Salisbury, MD Mayor: Malicious Blogs Endangering City
March 16th, 2009 | 
Author: SALISBURY — In her final State of the City address, Salisbury Mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman warned residents of what she sees as a great danger to the city: malicious bloggers.
Tilghman said in her address Thursday that over the last five years, the presence of a small group of suspicious, mean-spirited people focused on the negative…
(Ed note: What? Might be a small town mayor with a small town reaction to anyone taking to an opinion not her own perhaps? Whatever the reason this doesn’t bode well for bloggers. This is an attack on the First Amendment right to free speech. The blogosphere over there is rather intense but maybe, just maybe there is a reason for it. Voters ought to consider the sources and then decide and the Mayor should attend a Constitutional Law class and get back to the business of the people. Read the Salisbury News Blog and then you decide.)
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After having read some of the blog I think it might be a bitter personal feud. Probably wise to to just watch from a great distance.
Having lived with the Mayor's continuing and increasing rants against bloggers in general and lawsuits against one in particular for the last 8 years here in Salisbury; I can safely say you are correct in your conclusions, sir.
Still John it frightens me to read that a politician blames such things on "blogs." Hope things smooth out as one politician leaves and another takes her place.