Elijah Cummings Dead

Timothy Birdnow

Maryland Democrat Congressman Elijah Cummings has passed away. He was 68 years old.

The cause of death was merely given as "health challenges". He had been treated for heart valve problems in the past. Cummings was known to use a walker and motorized cart.

The man was a first rank POS and one of the worst partisans in Washington, and he had a lot to answer for when he met his maker. In spite of his illness he was one of the leaders trying to impeach Donald Trump, ignoring his family in favor of spending his last moments on Earth in a power struggle.

Sadly, but not unexpectedly, condolences poured in from Republicans. Liz Chaney had this to say;

Now, I don't see any point in speaking ill of the dead in such a circumstance, but why celebrate such a man? Cummings was as partisan as they get. While I feel sorry for his family, and hope his immortal soul eventually finds peace, I am not going to mourn his loss from this Earth. He did little good while here. His district is one of the poorest hell holes in the country, while Cummings himself has a net worth in excess of $1.3 million. (He had been heavily in debt, too, but suddenly was buying investment property and stocks at a prodigious rate.)

He had been the ranking Minority member of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, and ran interference for Obama there. He was Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus and a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He was a big supporter of Black Lies Muttered, er, Black Lives Matter.

Cummings was also corrupt. His wife - the Party Chair in Maryland - ran a pay for play scheme, selling influence with Cummings and nearly sending the old boy to prison. Naturally, once you are in the Establishment you don't go to the slammer, so Cummings got off on this.He also colluded with Lois Lerner to use the IRS to suppress opposition groups. Cummings was illegally receiving tax information from the IRS about True the Vote. And he used his power on the House Oversight Committee to protect Lerner and the IRS thuggery.

Cummings' wife also appears to have embezzled funds intended to fight child obesity. From the article:

The complaint said that Rockeymoore Cummings—who also is currently head of the Maryland Democratic Party and a former gubernatorial candidate in the state—may have misused funds from a multi-million-dollar grant to fight childhood obesity through her nonprofit Center for Global Policy Solutions and directed them instead to the for-profit consulting firm, Global Policy Solutions, LLC.

The complaint says that the two entities blurred the lines with shared office space and telephone lines, in flagrant violation of tax laws.

Ironically, given Rep. Cummings’s own dogged threats of subpoenas against the current White House over tax documents, another complaint cited against his wife’s operation was the refusal to turn over an IRS 990 financial disclosure form.

I can't say he'll be missed. But then, his replacement is liable to be worse.

Postscript: I found NONE of this information from a Google search; had to go to Duckduckgo to get any of this. Also, none of it is in Cummings' Wikipedia page, either. Censorship? You betcha!

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