Old video footage shows the current president of the Maryland Senate referring to Baltimore as a "warzone" and a "ghetto" while the previous mayor, while taking a tour of a neighborhood, says: "Whoa, you can smell the rats."
At one point, Pugh looks at vacant homes in the area and tells people around her: "What the hell? We should just take all this [expletive] down."
“Whoa, you can smell the rats," she soon adds. "Whew, Jesus. Oh, my God, you can smell the dead animals.”
Critics accused President Donald Trump of being racist for saying the part of Baltimore in Rep. Elijah Cummings's (D-Md.) district "is a disgusting, rat, and rodent-infested mess."
Trump later called it a "very dangerous and filthy place" and said "no human being would want to live there."
Rodents are a major issue that can cause a slew of problems including structural damage and fires, Orkin said in the rankings announcement.
“Aside from causing structural damage, rodents can carry hundreds of pathogens that can transmit various diseases and dangerous parasites," Chelle Hartzer, an Orkin entomologist, said in a statement.
"Additionally, they constantly leave behind droplets of urine as they travel each day. These droppings can contribute to asthma and allergic reactions, especially in children,”
Meanwhile, a resurfaced video posted by Fox 5 host Tim Young shows Thomas "Mike" Miller, the president of the state Senate, talking about Baltimore in 1989.
Miller called the city a "[expletive] ghetto," calling it "worse than inner-city Washington, D.C."
Miller, a 76-year-old who has been a state senator since 1975, then adds "I hope you're not gonna play this on tape" and laughs before turning back to the city, referring to it as a "warzone."
"It's crack, it's these dime bags of PCP. We've got one-quarter of every kid is not in school each day, 50 percent of the kids that start off in school don't graduate," he said at the time. "So, looking at things from a statewide perspective, we really have to do things now."