File under "you can't make this stuff up"

This is on the level of Cuba and Iran being in the UN Human Rights Council.

Stephanie "Space to Destroy" Rawlings-Blake has been named the new head of the US Conference of Mayors.

She wants to use the position to "advocate" for "systemic issues" like "food access, education, poverty [and] neighborhood investment."

Come on, now, stop your snickering.

After all, she comes by her position as chief exec of Baltimore, that magnet of neighborhood investment, through a route of stellar accomplishment:

Let’s remember that Rawlings-Blake started out on the City Council and only became president of that august body by default when the previous president, Sheila Dixon, became mayor. The two have had their political fortunes tied together quite a bit, because due to Baltimore’s rather odd election laws, the City Council President automatically steps up to become mayor if the current office holder steps down. That’s how Rawlings-Blake originally became mayor when her friend Sheila Dixon resigned after being convicted of embezzlement.

Just when you thought post-America couldn't get any wackier.