Former Gov. Martin O'Malley (D-MD) is now in the presidential race

[2aguy]

Martin O Malley announces bid for president On Air Videos Fox News

He announced yesterday at 10:58 AM, EST, from Federal Hill Park in Baltimore, MD, 528 days before the upcoming November 8th, 2016 General Election.

His speech, given on a beautiful Saturday and with his lovely wife Katie O'Malley present, was 22 minutes long.

With Lincoln Chafee (I-RI) announcing officially early in the coming week (he already announced unoficially on CNN on April 16th, 2015), that will now make for four Democratic Presidential contenders:

Hillary Clinton (NY)
Bernie Sanders (VT)
Martin O'Malley (MD)
Lincoln Chafee (RI)

I listed their states to illustrate a point: all four candidates hail from the NE/Acela region of the USA.

O'Malley's speech was a hard-hitting, populistic speech (see: FOX NEWS video above)

He also put out a candidacy video:





Some takeways I discovered:

-he seems charismatic, smart, looks "presidential" and is not afraid to take on bigger opponents.
-his speech was populistic from the first sentence on and he took on Wall Street right away.
-his wife, Katie, is one of the most beautiful candidate's wife I have ever seen.
-he is a real underdog and polling shows him buried under avalanche Clinton, but this could possibly change in the next months. Wait and see.

I personally think it's a good thing that there is now some competition in the Democratic field.


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Discuss. Watch the speech, then give input. Did Gov. O'Malley say anything that you strongly agree or disagree with?

I found this interview to be disturbing.

David Simon on Baltimore s Anguish The Marshall Project

Specifically, the tactics that O'Malley used (catch and release street sweeping, where anyone caught on the streets was arrested without charges and released the next morning), the focus on short term numbers over actual improvement, and how he straight up falsified crime stats so he could become governor. This in particular:

What can you do? You can’t artificially lower the murder rate – how do you hide the bodies when it’s the state health department that controls the medical examiner’s office? But the other felony categories? Robbery, aggravated assault, rape? Christ, what they did with that stuff was jaw-dropping.

So they cooked the books.

Oh yeah. If you hit somebody with a bullet, that had to count. If they went to the hospital with a bullet in them, it probably had to count as an aggravated assault. But if someone just took a gun out and emptied the clip and didn't hit anything or they didn't know if you hit anything, suddenly that was a common assault or even an unfounded report. Armed robberies became larcenies if you only had a victim’s description of a gun, but not a recovered weapon. And it only gets worse as some district commanders began to curry favor with the mayoral aides who were sitting on the Comstat data. In the Southwest District, a victim would try to make an armed robbery complaint, saying , ‘I just got robbed, somebody pointed a gun at me,’ and what they would do is tell him, well, okay, we can take the report but the first thing we have to do is run you through the computer to see if there's any paper on you. Wait, you're doing a warrant check on me before I can report a robbery? Oh yeah, we gotta know who you are before we take a complaint. You and everyone you’re living with? What’s your address again? You still want to report that robbery?

They cooked their own books in remarkable ways. Guns disappeared from reports and armed robberies became larcenies. Deadly weapons were omitted from reports and aggravated assaults became common assaults. The Baltimore Sun did a fine job looking into the dramatic drop in rapes in the city. Turned out that regardless of how insistent the victims were that they had been raped, the incidents were being quietly unfounded. That tip of the iceberg was reported, but the rest of it, no. And yet there were many veteran commanders and supervisors who were disgusted, who would privately complain about what was happening. If you weren’t a journalist obliged to quote sources and instead, say, someone writing a fictional television drama, they’d share a beer and let you fill cocktail napkins with all the ways in which felonies disappeared in those years.

I mean, think about it. How does the homicide rate decline by 15 percent, while the agg assault rate falls by more than double that rate. Are all of Baltimore’s felons going to gun ranges in the county? Are they becoming better shots? Have the mortality rates for serious assault victims in Baltimore, Maryland suddenly doubled? Did they suddenly close the Hopkins and University emergency rooms and return trauma care to the dark ages? It makes no sense statistically until you realize that you can’t hide a murder, but you can make an attempted murder disappear in a heartbeat, no problem.

But these guys weren't satisfied with just juking their own stats. No, the O'Malley administration also went back to the last year of the previous mayoralty and performed its own retroactive assessment of those felony totals, and guess what? It was determined from this special review that the preceding administration had underreported its own crime rate, which O'Malley rectified by upgrading a good chunk of misdemeanors into felonies to fatten up the Baltimore crime rate that he was inheriting. Get it? How better than to later claim a 30 or 40 percent reduction in crime than by first juking up your inherited rate as high as she'll go. It really was that cynical an exercise.

David Simon on Baltimore s Anguish The Marshall Project

If true, I don't want a man like that anywhere near the White House.

You already got one there...what you talking about?

At any rate ... Sound like a libs dream candidate.

Yes...he is a dream candidate for libs...he helped destroy a city, suppressed minorities in that city...and now he wants to do the same at the national level......the democrats are morons....

 

[BlueGin]

Martin O Malley announces bid for president On Air Videos Fox News

He announced yesterday at 10:58 AM, EST, from Federal Hill Park in Baltimore, MD, 528 days before the upcoming November 8th, 2016 General Election.

His speech, given on a beautiful Saturday and with his lovely wife Katie O'Malley present, was 22 minutes long.

With Lincoln Chafee (I-RI) announcing officially early in the coming week (he already announced unoficially on CNN on April 16th, 2015), that will now make for four Democratic Presidential contenders:

Hillary Clinton (NY)
Bernie Sanders (VT)
Martin O'Malley (MD)
Lincoln Chafee (RI)

I listed their states to illustrate a point: all four candidates hail from the NE/Acela region of the USA.

O'Malley's speech was a hard-hitting, populistic speech (see: FOX NEWS video above)

He also put out a candidacy video:





Some takeways I discovered:

-he seems charismatic, smart, looks "presidential" and is not afraid to take on bigger opponents.
-his speech was populistic from the first sentence on and he took on Wall Street right away.
-his wife, Katie, is one of the most beautiful candidate's wife I have ever seen.
-he is a real underdog and polling shows him buried under avalanche Clinton, but this could possibly change in the next months. Wait and see.

I personally think it's a good thing that there is now some competition in the Democratic field.


------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Discuss. Watch the speech, then give input. Did Gov. O'Malley say anything that you strongly agree or disagree with?

I found this interview to be disturbing.

David Simon on Baltimore s Anguish The Marshall Project

Specifically, the tactics that O'Malley used (catch and release street sweeping, where anyone caught on the streets was arrested without charges and released the next morning), the focus on short term numbers over actual improvement, and how he straight up falsified crime stats so he could become governor. This in particular:

What can you do? You can’t artificially lower the murder rate – how do you hide the bodies when it’s the state health department that controls the medical examiner’s office? But the other felony categories? Robbery, aggravated assault, rape? Christ, what they did with that stuff was jaw-dropping.

So they cooked the books.

Oh yeah. If you hit somebody with a bullet, that had to count. If they went to the hospital with a bullet in them, it probably had to count as an aggravated assault. But if someone just took a gun out and emptied the clip and didn't hit anything or they didn't know if you hit anything, suddenly that was a common assault or even an unfounded report. Armed robberies became larcenies if you only had a victim’s description of a gun, but not a recovered weapon. And it only gets worse as some district commanders began to curry favor with the mayoral aides who were sitting on the Comstat data. In the Southwest District, a victim would try to make an armed robbery complaint, saying , ‘I just got robbed, somebody pointed a gun at me,’ and what they would do is tell him, well, okay, we can take the report but the first thing we have to do is run you through the computer to see if there's any paper on you. Wait, you're doing a warrant check on me before I can report a robbery? Oh yeah, we gotta know who you are before we take a complaint. You and everyone you’re living with? What’s your address again? You still want to report that robbery?

They cooked their own books in remarkable ways. Guns disappeared from reports and armed robberies became larcenies. Deadly weapons were omitted from reports and aggravated assaults became common assaults. The Baltimore Sun did a fine job looking into the dramatic drop in rapes in the city. Turned out that regardless of how insistent the victims were that they had been raped, the incidents were being quietly unfounded. That tip of the iceberg was reported, but the rest of it, no. And yet there were many veteran commanders and supervisors who were disgusted, who would privately complain about what was happening. If you weren’t a journalist obliged to quote sources and instead, say, someone writing a fictional television drama, they’d share a beer and let you fill cocktail napkins with all the ways in which felonies disappeared in those years.

I mean, think about it. How does the homicide rate decline by 15 percent, while the agg assault rate falls by more than double that rate. Are all of Baltimore’s felons going to gun ranges in the county? Are they becoming better shots? Have the mortality rates for serious assault victims in Baltimore, Maryland suddenly doubled? Did they suddenly close the Hopkins and University emergency rooms and return trauma care to the dark ages? It makes no sense statistically until you realize that you can’t hide a murder, but you can make an attempted murder disappear in a heartbeat, no problem.

But these guys weren't satisfied with just juking their own stats. No, the O'Malley administration also went back to the last year of the previous mayoralty and performed its own retroactive assessment of those felony totals, and guess what? It was determined from this special review that the preceding administration had underreported its own crime rate, which O'Malley rectified by upgrading a good chunk of misdemeanors into felonies to fatten up the Baltimore crime rate that he was inheriting. Get it? How better than to later claim a 30 or 40 percent reduction in crime than by first juking up your inherited rate as high as she'll go. It really was that cynical an exercise.

David Simon on Baltimore s Anguish The Marshall Project

If true, I don't want a man like that anywhere near the White House.

You already got one there...what you talking about?

At any rate ... Sound like a libs dream candidate.

Yes...he is a dream candidate for libs...he helped destroy a city, suppressed minorities in that city...and now he wants to do the same at the national level......the democrats are morons....

But but but... His wife photographs well damn it.

 

[Abatis]

In his announcement speech I noted he deleted "unalienable" from his recitation of the self-evident truths of our nation's founding. He is a BigGovernmentDemocrat so I guess acknowledging the most important principles of our founding, those of conferred powers and retained rights, is unacceptable.

 

[blackhawk]

There is no competition in the Democtratic race if you added the poll numbers of these three togother they still wouldn't top Hillarys they are nothing more than debate sparing partners.

 

[Stephanie]

Martin O Malley announces bid for president On Air Videos Fox News

He announced yesterday at 10:58 AM, EST, from Federal Hill Park in Baltimore, MD, 528 days before the upcoming November 8th, 2016 General Election.

His speech, given on a beautiful Saturday and with his lovely wife Katie O'Malley present, was 22 minutes long.

With Lincoln Chafee (I-RI) announcing officially early in the coming week (he already announced unoficially on CNN on April 16th, 2015), that will now make for four Democratic Presidential contenders:

Hillary Clinton (NY)
Bernie Sanders (VT)
Martin O'Malley (MD)
Lincoln Chafee (RI)

I listed their states to illustrate a point: all four candidates hail from the NE/Acela region of the USA.

O'Malley's speech was a hard-hitting, populistic speech (see: FOX NEWS video above)

He also put out a candidacy video:





Some takeways I discovered:

-he seems charismatic, smart, looks "presidential" and is not afraid to take on bigger opponents.
-his speech was populistic from the first sentence on and he took on Wall Street right away.
-his wife, Katie, is one of the most beautiful candidate's wife I have ever seen.
-he is a real underdog and polling shows him buried under avalanche Clinton, but this could possibly change in the next months. Wait and see.

I personally think it's a good thing that there is now some competition in the Democratic field.


------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Discuss. Watch the speech, then give input. Did Gov. O'Malley say anything that you strongly agree or disagree with?

Some takeways I discovered:

-he seems charismatic, smart, looks "presidential" and is not afraid to take on bigger opponents.
-his speech was populistic from the first sentence on and he took on Wall Street right away.
-his wife, Katie, is one of the most beautiful candidate's wife I have ever seen.
-he is a real underdog and polling shows him buried under avalanche Clinton, but this could possibly change in the next months. Wait and see.

And now the truth......the democrats will vote for the criminal, hilary, simply because she is a woman, just like they voted for obama simply because he was black.

Also the truth....o'malley was one of the democrat mayors who destroyed balitmore.....he created this mess with his policies toward the police, using them to make mass arrests to push his political career...hilary will destroy him with that....

you morons deserve both of them...and her serial sexual predator husband.....

SADLY you're probably right. AND they KNOW what sheep their base is made up of. so why should they run anyone worth a crap

 

[ShaklesOfBigGov]

Under Gov O' Malley Maryland saw

2007

• Vehicle titling tax hike (bumped from $23 to $50)
• Sales tax hike from 5-percent to 6-percent

2011

• Highway and Bridge tolls double
• Vehicle titling tax hike from $50 to $100
• Hospital provider tax
• Alcohol sales tax hike from 6-percent to 9-percent

2012

• Flush tax hike
• Tax hike on smokeless tobacco and “Little Cigars”
• Elimination of Telecom Property Tax Credits (Corporate Income Tax)
• Elimination of personal exemptions (Individual Income Tax)
• Income tax hikes on individuals making over $100,000 and couples over $150,000

2013

• Gasoline tax increase from 23.5 cents per gallon to 43.5 cents (fully phased in by 2016)
• Additional contingent fuel tax rate increase tied to failure of Congress to pass Marketplace Fairness Act

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Gov O' Malley pushed and signed legislation for illegals to obtain drivers licenses and in-state tuition benefits.

JOBS
Mr O' Malley stopped the progression of jobs, like the incinerator plants which was being built to tackle the garbage dump issue, in order to appease environmentalists OVER job creation.


You can expect this kind of poor legislation and decision making to follow into an O' Malley presidency.


Comprehensive List of Martin O Malley Tax Hikes Americans for Tax Reform

 

[RKMBrown]

Martin O Malley announces bid for president On Air Videos Fox News

He announced yesterday at 10:58 AM, EST, from Federal Hill Park in Baltimore, MD, 528 days before the upcoming November 8th, 2016 General Election.

His speech, given on a beautiful Saturday and with his lovely wife Katie O'Malley present, was 22 minutes long.

With Lincoln Chafee (I-RI) announcing officially early in the coming week (he already announced unoficially on CNN on April 16th, 2015), that will now make for four Democratic Presidential contenders:

Hillary Clinton (NY)
Bernie Sanders (VT)
Martin O'Malley (MD)
Lincoln Chafee (RI)

I listed their states to illustrate a point: all four candidates hail from the NE/Acela region of the USA.

O'Malley's speech was a hard-hitting, populistic speech (see: FOX NEWS video above)

He also put out a candidacy video:





Some takeways I discovered:

-he seems charismatic, smart, looks "presidential" and is not afraid to take on bigger opponents.
-his speech was populistic from the first sentence on and he took on Wall Street right away.
-his wife, Katie, is one of the most beautiful candidate's wife I have ever seen.
-he is a real underdog and polling shows him buried under avalanche Clinton, but this could possibly change in the next months. Wait and see.

I personally think it's a good thing that there is now some competition in the Democratic field.


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Discuss. Watch the speech, then give input. Did Gov. O'Malley say anything that you strongly agree or disagree with?

Evil profit again... yeah you dumbocrats are gonna love this guy.

 

[Katzndogz]

Under Gov O' Malley Maryland saw

2007

• Vehicle titling tax hike (bumped from $23 to $50)
• Sales tax hike from 5-percent to 6-percent

2011

• Highway and Bridge tolls double
• Vehicle titling tax hike from $50 to $100
• Hospital provider tax
• Alcohol sales tax hike from 6-percent to 9-percent

2012

• Flush tax hike
• Tax hike on smokeless tobacco and “Little Cigars”
• Elimination of Telecom Property Tax Credits (Corporate Income Tax)
• Elimination of personal exemptions (Individual Income Tax)
• Income tax hikes on individuals making over $100,000 and couples over $150,000

2013

• Gasoline tax increase from 23.5 cents per gallon to 43.5 cents (fully phased in by 2016)
• Additional contingent fuel tax rate increase tied to failure of Congress to pass Marketplace Fairness Act

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Gov O' Malley pushed and signed legislation for illegals to obtain drivers licenses and in-state tuition benefits.

JOBS
Mr O' Malley stopped the progression of jobs, like the incinerator plants which was being built to tackle the garbage dump issue, in order to appease environmentalists OVER job creation.


You can expect this kind of poor legislation and decision making to follow into an O' Malley presidency.


Comprehensive List of Martin O Malley Tax Hikes Americans for Tax Reform

He's a perfect democrat.

 

[BlackAsCoal]

Way to go "blacklivesmatters" spread it around but good

SNIP:
Martin O’Malley’s Presidential Announcement Hijacked by #BlackLivesMatter Protesters

Protesters spoil O’Malley’s Moment…
Former Governor and Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley kicked off his presidential run today in the Democratic mecca of Baltimore. You Built This–

O’Malley says unemployment in many cities is higher than 8 years ago – under Democrat Barack Obama.

Black Lives Matter protesters interrupted his speech…

ALL of it here:
Martin O Malley s Presidential Announcement Hijacked by BlackLivesMatter Protesters The Gateway Pundit

I am sure you are trying very hard to say something intelligent, what with word salad all in your hair.

Are you saying that protest is not a good thing? So, are you saying that the Tea Party sucks? Is that what you are saying?

Poor, Stephanie, just cannot will.

"Let's roll", Stephanie!!!

It's pretty obvious she's saying that black voters will not support O'Malley .. thus, he has absolutely NO CHANCE to get the nomination.

Poor you.

 

[konradv]

Comprehensive List of Martin O Malley Tax Hikes Americans for Tax Reform

You're leaving out the fact that he had to clean up the mess left by his predecessor Robert Ehrlich(R).

 

[Zander]

O'Malleys 5 point platform.

1) I'm not Hillary!
2) Sure I fucked up Maryland's economy, but at least I don't have cankles and a vagina!
3) I taxed the fucking rain bitches!!! The RAIN!!!
4) I can do for America what I did for Baltimore.
5) Did I mention I'm not Hillary?

 

[SwimExpert]

-he seems charismatic, smart, looks "presidential" and is not afraid to take on bigger opponents.

This is all pretty accurate. O'Malley has plenty of charisma and gravitas, and he knows how to wield it well. In person, it is felt all the more. But for that matter, in person, it also reads as the kind of superficial quality that being "charismatic" has come to be criticized for in the 21st century.

his speech was populistic from the first sentence on and he took on Wall Street right away.

O'Malley has always been a populist at heart. Sometimes a person uses populism as a vehicle to gain the audience to address bigger problems. In O'Malley's case, his populism is pretty much the extent of things. This might make him a strong candidate, but it will undermine his competency as President. Especially considering that being a populist liberal Democratic governor in a Democratic dominated state is insanely easy compared to being an effective President in a much divided and hyper partisan federal government.

his wife, Katie, is one of the most beautiful candidate's wife I have ever seen.

Because all the other candiates' spouses are butt ugly? Judge O'Malley is a mildly pretty lady. But you're grossly overstating the matter. I've always thought she was a Democratic twin of Michelle Bachmann, complete with the same airhead-bimbo eyes.

That being said, the real problem with this comment is that you're objectifying the woman. Judge O'Malley is somewhat of a public enigma because she has never engaged publicly engaged in her husband's career. But as best as can be told she's an intelligent, thoughtful woman, and very capable. Not only that, but she is probably her husband's single most valuable political resource and ally. As the daughter of highly respected and much beloved former Maryland legislator and Attorney General Joseph Curran, the O'Malley's have been a potent powerhouse in Maryland politics for years.

he is a real underdog and polling shows him buried under avalanche Clinton, but this could possibly change in the next months. Wait and see.

Yes, he is an underdog, but that is actually where he wants to be. O'Malley knows that early front runners rarely win primaries in the end. He'll take a strategy of quietly residing in shades of grey while Clinton and others hang themselves with their own ropes. He will hope to gain traction later into the primaries as people become disenfranchised with the other candidates, and push out ahead of them later into the race. As a populist, this strategy will give him the best chance of both being nominated, and then succeeding in a general election. O'Malley likes to hold steady and avoid alienation, steer a populist center (not to be mistaken for a political center), and scoop up those who become disenfranchised with the competition. Basically, he waits for the other side to make a mistake and then takes advantage of it. So yes, O'Malley is an underdog, but that is by design and those who underestimate him will likely regret it.

Discuss. Watch the speech, then give input. Did Gov. O'Malley say anything that you strongly agree or disagree with?

O'Malley has said more that I disagree with than I can shake a stick at. Suffice it to say, anyone who advocates for a rain tax is not my ideal candidate.

 

[konradv]

O'Malley has said more that I disagree with than I can shake a stick at. Suffice it to say, anyone who advocates for a rain tax is not my ideal candidate.

Why? It's the kind of tax conservatives often say they favor, since it's essentially a "use tax". You can trivialize it as a "rain tax", but it's important as a tool to save a large source of income in the state, the Chesapeake Bay.

 

[deltex1]

Martin O Malley announces bid for president On Air Videos Fox News

He announced yesterday at 10:58 AM, EST, from Federal Hill Park in Baltimore, MD, 528 days before the upcoming November 8th, 2016 General Election.

His speech, given on a beautiful Saturday and with his lovely wife Katie O'Malley present, was 22 minutes long.

With Lincoln Chafee (I-RI) announcing officially early in the coming week (he already announced unoficially on CNN on April 16th, 2015), that will now make for four Democratic Presidential contenders:

Hillary Clinton (NY)
Bernie Sanders (VT)
Martin O'Malley (MD)
Lincoln Chafee (RI)

I listed their states to illustrate a point: all four candidates hail from the NE/Acela region of the USA.

O'Malley's speech was a hard-hitting, populistic speech (see: FOX NEWS video above)

He also put out a candidacy video:





Some takeways I discovered:

-he seems charismatic, smart, looks "presidential" and is not afraid to take on bigger opponents.
-his speech was populistic from the first sentence on and he took on Wall Street right away.
-his wife, Katie, is one of the most beautiful candidate's wife I have ever seen.
-he is a real underdog and polling shows him buried under avalanche Clinton, but this could possibly change in the next months. Wait and see.

I personally think it's a good thing that there is now some competition in the Democratic field.


------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Discuss. Watch the speech, then give input. Did Gov. O'Malley say anything that you strongly agree or disagree with?

Omalleys olady needs to work on those arms...too much meat hangin. He is about as phoney as John Edwards. Mayor of Baltimore...thriving ghetto....

 

[SwimExpert]

You're leaving out the fact that he had to clean up the mess left by his predecessor Robert Ehrlich(R).

What? The? Fuck!?!?!

Do you just sit around and randomly pick pre-determined stock answers out of a hat? What do you know about the matter? Nothing, clearly, because Maryland was well and thriving under Ehrlich's tenure.

-Unemployment rate of 3.9%
-Maintained lower taxes
-Passed the Bay Restoration Act to reduce runoff pollution in the Chesapeake Bay
-Poured more money into education funding than anyone

O'Malley didn't walk into a mess. He made a mess in a very tidy house.

 

[Zander]

O'Malley's 5 point plan to defeat Hillary!!

1) Go shirtless, often.
2) Promise to tax the shit out of everything!!! even the motherfucking RAIN!!!.
3) Play his GEE-tar!!
4) Remind voters that "he ain't Hillary"
5) Blame Bush!!!

 

[konradv]

O'Malley didn't walk into a mess. He made a mess in a very tidy house.

Ehrlich left O'Malley with about $4.4 billion to cover over 4 years.

Which governor is better with the state budget

 

[whitehall]

You gotta wonder about the inbred politics on the left. It seems that O'Malley endorsed Hillary for president and now Hillary apparently welcomes O'Malley into the race. I smell a big fat rat.

 

[Papageorgio]

Yeah...I have issues some of O'Malley's politics. so far if I had a choice of the current three, I'd take Hillary, which means I won't be voting Democratic.

 

[SwimExpert]

O'Malley didn't walk into a mess. He made a mess in a very tidy house.

Ehrlich left O'Malley with about $4.4 billion to cover over 4 years.

Which governor is better with the state budget

*ahem*

That belongs to Glendening. Erlich was the one cleaning up a mess.