The mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, is another Brandon, last name Scott, and another feisty kind of public relations hound.
Also, much like Chicago's Bear of Little Brains, Baltimore's Brandon is not fond of those faces in the crowd with the paler hues.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is a bigot
— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) April 20, 2024
He hates anyone who’s not black, but especially white people
And he uses the power of his office to misuse federal funds to illegally discriminate
I’m sure the DOJ will get right on this
pic.twitter.com/IklNLc3Rg8
In 2024, he won a landslide reelection, garnering 82% of the vote, becoming the first Baltimore mayor to be reelected in twenty years.
Baltimore's incumbent Mayor Brandon Scott is the first Baltimore mayor to win reelection since 2004, beating candidate Shannon Wright.
"I am deeply humbled and grateful to the residents of Baltimore for granting me the opportunity to continue serving them as Mayor of Baltimore," Scott said. "As we have said from the beginning of this race -- the work is not done, and this victory is a mandate to double down on our efforts to keep building Baltimore's renaissance and make our city into the best version of itself."
Scott said his goal is to keep violent crime down, continue battling the vacant housing crisis and focus on young Baltimore residents.
I think that's because a fair number of his predecessors went to jail, but let's not take anything away from the lad. He seems to be popular.
While reportedly doing a bang-up job on the homicide rate in the city, especially last year - they celebrated having the lowest number of murders for the first time in eons...
Baltimore achieved a historic reduction in homicides in 2025, recording the lowest number in nearly 50 years, as city leaders and community groups joined forces to address gun violence.
Crime statistics released Thursday reveal a decrease in violent crimes, including carjacking and assault, with homicides falling from 194 in 2024 to 133 in 2025, a reduction of over 30%. Non-fatal shootings also decreased from 413 in 2024 to 311 in 2025.
...there is some dispute about where all the credit should go...
That was actually the new State’s Attorney for Baltimore Ivan Bates. When he came in crime started to drop. Scott had been in office before the drop happened
— Eric Dorsey (@EricGDorsey) March 4, 2026
...Baltimore still remains one of America's most dangerous cities.
Baltimore has been ranked the third most dangerous city in the United States by Numbeo's Crime Index.
The crime index, which is based on crowdsourced perceptions of safety rather than official crime statistics, had users complete surveys on categories like public safety and violent crime.
Scores ranged from 0 for very safe to 100 for very dangerous, and sample sizes varied by city.
Memphis, Tennessee, came in with the highest crime index score at 78, making it the city Americans perceive as the most unsafe in 2025.
Following Memphis was Detroit, Michigan, and Baltimore, Maryland, coming in third.
Lots of work yet to do.
There was a yuge brouhaha based on that crime stat this past year that had the seeds of the animosity planted in Scott's statements about the current president before the election.
1/ Following a meeting with President Biden yesterday, I asked Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott if he has concerns about President Biden’s re-election efforts.
— Mikenzie Frost (@MikenzieFrost) July 10, 2024
Trump shouldn’t “be allowed anywhere near the White House. He shouldn’t be elected dog catcher,” Mayor Scott says. pic.twitter.com/km6B28Lxt9
When Trump won, it only got more heated as the president put Baltimore on his list of places that needed some help.
FACT CHECK: True
— blasternot (@blasternot) August 26, 2025
Baltimore is a hellhole.
Source: I live there
Only the authorities didn't want it, while local folks did.
🚨NEW: Baltimore man tells Don Lemon Trump deploying National Guard to Baltimore would be "GOOD IDEA" to crack down on "ATROCIOUS" crime🚨
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) September 5, 2025
"Maybe we can clean up some of these crime-ridden neighborhoods."
"It'll be a breath of fresh air." @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/IZ1u5oznNH
The idea sort of withered on the vine.
Scott stoked that racial fire when the immigration enforcement began really ramping up.
'They won't always start with us,' Hizzoner said, 'But they will come home and end with us.'
🚨WATCH: Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott suggests, with no evidence, that the Trump administration is coming for black Americans.
— Off The Press (@OffThePress1) October 29, 2025
"They might not always start with us, but they will come home and end with us." pic.twitter.com/b86UEZC8AM
Such a nice, responsible guy.
And speaking of work left to do, there's still a lot of work to do on a bridge that was hit and fatally damaged some time ago by a cargo vessel with an electrical shutdown. Curiously, in April of last year, the mayor had to answer some kind of unseemly questions about funds raised for victims' families.
On Thursday, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott refuted allegations connecting his office to decisions that redirected funds raised for the victims and families of the Key Bridge collapse.
In response to a Baltimore Banner story on the Baltimore Community Foundation’s (BCF) handling of the $15 million “Maryland Tough, Baltimore Strong Key Bridge Fund,” Scott clarified the city’s role during an interview on the C4 and Bryan Nehman Show.
The controversy centers on the BCF’s decision to shift the fund’s allocations from survivors and victims’ families to other areas, including port workers, a human services center and a future museum exhibit.
This reallocation was reportedly done out of “respect to Mayor Brandon Scott’s office,” according to BCF officials—a claim Scott strongly denied.
“Anybody that said that the decision about this other fund…was made out of respect to the mayor’s office is telling a lie, flat out,” Scott asserted.
According to Scott, the city had no control over how the BCF spent its money, despite requests from his office and then-County Executive Johnny Olszewski for voting power over fund allocations.
And now it seems like all Mayor Scott is doing is answering questions about kind of umseemly money deals.
In January, word came out that a non-profit tied to the woman he eventually married had received over $100,000 in Baltimore taxpayer funds.
Well...huh.
It closed up shop when questions started flying.
A nonprofit tied to Mayor Brandon Scott’s wife stopped operations after receiving roughly $100,000 in taxpayer money, leaving unanswered questions about whether those funds will be returned.
Hana Scott worked as the director of operations at Bmore Empowered from September 2021 to September 2025, according to her LinkedIn profile. Her employment there ended the same month the organization announced it was undergoing an “organizational pause.”
It is unclear if the nonprofit will resume operations. Bmore Empowered, which has a stated mission of “empowering Black women and girls through mindfulness and entrepreneurship,” is behind on its tax filings and was sued for unpaid rent. It is also listed as “delinquent” on Maryland’s charity database. The nonprofit has not responded to Spotlight on Maryland’s questions.
Bmore Empowered received an influx of taxpayer money after the Scotts went public with their relationship in July 2023.
One day before the Scotts’ relationship announcement, Bmore Empowered was awarded an $80,000 grant from the taxpayer-funded Downtown Partnership of Baltimore at an event attended by the couple, who met in 2022. The Baltimore City government started sending Bmore Empowered taxpayer money in January 2023, totaling $34,950 by 2024. The taxpayer-funded Baltimore Children and Youth Fund (BCYF) sent $62,500 to Bmore Empowered, according to its latest tax form covering July 2023 through June 2024.
In February, questions from a local reporter about the mayor's schweet new $165,000 ride, courtesy of Baltimore taxpayers...
Investigation into Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott’s new $163,000 SUV has sparked a heated exchange after he accused a reporter of having a "racist slant" for questioning the taxpayer-funded purchase.According to a report by Spotlight on Maryland, the 2025 Jeep Grand Wagoneer cost a total of $163,495 including over $64,000 in security and police upgrades. This makes it the most expensive executive vehicle in the state of Maryland.When WBFF reporter Tessa Bentulan compared the price to the much lower costs of vehicles used by the Governor and other county executives, Mayor Scott dismissed the inquiry as an "idiotic question" and attributed the scrutiny to racial bias.
...got her called a...wait for it...
RACIST
🔻Of course this happened 😂
— Ashley (TeamTrump47) (@TeamTrump47) February 4, 2026
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott accused a reporter of racism after being questioned about his new taxpayer-funded SUV, which cost $165,000. pic.twitter.com/1Zf5Pykla3
Oh, you KNOW it did...
For some reason, all of a sudden, so many darn questions keep coming Scott's way. In fact so many questions about so many different things, he decided he'd just not answer.
Block all askers.
The Baltimore Inspector General (IG) has a case of 'Oh, no, you don't' and finally had to sue for access at the beginning of this month.
Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming on Tuesday sued the city after Mayor Brandon Scott severely restricted her access to city records, making her job of investigating government waste, fraud and abuse more difficult.
The lawsuit, filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court, seeks a declaration affirming the OIG’s subpoena power, its independence and its direct access to all city records.
“My goal in this lawsuit is to merely require the City to do what it has done since I took office — provide the OIG with the information it needs to ensure taxpayer dollars aren’t being wasted by government officials,” Cumming stated in a news release.
The conflict began with an investigation into the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, the hub of Scott’s holistic public-safety plan.
In response to a subpoena, the city Law Department sent Cumming’s office documents with almost everything redacted. The Scott administration then decided to treat her requests for documents — even those backed by a subpoena — as equivalent to civilians’ requests under the Maryland Public Information Act, meaning personnel information and financial data need to be redacted. The redactions made it impossible for Cumming to “follow the money.”
In addition to treating her subpoenas as MPIA requests, Scott’s information technology office interfered with her access to internal city data, which Cumming said means she can’t guarantee confidentiality to whistleblowers within city government.
But whatever the IG finds down the road with the mayor's Neighborhood Office, it might well pale in comparison to the scandal breaking over Scott's head that same IG released a few days ago.
Although it does kind of explain the bling-laden city car.
Guy likes to party like he's a big, BIG dog.
calling the President of the United States a liar is rich coming from you
— Eric Menefee (@4real_Emenefee) February 28, 2026
What about this? pic.twitter.com/YP7VoEhgn9
How much was that again?
Mayor of Baltimore spent nearly $1M on lavish perks like crab feasts and tabs at Ravens football games for staffers
...The Baltimore mayor’s office spent more than $890,000 on lavish meals and parties — including crab feasts, catered “farewell” bashes and massive tabs at Ravens football games, according to a report Wednesday.
Mayor Brandon Scott’s administration blew taxpayer cash on over-the-top perks for staffers — including $52,589 on grub in the Mayoral Suite at Ravens and Orioles games — in a gross violation of the city’s “public funds” rules, according to baltimorebrew.com.
One of the elaborate meals was served at a $3,636 farewell “office party” for Scott’s former campaign manager Marvin James, which featured a $324 balloon arch, a $217 cake and a $2,600 catered spread with crab balls and grilled salmon in March 2025, according to the outlet.
James, however, didn’t actually leave City Hall and is still on the payroll as the mayor’s $190,000-plus-a-year senior adviser.
In total, the office spent $801,839 on meals and catering, $42,691 on floral arrangements and funeral services, and $45,646 “unreconciled” expenses between July 2022 and November 2025, according to the outlet.
That does it. I'm talking to Ed. I can't even get bottled water.
BREAKING🚨: New Baltimore IG report EXPOSES Mayor Brandon Scott's office blowing through taxpayer dollars from July 2022–Nov 2025: OVER $890K on food, office parties, flowers & stadium suites. Hundreds of UNAPPROVED purchases flagged‼️ Democrats wonder why they can never balance… pic.twitter.com/MiULGyo3c7
— Officer Lew (@officer_Lew) February 28, 2026
The mayor tried to work his charm on yet another reporter who asked him about the gaspingly high figures for partying on the city's dime.
He did his best 'it's not a gang, it's a club' weasel-word impression, although he did say people were trying to make it look like something illegal had happened.
And he prudently bit back the racebaiting, too.
After a report from Baltimore City's inspector general found the mayor's office spent more than $800K on food and events from July 2022 - Nov. 2025, we questioned Mayor Scott on the use of tax dollars.
— Mikenzie Frost (@MikenzieFrost) March 2, 2026
Nothing was illegal, he reiterated. I asked him if it's appropriate. pic.twitter.com/94iLuXEYTN
UTMOST INTEGRITY - IF IT'S NOT ILLEGAL, THEN IT'S APPROPRIATE
Holy smokes, that's damn near Clintonian.
By the way, that bridge in Baltimore is gonna be expensive, too.
Key Bridge replacement costs soar as high as $5.2 billion, opening delayed to 2030
The cost to replace the Francis Scott Key Bridge has ballooned to between $4.3 billion and $5.2 billion, more than double original estimates of just under $2 billion, the Maryland Transportation Authority announced Monday evening.
The agency also said the bridge is not likely to open to traffic before late 2030, two years after the original goal of 2028.
The original estimates were made in the weeks after the March 2024 crash of the container ship Dali into the bridge sent it tumbling into the Patapsco River, killing six workers who were on the bridge at the time.
From the beginning, officials planned for a new bridge that was higher, with a wider shipping channel to accommodate new, larger ships in and out of the Port of Baltimore. The MdTA said the new numbers are based on significantly higher material costs and on federal demands for upgraded protection of the piers that will carry the new span across the Patapsco River, to prevent another accident like the one that destroyed the bridge.
And crew members are still being held in Baltimore by US authorities two years later for a crash that hasn't been attributed to crew members, but to an improperly installed signal wire.
It seems like only the little people in Baltimore get the shaft coming and going in a town that's high-dollar.
No one else gets told no. It's only money.
...When the purchasing bureau denied the mayor’s office’s request to use taxpayer money to host an annual crab feast, the mayor’s office went to finance director Michael Mocksten, who approved the event, according to the report.
The administration has been trying over the past month to restrict Cumming’s access to city financial and personnel records — which would prevent her from exposing over-the-top spending, she told the outlet.
The mayor’s chief of staff, JD Merrill, defended the food and drink spending as “legitimate expenses that support efficient and necessary operations of city government,” according to the outlet.
...He brushed off the $167,455 in unapproved “P-card” transactions as the equivalent of “an estimated 0.19% of the mayor’s office budget over the time period reviewed” and said a new position is being created that’s “focused on internal fiscal oversight.”
In a heartening development, the mayor's office has grudgingly agreed to create a new position (I'm assuming this person will be paid, so cha-ching) 'focused on fiscal oversight.'
Like a laser, I'm sure.
They'll watch it fly out the door.
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