Maybe Wins Round 1 (updated)
Last Wednesday, Steve Johnson stood, dressed in a tan sport coat and a dress shirt, on the sidelines and watched as candidates for mayor and Aberdeen City Council passed a microphone in front of a crowd of 120 voters. This Wednesday, Johnson stopped the election. Tossed from the ballot by Aberdeen’s Board of Elections over […]
A Fair Aberdeen Election?
You’ve no doubt heard about it by now, so here it is for your perusal – the full contents of the mysterious letter mailed Saturday to registered voters in the City of Aberdeen. What’s so curious about the letter is the entity which purportedly mailed it, Concerned Citizens For a Fair Aberdeen Election, used the […]
Candidate Zero’s condition upgraded to Candidate Maybe (update)
Forced to keep quiet before the court of public opinion during last week’s Aberdeen candidate forum, Steve Johnson will get a chance to speak out today (Monday) in a much more official court when he makes his plea to be certified as a candidate for city council in the Nov. 6 election. Johnson, chairman of […]
Thanks for the Memories
Some field notes I scribbled down during Wednesday night’s candidate’s forum in Aberdeen: The Master of Ceremonies mistakenly skipped over and forgot to announce the name of city council candidate Bernard DeWitt. Then, as the catcalls picked up in intensity and he recognized his mistake, the MC had to back up, bend over and look […]
Good Cop/Bad Cop: A Would-Be Mayor Comes Clean
Twenty-three years ago, Aberdeen mayoral-candidate Mike Bennett made the biggest mistake of his life. This week, as he prepared for a candidate’s forum showdown, Bennett, a Vietnam veteran and ordained deacon, was exorcising old ghosts and cutting off at the pass an anticipated ambush set by his detractors. In 1984, I was six years old, […]
Off to the Races (updated again)
The City of Aberdeen will hold its municipal election for mayor and four city council members on Tuesday, November 6 from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Center at 7 Franklin Street. The Harford County Municipal Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 128 will be sponsoring “Meet the Candidates Night” on Wednesday, October […]
Former Aberdeen police corporal-turned-council candidate challenges mayor’s “law enforcement strategy”
By Rick Denu (candidate for Aberdeen City Council) http://www.rickdenu.net/ The “Aberdeen Model” isn’t a Model at all! The Aberdeen Mayor claims to have a “model law enforcement strategy”, which was only placed on paper weeks ago, that eliminates crime and now he wants to impose that ridiculous notion outside City limits; has crime been eliminated […]