Martin O’Malley: Big money men put nation on brink of ‘pitchforks’

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____Before speaking at the home of Carroll County Democratic Party Co-Chairman Tim Tracy, O’Malley chatted up most of the 50 party activists and political junkies who braved a blazing sun for the outdoor rally.

In his remarks...

“The big money and the big power have become so intertwined, and so concentrated, that we’ve reached the point in our country’s history where that concentration of wealth and power is sucking opportunity out of the homes and the neighborhoods of the many,” O’Malley said. “And when you reach a point like that, there’s only two paths — one is a sensible rebalancing for the common good we share, and the other is pitchforks, more of ’em, in the hands of more and more angry people.”

O’Malley, who described himself as “fearless” with his progressive values, calls for more than doubling the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour, tying college student loan repayments to graduates’ incomes and paid family leave.

“Our economy is not money, it is people, all of our people,” O’Malley said.

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1. K & R. Thanks for posting. n/t

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2. I'm watching all of them, kicking

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3. K&R

“Our economy is not money, it is people, all of our people,” O’Malley said.

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4. Very good to see this detail.

'In his remarks, O’Malley earned some of the most-sustained applause in his appearance in calling for comprehensive immigration reform, a key element of which, he said, is pulling an estimated 11 million undocumented people from an underground economy.

“Unless we are Native Americans, we were all once strangers in a strange land,” O’Malley said. “The genius of our nation is that in every generation we make it possible for new Americans to join this movement forward of a rising middle class, and that, too, is good for wages.” . .

Carroll County Supervisor Gene Meiners, a Democrat, said O’Malley’s message can resonate in rural Iowa.

“He talks with a lot of common sense, I thought, kind of at our level,” Meiners said.

Andy Lange, 25, of Carroll, sees O’Malley as being a progressive with a background that could make him more electable than Sanders.

“I came into this almost certain that I would be caucusing for Bernie Sanders,” Lange said. “But I will say that I was quite impressed.”

Lange said O’Malley’s executive background separates him from Sanders.

“I think that O’Malley would do very well in a general election,” Lange said. “I think that’s where Bernie Sanders might not be as strong is in the general election. I think putting O’Malley on a stage next to almost any Republican I can think of, I can’t imagine that the governor would not do extremely well.”'

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5. Students loans should be forgiven. Education should be free.

All student loans should be forgiven. The billionaires have enough money already.

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6. We need two guillotines; one on Wall Street and one on K street

“The big money and the big power have become so intertwined, and so concentrated, that we’ve reached the point in our country’s history where that concentration of wealth and power is sucking opportunity out of the homes and the neighborhoods of the many,” O’Malley said. “And when you reach a point like that, there’s only two paths — one is a sensible rebalancing for the common good we share, and the other is pitchforks, more of ’em, in the hands of more and more angry people.”

Or we need six election cycles (2016-20) of sustained GOTV. We need to be ready for the 2020 census and have enough states in line for de-gerrymandering