I bought 50 of these and finally my rooftop deck permit got approved. 10/10 would buy again

What do you want in a Mayor? Usually something like honest, competent, and responsive to residents. Baltimore has gone a long time with mayors without any of those attributes. Sort of like Chicago, Baltimore politicians tend not to lose elections but to lose on appeals of their convictions.

Catherine Pugh, the now former Mayor of Baltimore, this year pled guilty to a range of corruption charges, most centered on her having written a self-published children's book whose primary purchasing public were big corporations with business before the City which Pugh might influence.

Politicians writing books as a means to receive bribes is nothing new. Been going on since at least 1989 when Speaker of the House Jim Wright resigned because of a similar scheme.

What is new, from Wright's time, is the opportunity for citizens to mock their establishment "betters".

Amazon book reviews would seem an unlikely forum for such an activity, but people are creative.

R. C.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book- Highly recommend
April 3, 2019

I bought 50 of these and finally my rooftop deck permit got approved. 10/10 would buy again

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Amazon Customer
1.0 out of 5 stars Baltimore City Mayor Catherine Pugh's Cash Cow
March 13, 2019

On March 13, 2019, the Baltimore Sun published an article exposing how Baltimore City Mayor, Catherine Pugh, a board member of the University of Maryland Medical System since 2001, has a contract with UMMS to buy this book. The article reports that Pugh cleared $100,000 profit in 2017 by selling 20,000 copies to the UMMS. Pugh reportedly said she has a deal where UMMS buys her books every two years.

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Konstantine Simakis
1.0 out of 5 stars It’s Healthy Holly, by the way, not “Health Holly.”
March 23, 2019

Exercising is fun, but money laundering is funner. This series of books is now a hard-to-find collectors’ item (especially the titles that don’t exist), although still probably not worth $100,000.

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Greg from Baltimore
1.0 out of 5 stars Extra Healthy Holly books available
March 23, 2019

The mayor arranged for 100,000 of these books to be purchased by the University of Maryland Medical System to donate to the schools of Baltimore. Somehow most of these were not given out. There is now a mystery hunt for the remaining Healthy Holly books--nearly 9000 turned up in a city warehouse in East Baltimore. No need to buy one of these, about 60,000 are still unaccounted for and the Mayor and School Superintendent should be able to point to these and start distributing them to children and readers as originally intended!.

167 people found this helpful


Amy
1.0 out of 5 stars Huckster Holly
March 24, 2019

Huckster Holly - teaches kids how to steal $500,000 and get away with it.

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andrea
1.0 out of 5 stars Helping Holly maintain her health is not so fun
March 21, 2019

The mayor should try working at one of Bmore's health systems full time and taking home $500 a week, not $500,000. Not too easy to support a family on that as a single parent.

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E5150
1.0 out of 5 stars Stay Tuned
April 2, 2019

I can't wait for the next installment in the series - Healthy Holly: Defrauding the Citizens of Charm City. Coming soon to an otherwise empty warehouse near you.

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Mabel
5.0 out of 5 stars Unavailable? Shucks I wanted to buy 100000 copeies.
April 2, 2019

Why is everybody upset about the Mayor's book? And why no sympathy for her pneumonia. Holly is an incredibly beneficial book for kids. And every one of them should have one. My company wants to buy 100,000 copies and distribute them to needy students in the South.
Please let us know when you restock.
Thank you
"Rick" Singer
The Key Foundation
San Diego CA

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Raymond Payne
5.0 out of 5 stars Future Must Reads from Holly
April 4, 2019

Anxiously awaiting the sequel “Wealthy Holly” . But it sounds like that project might be shelved in favor of the new book “Hard-Time Holly” . Either way, must reads ... so sure to be hard to find!

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soil sommelier
5.0 out of 5 stars Exercise is fun, but money laundering is mo' funner!
April 2, 2019

Were this anyone but a politician (and a Democrat in Maryland) the would already be in jail. She will no doubt end up the next head of the DNC, or at least a big shot at the State level. Our political party hacks revere their most successful criminals, and Maryland has an incredible history of them.

It would be nice to hear why it is that these organizations involved never reported her, but three cheers for the Sun Paper for digging this up.

Anyway, you can bet no one will ever make her cough up the dough that she extorted/bribes that she took. Criminality of her sort never has any risk in this country. Maybe when we start public canings and executions for abusing the public trust...

The best thing anyone can say about Baltimore is that you don't live there any longer. I know I'm happy that I don't.