O’Malley Running Against Wall Street
Click here for reuse options!O’Malley, who is aggressively positioning himself as an alternative to presumed Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, said that his party “must not allow another Wall Street meltdown to bring down hard-working families.” In a speech broadcast live on C-SPAN, he called for tougher sanctions on banks that break the law and for reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act, the Depression-era measure that separated commercial and investment banking.
Many left-leaning Democrats, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), argue that the act’s repeal in 1999 under President Bill Clinton contributed to the 2008 global credit crisis. If O’Malley is to gain traction against Hillary Clinton, one key will be successfully courting Democrats who have been pining for Warren to run for president — something she has insisted she has no plans to do in 2016.
During O’Malley’s appearance at the Scott County Democrats’ “Red, White and Blue Dinner,” he offered a prescription for “making the dream true again” that includes raising the minimum wage, expanding Social Security benefits, making pre-kindergarten universally available and ensuring equal pay for women. “Sing it with me people,” O’Malley said. “When women succeed, America succeeds.”
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Roctuna March 21st, 2015 at 17:49
Never heard of this fellow before reading about him here. Any Marylanders in the audience with an opinion?
mea_mark March 21st, 2015 at 18:06
Not from Maryland, but I have been following him. Better than Clinton in my mind but I think he would do better running for senate and replacing http://www.mikulski.senate.gov/ since she has announced she isn’t going to run again. Another good strong senator that thinks like Warren would be great in the senate.
fancypants March 21st, 2015 at 22:00
on the other hand O’Malley / warren ticket would stir some interest
oldfart March 22nd, 2015 at 13:47
he has a good populist message and is very pro-woman, its a free country and by all means run if you want to but i happen to think that right now, the very idea of an unopposed Hillary running against the clown car load of republican candidates is scaring the hell out of the GOP and will be far more cost effective for the democratic party for the long run.