Today on Midday, we continue our series of Conversations with the Candidateswho are running to be the next Mayor of Baltimore City.
Tom's guest is former Mayor Sheila Dixon, who held the office from 2007-2010. She resigned in 2010 following a conviction for embezzlement and an Alford plea in a separate case in which she was charged with perjury. She is one of 15 Democratic candidates running in the April 28 primary.
Before her resignation, Ms. Dixon had a long career in local public service -- on the City Council for 12 years and then as City Council president for seven years. When then-Mayor Martin O’Malley became governor of Maryland, Dixon completed his term as mayor and she was elected to her own term later that year. As part of her plea agreement in conjunction with her conviction she agreed to resign from office, and she was prohibited from running for public office for a period of four years.
Ms. Dixon ran for mayor again in 2016. She narrowly lost the Democratic primary to Catherine Pugh, and she garnered more than 51,000 votes in the general election as a write-in candidate. Now, she is running for mayor for a third time.
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