Problems are rising for Hillary Clinton. From the furor over her State Department emails, which were sent over her private email accounts, sharing/distributing emails; to her personal wealth, the Clinton "elitism" factor and people's general perception of trustworthiness, alignment, she's got problems.
Join me on May 30th at 10am on Federal Hill in Baltimore, MD for a special announcement. http://t.co/fX2b4u0hok pic.twitter.com/kUYSB8Bh3D
— Martin O'Malley (@GovernorOMalley) May 19, 2015
Now there are challengers emerging, too. Okay, Bernie Sanders may not be able to go all the way, but he is forcing her to change her rhetoric and focus on much broader progressive issues, which just does not jibe with her record nor that of her husband's.There's also talk of Baltimore Mayor, Martin O'Malley entering the race and even whispers of Joe Biden stepping in. The more vulnerable she starts to appear that could cause the dam to burst open with a number of challengers. This could get interesting or, awful.
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Not impressed with O'Malley. He's far from beloved in Maryland (where he was Governor after being Mayor of Baltimore). By the time he left office his administration was so toxic his Lt. Gov. ended up blowing the 2014 Gubernatorial Election to a Republican that was not expected to seriously contend in that blue state. He's trying to occupy that "not Hilary but still electable" space in the Dem field that Bernie, as much as I respect him and will vote for him, can never fill.
I don't know much about him, Daniel, but the fact that Bill Clinton once predicted he'd go "all the way," is probably a bad sign.
5. Presidential aspirant Martin O'Malley may have some explaining to do about his record as mayor and the hyper-agressive policing he brought to Baltimore.
During Martin O’Malley’s time as mayor (1999 to 2006), the crime rate in Baltimore dropped 16 percent while arrests rose dramatically, something his critics say was a result of heavy-handed “zero tolerance” policing tactics. In 2005, 108,447 people were arrested, or about one-sixth of the city’s population, according to the Washington Post. About two-thirds of those arrested were jailed for nonviolent offenses.
Critics of O’Malley, who has said he would run to the left of Hillary Clinton, say he helped create the police culture that has culminated in Freddie Gray’s death, and the unrest that followed.
"We still have men who are suffering from it today,” Marvin 'Doc' Cheathem, a past president of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP, which won a court settlement stemming from the city’s policing policies, told the Post. “The guy is good at talking, but a lot of us know the real story of the harm he brought to our city.”
Bishop Douglas Miles, a community leader, told the Post that O’Malley’s police department “set the tone for how the police department in Baltimore has reacted to poor and African American communities since then.”
“None of us are in favor of crime,” Miles said. “But we also recognized that you couldn’t correct the problem through wholesale arrests.”
To be fair, police brutality in Baltimore wasn’t created during O’Malley’s time in office. Back in 1942, 2,000 black residents marched from Baltimore to Annapolis to protest the fatal shooting of a black soldier by a white city cop.
The above was from a recent article on alternet.org and I also understand that O'Malley is a Third Way champion.
http://www.ontheissues.org/governor/Martin_O%60Malley_Principles_+_Values.htm
None of which will deny him entering the primary, although, I don't envision his platform as a winning formula?
The only interface Ive had with OMalley is he attempted to jay-walk in front of me one time walking between buildings when he was Mayor... I almost hit him with my car but I hit the brakes at the same time he realized he the light had turned green... was alone carrying a couple of big binders in shirtsleeves...
I looked up to see the person and it was OMalley and he put his hand up indicating his bad... iow was not an a-hole like "get out of my way"... not an elitist reaction at all...
As I pulled away I realized who it was so I put my hand out and waved and blew the horn and I could see him in my mirror instantly take the politician pose with a big smile and waving excitedly...
As governor he led the passage of a "rain tax" which was a special tax/fee on property owners to create a special fund to do physical reclamation on small tributaries in the Chesapeake Bay watershed here in Maryland (which is working and is a very good govt project imo Ive seen some results and they are stunning..) but his opponents spun it as a "rain tax" as it was based on how much hardscape the property possesses and hence facilitates run-off yada yada..
Knowing what I know, his mistake was not going to federal sources for the funding and instead "got the money" to do this reclamation from already pinched homeowners across the state ... the taxpayers revolted and "threw him out" by not showing up to vote for the Democrat who ran after his term limits were up...
His administration was devoid of scandal/corruption I think he attracted a pretty square crew when he was governor...
I'd really like to hear her explanation of how she succeeded in becoming the greatest trader/speculator in history, with returns that dwarf the likes of Buffett and Soros!
Evidently she's an economic and financial markets genius. Hang on, there is another explanation: she's a corrupt insider trading criminal.
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