Still sore after the election?
It seems former Mayor/Governor/Comptroller William Donald Schaefer may not be entirely over his 2006 election loss to Peter Franchot … at least according to Franchot.
The 2006 election is nearly three years removed, but some wounds don’t heal easily.
Schaefer has been known to carry a grudge or two. Reporters and columnists used to get letters from him when they wrote stories he didn’t like, and citizens sometimes got visits from Schaefer after writing letters of criticism.
In the case of Franchot, it was an ignored phone call.
Franchot, who spoke to a gathering of Democrats at the Central Baltimore County Democratic Club in Towson on Tuesday, said he asked his aide to get in touch with Schaefer recently after hearing that the colorful Baltimore politician was ill.
“Someone said he was a little fragile,” Franchot told the audience.
The aide placed the call as requested and spoke to an aide to Schaefer.
Franchot said as his aide spoke to Schaefer’s aide, Schaefer himself could be heard yelling in the background, “You tell him I don’t want to talk to him.”
“That’s OK,” Franchot said he told his aide. “It just shows he’s feeling perfectly normal.”