Look, they all have the same birthday, Oct. 26th:
They also all happen not to be real people. No one I share mutual friends (upwards of 30 each) with has ever met them and they have never been photographed (except for their low-resolution profile photos) at any of the events they advertise or support. They seem only to exist to advertise events and show support of various Democratic candidates around the city.
I don't know who set these up. These sock puppets support several Democratic candidates, most of whom I can verify are candidates the Best Democratic Club of Baltimore supports (Shannon Sneed, Cory McCray, Brandon Scott, Jermaine Jones, for example). However, I don't know that it's the Best Democratic Club who did this; it could be very well any supporter. I'm a big supporter of a couple of those candidates (see my post on Cory McCray), and I'm not blaming the candidates; this appears to be some ill-conceived tactic by a local Democratic operative.
"Dorothy Oralds," one of my Facebook friends (she requested me), invited me to knock on doors for Jermaine Jones in my district, District 3. Jones isn't my candidate (from what I can tell from his candidate's filing address, he doesn't live in my district, and, if he does, he just moved here to run after running in two other city elections), so the insistence of her sharing his post (and that of other candidates) and inviting me stood out. I later heard that there are at least three of these sock puppets working in Baltimore City Democratic politics, all having the same birthday, all supporting Best Democratic Club candidates.
Below are some more screen shots of some of these fake profiles' work. From what I can tell, these fake accounts regularly "friend" citizens with lots of friends, presumably to show support, to advertise events, or to support candidates.
It's shady and creepy and I'm disappointed by my fellow Democrats for doing it.
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