“He saw what Balto. (run by DemonCrats) has done to the Black Community, at least since the 60’s.”
You clearly do not understand Baltimore at all. It enacted mandatory racial segregation in housing over a century ago, the first city to do so, and that became the model for the rest of the US. Back then, blacks voted Republican, but the Republicans didn’t want them any more than the Democrats did. The Republican Party from the 1870s to the 1930s tried to systematically exclude blacks from leadership but nevertheless five black Republicans managed to get themselves elected to the Baltimore City Council! The reason is unlike the rest of the South, the racists never managed to prevent blacks from voting. 🙂
By the 1960s the Democrats were kicking their racists out and blacks have been voting Democratic ever since. The last Republican mayor of Baltimore was elected in 1963; he was appalled by the opposition of Barry Goldwater and other Republicans (including Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush) to civil fights and endorsed Lyndon Johnson for President. The last Republican to carry Baltimore in a general election was the liberal US Senator Charles Mathias in 1980. Mathias’ last public act before he died was to endorse Barack Obama for President in 2008. Baltimore went to single member City Council districts a while back; some hoped that that might allow a Republican to win a seat (that last time that had happened was in 1937) but the decades long history of Republicans waging war on Baltimore has made that impossible.
Nevertheless the main problem Baltimore faces is a lack of tax base as it has been prohibited since the late 1940s from annexing suburbs. Note that pretty much every booming city in America has either consolidated city and county government (Louisville, Lexington, Indianapolis, Jacksonville — NYC, Philadelphia, and San Francisco had already done this in the 19th century) or been allowed to annex suburbs like crazy (Houston, Phoenix, Dallas, San Antonio, San Diego, San Jose, Los Angeles).