What?.. WHAT???
And there’s 45’s excuse to stay in office.
“Due to my amazingly mental incapacity, I am unable resign.”
Translation: I know I need to go but I still need the job and this is the only possible excuse I can think of to stay.
She wins April’s “Most Imaginative Excuse” on originality alone.
In fact you can get pneumonia from stress, it happened to me when I was 30 years younger than she is. But somehow I doubt she’s not “lucid” enough to sign a letter. Poor old Bawlmer.
So what are the alternatives to her resignation? Can she not be removed from office? Guess I’ll have to bone up on the Maryland constitution.
If she’s not lucid enough to resign she’s not lucid enough to run the city, ergo, she should resign.
No wonder so many lawyers go into writing fiction.
For a brief period of time, this is not entirely implausible. This is why you don’t sign contracts while out with a high fever or under the influence of certain prescription drugs.
But I’d hold her and her lawyer to that week before they have to explain exactly how long she’s going to be disabled.
(My response here is colored by having dealt with someone who went back to a job after surgery for a brain tumor, then eventually declined enough that he had to quit. But by the point that decline became obvious, getting the “Yes, I want to quit” out of him was a complicated cognitive maneuver.)
With Democrats like this, who needs Republicans?
I take it Maryland Law is lacking in some provision for replacing an elected official who is no longer lucid? Temporarily or permanently?
Based on this stunning medical / legal breakthrough, Dr. Vinny Boombatz is already working on his new diagnosis for Donnie…
There’s an Acting Mayor right now – that’s as far as it goes.
As one of her constituents until very recently, i’m ok with this. There is an acting mayor and I’m willing to allow her the time to decide whether she has a defense to the charges that won’t be a waste of everyone’s time. She was a good legislator when she represented me in the Maryland legislature and always saw me even when I was representing unpopular causes. I’m very disappointed in her now, though.
Kind of a reverse catch-22: You can get out of flying bomber missions if you’re crazy. But since it’s nuts to fly a bomber mission, with its high probability that you’ll be killed, then to do something to get out of flying the mission, including claiming insanity, proves you’re actually sane. Therefore, you have to fly the mission.
You would think that if Ashcroft, suffering from gallstone pancreatitis, was lucid enough to tell Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card to go to hell, then Pugh should be able to sign a letter with pneumonia. (Remember the days when even the crazy Republicans could on occasion muster some courage?) The thing though is that Ashcroft’s rejection had to be done. Pugh’s not so important that the city can’t wait till she’s better.
My husband was not himself when he had pneumonia. 3 or 4 meds, sleeping many hours, no energy. Going to lab to have his blood drawn several times was all that he could do. It took a month for him to recuperate. In his late 60’s when it struck.
Not making an excuse for her. It can be debilitating but this sounds odd.
For sure—if you don’t catch it quickly you can get as sick as hell. People think they just have a bug and it sneaks up on them. Both my parents landed in the hospital several times with it. But this sounds fishy. Obviously the odds are she’s doing a Northam, just hanging in there to see if she can ride it out.
odds are she’s doing a Northam, just hanging in there to see if she can ride it out
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. See, e.g., Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Orrin Hatch (for abetting a Mormon serial wife batterer, using his position as an elder in the Mormon Church to intimidate the batterer’s ex wives into silence, and providing the batterer with Senate and White House staffer jobs to develop the next Right Wing Mormon political superstar, all while knowing the guy was a wife batterer, and being the point man for riding out disqualifying crises by both Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, with a major assist in the first instance by a current Presidential candidate).
Trump fucked Dr. Boombatz over. Had Keith Schiller and his goons go to his office unannounced, and remove every single file and every single note or prescription he issued for Loony Donald, without letting the Doctor make or retain xerox copies to comply with his legal obligations. This is just one more act of obstruction of justice.