'And so now that O’Malley has embarked on an even longer-shot presidential campaign, the visuals of O’Malley’s record being seemingly undone before him are too good to resist.

And oddly, considering the incoming he has taken in recent days, O’Malley said he welcomes the scrutiny.

“It is important to talk about the biggest issues we are facing as a country, which is that it is not about our cities not working. It is not about government programs that don’t work. It’s about an economy that doesn’t work, that tells a huge portion of our fellow citizens that they are unneeded and unnecessary,” O’Malley said.

“That’s the pool of kerosene that is beneath the match of these police incidents.”. .

Time magazine named O’Malley one of the five best big-city mayors in America. Esquire named him the best young mayor in America. CitiStat won Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government “Innovations in American Government Award.”. .

“I don’t recall O’Malley stating that he would do something about ‘black crime,’ just crime,” wrote liberal Baltimore Sun columnist Dan Rodericks toward the end of O’Malley’s time in City Hall. “Coming out of the long, dreary Schmoke years, Baltimoreans appreciated O’Malley’s almost singular focus, along with millions in increased funding dedicated to drug treatment for the city’s thousands of addicts who contribute, directly and indirectly, to 80 percent of crime.”

“He was trying to stop the crime on the streets. People were getting killed daily on Old York Road and in Park Heights,” Robert Nowlin, a Baltimore community activist, told The Daily Beast. “He did something a lot of these mayors don’t do: He walked with the small people. A lot of these mayors stay in the affluent areas. He walked the streets.”. .

Tying O’Malley to Baltimore is an old political saw. When he tried to run for governor of Maryland, Republicans ran ads with flashing police lights, talked about how O’Malley would do for Baltimore what he did for Maryland. O’Malley won statewide twice though, boosted by those same Baltimore neighborhoods that he is now blamed for turning into powder kegs.

“I don’t think there is another person in this race who has had the executive experience over the spectrum of America that I have had as mayor of a very troubled city on its back,” said O’Malley. “I saw that gap between who we think we are and who we really are as a nation.”'

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/06/you-have-martin-o-malley-all-wrong.html

How many people died at the hands of Baltimore cops? How many thousands of lives ruined with arrest records? Why should this politician get a free pass. His policies escalated a wave of police terror against the black residents of Baltimore. He should answer for this. Black lives matter.

capturing nearly 67 percent of the Democratic primary vote in 2003 on his way to a second term. In an interview Saturday, he said he believes to this day that his administration did the right thing.

“They were individual arrests, and oftentimes of the same people again and again and again,” O’Malley said. “We achieved the biggest reduction in .?.?. crime of any city in America, and none of it was easy. All of it was hard. But there were very few people who want to return to those violent days of 1999.” . .

What was positive was that there was zero-tolerance for criminals and drug dealers locking down neighborhoods and taking neighborhoods hostage,” said the Rev. Franklin Madison Reid, a Baltimore pastor. “Does that mean there was no down side? No. But the bottom line was that the city was in a lot stronger position as a city after he became mayor.”

Benjamin T. Jealous, a former president of the national NAACP who worked with O’Malley when Maryland abolished the death penalty in 2013, credited him for supporting a civilian review board as mayor and for a sharp drop in police shootings that occurred during that time. Jealous said O’Malley’s “mass incarceration” police strategy is “a separate issue” than police brutality, and “a conversation for a different day.”

“It was a period where a lot of mayors were doing whatever they could to try to reduce crime,” Jealous said.'

April 25, Washington Post.

THANKS, Gen!

Because he was running against two African American candidates who split the black vote.

Baltimore is a highly Democratic city and the winner of the primary usually will go on to win the general, if not always.

Then in his run for re-election he didn't really have much of a primary challenge.


http://www.newsweek.com/2015/06/26/martin-omalley-tries-regain-his-standing-black-voters-win-2016-343346.html

lol.. my thought.

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In the olden days did people darn you?

Refute it if you want, disagree or whatever.

I actually find you to be mean because this is the third time you implied I was a sock puppet or troll.

I can't control somebody made a user name similar to mine. Mine is Cheese. Somebody made one called Ham Sandwich, that is not related.

This is the third time FSogol has made a post implying I'm a sock puppet or troll.

From one human to another I'm asking you please to stop doing that.

breakfast time!

Why didn't you post this part of the same article?

It's OK to admit Martin O'Malley has made a few mistakes in his life.

Disingenuous comes to mind.

And that's what the article is about. That's the main idea.

You're just making stuff up.

You said I post the same article every day. But I never posted the same article before.


But now having done a search I see it was posted previously by user brooklynite:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026587570#post1


Instead of acknowledging the lives destroyed by Martin O'Malley's policies you are using every tactic to mislead and deflect.

thanks to O'Malley. Here's some of those pesky facts you seem to hate:

The whole point of this article is to look into O'Malley's record on policing.

Positive things about the person you support? Have you ever done that? The constant attacks on O'Malley and Clinton are not really helping people to believe you are who you claim to be.

This issue of his policing policies seems awfully complex to me. He was given a pass on this at the ballot box. In view of his overall stellar progressive record as governor of Maryland, he is by far my favorite second choice as nominee. I think he would make a damn fine president.

Bernie already is the actual opposition to Hillary. There is little reason for bringing up O'Malley at this point. He seems like an ok guy. Just let him fade.

He deliberately instigated illegal mass arrests of thousands of black men, locked them in dirty crowded jail cells for days, strip searched and humiliated, and then released without charges, and left thousands of innocent people with arrest records.

This doesn't seem like an ok guy. This kind of police abuse led to the riots.

Clinton and Sanders both get extreme amounts of scrutiny on this site.

O'Malley should be scrutinized too.