It's Not About "Not Liking A Candidate"! It's About Reality!
'Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and the DNC has given the 2016 election to the rightwing extremist by trying to hand the title to Hillary Clinton. The popularity of Bernie Sanders is because too many people in this Country DO NOT trust Hillary and are tired of the Washington Establishment! With that said Bernie is supported by independents, green party, socialist, democrats and republicans who will NOT support or vote for Hillary in the election. Some of the Democrats might but the rest will write in Bernie or vote Jill Stein from the green party. The republicans of course will vote republican because most of them are supporting Sanders to bring down Hillary.
We had an alternative in Martin O'Malley but the media and the left ignored him, making this a popularity contest between Trump, Sanders and Clinton! (By the way I blame Trump for the unrest in this Country by his constant racism and fearmongering. With that said the media is the real danger as they have given him a 24/7 platform to spread this cancer that is destroying our morals and values as a Country.)
We still have a chance to support real leadership and get behind a man of action, not just words but the party better wake up or it will be too late. We have a man who is young, intelligent and has a proven record of action and is NOT a part of the Washington Establishment like Bernie and Hillary have been for years.
Right now gun control is a huge issue and Martin O'Malley has taken on the NRA and won! He was also on the cover of the NRA magazine a few months ago as their number one enemy and the media ignored it! As Joe Biden would say! "This is a BIG F-ing deal"!
Here are just five boldly liberal policies O’Malley has pushed during his time as governor:
Ended the death penalty in Maryland: As governor, O’Malley signed legislation in 2013 making Maryland the sixth state to abolish capital punishment. A year later, he commuted the sentences of the four remaining inmates on Maryland’s death row. He remains a opposed to the death penalty, saying in a statement after a federal jury convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death that “the death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent.”
Raised the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour: O’Malley has said while campaigning that he supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. One of his last major policy achievements during his final year as governor was signing legislation that would increase Maryland’s minimum wage to $10.10 by 2018. “It is not fair, it is not right, it is not just that people should play by the rules, work 16-hour days and still be raising their children in poverty,” O’Malley said at the ceremony when he signed the law.
Legalized gay marriage: In 2012, O’Malley signed a bill legalizing same sex marriage in Maryland, joining seven other states in enacting marriage equality. The law survived a statewide referendum held later that year, which marked the first time marriage rights in the U.S. were extended to same-sex couples by a popular vote. O’Malley has continued to be vocal about the importance of marriage equality as he has geared up for his campaign. “The dignity of every person tells us that the right to marry is not a state right, it is a human right,” he said at a Democratic event in April.
Implemented stricter gun control laws: After pushing it through the state assembly, O’Malley signed a sweeping gun control measure requiring handgun buyers to submit fingerprints and obtain a license, banning 45 types of assault weapons, limiting gun magazines to ten bullets and banning gun ownership by people who have been involuntarily committed to a mental health facility. O’Malley’s package was considered one of the most progressive proposals in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting. The National Rifle Association vowed to fight the legislation, but their petition to halt its implementation ultimately failed.
Gave in-state tuition to the children of immigrants: Despite staunch opposition, O’Malley signed legislation as governor extending in-state tuition breaks to undocumented immigrants at Maryland’s colleges and universities. And two years later, he signed a law expanding the ability of illegal immigrants to get a driver’s license. He has also supported President Obama’s executive action on immigration and has gone even farther, saying the U.S. should not send unaccompanied minors who cross the southern border back to their home countries. “When refugee children arrive on our doorstop fleeing starvation and death gangs, we don’t turn them away — we act like the generous, compassionate people we have always been,” O’Malley told a group of Iowa Democrats last month.
O’Malley is already using his accomplishments in Maryland to shape his national campaign platform. In an interview with NPR in April, he discussed the economic policies including how he will aggressively take on big banks. “We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don’t have the discretionary dollars to make our economy go and grow,” he said.
O’Malley has also called for reforming Wall Street by reinstating the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act that kept commercial banks separate from investment banks. In an op-ed in the Des Moines Register, he listed fundamental reforms he supports including replacing the leadership at banks that are repeat offenders, appointing people to government who will prosecute the banking offenders and making banks “bear the full weight of financial penalties,” among others.
And in the same NPR interview, O’Malley called on Congress to lower the interest rate on student loans and said he opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership because it would hurt the middle class. He also more explicitly pointed out some of the differences between himself and Clinton, saying that Clinton “said until very recently that marriage equality was a state right” and that she is just now coming around to supporting drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants.
Martin O'Malley has put out issues and visions which has been picked up by Sanders or Clinton down the road and no one would know because the media has ignored him! https://martinomalley.com/category/policy/
It's not too late but the Party Bosses and the left better wake up soon and stop letting Debbie Wasserman-Shultz and those who think it's "Hillary's turn" continute to destroy the party! We need more debates and we need the media to stop playing games
with the future of our Country!'
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