Nathaniel Exum

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I hope all of you read the story in yesterday’s Washington Post (published May 6) regarding the alleged screws being put to Maryland State Police Superintendent Col. Terrance Sheridan by the office Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) and Prince George’s Senator Nathaniel Exum (D-Dist. 24) in regards to having an inspection license issued to a garage that in a five month period, gave out more than double the number of inspection certificates when compared to other garages in the same period.

I admittedly did not see the story, which is kind of odd because I glanced over the front page. Turns out that the article was below the fold. I did not hear about the story until I was driving up to Aberdeen for the first of I hope many appearances in studio on the WAMD (970AM) program “Word on the Street with Warren Monks.” (I was listening to the commish, Ed Norris on WHFS (105.7FM))

I do not know what is more appalling in this situation. Is it the fact that despite at least three MSP superintendents (including Norris) backed up the now former commander of the division, Capt. Robert Bambary, in refusing to issue a new license to the Capital Heights garage, O’Malley’s office stepped in at the behest of Exum? How about Exum’s conspiracy theory of the MSP was “acting as the prosecutor, the judge and the jury” in addition to his long shot “jail” comparison? Or, is it the inflammatory possibility that he whipped out the race card to hold up the confirmation of Sheridan, just to help out a business that was not in his district?

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