Baltimore mayor, when a senator, succeeded in selling a lot of her children's books to the University of Maryland Medical System. Google images of the contents seem rather banal. I wonder how much of the attraction was due to the office? And somehow she is also on their board of directors?
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh’s book company has given \$7,040 in political contributions over the past three years — including a \$5,000 gift to her own campaign.
Healthy Holly LLC also gave \$1,000 through a ticket purchase to Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.’s campaign, as well as \$1,000 to state Sen. Jill Carter. The Olszewski campaign said Tuesday it would return the money.
Pugh resigned this week from the University of Maryland Medical System’s board of directors after coming under fire for failing to fully disclose the \$500,000 business relationship she had with the system, which bought 100,000 copies of her self-published children’s book series, “Healthy Holly.”
While school officials say they still have no documentation on the 100,000 copies of Mayor Catherine Pugh’s self-published children’s books that were reportedly donated to the school system, there was some late-breaking news on the Healthy Holly front:
“We can confirm that approximately 8,700 copies of ‘Healthy Holly: Fruits Come in Colors Like the Rainbow’ are currently located in a district warehouse,”
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After today’s sighting of warehoused and apparently untouched books, 71,300 more still remain unaccounted for.
Business as usual, I suppose. I wonder if Baltimore has somebody like Mike Royko? He'd have had fun with the story.
UPDATE: As of 26-Mar, people are searching hard to see if they can find any more of the books. The suspicion is spreading that most were never printed.
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No paper or TV station has anyone like Royko.
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