Posted on 03/11/2015 11:20:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) on Wednesday say he is a "little sick of the email drama" surrounding Hillary Clinton.
O'Malley is Clinton's most likely challenger in a 2016 primary, but he declined to pile on the former secretary of State's use of a private email address while at the State Department.
“I'm not [an] expert on federal requirements or state requirements, and I'm frankly a little sick of the email drama," he said during a talk at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
"But in our state, whether you used a personal email or a public email or a carrier pigeon, it was all a public record subject to disclosure in response to any [Freedom of Information Act request]," he added.
O'Malley, who again expressed serious interest in a White House run, said his administration retained records in compliance with the law. He noted that Maryland does not, however, have an archiving requirement.
He avoided a question about whether he was satisfied with Clinton's handling of the issue, noting he did not watch her news conference Tuesday because, "I was working."
"I didn't watch the press conference yesterday, so I don't know," he said.
The former governor was at Brookings to talk about his administrations’ use of open data when he served as governor of Maryland and previously as mayor of Baltimore.
"You see the old ways of governing, bureaucracy, hierarchy, these things are fading away and a new way of governing is emerging. And it also calls for a new way of leadership at every level," he said in his speech.
O’Malley touted a system developed in 2007 called StateStat that uses open data to track the performance of the Maryland government. The program was modeled on a city-based program that was implemented in Baltimore when he was mayor in 1999.
Both were based on New York City police initiative that tracked where and when crime took place. O'Malley specifically cited crime reduction in his state during his tenure, as well as decreases in infant mortality rates and reducing preventable hospitalizations.
"Splitting the difference between the way things have always done and some extremist view of the way things might be is not going to move us forward. We have to be clear about our principles as a people," he said in response to a question about the political tactic of triangulation.
The former Maryland governor, and potential 2016 candidate, has embraced a number of tech issues over the last year, at one point calling Wi-Fi a human right and also publicly supporting the FCC’s new rules on net neutrality.
When faced with skepticism about whether data-driven government will fire up the Democratic base in a presidential race, he said the public is interested in effective governing and a person with executive experience. He will also be giving a number of talks over the next few months, including a speech about improving the economy.
He has previously said he will make a decision on a presidential run in the spring.
Me thinks he doth protest too much.
Another lying sack of democrat.
The lefties love this little socialist almost as they love their shrewish squaw Grinning Onepercenter.
O’Malley should stick to the banjo, he was utterly execrable as a Mayor and Governor.
You misspelled excrement.
I think he will be the democrat nominee. The S.S. Hillary! has taken on water and is very bottom heavy. It will soon sink. Lizzy “Scoldawatha” Warren will only appeal to bitter, angry America-hating socialists (which is most of the democrat base but not independents).
The photos you included with the article show what the democrat party is hoping: to recreate the early Bill Clinton image where he played the sax and was younger than his opponents and at ease on all the air-head chat shows. Another appeal to style over substance.
Well SOL ?
LOL!
At this point, I don’t understand the excitement some on the east coast feel about O’Malley. I don’t know him. I dont know how he governs, whether he is socialist-lite or traditional Hubert-Humphery Type democrat who is patriotic (an almost extinct species).
Everytime I see O’Malley, is dressed as though he just left a bar or parade, he has a goofy Sh*t-eating grin on his face, as though he just left a meeting of The Choom Gang, and has not a care in this big old world. He is clearly a showboat and an attention seeker. To me, that equals a very needy personality and shallow politician who does most things exclusively for show and effect. Maybe their is more to him. If he succeeds in ‘taking down’ The USS Hillary, then he’s got a pal over here.
“S.S. Hillary now Bottom Heavy!” lol
O’Malley nor Clinton, nor Warren have a clue that 0bummer plans to remain on and force us/congress/senate to remove him from the WH.
For the Dems, O’Malley is on the short list.
And he is ambitious.
Even the Dims are realizing that Hillary is old news, and needs to exit stage right.
He is socialist-heavy.
Heh heh heh
Same definition.
Yuk! That means more often than not, he let’s
the progressive structure or the lobby system make policy decisions for him. That probably means he is owned by one of those giant (though quickly dying) Labor Unions. We already have people like Deblasio, chasing that rainbow.
Hillary Clinton holds a commanding lead... Elizabeth Warren comes in second... Joe Biden at 10 percent... Bernie Sanders nabbed 4 percent and former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb received 1 percent. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley polled at zero percent.
I warned people around here he'd do for the state of Maryland what he did for the city of Baltimore. Problem is, most of the idiot voters around here thought that was a compliment!
O'Malley's ambition to move the short distance to Pennsylvania Avenue is more transparent than pure plate glass.
Now, exactly which one of the amendments comprising the Bill of Rights was this?
By the grins on their faces, someone farted !!
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