Jody Landers is definitely running for mayor. His big issue is the property tax problem. This is a worthy issue and if Landers ends up "the property tax candidate" then he has served a worthy a cause.
Landers wants to win and he does not want to be known as a one issue candidate. He has launched a campaign web site and he has posted numerous Youtube videos.
At the 47 second mark on the main video at his campaign web site he says the following:
"We need new leadership in this city not just a continuation of the same old policies and politics as usual"
Landers is not new and he has helped entrench "The same old policies and politics as usual".
Since 1999 Landers has given $14,580.50 to local campaigns and political action committees (see his contributions here). This includes $500 to our current mayor who he will be running against! He has spent a decade giving money to Sheila Dixon and Martin O'Malley! Landers has also given money to "politics as usual" candidates Mary Pat Clarke and the Curran family. This City Paper article from 1984 (which team Landers has posted on his site) states that "Landers played coalition politics with Mike Curran". In other words Landers made deals with "the machine" as early as 1983!
If you served on city council from 1983 to 1991, made deals with the Currans, and gave Sheila Dixon and Martin O'Malley large sums of money then there is nothing very new and different about you.
Landers does deserve credit for posting these classic Baltimore political articles on his site.
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