The Latest: O'Malley cites his executive skill vs. Clinton's

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

3:15 p.m. (EDT)

Martin O'Malley says he has something Democratic presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton does not: executive experience.

Campaigning Saturday in New Castle, New Hampshire, the former governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore said: "I bring not only that executive experience but also a new perspective."

O'Malley acknowledges that his foreign policy resume can't match Clinton's, the former secretary of state. But he adds that it's time for America to have a fresh perspective on world affairs.

"I don't think either the Democrats or the Republicans have figured out America's role in the world or a foreign policy that actually works and serves our interest in this new age that's developed," he says.

FULL story at link.



Democratic presidential hopeful former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley speaks to local residents at a house party in New Castle, N.H., Saturday, June 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ecb7077856a34e9fa9dfbd1430565465/latest-democrats-gather-new-york-clinton-kickoff

[captainarizona]

1. executive skills in baltimore

The african-american community of baltimore was not happy with his executive skills and let him know it when he announced!

[FSogol]

13. BS, the African America community reelected him with an even larger numbers

for his second term. He remains popular in Baltimore and the rest of Maryland.

[cheapdate]

2. "...a foreign policy that actually works and serves our interest"

Well, I'm certainly open to hearing O'Malley elaborate on what exactly is "our interest" in foreign policy. Justice? Fairness? Economics? Energy and resources? What is his perspective on just and unjust war? Aggression? Intervention?

[Beacool]

3. Some question his executive decisions.

WASHINGTON — Did the flames and fury that ravaged West Baltimore last month reflect the fate of former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s likely presidential campaign?

O’Malley fashions himself as a no-nonsense crime fighter, but his city has not only become a national monument to urban devastation, but it is experiencing one of its worst murder sprees in years.

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He made his reputation as the mayor who successfully reduced crime in one of the nation’s most violent cities. A centerpiece of his strategy was a “zero tolerance” policy toward any violation of the law, no matter how minute. It chilled further the already tense relationship between police and crime-ravaged communities.

“It was a miserable failure,” said the Rev. Alvin Gwynn Sr., president of the city’s Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Baltimore. “It was so lopsided; it affected minorities more than anyone else.”

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/05/29/268119/will-baltimores-troubles-handicap.html

[Vattel]

4. His zero tolerance stuff in Baltimore was awful, and

it bothers me that he hasn't admitted his mistakes in that regard, but I still find him to be preferable to Clinton on some issues. On balance, I am unsure who would be better.

[elleng]

14. some facts re: Baltimore:

Baltimorean @freedlander drops a major truth bomb re: @GovernorOMalley’s record as Mayor in Baltimore http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/06/you-have-martin-o-malley-all-wrong.html …

Lis Smith @Lis_Smith · 6m 6 minutes ago
GovernorOMalley did something a lot of these mayors don’t do: He walked w/ the small people…He walked the streets”

From 2000-2010, the incidents of crime in Baltimore dropped 43 percent, outpacing by a stretch the 11 percent drop that the nation saw during that period. The crime rate dropped by 40 percent. Graduation rates rose. Median home prices doubled. A new biotech park was built on the city’s east side. A new performing arts center was built on the west side. O’Malley was obsessed with numbers and metrics, and set up a 311 call center to track citizen complaints. A program called Project 5000 enlisted volunteer attorneys to help deal with the city’s massive vacant home problem as titles to those homes was eventually transferred to individuals and non-profits for redevelopment. The school system was pulled back from the fiscal brink. CitiStat, designed to track crime, helped bring the crime rate down and created a budget surplus of $54 million that was then reinvested in schools and programs for children. At last, the population stabilized. It was no longer necessary to flee, if you could. The number of college educated 25-to-34-year-olds living within three miles of downtown Baltimore increased 92 percent in the ten years after O’Malley became mayor, fourth among the nation’s 51st largest metro areas.

Time Magazine named O’Malley one of the five best big city mayors in America. Esquire named him the best young mayor in America. CitiStat won Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government “Innovations in American Government Award.”

Drawing a bright red line between the Clinton and Bush years, O’Malley said, “We haven’t had an agenda for our cities in thirty years. It is not something you solve with a nifty pilot program. It is not something you solve with philanthropy or with a thousand points of light. When you create an economy where you subsidize corporate profits through a welfare program and food stamps in order to keep wages low in some perverse pursuit of ‘competiveness,’ than you reap the fruits of the anger that you sow. And that is what is happening in our country today.”

Tying O’Malley to Baltimore is an old political saw. When you tried to run for governor of Maryland, Republicans ran ads with flashing police lights, talked about how O’Malley would do for Baltimore what he did for Maryland. O’Malley won statewide twice though, boosted by those same Baltimore neighborhoods that he is now blamed for turning into powder kegs.


read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/06/you-have-martin-o-malley-all-wrong.html …

[FSogol]

15. You beat me to it, Ellen. I'll just add this:

"Baltimore violence and Martin O'Malley's mayoral legacy"

His advisers note he created a civilian review board for police conduct, expanded drug treatment and saw a decline in excessive force complaints and police-involved shootings.

After two terms as mayor, he won two terms as governor with strong support in Baltimore.

"The people of Baltimore were given ample opportunities to express at the ballot box their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the direction that our city took to reduce violent crime, to reduce homicides, to make our city more livable," O'Malley said.

Whole article by Ken Thomas and Brian Witte here:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2015/0504/Baltimore-violence-and-Martin-O-Malley-s-mayoral-legacy

[elleng]

16. Thanks.

[Vattel]

19. O'Malley left office in January of 2007. So why are you giving him credit for

a 43% reduction in crime that spanned 200-2010? the next mayor had better crime policies and saw a greater reduction without trampling individual rights.

[elleng]

20. 'GovernorOMalley did something a lot of these mayors don’t do: He walked w/ the small people…'

'His advisers note he created a civilian review board for police conduct, expanded drug treatment and saw a decline in excessive force complaints and police-involved shootings.

After two terms as mayor, he won two terms as governor with strong support in Baltimore.

"The people of Baltimore were given ample opportunities to express at the ballot box their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the direction that our city took to reduce violent crime, to reduce homicides, to make our city more livable," O'Malley said.'

[elleng]

12. He accomplished many things:

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.

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.

Gun Control Reform

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Governor-Martin-OMalley-to-sign-gun-control-legislation--207695891.html
With the governor's signature Thursday, Maryland will become the first state in almost 20 years to require fingerprints to be submitted to state police. Only five other states have a similar requirement: Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey

Maryland's gun laws are now among the strictest in the nation.

Governor Martin O'Malley signed the sweeping gun control measure Thursday. Under the new legislation, which the governor helped push through the General Assembly, anyone buying a handgun will have to submit fingerprints to obtain a license. The bill also bans 45 types of assault weapons, but those who own the weapons before the law goes into effect will be allowed to keep them.

Gun magazines will be limited to 10 bullets, gun ownership by people who have been involuntarily committed to a mental health facility will be banned, and Maryland State Police will be able to suspend the licenses of gun dealers who fail to comply with recordkeeping obligations.

Baltimorean @freedlander drops a major truth bomb re: @GovernorOMalley’s record as Mayor in Baltimore http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/06/you-have-martin-o-malley-all-wrong.html …

Lis Smith @Lis_Smith · 6m 6 minutes ago
GovernorOMalley did something a lot of these mayors don’t do: He walked w/ the small people…He walked the streets”

[George II]

5. I'm disappointed in him - surely he must know that the Department of State....

has over 70,000 employees deployed in several hundred offices around the world.

[LiberalFighter]

11. That was my thought.

You saved me the work to look it up. Thumbs up

[swilton]

6. Execuitive Experience

is no more and no less than the value of establishing networks and contacts on Capitol Hill and learning the ins and outs of the legislative process....Total B/S as far as I'm concerned and I would and do neither support O'Malley nor Clinton.

[George II]

8. It's almost as idiotic as Fiorina claiming she "met dozens of heads of state"!

[mwooldri]

7. So being First Lady and Secretary of State don't count?

It may not be the #1 position but I say Hillary has enough executive experience.

[askew]

9. No, being First Lady doesn't count. Nor does SoS.

Being an executive means the buck stops with you and you are in charge. You have to actually lead and can't cower in the corner from the Hard Choices.

[JonLP24]

10. If he concedes foreign policy to Hillary Clinton

he loses points with me when it is foreign policy as to my biggest and main complaint about Hillary Clinton -- what can't bring up anything, nothing that reflects poorly? Not even an Iraq war vote.

Executive experience or experience for the sake of experience doesn't impress me. Bush had that of a very large state though thankfully O'Malley ended the Death Penalty while Bush was blood thirsty in his use of it making a show of it to use it. Especially in opportunities to say no for the controversial ones.

"I don't think either the Democrats or the Republicans have figured out America's role in the world or a foreign policy that actually works and serves our interest in this new age that's developed," he says.

It is not a sense of they can't figure out what to do & they certainly are serving an interest. A multinational interest but an interest nonetheless. Foreign policy should be human rights first, humanitarian-based. It serves the world's interest, improves our own & gains respect particularly with honest and consistency rather than double-standards.

[MrScorpio]

17. His entire shtick up to now is that he's not Hillary Clinton.

No shit, Sherlock… What else have ya got?

[elleng]

18. Must say I'm surprised to see this from you, Mr. Scorpio.

Governor O'Malley's 'shtick' is wide and broad. Several examples:

O’Malley touts progressive values, experience, results.

MOUNT VERNON, Iowa — Selling himself as a progressive who gets things done, Martin O’Malley engaged in classic Iowa retail politics Thursday afternoon at a Mount Vernon house party. O’Malley, who later had a campaign rally at Sanctuary Pub in Iowa City, emphasized his experience and record of getting things done as Baltimore mayor and two terms as Maryland governor.

“I am the only candidate in this race with 15 years of elected executive experience.” O’Malley said more than once during a 13-minute stump speech and about 20 minutes of question-and-answer.


O’Malley offered “the right ideas, progressive ideas,” said Terry Lessmeier of Mount Vernon and might be a nice fit compared to Sanders “who is not discreet and Clinton who is too discreet” in expressing progressive values.

That was part of O’Malley’s sales pitch, too. Voters who look at his “15 years of elected executive experience” will see “a fearless advancing of progressive goals and progressive values,” O’Malley said. “I don’t apologize for them. I plan to speak fearlessly about the progressive values and progressive goals that are going to make our country better.”


Whole article here:
http://qctimes.com/news/local/government-and-politics/elections/o-malley-touts-progressive-values-experience-results/article_9387cb37-a722-5799-8872-edd63daedc77.html

It is not fair, nor right, nor just

that people who play by the rules face this reality.
In Maryland, I fought for a minimum wage increase, and together we made it happen. As President, I'd make it a priority to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour: http://j.mp/1JFdeLp ‪#‎RaiseTheWage‬

https://www.facebook.com/MartinOMalley/photos/a.10150164591040393.404194.28684115392/10155784856770393/?type=1&theater

at U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1281719