'Martin O'Malley is someone who is putting a stake in the ground..."

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Matt Corridoni ?@mattcorridoni 3h3 hours ago
"@MartinOMalley is someone who is putting a stake in the ground...Everyone else does the rhetoric"#fitn #nhpolitics http://bit.ly/1ggwPpi

O'Malley pushes progressive line with voters during visit to Keene

He’s not Hillary Clinton, he’s not Bernie Sanders, and he doesn’t garner the headlines those candidates do.

But Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor, is seeking the Democratic nomination for president, and speaking Sunday in the Keene backyard of Kathy O’Donnell, he sought to make a case for his candidacy.

Addressing about 50 people, O’Malley offered up a dose of progressivism — gun control, student debt relief and banking reform — that drew cheers and applause...

Kathy McGhee of Hollis said she came to Keene and was interested in O’Malley because of his focus on climate change.

“He is someone who is putting a stake in the ground, saying ‘we’re not doing enough,’ ” she said. “Everyone else does the rhetoric."

read more: http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/o-malley-pushes-progressive-line-with-voters-during-visit-to/article_b18fbdfa-458a-5c7f-a812-cc0c6b893dd9.html



O'M in Keene https://twitter.com/omalleyfornh/status/625364213448470528

[djean111]

1. He has really good ideas, but all of the campaign stuff, from everybody, is rhetoric at this point.

Really, this is all about previous deeds, and how much one likes/agrees with the rhetoric.

[elleng]

5. The OTHER candidates' campaign stuff is rhetoric.

Martin O'Malley has set out PLANS (as well as noting his executive EXPERIENCE.)

[AuntPatsy]

2. I cannot help but still question his tough on crime stance during his Maryland term..

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/martin-omalley-believe-candidate-stands-11-issues/


But PBS does a good breakdown of the issues he finds important....

Frankly I am under no illusion any of our candidates are my idea of perfection but I still believe we have the best ones running at this time ....proving without a shred of doubt the republicans have proven themselves undeserving of any job description which would require they care about anything besides their own self absorbed moronic desires...

[bigtree]

3. I think there needs to be a complete focus on the totality of his policing efforts

...which included police accountability, an active citizens review board, and community policing.

Also, there should be an equal and fair concern for the lives impacted by the criminality and killings which made Baltimore one of the most violent and deadly cities in America before he took office. In that effort to reclaim communities from the open-air drug markets which plagued the lives of citizens forced to work, school, and live there, the totality of O'Malley's administration's policing efforts reduced violent crime by over 40% -well above the national average decrease at the time of 11%. That represents 100's of lives saved. He oversaw and fought for the ending of the death penalty, commuting sentences still on death row; signed into law the decriminalization of small amounts of pot; increased drug treatment, reclaiming lives in the process...

His police dept. changed the way incidents of police misconduct was reported and handled by establishing an active review board and a hotline for reporting police abuse or misconduct. Under his term there were over 100 'reverse integrity' stings of police conducted a year. They fully staffed the civilian review board including detectives on the board to investigate claims against police. They used technology to flag abusive officers who racked up complaints.

Also the numbers of arrests under zero-tolerance is skewed because it reflects repeat offenders, not new cases. What was happening during his term was an effort to clear the open-air drug markets which had been plaguing black majority neighborhoods. As O'Malley said in a response to criticisms, if those had been white-majority communities, there would be no question of the swift and thorough response to drug-related crime and violence which threatened and cost black lives, many young black lives. During his time as governor, recidivism was cut significantly, and incarceration rates were actually REDUCED in his terms to 20 year lows; and voting rights were restored to 52,000 individuals with felonies.

All of that says 'black lives matter,' at least to those black lives which were granted safe streets, prevention of violent crimes and killings and other opportunities to improve on their way of life. I've lived in Maryland for 45 years. These issues aren't just an abstraction to me, and neither are they to other members of the black community who are affected by these issues.

Those communities, not coincidentally voted repeatedly for Martin O'Malley in overwhelming numbers throughout his several, successive roles serving in public service in Maryland. That's as much of an endorsement of his efforts as anything anyone wants to portray in terms of support for his efforts.

[AuntPatsy]

7. I wasn't fully aware of all you spoke, sounds good

[Raine1967]

9. +1 This and all of this. eom.

[elleng]

4. gun control, student debt relief and banking reform — that drew cheers and applause...

and SHOULD do so HERE, too!!!

[otherone]

6. I like this guy

[elleng]

10. GOOD!

So do I.

[otherone]

11. Have a great day elleng

peace and low stress

[Andy823]

8. K&R nt