Martin O’Malley: Still Making Stuff Up

It’s bad enough that Martin O’Malley misled Marylanders by breaking his promise to “stop the 72% rate hikes” in his first campaign for Governor.  Now he’s making stuff up – and covering up the truth – about Maryland’s economy.

·         The Cover Up:  Emails recently obtained from Martin O’Malley’s government reveal that his high level advisors actively suppressed an accurate, taxpayer-funded economic report whose findings repudiated O’Malley’s campaign message about Maryland’s economy.

·         Emails from O’Malley’s Department of Labor, Licensing, & Regulation (DLLR) even show that orders to suppress the report were, “coming straight from the top” and with full knowledge of Governor O’Malley’s office.  That same employee wrote “whatever we can do to make it [the jobs report] disappear, we need to do it.”  Copies of the emails can be viewed by clicking here.

·         Making Things Up:  After O’Malley’s advisors pulled the report from public view, they actually rewrote it to make it support O’Malley’s campaign theme that Maryland’s economy was stronger than it really was.

·         “Insulting Voters:” The (Baltimore Sun) editorial board wrote that the O’Malley Administration “insulted voters’ intelligence” and asked, “If the professionals in the department think there is cause for concern, do we not have a right to know?” -- The Sun, August 25, 2010

·         Shockingly, one day after O’Malley’s aides suppressed the report and replaced it with a politicized version, O’Malley delivered an upbeat assessment of Maryland’s economy in Ocean City – an assessment in direct conflict with the report his aides had suppressed.

·         Bottom Line: Martin O’Malley will do and say anything to get re-elected, including making stuff up about Maryland’s economy to mislead the public and force public employees to suppress the truth.  With 216,000 Marylanders unemployed and 3,000 small businesses closed on O’Malley’s watch, Maryland’s economy is stuck -- even if Martin O’Malley doesn’t want you to know it.