Martin O'Malley

MADem

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31. MO'M has a legacy problem WRT prison management. He does.

Mon Nov 9, 2015, 12:20 AM

Nov 2015

You can deny it, call it a stretch, put kiddie pictures up, and get mad at me. That's not going to change a perception he needs to MANAGE.

I think you'd do better to help him neutralize it instead of shooting the messenger. I am not the only person who has NOTICED this--and if I noticed it, knowing less than the MD experts on this guy, then surely others in media who have had their ear to the ground know about this, too.

Here's the local paper discussing this (MONTHS ago, too): http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-rodricks-0728-20150727-column.html

If he had not been planning to run for president for several years — with many of his decisions and positions as Maryland governor poured into that calculus — I would be tempted to say that Martin O'Malley's views on criminal justice had "evolved," that his current beliefs resulted from a thoughtful process free of political calculation.

And if we were not in the middle of one of those "national conversations" about cops, racial bias, mass incarceration and the long war on drugs, I might even believe O'Malley had had a genuine epiphany about the state of American justice.

But, alas, the man is running for president (has been for a long time) and several aspects of criminal justice — from the deaths of citizens in police custody to our world-leading rate of imprisonment — are issues in the presidential campaign, at least on the Democratic side.

So that explains the new, progressive Martin O'Malley who, while campaigning in Iowa, told The Des Moines Register that he sees criminal justice reform as a defining issue of the 2016 campaign.....What?

What happened to the zero-tolerance Baltimore mayor who became the no-parole-for-lifers governor of Maryland? Where's the guy who was once bullish on mandatory minimums?

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O'Malley: 'For-Profit' Prisons Are 'Immoral' [View all] elleng Nov 2015 OP

The very worst offender of this practice is ... incorporated in Maryland. Ooops. MADem Nov 2015 #1

They run prisons for the Federal Government, not for the State of Maryland. FSogol Nov 2015 #2

CCA was incorporated in 1983. Headquarters in Tennessee. No CCA prisons in Maryland. Koinos Nov 2015 #4

I understand that, but the optics remain poor. nt MADem Nov 2015 #5

LOL, the optics are poor? That's quite a stretch. O'Malley railed against the FSogol Nov 2015 #6

There are two facts at play, here: MADem Nov 2015 #7

In other States the immigrants were being held in for-profit prisons, that's FSogol Nov 2015 #8

Are you seriously trying to tell me that state governors ignore federal businesses MADem Nov 2015 #9

This is a group for O'Malley supporters. askew Nov 2015 #10

A few points: MADem Nov 2015 #11

So you aren't going to apologize for posting baseless attacks against O'Malley in the askew Nov 2015 #13

Your characterizations are "baseless." MADem Nov 2015 #14

Your comments aren't polite or respectful, they are pure bashing and FSogol Nov 2015 #15

If you can't take my remarks in the polite, open and honest way that I have offered them, MADem Nov 2015 #16

You think this was a polite comment? FSogol Nov 2015 #17

Which is why I asked--has he brought up this issue before? Or is he coming to Jesus? MADem Nov 2015 #18

You keep whining and making claims, but have not shown how it connects to O'malley. FSogol Nov 2015 #19

I have provided you a link that shows you where the largest offender is incorporated. MADem Nov 2015 #20

What does Marco Rubio have to do with O'Malley? FSogol Nov 2015 #21

If O'Malley gets the nomination (a long shot, but who knows?), Rubio could well be his opponent. MADem Nov 2015 #22

Laughably naive. FSogol Nov 2015 #23

Annnnnd.....straight to the personal insult! I could say the same about you. MADem Nov 2015 #24

And for the 4th time: Maryland doesn't use private prisons. FSogol Nov 2015 #25

They used to. MADem Nov 2015 #29

Stretchhhhhhhhh FSogol Nov 2015 #30

MO'M has a legacy problem WRT prison management. He does. MADem Nov 2015 #31

So, you try and prove your point by posting an article by a Hogan promoter? FSogol Nov 2015 #32

Some prison systems hire their own, state-employed, doctors and nurses. MADem Nov 2015 #33

Go make your unfounded allegations in some other group. n/t FSogol Nov 2015 #36

I assume that you did not realize you are posting in a protected group. Koinos Nov 2015 #3

I don't think you meant to talk to the person who started this thread, but that is what you are MADem Nov 2015 #12

You're right. It was directed at your first response. Koinos Nov 2015 #34

I don't understand tblue Nov 2015 #26

I misplaced my response. It was meant for Response #1. Koinos Nov 2015 #35

Good on O'Malley! K&R think Nov 2015 #27

Yes! elleng Nov 2015 #28