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| Contributor | Rob Brodner |
| Last Edited | Rob Brodner Feb 21, 2006 03:16pm |
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| News Date | Sunday, February 19, 2006 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | William Donald Schaefer has been a politician for the last 51 years — a member of the Baltimore city council, mayor for 16 years, governor of Maryland for eight years and now State Comptroller . . . and he's running for re-election.
To those of us who hold the Power Corrupts thesis, we expect a politician, the longer lingering in office, to become more arrogant and removed from normal standards of decency. Meet Politician Schaefer. Exhibit A.
At the February 15th meeting of the Maryland Public Works Board, Schaefer had a little run-in with a 24-year-old woman, employed by the governor's office. As part of her job she delivered a mug of tea to the powerful state comptroller. He needed that nourishment and pampering to conduct the people's business.
Schaefer ogled the woman as she walked away. Then, from across the room, he motioned for her to return to him. When the young woman re-approached him, Schaefer said, "Walk again." According to observers, the woman then left the room, somewhat flustered, with Schaefer ogling up another storm.
This incident was really a very funny joke according to Schaefer and his cronies. They wonder (out loud) why some of us just don't get it.
When reporters asked Schaefer to account for his behavior, he exploded by cursing, "That's so [expletive deleted] dumb I can't believe it." He claimed that the woman should have been "happy that I observed her going out the door. . . . A little girl walks out, and I make a joke out of it. . . . The one who is offended is me."
Schaefer and his team of public servants had a multitude of defenses. There was the "The day I don't look at pretty girls, I die" defense. And to Louise Hayman, a longtime aide to Schaefer, the problem was clearly this 24-year old woman with the nerve to be offended. "I think she overreacted, frankly," stated Hayman.
Haymen went on to opine, "I guess she was surprised by it." (Shaefer's employees have grown used to it?) |
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