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Defying police orders to stop putting campaign literature on cars, supporters of mayoral candidate Andrey Bundley slipped fliers under the windshield wipers of cars owned by several city employees yesterday during a rally outside Baltimore police headquarters.
Bundley, who is challenging Martin O'Malley in the Sept. 9 Democratic primary, was handcuffed and charged with a misdemeanor Sunday night for putting fliers on cars. Such leafleting is illegal, but the law is seldom enforced.
At a news conference outside police headquarters yesterday, Bundley said officers had no justification to handcuff him for doing what politicians have done for years. "Tell me that's an offense worth being arrested and cuffed," he told the crowd of about 30 supporters. "Tell me that's not a tried and true campaign tactic. ... Where is the police policy to arrest a school principal running for mayor?"
After addressing reporters, Bundley walked away and did not distribute any leaflets. But supporters wearing Bundley stickers, along Fayette Street, placing fliers under the windshield wipers of cars, including those with the parking passes of City Council President Sheila Dixon, City Councilwoman Rochelle "Rikki" Spector, City Councilman Nicholas C. D'Adamo Jr. and several other city employees.
A consultant for Bundley's campaign, Julius Henson, said that police put fliers under windshield wipers to warn drivers to protect themselves from vehicle theft, so they shouldn't arrest a political candidate for distributing his own fliers.
Kevin Enright, a Police Department spokesman, said that police put fliers on cars because there is an exemption in the law for leaflets distributed by officers or other city employees.
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