{"id":2296625,"date":"2024-07-16T16:34:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T20:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/baltimore-sues-to-remove-baby-bonus-from-november-ballot-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T16:37:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T20:37:26","slug":"baltimore-is-taking-legal-action-to-remove-the-baby-bonus-from-the-november-ballot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/baltimore-is-taking-legal-action-to-remove-the-baby-bonus-from-the-november-ballot-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore is taking legal action to remove the &#8216;baby bonus&#8217; from the November ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbaltimore-is-taking-legal-action-to-remove-the-baby-bonus-from-the-november-ballot-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2296625&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The city of Baltimore is suing to\u200d remove \u200ca ballot measure\u2062 that \u200dwould provide new parents\u200c with a $1,000 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-birthrate-continues-decline-should-government-encourage-having-babies\/\" title=\"US Birthrate Continues Decline; Should Government Encourage Having Babies?\">baby bonus<\/a>&#8220;\u2062 in an effort to combat child poverty. The Baltimore Baby Bonus Fund has stated that\u200d the \u200dmayor and\u2063 City \u2064Council filed a lawsuit \u200dto remove the measure from the\u2064 November ballot, shortly after it gathered the necessary signatures. The mayor&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karine-jean-pierre-ducks-questions-on-hunter-bidens-texts-linking-father-to-shakedown\/\" title=\"Karine Jean-Pierre evades questions about Hunter Biden&#039;s texts connecting his father to a shakedown.\">office expressed support<\/a> \u200cfor the measure&#8217;s\u2062 objectives but\u200d stated that it \u2062goes against Maryland \u2064law\u200d and \u2063the city&#8217;s charter. Despite\u200b sympathies for the policy, they directed\u200d the Law Department to \u2062oppose \u200dthe\u200b amendment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Baltimore sues to remove &lsquo;baby bonus&rsquo; from November ballot<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1659423\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/baltimore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>The City of Baltimore<\/a> is suing to block a ballot measure that would offer new parents $1,000 in an effort to fight child <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/poverty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>poverty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Baltimore Baby Bonus Fund <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bbbfund\/status\/1811740107642167568\/photo\/4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>said<\/a> it learned Thursday that Baltimore&rsquo;s mayor and City Council had filed a lawsuit to remove the baby bonus from the ballot. The lawsuit came shortly after the measure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3073052\/baltimore-baby-bonus-new-parents-1000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>gathered the necessary 10,000 signatures<\/a> to appear on the November ballot.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yesterday the mayor&rsquo;s office informed us that the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore filed a lawsuit to remove the Baltimore Baby Bonus from the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>We are fully confident that the courts will reject this attack on democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Full statement below: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tVSzGf41dk\">pic.twitter.com\/tVSzGf41dk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Baltimore Baby Bonus (@bbbfund) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbbfund\/status\/1811740107642167568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;While Mayor Scott is supportive of the proposed amendment&rsquo;s objectives, charter amendments that effectively commandeer the role of the legislature go against Maryland law and the City&rsquo;s charter,&rdquo; the office of Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said in a statement. &ldquo;That is why we have directed the Law Department to oppose the amendment as improper despite our sympathies toward the underlying policy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At the local level, we currently don&rsquo;t have the resources to make that type of support permanent,&rdquo; the mayor&rsquo;s office added. &ldquo;Mayor Scott hopes the Baltimore Baby Bonus campaign will join the administration in advocating for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-i-got-a-covid-test-four-times-in-one-day-two-came-back-negative-two-came-back-positive-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Elon Musk: I Got A COVID Test Four Times In One Day. \u2018Two Came Back Negative, Two Came Back Positive.\u2019 | The Daily Wire\">universal basic income<\/a> at the Congressional level.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The baby bonus would be available to all of Baltimore&rsquo;s &ldquo;new parents,&rdquo; regardless of income upon the birth or adoption of a child, and it would cost about $7 million annually, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimorebabybonus.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>according to<\/a> the initiative&rsquo;s campaign website, which is about 0.16% of the city&rsquo;s budget.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative wouldn&rsquo;t raise taxes, but it would require an appropriation equal to 0.03% of the city&rsquo;s property value. The Baltimore City Council would decide how to allocate funding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Baltimore Baby Bonus Fund said that its organizers had &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/baltimore-is-taking-legal-action-to-remove-the-baby-bonus-from-the-november-ballot\/\" title=\"Baltimore is taking legal action to remove the &#039;baby bonus&#039; from the November ballot\">rigorously studied case law<\/a> to ensure that our proposal was permissible&rdquo; and called the lawsuit an &ldquo;attack on democracy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In reality, this is about power and taking away city voters&rsquo; opportunity to enact the Baby Bonus Fund,&rdquo; the group wrote in a post on X. &ldquo;This attempt to remove us from the ballot is a grave disservice to Baltimore&rsquo;s families and children.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1659423\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1659423\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore is taking legal action to prevent a ballot measure that would provide $1,000 to new parents in an effort to combat child poverty. The city&#8217;s mayor and City Council have filed a lawsuit to remove the baby bonus from the November ballot, citing concerns about the measure&#8217;s legality and potential impact on the city&#8217;s budget. The Baltimore Baby Bonus Fund, which supports the initiative, has criticized the lawsuit as an attack on democracy and is confident that the courts will reject it. The fund argues that the baby bonus would benefit all new parents in Baltimore, regardless of income, and would not raise taxes but would require a small appropriation from the city&#8217;s budget. The group believes that the lawsuit is an attempt to undermine the will of city voters and is urging the administration to support universal basic income at the federal level<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3192,"featured_media":2296626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/iStock-1916885988.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35246,15961,32142,34627],"class_list":["post-2296625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-baby-bonus","tag-baltimore","tag-legal-action","tag-november-ballot"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/iStock-1916885988.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2296625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2296626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}