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O'Malley jumps into presidential race, offers progressive alternative to Clinton

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On the road, O'Malley touts a string of progressive actions he oversaw as governor of Maryland. Under his leadership, the state tightened gun laws, implemented a progressive tax code and legalized same-sex marriage. He also expanded the state's health care rolls, championed Obamacare and signed a bill raising the state's minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.

Yet O'Malley found himself defending that Maryland record recently when riots broke out in Baltimore over the death of a 25-year-old African-American man under police custody.
The treatment of Freddie Gray, which sparked a national dialogue about police conduct toward racial minorities, drew renewed scrutiny to the controversial zero-tolerance policing strategy that O'Malley advocated for as mayor -- part of an aggressive strategy to crack down on crime.

In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper last month, O'Malley declared that Baltimore saw a "record reduction in violent crime" under his watch.
There are "probably now 1,000 mostly young, poor African-American men who did not die violent deaths in our city" because of these policies
Martin O'Malley enters 2016 presidential race - CNNPolitics.com
 
I'm a fan. I'm from Baltimore and saw just how bad that city was before he became mayor - I left just as he was coming in.

More important though is his ideas of metrics - accountability and follow up -set goals, and make adjustments as needed to succeed.
That's unheard of in governing bureaucracies - usually it's just top down decrees, and hope some of it sinks down to mid management.

I am apolitical in terms of ideology. It doesn't matter to me so much which direction the county takes
as long as it's not business as usual - stumbling along unable to problem solve.

The VA fiasco is a good ex. of why some real down reach into the ABC agencies are needed.

Hillary is the same worn out tired: "throw money at it and hope it's fixed" mentality.
O'Malley offer not just generational change but a change in how government operates.
 
;)
I'm a fan. I'm from Baltimore and saw just how bad that city was before he became mayor - I left just as he was coming in.

More important though is his ideas of metrics - accountability and follow up -set goals, and make adjustments as needed to succeed.
That's unheard of in governing bureaucracies - usually it's just top down decrees, and hope some of it sinks down to mid management.

I am apolitical in terms of ideology. It doesn't matter to me so much which direction the county takes
as long as it's not business as usual - stumbling along unable to problem solve.

The VA fiasco is a good ex. of why some real down reach into the ABC agencies are needed.

Hillary is the same worn out tired: "throw money at it and hope it's fixed" mentality.
O'Malley offer not just generational change but a change in how government operates.

;)


http://www.debatepolitics.com/us-elections/225249-former-md-gov-omalley-president-2016-a.html
 
LOL.
I can't get anything past you...this one is kina important to me, I want A.B.C. = Anybody But Hillary.

Plus I think O'Malley is just a new type of politician. There hasn't really been anyone since Harry Truman
who didn't completely pass the buck ( "The Buck Stops Here "- on Truman's Desk)..

At least it's something different......something old that could be something new again
 
LOL.
I can't get anything past you...this one is kina important to me, I want A.B.C. = Anybody But Hillary.

Plus I think O'Malley is just a new type of politician. There hasn't really been anyone since Harry Truman
who didn't completely pass the buck ( "The Buck Stops Here "- on Truman's Desk)..

At least it's something different......something old that could be something new again



How do you get that when he was a Bilbo Clinton Supporter? This came up with what we had.



O'Malley could soon be joined in the Democratic field by former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, who plans to make an announcement next week, and former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, who is exploring a potential campaign.


O'Malley has presented himself to voters as a next-generation figure in the party, pointing to his record as governor on issues such as gay marriage, immigration, economic issues and the death penalty.

O'Malley was known for his tough-on-crime, "zero tolerance" policies that led to large numbers of arrests for minor offenses. Critics say it sowed distrust between police and the black community. Supporters note the overall decrease in violent crime during his tenure. O'Malley has defended his work to curb crime, saying he helped address rampant violence and drug abuse.....snip~

http://www.debatepolitics.com/us-elections/225249-former-md-gov-omalley-president-2016-a.html
 
i guess i'd like to know specifics about what he'd do to help the average worker. also, where is he at on bringing home the troops and prioritizing a domestic agenda? how about sending our kids to college without bankrupting them? i would really like to see a platform. if he could run to Hillary's left as an electable Sanders, i might be interested. until then, Sanders is the only candidate that i believe actually gives even a tiny **** about me and the issues that i care about.
 
Is he going to do the same thing that Barack did to Hillary in 2008? Poor Hillary. :(
 
"Recently, the CEO of Goldman Saches let his employees know that he'd be just fine with either Bush or Clinton. I bet he would," O'Malley said. "Well, I've got news for the bullies of Wall Street: The presidency is not a crown to be passed back and forth by you between two royal families. It is a sacred trust to be earned from the people of the United States, and exercised on behalf of the people of the United States." :roll:

Wow....Attacking Big banks and ignoring the real " criminals " ? That's so original coming from a Democrat.

The hard truth of our shared reality is this: Unemployment in many American cities and in many small towns across the United States is higher now than it was eight years ago. Conditions of extreme and growing poverty create conditions for extreme violence. We have work to do.”

Lol.....I bet his plan is going to have something to do with " stimulus to increase aggregate demand" and THIS

" He said he thinks the country should broaden its view of which workers qualify for overtime pay and make it easier for workers to unionize and bargain for better wages.

He pointed to paid leave and affordable childcare as key to improving the economy, and said he believes it is an economic imperative to create a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. "

As Governor, he increased sales taxes, income taxes on high-income earners and created new taxes on services. He also raised the gas tax for the first time in more than two decades and increased the corporate tax rate. Don't let this guy anywhere near the White House.
 
Is he going to do the same thing that Barack did to Hillary in 2008? Poor Hillary. :(

I doubt it. Obama came in day one as a strong challenge to Hilary. These guys aren't really going to make a dent. My guess is they might be getting their name out there for the next time around (like a lot of the Repubs).
 
Is he going to do the same thing that Barack did to Hillary in 2008? Poor Hillary. :(

I'm thinking the same thing. Hillary is not a shoe-in IMO.
 
On the road, O'Malley touts a string of progressive actions he oversaw as governor of Maryland. Under his leadership, the state tightened gun laws, implemented a progressive tax code and legalized same-sex marriage. He also expanded the state's health care rolls, championed Obamacare and signed a bill raising the state's minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.

Yet O'Malley found himself defending that Maryland record recently when riots broke out in Baltimore over the death of a 25-year-old African-American man under police custody.
The treatment of Freddie Gray, which sparked a national dialogue about police conduct toward racial minorities, drew renewed scrutiny to the controversial zero-tolerance policing strategy that O'Malley advocated for as mayor -- part of an aggressive strategy to crack down on crime.

In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper last month, O'Malley declared that Baltimore saw a "record reduction in violent crime" under his watch.
There are "probably now 1,000 mostly young, poor African-American men who did not die violent deaths in our city" because of these policies
Martin O'Malley enters 2016 presidential race - CNNPolitics.com

IMO, he's not going to get very far. First, Clinton remains a strong candidate. Second, his record was mixed. The fact that he was succeeded by a Republican governor in a heavily Democratic state and the recent riots in Baltimore don't exactly demonstrate great success.

Moreover, just as some Republican candidates appear detached from the latest empirical evidence concerning inequality, so does former Governor O'Malley. Caricatures of tax cuts leading to the desired outcomes on one hand and punitive treatment of Wall Street on the other producing similarly desirable outcomes have little support in the latest empirical literature. Some of the most recent research suggests the importance of high-growth, high-value firms could be part of a comprehensive policy approach.

The Rise of and Firming Up Inequality
 
i guess i'd like to know specifics about what he'd do to help the average worker. also, where is he at on bringing home the troops and prioritizing a domestic agenda? how about sending our kids to college without bankrupting them? i would really like to see a platform. if he could run to Hillary's left as an electable Sanders, i might be interested. until then, Sanders is the only candidate that i believe actually gives even a tiny **** about me and the issues that i care about.
I gave you a link,suffice to say he's parallel to sanders on those issue. Where he differs is he was a 2 term governor and mayor.
He's to the left of Hillary, he's a Progressive. Keep an eye on him as the campaign unfolds and you should see that.
For me it's more about his proven successes as Gov.

Many didn't like his "zero tolerance" way of arrests in Baltimore. I don't think anyone likes that.
But he did clip the burgeoning homicide rate.

Arrests are down 50% in Baltimore since the Freddie Gray affair (May totals)
and Baltimore just had a spike in homicides for the same period.

Again for me though his StateStas, and CitiStats metrics is what separates him from Sanders. and other politicians
Maryland StateStat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
I gave you a link,suffice to say he's parallel to sanders on those issue. Where he differs is he was a 2 term governor and mayor.
He's to the left of Hillary, he's a Progressive. Keep an eye on him as the campaign unfolds and you should see that.
For me it's more about his proven successes as Gov.

Many didn't like his "zero tolerance" way of arrests in Baltimore. I don't think anyone likes that.
But he did clip the burgeoning homicide rate.

Arrests are down 50% in Baltimore since the Freddie Gray affair (May totals)
and Baltimore just had a spike in homicides for the same period.

Again for me though his StateStas, and CitiStats metrics is what separates him from Sanders. and other politicians
Maryland StateStat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

no candidate is perfect. thanks for the link; i will check it out.
 
This thing about "sowing the seeds of mistrust" with the black community has some truth.
But it's also true homicides were spiking ( along with violent crime) and he did turn that around in his first term as mayor.
They started to come back up in 2nd term, but never were as high as before he served.

Also the new mayor after O'Malley stopped zero tolerance. Zero tolerance is controversial. I'd rather not see it, but i'd more rather
see the homicide rate in Baltimore not go up. Per capita it's one of the highest in the nation.

O'Malley did other things, like try to buy up blocks of vacant homes -Baltimore was close to 1 million people in the mid 1950's
Now the population is about 670,000 so there is a lot of boarded up houses,and they are crime magnets, and what is called "urban blight"

Like other cities it's lost it's abilities to have good paying manufacturing jobs; O'Malley did what he could in terms of job creation
but he was mayor when the recession hit in 2008, so most of the jobs were down in the Inner harbor area, and didn't expand into the very poor areas.

Anyways....before I get into all that minutia that most don't care about..if you think you might be interested in someone other
then the usual cookie cutter Democrat, or what I think is a better way of governing, you can check
this announcement article
Facing long odds, O'Malley enters race for president - Baltimore Sun
He embraced a new way of thinking about management — relying on data to measure the time it took to fill potholes and fix streetlights — and a tough policing strategy that remains controversial today.

Confronting a city paralyzed by violence and 300-plus homicides a year O'Malley arrived at City Hall in 1999 with a zero-tolerance police strategy imported from New York. As he wrestled with top brass at police headquarters, officers cleared open drug markets and arrests soared. Over the next decade, Baltimore experienced the largest reduction in crime of any large city in
 
i guess i'd like to know specifics about what he'd do to help the average worker. also, where is he at on bringing home the troops and prioritizing a domestic agenda? how about sending our kids to college without bankrupting them? i would really like to see a platform. if he could run to Hillary's left as an electable Sanders, i might be interested. until then, Sanders is the only candidate that i believe actually gives even a tiny **** about me and the issues that i care about.

Im sure he's very much in favor of losing the war on terror and helping redistribute wealth to unions. Plus he left Baltimore in such great shape, you almost dont need hepa masks to breathe anymore so thats good.
 
Im sure he's very much in favor of losing the war on terror and helping redistribute wealth to unions. Plus he left Baltimore in such great shape, you almost dont need hepa masks to breathe anymore so thats good.

i don't know enough about his platform to comment one way or the other.

as for perpetual interventionism, how much more in taxes are you personally willing to pay to fund it?
 
On the road, O'Malley touts a string of progressive actions he oversaw as governor of Maryland. Under his leadership, the state tightened gun laws, implemented a progressive tax code and legalized same-sex marriage. He also expanded the state's health care rolls, championed Obamacare and signed a bill raising the state's minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.

Yet O'Malley found himself defending that Maryland record recently when riots broke out in Baltimore over the death of a 25-year-old African-American man under police custody.
The treatment of Freddie Gray, which sparked a national dialogue about police conduct toward racial minorities, drew renewed scrutiny to the controversial zero-tolerance policing strategy that O'Malley advocated for as mayor -- part of an aggressive strategy to crack down on crime.

In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper last month, O'Malley declared that Baltimore saw a "record reduction in violent crime" under his watch.
There are "probably now 1,000 mostly young, poor African-American men who did not die violent deaths in our city" because of these policies
Martin O'Malley enters 2016 presidential race - CNNPolitics.com


PROGRESSIVE ACTIONS... ROTFLOL

Editor's corrections in Red
On the road, O'Malley touts a string of Socialist Moves he oversaw as governor of Maryland. Under his Socialist inspired leadership, the state sought to do away with the 4th amendment to the best of their ability, implemented a tax code more in line with the USSR than the USA and legalized same-sex marriage. He also expanded the state's health care rolls the miserable failure known as Obamacare and showing he is a complete fiscal moron signed a bill raising the state's minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, a move which which caused businesses to hire fewer people.
 
I'm a fan. I'm from Baltimore and saw just how bad that city was before he became mayor - I left just as he was coming in.

More important though is his ideas of metrics - accountability and follow up -set goals, and make adjustments as needed to succeed.
That's unheard of in governing bureaucracies - usually it's just top down decrees, and hope some of it sinks down to mid management.

I am apolitical in terms of ideology. It doesn't matter to me so much which direction the county takes
as long as it's not business as usual - stumbling along unable to problem solve.

The VA fiasco is a good ex. of why some real down reach into the ABC agencies are needed.

Hillary is the same worn out tired: "throw money at it and hope it's fixed" mentality.
O'Malley offer not just generational change but a change in how government operates.

He sounds like Hillary and Obama without the racist bent of Obama or the deep seated corruption of the Clintons.

Just another tax and spend Socialist.

I'm happy he's running, as it offers a chance... if he has the balls... to illustrate to the country how corrupt the Clintons are. But being a butt buddy of theirs, I doubt he'll have the sack.

He needs to destroy Hillary to win, and I hope he does. To borrow from a famous American racist, and mentor of Obama... It's time for Clinton's chickens to come home to roost.
 
i guess i'd like to know specifics about what he'd do to help the average worker. also, where is he at on bringing home the troops and prioritizing a domestic agenda? how about sending our kids to college without bankrupting them? i would really like to see a platform. if he could run to Hillary's left as an electable Sanders, i might be interested. until then, Sanders is the only candidate that i believe actually gives even a tiny **** about me and the issues that i care about.

I agree, we need information on this guy to be able to conclude his potential value, if any.
 
"Recently, the CEO of Goldman Saches let his employees know that he'd be just fine with either Bush or Clinton. I bet he would," O'Malley said. "Well, I've got news for the bullies of Wall Street: The presidency is not a crown to be passed back and forth by you between two royal families. It is a sacred trust to be earned from the people of the United States, and exercised on behalf of the people of the United States." :roll:

Wow....Attacking Big banks and ignoring the real " criminals " ? That's so original coming from a Democrat.

The hard truth of our shared reality is this: Unemployment in many American cities and in many small towns across the United States is higher now than it was eight years ago. Conditions of extreme and growing poverty create conditions for extreme violence. We have work to do.”

Lol.....I bet his plan is going to have something to do with " stimulus to increase aggregate demand" and THIS

" He said he thinks the country should broaden its view of which workers qualify for overtime pay and make it easier for workers to unionize and bargain for better wages.

He pointed to paid leave and affordable childcare as key to improving the economy, and said he believes it is an economic imperative to create a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. "

As Governor, he increased sales taxes, income taxes on high-income earners and created new taxes on services. He also raised the gas tax for the first time in more than two decades and increased the corporate tax rate. Don't let this guy anywhere near the White House.

Imposing restrictions and regulations upon the financial sector isn't attacking anything, it's the American way.
 
I gave you a link,suffice to say he's parallel to sanders on those issue. Where he differs is he was a 2 term governor and mayor.
He's to the left of Hillary, he's a Progressive. Keep an eye on him as the campaign unfolds and you should see that.
For me it's more about his proven successes as Gov.

Many didn't like his "zero tolerance" way of arrests in Baltimore. I don't think anyone likes that.
But he did clip the burgeoning homicide rate.

Arrests are down 50% in Baltimore since the Freddie Gray affair (May totals)
and Baltimore just had a spike in homicides for the same period.

Again for me though his StateStas, and CitiStats metrics is what separates him from Sanders. and other politicians
Maryland StateStat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I agree, flanked by Sanders and O'Malley, Hillary looks like a right winger.
 
I agree, flanked by Sanders and O'Malley, Hillary looks like a right winger.
corporatist. they all are.
Hillary is militaristic..i'm all for power projecton.The Chinese are getting away with annexing the Spratleys Islands, with their man made ones.

That area is contested,has a lot of mineral rights,and a lot of commerce goes thru it. For that reason the US needs to challenge Chinese hegemony/imperialism.
I'm not talking war fare, but a presence..Hilary I do not trust after her "Friends ofSyria" and Libya fiascos
 
corporatist. they all are.
Hillary is militaristic..i'm all for power projecton.The Chinese are getting away with annexing the Spratleys Islands, with their man made ones.

That area is contested,has a lot of mineral rights,and a lot of commerce goes thru it. For that reason the US needs to challenge Chinese hegemony/imperialism.
I'm not talking war fare, but a presence..Hilary I do not trust after her "Friends ofSyria" and Libya fiascos

Hey buddy, you've no doubt seen my position on China as related to the Spratly's. As to Clinton, I agree and am hoping for someone to derail her. Although, I'm not interested in another corporatist in the WH. But can we really expect to avoid that, whether it's a republican or a democrat next?
 
Imposing restrictions and regulations upon the financial sector isn't attacking anything, it's the American way.

The Financial Sector is already Regulated. O'malley's just trying to gin up the kook base who blame Wall Street on the 2008 Financial collapse.
 
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