Martin O'Malley heading to New Hampshire

[brooklynite]

Breakfast with Governor Martin O'Malley

Please join Governor Martin O'Malley at a breakfast benefiting The New Hampshire Democratic Party.

Saturday, March 7th, 2015 8:30 am Manchester, NH

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/omalleybreakfast

[mahina]

1. k & r

BELIEVE

[MohRokTah]

2. And we have our first serious challenger to Hillary Clinton making his move.

Good luck to him.

Anybody who wants to see somebody other than Hillary Clinton, you need to help O'Malley raise money. Get behind him now because you will have one shot at an anybody but Hillary. If the money gets divided amongst several, no way can she be taken.

[KittyWampus]

4. This is what I heard as well.

[Agschmid]

17. Yup.

I like him, he doesn't have a ton of experience with foreign policy which is a weak point for him, but most governors from both sides have the same failing.

[hedgehog]

18. All I want to know about anyone's foreign policy is this:

How likely are you to involve the United States in someone else's war?

[Agschmid]

19. We don't really know with him...

Sure he can "say" whatever but there isn't really a voting record to back that up.

[KittyWampus]

3. Have others whose opinion I respect advocate for O'Malley.

[Aerows]

5. I'd totally get behind

O'Malley for President.

[madinmaryland]

6. So am I! Until I moved a couple of years ago, he was my governor. Quite the breath of

fresh air after Bobby Haircut Ehrlich.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Interesting!

I really like him.

[Chathamization]

8. Kind of odd...lots of people hoping that someone runs against Clinton, but few people paying any

attention to the politicians who are doing just that.

[Renew Deal]

15. Because they also can't think of anyone that can beat her

In O'Malleys case the popular wisdom is that he's running for VP.

[tabasco]

20. LOL

"Popular wisdom" among Hillary supporters, perhaps.

[Vattel]

9. O'Malley hopes people don't remember his disregard for

rights when he was mayor. In 2006, the ACLU and the NAACP sued Maryland on the grounds that O’Malley’s policies as mayor had caused the number of illegal arrests and instances of police harassment of law-abiding citizens to skyrocket. O'Malleys police sweeps resulted in 108,000 arrests in one year in a city of 600,000. The state settled the cases out of court.

[Scuba]

11. Citation?

[Vattel]

12. here you go:

http://www.wbaltv.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/mayor-vows-not-to-return-to-days-of-mass-arrests-in-baltimore/22118078#ixzz36Z01TpyR

also:

http://baltimoretimes-online.com/news/2013/sep/27/return-stalag-omalley/

I have talked with an officer who did booking during that time. According to him, it was as bad as the stories suggest.

[Scuba]

13. The certainly reflects poorly on O'Malley. Sounds like law-and-order without justice. If anyone ...

... can provide a counter-balance to this story I'd like to hear it.

[mahina]

23. I used to have to go to Baltimore every year, when it had the highest murder rate in the US

I remember things getting much better there.

[Renew Deal]

14. Those aren't really presidential election issues.

[Vattel]

16. Respect for the Bill of Rights is not a presidential election issue?

[tabasco]

21. And Hillary hopes we don't remember her strident advocacy

for the war against Iraq, a country that was no threat to the U.S.

[Vattel]

22. I would hate to think our only two choices are HRC and O'Malley

[loyalsister]

10. I look forward to hearing more from and about him

The fact that he started at the city council level appeals to me.