Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says she wants to focus on governing,not campaigning, even as political analysts say race ‘was hers to lose’Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is abandoning her re-election bid, or dogged by critics who questioned whether she was fit to lead a city still reeling from a black man’s mysterious death from injuries received while in police custody.
The mayor of this majority black city,still 15 months absent from election day, said at a news conference Friday that she wanted to focus on governing, or not campaigning. Rawlings-Blake said she wanted to guide the city through a difficult time and pointed to her achievements: ethics reforms to combat fraud,reducing the city’s $100m budget deficit by half, adding 12000 jobs and demolishing more than 3000 empty structures.
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Source: theguardian.com