“A cant language... call’d Mumbo-Jumbo.”
All right. Here are media examples of mumbo jumbo, or mumble jumble:
1. Calling it “political mumbo jumbo,” County Executive Habern W. Freeman has vetoed an environmental land-preservation bill that the County Council passed in time for Tuesday’s election.
The bill, approved by the council late last month, would have created an environmental land-preservation commission that would coordinate preservation of environmentally sensitive land with the state environmental land trust program.
The bill was set up to protect sensitive areas that might not be protected under other preservation programs, such as the agricultural preservation program.
“It was nothing but political mumbo jumbo,” Freeman said Thursday.
“There was no funding attached. And there’s nothing in that bill that we can’t do already.”
- Exec Rejects ‘Mumbo Jumbo’ Land-preservation Bill, The Baltimore Sun, November 4, 1990.
2. Greenbarg suspects the school administration may be creating a consolation prize when the administration announced in the bid-rejection document that the contract would be split into two. One company will be hired to manage design and construction and another company will be hired to deal with cost and program control services.
The administration is splitting the contract “to give somebody a consolation prize so nobody causes a commotion,” Greenbarg said.
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