2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumConsider Martin O'Malley for the Job.
For many Democrats, Hillary's politics are too embedded with Wall Street, while Bernie seems too independent to be electable. I recently discovered the candidate whose progressive politics are coupled with a proven ability to govern. Maryland's former Governor Martin O'Malley, also former Mayor of Baltimore, has the managerial experience and technical vision to apply information technology to make governmental decisions based on knowledge. He applied the same mapping technology we use when finding a route through traffic, to identify where Baltimore's worst crime was, and he allocated increased resources to those neighborhoods to fight the city's crime problems.
O'Malley initiated a management innovation he called CityStat to monitor progress and hold city staff accountable. I met him at a conference about Geographic Information Systems, and I asked him how he handled the potential rivalry between the City's district managers when the more needy districts received more funding. With a twinkle in his eye, he said, "I moved my best managers into those districts." He made every manager's statistics available for all to see. Those who were accomplishing the City's goals were acknowledged, and those who were just marking time "were encouraged to update their resumes."
With knowledge-based decision-making and O'Malley's managerial savvy, Baltimore's violent crime reduced by 41%. As governor, he applied similar methods, called StateStat, to reduce Maryland's unemployment and increase jobs faster than its neighboring states that had cut their budgets for necessary services. He promotes a new way of managing to get things done, moving from innovation-limiting hierarchy to collaborative consensus-building.
The ability to manage well could be dangerous unless applied to worthy objectives. O'Malley's top goals are to reverse the causes of climate change by supporting clean, renewable power sources; to limit the influence of unaccountable big money in our political system; and to reduce the disparity of wealth and opportunity with affordable education, fair taxation, big-bank regulation and resistance to trade deals that threaten our environmental, labor, and health protections.
Americans are tired of seeing clowns run around the circus car when we need a President who knows how to work effectively for the shared concern of our survival on this planet. Now, we have Martin O'Malley to consider for the job.
O'Malley is the candidate with Bernie's progressive politics and Hillary's political savvy (minus her baggage), who actually knows how to manage government to repair our most severe problems. Discover him yourself at martinomalley.com.
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-07-31/article/43558?headline=Consider-Martin-O-Malley-for-the-Job--Bruce-A.-Joffe
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)Thanks elleng.
elleng
(130,913 posts)Thanks
murielm99
(30,741 posts)Thanks for staying so positive when presenting your candidate.
elleng
(130,913 posts)I was pleased to find this; I didn't write it, some guy in/around Berkeley, I think.
We NEED 'positive' and factual, and I wish more DUers would pay attention.
bigtree
(85,996 posts)...thanks for posting.
ismnotwasm
(41,984 posts)I like him a lot, not enough to change my primary support, but the more I hear, the more I like. I would really like to see him get the attention he deserves--which is considerably more than he's getting. As the primary race heats up, I think we'll be seeing a lot more of him and in a much stronger showing than is currently projected.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)I'm hoping more people notice O'Malley!
elleng
(130,913 posts)which is WHY I support him, his significant experience accomplishing necessary things.
Metric System
(6,048 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)He seems pretty good to me. I'm still an HRC supporter, but O'Malley seems like a pretty good candidate... He's my number 2.
sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)somewhat younger than Bernie or Hillary. I know that should
not make a difference, but to many voters it might.
It is a pity that he does not seem to break a kind of
glass ceiling, because the Hillary/Bernie selections
show everything in extremes.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)Bernie's my Main Man (he has been since I started following him in the 90's) and I think, at the very least, Sanders is bringing key issues into the debate that must be raised -- bit which have been ignored or marginalized for too long.
But as election season moves on, I could see supporting O'Malley as a pragmatic alternative if it becomes necessary. Have to learn more about him and if he really "walks the talk" regarding the grotesque maldistribution of money and power we have allowed to go on for too long.
FSogol
(45,487 posts)Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)K&R