Showing posts with label Martin O'Malley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Martin O'Malley. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015
CSM: Martin O'Malley: Can a progressive work with the other side?
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley hit the campaign hustings in New Hampshire last Thursday, hoping to build momentum off what most observers thought was a strong, if overshadowed, debate performance last Tuesday, and your intrepid blogger was there to chronicle the event.
The event, held at Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center for the Arts, drew a standing room only crowd of about 200 (when I tweeted out that total during the event, a Twitter follower [and likely Sanders supporter] tweeted back: “That’s a large crowd?”) In contrast to the Kasich NH event I attended, which attracted mostly middle-aged people, this crowd was composed primarily of students, which is not surprising given the location. But it is also the case that O’Malley is really targeting this age demographic, as he seeks to supplant Bernie Sanders as the main Democratic alternative to Hillary Clinton. Most of the O’Malley staff there were also young, and they were busy taking names and handing out swag (I scored a nice O’Malley Blue thermal sleeve.)
O’Malley was wearing a dress shirt and tie, with sleeves slightly rolled up, and was greeted with polite applause as entered the room. He opened with a short – perhaps 10 minute – stump speech touting his record as governor, and as mayor of Baltimore, before taking questions, which covered a number of topics, ranging from climate change to combating racial bias to protecting union rights.
More: www.csmonitor.com
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Baltimore Sun: Martin O'Malley seeks campaign finance reform as rivals post big hauls
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WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley said Thursday he would require companies to disclose their political donations and would advocate for other changes to the campaign finance system as his rivals for the nomination reported raising huge sums over the past three months.
The former two-term Maryland governor, who has been lagging in early state polls, said he would direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to require the publicly traded companies they regulate to disclose political spending to shareholders -- echoing an idea proposed by Hillary Clinton last month.
He also vowed to appoint commissioners at the Federal Election Commission to "assertively" enforce existing law.
O'Malley unveiled the ideas as his rivals, Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, pointed to major fundraising efforts in the third quarter. Clinton raised $28 million and Sanders brought in $26 million, according to the Associated Press.
O'Malley did not release figures, but his haul is likely to be significantly lower.
More: www.baltimoresun.com
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Baltimore Sun: Martin O'Malley vows marijuana change if he becomes president
DENVER (AP) — Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O'Malley met with Colorado marijuana regulators Thursday and vowed immediate change on marijuana policy if he takes office — even as he laid out contradictory plans about how he'd do that.
The former Maryland governor repeated his pledge to reclassify marijuana under federal drug laws if elected. He sat down with state pot regulators, along with marijuana activists and a few representatives from the industry.
Reclassification could open the door to doctors being able to prescribe marijuana, which currently has no accepted medical use under federal law. Such a change would place the drug under control of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, not the states.
O'Malley said he would take a different approach than President Barack Obama — who has executive authority to reclassify marijuana but has repeatedly said he'd leave the question up to Congress.
More: www.baltimoresun.com
Monday, September 7, 2015
Baltimore Sun: O'Malley calls for U.S. to receive at least 65,000 Syrian refugees
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Former Gov. Martin O'Malley is calling for the United States to accept at least 65,000 Syrian refugees by the end of next year.
O'Malley, a Democratic candidate for president, made the statements after reports of the deaths of a Syrian woman and her two sons who drowned during a voyage from Turkey to Greece, in attempt to escape the war-ravaged nation.
Images of the 3-year-old boy's body washed up on a beach, and other images of hundreds trying to board trains in Hungary, have focused world attention on the desperate wave of migration.
"The images of poor Aylan Kurdi's body washed up on a Turkish beach and the family seeking refuge in Hungary by clinging to the railroad tracks should spur all of us to ask what we personally can do to alleviate the suffering of others," O'Malley said in a statement release Friday.
Four million refugees have fled Syria's civil war. More than 10,000 children have died in the four-year conflict, according to the U.N. children's agency, UNICEF.
More: www.baltimoresun.com
Monday, July 27, 2015
The Hill: O'Malley highlights contrast with Clinton on Keystone
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley took a thinly veiled shot at his Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton on Monday over her lack of comment on the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
"Real leadership means forging public opinion. Real leadership means taking stands on critical issues," O'Malley wrote in an email to supporters Monday afternoon discussing Keystone.
"Our climate, our home, is in trouble if we do not act," O'Malley wrote. "I know where I stand on Keystone XL and I have a plan to end our reliance on fossil fuels by 2050."
His comments came shortly after Clinton refused — once again — to weigh in on the controversial project during a climate change speech in Iowa, which she used to tout part of her newly unveiled climate plan.
Clinton noted that she served in "a leading role" as secretary of State when the Obama administration first considered the oil sands pipeline and said that she would let the project "run its course."
More: www.thehill.com
Monday, June 22, 2015
Baltimore Sun: O'Malley presses for stronger gun laws, Confederate flag removal
Promising to "rebuild the heart of America's cities," former Gov. Martin O'Malley used an appearance at a meeting of the nation's mayors on Sunday to call for a federal ban on assault weapons and stricter regulations on gun purchases.
O'Malley, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president, told the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors that the massacre at a black church in South Carolina last week demanded action from Washington.
How many senseless acts of violence do we have to endure as a people before we stand up to the congressional lobbyists of the NRA?- Former Gov. Martin O'Malley
"I heard some elected officials say this week, 'laws can't change this,'" O'Malley told the group in San Francisco.
"Actually, they can," he said. "How many senseless acts of violence do we have to endure as a people before we stand up to the congressional lobbyists of the NRA?"
More: www.baltimoresun.com
RELATED: Confederate Flag Bill Debate, April 12, 2000
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Time: Martin O’Malley Announces Presidential Run
"The presidency is not a crown to be passed back and forth by you between two royal families"
Two-term Maryland governor Martin O’Malley announced his presidential campaign Saturday with a swing at Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush.
“Recently, the CEO of Goldman Sachs let his employees know that he’d be just fine with either Bush or Clinton,” he said in his campaign announcement on Federal Hill, overlooking Baltimore. “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.”
O’Malley is a longshot candidate for the Democratic nomination, polling at 1% among Democrats compared with Hillary Clinton’s 57%, according to a May 28 Quinnipiac survey, despite his frequent trips to Iowa and New Hampshire.
More: www.time.com
Sunday, May 24, 2015
ABC News: Five Stories You'll Care About in Politics This Week
It's been a week of Hillary Clinton Benghazi emails and lots of Senate floor time for Sen. Rand Paul, with a little help from his friends on both sides of the aisle.
This coming week, we'll likely see four -- count 'em -- presidential announcements, a continued fight over surveillance, and more on Clinton's emails as secretary of state.
Here's a look at some of the stories the ABC News political team will be tracking in the week ahead:
FINALLY, CHALLENGERS FOR CLINTON
As we know, Bernie Sanders has already said he'll run for president, but he'll kick off his campaign with an announcement speech on Tuesday in his home state of Vermont. Martin O'Malley is expected to make his announcement in Baltimore, the city he governed as mayor, on Saturday. Hillary Clinton has a death grip on the Democratic nomination, but O'Malley and Sanders have proven at least nettlesome on trade and campaign finance, putting her in awkward positions on both, at times. The primary could very well be a story of Clinton being forced to the left, or of how far liberals are willing to go in expressing dissatisfaction with her.
MORE CLINTON-EMAIL MADNESS: BENGHAZI FALL-OUT, TIMING FOR THE REST OF IT
Not one but two Clinton-email story lines will be on display. First, any fallout over her Benghazi emails: Without many campaign events over the weekend, Republicans will get their first high-profile chances to respond on Sunday, and we'll see what talking points emerge. Second, on Tuesday we'll find out when the State Department will start releasing the rest of her emails(55,000 pages, redacted), as a federal judge ordered the State Department to file a schedule on that day. The emails will be released in batches every 60 days. We won't see any more of them on Tuesday, but at least we'll find out when we will.
More: www.abcnews.go.com
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Reason: Martin O'Malley's Lousy Record on Overpolicing
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Likely presidential candidate Martin O'Malley weighed in on the Baltimore riots last night, which is to say he tweeted some mushy platitudes. The most bizarre subplot of the early presidential campaign, at least for those of us who lived in Baltimore when O'Malley was mayor, is to see this man recast as the Great Insurgent Hope for angry lefties dissatisfied with Hillary Clinton. O'Malley may be a liberal when it comes to taxes and regulations, but if you're talking about civil rights and civil liberties...well, here's a Washington Post piece that should give you a sense of his record on police issues:
Police in Baltimore—like their counterparts elsewhere—have had strained relations with African Americans for generations. But community leaders say the relationship reached a nadir during O'Malley's tenure, thanks to a policing strategy that resulted in tens of thousands of arrests for minor offenses such as loitering and littering.
Although prosecutors declined to bring many of the cases, activists contend that those who were arrested often could not get their records expunged, making it harder for them to get jobs….
More: www.reason.com
Monday, April 20, 2015
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