Annapolis Capital Punishment

Not only were serious questions raised about Jim Conley, but The Capital recently raised questions about Kenny Kirby, though with kid gloves on. Both Conley and Kirby failed to file their most recent campaign finance reports but so did Zina Pierre, Wayne Taylor and Sam Shropshire. Even though they are out of the race, they still have such an obligation but Kirby and Conley (at least for now) are still in the race for alderman.

Kenny Kirby and Jim Conley--where are your statements???

There are lingering questions about this man who likes to remain a mystery as I have shown here numerous times.


He has repeatedly been unwilling to speak in public with his opponent or provide more than the most basic information about himself, but has no problem engaging in negative attacks against his opponent who had a well-known and visible career in this city. Little is known, nor does Kirby apparently want much to be known about his history, but questions have been raised about Kirby. See here for previous posts about Kenny Kirby:

Now, the casual observer might say "Oh that guy Foer is out to get Kirby" but serious readers know that I try to cover and be fair to all candidates, though it is an impossible task, yet I do try to publicize the activities of every candidate fairly. I have given Kenny Kirby every possible opportunity to provide information, to allow me to publicize his campaign just as I have afforded every candidate. But something about Kirby is different--he flat out refuses to tell us about himself. Even his modest campaign literature is scant and his web-site just shows photos of his uncle and grandfather. ???  I've tried to meet the man but he hides behind the "protective" yoke of Wacky Chuck Weikel and Craig "Pure Zeal" Purcell who never miss an opportunity to attack me and to use their divisive and deceitful blog to call me a racist in their silly and cynical attempts to silence me.

Oddest of all is that Pure Zeal Purcell is perhaps the most zealous and outspoken proponent of historic preservation in Annapolis (although he lives in Baltimore where he supposedly is an architect), yet he constantly uses his weird blog to attack Kirby's opponent, Greg Stiverson, one of the most active and engaged historic preservationists in town. Kirby's own campaign literature even attacks Stiverson for being a historic preservationist, as if that is an evil moniker. ???

Are you wondering abut the title of this post--"Kenny Kirby--A Man Who Gets Around...to Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey...But Doing What?" Read more on Kirby in the next day or two as we attempt to piece together about his background...and hope he will fill in the blanks...stay tuned....and remember--we have given Kirby many chances to provide information or respond...and he has not.

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