Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
Martin Joseph O'Malleyis an American politician who was the 61st Governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015. Prior to being elected as governor, he served as the Mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007 and was a Baltimore City Councilor from 1991 to 1999...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 January 1963
CountryUnited States of America
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People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.
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History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.
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It's great that Maryland is tied for having the lowest wage gap between our working men and women of any state in the nation, but there's more work to do to eliminate that gap entirely.
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If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.
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Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.
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Job creation is a choice. Investing in cleaner, greener technologies that allow us to strike a more sustainable balance with the other living systems of this earth - this, too, is a choice.
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Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
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