{"id":6651,"date":"2006-02-18T09:16:24","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T14:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6651"},"modified":"2006-02-18T09:16:24","modified_gmt":"2006-02-18T14:16:24","slug":"worststate-comptrollerever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/worststate-comptrollerever\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst…state comptroller…ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Morbo<\/a><\/p>\n

I hate to bore readers with what may appear to be provincial stories about politics in my adopted home state of Maryland, but here’s one you might find interesting:<\/p>\n

Maryland’s comptroller is a decrepit, embarrassing has-been ex-governor who pretends to be a Democrat named William Donald Schaefer. On Feb. 15, Schaefer was attending a Board of Public Works meeting with Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich, a Republican whom Schaefer seems to adore. A 24-year-old female aide to the governor brought Schaefer a cup of tea, and the evil creep publicly leered at her. As the unnamed woman walked away, Schaefer stared at her backside, then called her back and said, “Walk again.”<\/p>\n

Schaefer has been acting increasingly strange over the past few years. He’s 84, but apparently lost his mind way back in 1992 — when Schaefer endorsed George H.W. Bush for president just days before polls showed Bill Clinton headed for a landslide.<\/p>\n

Asked about his boorish behavior after the meeting, Schaefer, The Washington Post reported<\/a>, engaged in one of his favorite tricks: throwing a tantrum and attacking the press.<\/p>\n

“That’s so goddamn dumb I can’t believe it,” Schaefer said. “I look at one of the girls as she walked out. Big deal. … I look at the girls every time they walk out.”<\/p>\n

Schaefer added that the aide “ought to be damn happy that I observed her going out the door. The day I don’t look at pretty women is the day I die\u2026.A little girl walks out, and I make a joke out of it. The one who is offended is me…. I can’t believe you are making a deal out of that.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s right, boob. You’re the victim here. The aide should be glad a crusty old creepazoid ogled her. How clueless can you get?<\/p>\n

This was hardly Schaefer’s first outburst. As The Post reported, “In recent years, he has provoked outrage by complaining about a Spanish-speaking McDonald’s clerk and suggesting the creation of a public registry of people with AIDS.”<\/p>\n

Amazingly, the dimwit is seeking reelection this year. There is an alternative. A real Democrat, State Del. Peter Franchot, is running against Schaefer in the primary. (See www.franchot.com<\/a>). Sadly, Franchot may face an uphill battle. For some reason, many Marylanders seem to love the wacky antics of their “Willie Don.”<\/p>\n

They shouldn’t. The man is now officially an embarrassment. It’s time to get someone sane in charge of the state’s bond rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Morbo I hate to bore readers with what may appear to be provincial stories about politics in my adopted home state of Maryland, but here’s one you might find interesting: Maryland’s comptroller is a decrepit, embarrassing has-been ex-governor who pretends to be a Democrat named William Donald Schaefer. On Feb. 15, Schaefer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}