About Martin O’Malley and why he’s becoming the choice of more and more Democrats.

[elleng]

'By now, you probably know that Martin O’Malley is winning some hearts and that he had the best closing statement at the first debate. But, maybe you don’t know that some nationally ranked debaters picked him as the clear winner of that debate?

Perhaps you’ve heard that Martin is a talented lead singer in a rock band? But I’ll bet you don’t know how well he uses that talent to connect with all kinds of different important groups.

Martin isn’t a millionaire like most of the other candidates. Like most Americans, he and his brilliant wife, Katie, don’t have Wall Street investments; and they are blessed with four wonderful children.

Martin O’Malley is justly proud of the many things he’s gotten done while leading other politicians to a new consensus on many matters that are important to us.

He has issued 15 national goals designed to rebuild the American dream. Moreover, he has the very best proposals of all the candidates on many issues, including gun reform, immigration reform, clean energy, and Wall Street reform. https://martinomalley.com/category/15-goals/

Since 9/11, Governor O’Malley has been recognized as a national leader on homeland security and public safety issues. He believes that our country’s security—and our children’s prosperity—demand that we be more engaged with the world around us, not less.

Please give Martin O’Malley a serious look. He’s in the prime of his political life, and I think he would be a more effective President than any of the others.

If you want more information, please click on the blue hyperlinks in this note. If those don’t satisfy your curiosity, please feel free to ask me. I may know of another good link to help answer your question. Also, Martin O’Malley is on Facebook, and there are many Martin O’Malley fan pages. I find interesting links at Ready for Martin O’Malley every day.

Enjoy your research. Keep reminding the DNC they should allow debate. And keep the faith. Martin O’Malley likes a tough fight.'

https://www.facebook.com/notes/nick-kelly/about-martin-omalley-and-why-hes-becoming-the-choice-of-more-and-more-democrats/10153246261413177

[Cassiopeia]

1. Martin O'Malley needs to explain his zero tolerance policing.

At best it was a failed policy, at worst it was a racist policy.

I believe it was just bad policy, but its easy to see the worst case scenario.

I would truly like to see him explain why he enacted it in the first place and if he now disagrees with it why is that so.

I couldn't seriously consider him until this is is firmly and truthfully addressed by more than a soundbite.

[Live and Learn]

26. +1 nt

[Kang Colby]

2. Can he crack 2% in Maryland? Doubtful. Eom.

[Freddie Stubbs]

33. A poll from earlier this month had him at 4% in MD

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/12/poll-omalley-gets-4-percent-support-from-home-state/

[Kang Colby]

36. Wow, impressive. Eom

[bigtree]

3. 'Martin O’Malley likes a tough fight.'

...despite the amnesia of folks who were once decrying a 'coronation' primary.

[brooklynite]

4. In the latest CNN poll, O'Malley dropped from 1% to "*%"

I'll note that nothing in the OP actually provides evidence that "he’s becoming the choice of more and more Democrats"

[Algernon Moncrieff]

18. I wish that he would have chosen to run for Mikulski's seat

I think he'd win, and could hold that seat for years. The last Gubernatorial election shows that Dems should not take Maryland for granted.

[Tipperary]

5. I just have to say how refreshing it is to see someone talk about the good points

of their choice in a candidate without talking down the other candidates.

We need more of that here.

Good post.

[elleng]

6. Thank you;

we do our best, and hope that people will look into Governor O'Malley's policies and plans, which are located here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1281

[Todays_Illusion]

7. To me O'Malley is a libertarian parading on the conservative attack talking points, specifically

to draw political attacks for all Democratic candidates. To me there is nothing real about his candidacy and any who fall for that slick smooth libertarian snake have no idea what a liberal is and what liberals believe.



Hey I see he changed that butt view photo on his campaign page.

[elleng]

8. Whatever in the world would cause you or anyone to think of Governor Martin O'Malley as libertarian?

As Governor, he

1. Ended death penalty in Maryland
2. Prevented fracking in Maryland and put regulations in the way to prevent next GOP Gov Hogan fom easily allowing fracking.
3. Provided health insurance for 380,000
4. Reduced infant mortality to an all time low.
5. Provided meals to thousands of hungry children and moved toward a goal for eradicating childhood hunger.
6. Enacted a $10.10 living wage and a $11. minimum wage for State workers.
7. Supporter the Dream Act
8. Cut income taxes for 86% of Marylanders (raised taxes on the rich).
9. Reformed Maryland’s tax code to make it more progressive.
10. Enacted some of the nation’s most comprehensive reforms to protect homeowners from foreclosure.

Mother Jones magazine called him the best candidate on environmental issues.
Article here:
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/12/martin-omalley-longshot-presidential-candidate-and-real-climate-hawk

More here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1281
LEARN about him, and see his plans and policies here: https://martinomalley.com/category/policy/

[Todays_Illusion]

10. Lol, he did that with a Democratic majority in the state legislative body.

[elleng]

11. He LED the state.

[bigtree]

13. we have a divided legislature

...and NO ONE is calling O'Malley's progressive achievements here in MY state 'libertarian.'

[Todays_Illusion]

14. He is no longer governor.

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[bigtree]

15. no shit

...that looks like the extent of your knowledge about O'Malley.

[Todays_Illusion]

19. He is only a candidate am I to not notice the MSM isn't calling O'Malley a commie/socialist/Marxist/

Never mind that what he is proposing is far more socialist than what Bernie is proposing.

[bigtree]

20. first you call him a libertarian. Now you're claiming his policies are socialist

...I don't think you have a clue what those terms actually mean (if you do, there's a credibility issue with your posts, making them undeserving of a response). He's not called any of those because he's a lifelong Democrat.

Individuals and families in my state are living the accomplishments O'Malley fought for during his term-limited service in our state government. Progressive actions, not just words.

Strengthened Maryland’s Economy
Under Governor O’Malley Maryland ranked #1 for innovation and entrepreneurship for three years in a row, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Maryland also ranked as one of the top three states for economic mobility based on workers’ ability to move up the earnings ladder, according to the Pew Center on the States. And Maryland achieved a faster rate of job creation than its neighbors Virginia or Pennsylvania, who tried to cut their way to prosperity.

Raised Maryland’s Minimum Wage to $10.10
Governor O’Malley brought people together, forged consensus, and raised Maryland’s minimum wage to $10.10. Hundreds of thousands of Maryland workers will receive a raise, creating stronger customers for local businesses and good-paying, family-supporting jobs.

Protected Working Families
Governor O’Malley twice led the effort to expand Maryland’s refundable earned income credit, which puts more money in the pockets of working families. He also made Maryland the first state in America to pass a “living wage” for contractors working on state contracts.

Made the Tax Code More Progressive
In the midst of the worst economic downturn in history, Governor O’Malley reformed Maryland’s income tax. Today, 86% of Marylanders pay less in state income taxes than they did before Governor O’Malley took office.

Protected the Dignity of All

Secured Marriage Equality
Governor O’Malley led the successful effort to pass marriage equality in the Maryland General Assembly. Then when the issue went to a statewide referendum, he led the campaign, helping Maryland become the first state in the nation ever to defend marriage equality at the ballot box.

Protecting the Rights of Individuals–Regardless of Gender Identity
Citing the need to create “an open, respectful, inclusive world we want for all of our children,” Governor O’Malley signed into law a bill banning discrimination against transgender Marylanders. Maryland was just the 17th state to add gender identity and expression to its anti-discrimination laws.

Fought for New Americans
Governor O’Malley welcomed New Americans to Maryland. He passed the DREAM Act. He signed legislation granting undocumented workers drivers licenses to make Maryland roads safer, and stood up for the rights of unaccompanied children at the border – Maryland housed more unaccompanied minors per capita than any other state. He ordered the state to stop automatically honoring federal detention requests, and for the federal government to house children with their families.

“It’s contrary to who we are as a people to hold children in camps… . Setting aside for a fact any concerns you have or any feeling you have towards these refugee kids, think about the sort of country we want to leave to our children. We are not a country that should send children away and send them back to certain death.” — Martin O’Malley at NGA

Expanded Voting Rights
While other states around the nation push stricter voter ID laws designed to limit people’s ability to exercise the right to vote, Governor O’Malley made it easier to vote in Maryland by expanding early voting and same-day voter registration.

Ended the Death Penalty
Under Governor O’Malley’s leadership, Maryland repealed the death penalty and replaced it with life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Invested in the Next Generation

Led the Nation in Public Education
Under Governor O’Malley, Maryland’s public schools ranked #1 in America five years in a row, according to Education Week. Even in the height of the recession, while many states were cutting education spending, O’Malley invested record amounts in Maryland’s public schools, increasing funding by 37%.

Made College More Affordable
Governor O’Malley made higher education a budget priority and froze tuition for four years in a row. Under his leadership, Maryland did better than every state but one in keeping down college costs, according to the College Board.

Expanded Pre-Kindergarten
Governor O’Malley expanded pre-kindergarten to 1,600 more children in Maryland and laid the groundwork for a further statewide expansion.

Turned Baltimore City Around

Made Baltimore City A Safer Place
O’Malley was elected on a mandate to make Baltimore safer. Under his leadership, Baltimore achieved the steepest reduction in crime of any major city, while bringing homicides below 300 per year for the first time in a decade. O’Malley also expanded services drug treatment, doubling funding and leading the way to a 30% drop in the number of overdose deaths.

Policed the Police
O’Malley’s administration took strong steps to police the police – increasing minority hiring, improving accountability, and fully staffing a civilian review board. Under his leadership, the city reduced police shootings to their lowest level in a decade.

Revitalized Baltimore’s Economy
As crime dropped under O’Malley’s leadership, commercial investment and housing values doubled. O’Malley also improved Baltimore’s schools, taking steps that increased graduation rates by 25% and made impressive gains in student test scores. Under O’Malley, Baltimore’s decades long population slide finally ended.

Restored Fiscal Management
O’Malley brought the city’s budget under control, producing the first surplus in decades, while cutting property taxes to their lowest levels in 30 years. These efforts in “very strong fiscal management” earned Baltimore a bond upgrade from negative to positive.

Kept Marylanders Safe

Achieved a Public Safety Trifecta
Under Governor O’Malley, Maryland drove violent crime down to 30-year lows, incarceration to 20-year lows, and recidivism down by nearly 15%. He signed legislation banning the box for state employment, expanded state partnerships for re-entry programming, and approved a process for automatically expunging criminal records where arrests did not lead to charges.

Decriminalized Marijuana
Governor O’Malley decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana, allowing police to focus on addressing serious crimes.

Common Sense Gun Protections
Governor O’Malley made broad, common-sense reforms to reduce gun violence, including implementing a handgun qualification license requiring fingerprint background checks, an assault weapons ban, and a magazine capacity limit.
Launching a Jobs Agenda for the Climate Challenge

Saved the Chesapeake Bay
Governor O’Malley brought Marylanders together to reducing runoff and save the Chesapeake Bay. As a result, the State has reduced nitrogen loads by 14%, phosphorus loads by 15%, and sediment pollution by 18% while the State’s population has grown.

Embraced Renewable Energy
Governor O’Malley doubled the state’s renewable portfolio standard, setting a goal to increase in-state renewable generation to 20% by 2022. Since 2007, Maryland has grown its renewable energy generation by 41% and increased total renewable generation capacity by 56.9%. Maryland’s solar industry grew from near zero production to 173 MW by 2013.

Combatted Climate Change
Governor O’Malley established the Maryland Commission on Climate Change through executive order in 2007 and tasked the Commission with developing a Climate Action Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Protected Clean Air
Governor O’Malley signed Maryland’s 2009 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act, which set a statewide goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 25% below 2006 levels by 2020. By 2012, Maryland had driven down greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 10% compared to 2006, and by 20% compared to where Maryland would have been if no action had been taken (“business as usual” projections).

Keeping Marylanders Healthy

Expanded Health Care Coverage
Under Governor O’Malley, the number of Marylanders added to the state’s health system increased nearly 650,000. Maryland now enrolls more than 100,000 each year to the private health exchange. Maryland’s uninsured rate dropped 40%, the 9th largest drop in the United States, between 2013 and 2014.

Held the Line On Health Care Costs
Maryland is leading the nation in holding the line on health care costs. Under Governor O’Malley’s leadership, Maryland implemented innovative reforms to its all-payer hospital rate setting system that are designed to hold down costs. One health care expert called those reforms, “without any question, the boldest proposal in the United States in the last half century.”

Led State Innovations
Maryland succeeded in implementing a comprehensive, statewide, private-public, secure Health Information Exchange to allow doctors and hospitals to share patient information (with their consent) producing better health outcomes. The O’Malley administration further drove down preventable hospitalizations by 11.5%.

Reduced Infant Mortality
Governor O’Malley publicly set goals for driving down Maryland’s infant mortality rate. Maryland exceeded that goal by nearly double, driving infant mortality rate down 21% between 2007 and 2012.

Fought for Women and Families

Maryland is ranked #1 in the Nation for Women
Under Governor O’Malley, Maryland was ranked the best state for Women in America. According to the Center For American Progress, “on matters of economics, leadership, and health, women, on average, fared the best in Maryland.” Maryland also ranked #1 percentage of women owned businesses, and #1 for lowest wage gap between genders.

Signed The Maryland Lilly Ledbetter Civil Rights Restoration Act
Governor O’Malley signed the state Lilly Ledbetter Civil Rights Restoration Act, to help women hold their employers accountable for pay discrimination.

Diversified The Court
Governor O’Malley appointed the first woman ever to be Chief Judge of Maryland’s highest court, and he named the first African-American female to serve on the court. That court, the Court of Appeals, now has a female majority for the first time in its history.

Defended Women’s Reproductive Rights
Governor O’Malley earned NARAL’s endorsement in 2010, and was honored by Planned Parenthood for his “his outstanding leadership in protecting and advancing reproductive rights in Maryland.” O’Malley signed the Family Planning Works Act giving 35,000 low-income women access to free pregnancy counseling, contraception, and cancer and STI screenings.

Enacted the Maryland Parental Leave Act
Governor O’Malley signed legislation requiring small businesses to offer six weeks of family leave without the possibility of job loss

[Todays_Illusion]

21. You are claiming he is more liberal than Bernie, not I. I say he is a poseur, running

on what conservatives call liberal, I also called attention to your calling Bernie a commie/socialist, but not O'Malley who you seem to claim is more liberal than Bernie. So ????

[bigtree]

28. nowhere have I called Sanders a 'commie'

...I'm done arguing with your imagination.

[FSogol]

31. Because of term limits.

[FSogol]

29. Translation: I don't understand the terms; libertarian, liberal, or conservative.

Liberal actions (not just talk) by O'Malley:

1. Ended death penalty in Maryland
2. Prevented fracking in Maryland and put regulations in the way to prevent next GOP Gov Hogan fom easily allowing fracking.
3. Provided health insurance for 380,000
4. Reduced infant mortality to an all time low.
5. Provided meals to thousands of hungry children and moved toward a goal for eradicating childhood hunger.
6. Enacted a $10.10 living wage and a $11. minimum wage for State workers.
7. Supported the Dream Act
8. Cut income taxes for 86% of Marylanders (raised taxes on the rich).
9. Reformed Maryland’s tax code to make it more progressive.
10. Enacted some of the nation’s most comprehensive reforms to protect homeowners from foreclosure.

Nothing in his past record indicates libertarian.

[cwydro]

9. Appreciate the info.

I was impressed by him in the debate, but I don't know much about him.

I'll check it out.

[elleng]

12. Good, cwydro.

Thanks

[cwydro]

16. And I'll second what someone said downthread.

I like the fact you're talking about your candidate and not talking anyone else down.

[elleng]

17. Thanks

[Todays_Illusion]

22. OP, if O'Malley is so much more of a liberal than Bernie, shouldn't he be called a commie/socialist?

[elleng]

23. YOU may want to call names,

Governor O'Malley wants to accomplish substantive things, and we, those who support him, follow his approach to the campaign by making his policies, plans, and accomplishments available to the public.

[NCTraveler]

39. You have called him a libertarian.

Now you are saying people here should call him a commie. What gives?

[Gloria]

24. He's polling at 0 in some polls...

Not many seem to be choosing him....

[elleng]

25. 'Only 6% of the voting-age public watched the Democratic debate last week.

The official ratings were 15 million viewers. Those are decent numbers, but when divided by 250,000,000 adults, that's only 6% of the voting-age public who really watched. The rest of the public just heard about it, so any comments they have are ultimately hearsay.

Good thing to keep in mind when analyzing the poll results. Most people who answered the pollsters basically told them, "yeah, I heard Hillary won," and that counted as a vote for Hillary. Again, hearsay. Which usually is inadmissible in court, no?'

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251707408

[FSogol]

30. And he's polling at 9% in some polls. What's your point?

[Samantha]

27. This is an excellent thread

He was Governor of my state for two terms, and he made me proud to be a citizen of Maryland. Under him, we abolished the death penalty, and that is one thing that really, really made me happy. We were one of the first states to endorse same sex marriage. I am a straight person, but I was really happy to be able to cast a vote in allowing this dream to come true, the dream of true marriage, legal and everything, to the gay community.

He cleaned up the Chesapeake Bay, or put a lot of effort into it, and that was a great thing.

I truly regret not being able to make him my first choice, but I immediately decided to support Sanders when he stepped out and started talking about income inequality. O'Malley talks about it now, but I think this was not a big issue for him until Sanders started publicly talking about it. It is my hope that Sanders wins and chooses O'Malley for Vice President so we can sew up the Oval Office for 16 years!

Sam

[elleng]

35. Thanks, Sam.

[Motown_Johnny]

32. More and More? Isn't he polling at about 2% ?

What exactly does "more and more" mean in this context?

[FSogol]

34. Depending on the poll he is at 2%-9%. Since he was at 1% pre-debate, he has more than quadrupled

support. Has any other candidate made such gains?

No where to go, but up.

[olddots]

37. I really like him and appreciate your work in educating us about him

I want Warren and O'Malley in 2020 , Berney and I will be toast by then .

[elleng]

38. Thanks, olddots.

I don't want to wait that long! I may not be toast (Dad lived to 90,) but I'm impatient!