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Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier deserves to lose her job for her cynical mishandling of the inspector general appointment issue (“Baltimore County executive nominates new inspector general, rejects Madigan,”<\/a> July 24).<\/p>\n

What would it take to impeach her? I hope the Baltimore County Council will assert itself and do more than whine and whimper.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Steve Block, Pikesville<\/p>\n

Add your voice: Respond to this piece or other Sun content by\u00a0<\/i>submitting your own letter<\/i><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mishandling of inspector general post ought to result in a pink slip for Baltimore County executive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":11144511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-07-27T14:00:50Z","apple_news_api_id":"00a02b56-6cce-4aac-8c5d-2a3b5730b11b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-07-27T14:00:51Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AAKArVmzOSqyMXSo7VzCxGw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"subheadline":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[96],"tags":[193],"feature":[],"location":[],"type-of-work":[],"coauthors":[24449],"class_list":["post-11579161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-readers-respond"],"post_status":"","edit_last":0,"edit_lock":0,"highlights":"","original_byline":"","original_canonical":"","original_category":"","original_email":"","original_id":0,"original_pubdate":"","original_source":"","primary_section":"96","primary_tag":193,"print_workflow_body":{"deck_headline":"","print_title":"","print_subheadline":"","print_priority":"","print_placement":"cover","print_planned_ready":"","print_pub_date":"","print_slug":"TBS-L-JOBLOSS-0725","print_content":"","print_budget_line":"","print_excerpt":"","print_notes":"","photo_limits":"Photo limits are: 1 featured image, 5 featured gallery images, 5 embedded gallery images and 5 in-article embedded images. 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