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Saturday, March 05, 2011

O’Malley And The Maryland Nepotism Party

ANNAPOLIS – Maryland Republican Party Chairman Alex X. Mooney issued the following statement today in response to Governor O’Malley tapping his brother to be Maryland Democrat Party Chairman:
 
“It’s clear Governor O’Malley is more focused on putting members of his family to work rather than the over 200,000 unemployed Marylanders struggling to find a job. In just the last month alone Governor O’Malley has created more jobs for his family than he has for Maryland over the entirety of his time in office. Between jobs for his family and his national political aspirations, Governor O’Malley continues to put his personal interests ahead of the needs of Maryland Taxpayers.”
 
 
100,000 Marylanders have lost their jobs since O’Malley took office. (Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation, www.dllr.state.md.us, accessed 3/5/11)
 
O’Malley Nominates Wife For Second Term As Judge. O’Malley — who won a second term in office himself in November — submitted his wife’s nomination in the traditional “green bag” delivered to the Senate Friday morning. (AP, “O’Malley Nominates Wife for Second Term As Judge,” Associated Press, 2/18/11)
 
O'Malley to nominate brother as Maryland Democratic Party chairman. Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) is planning to nominate his younger brother and long-time political confidant, Peter O'Malley, as the next chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party…A source said the governor expects to get some flak from Republicans about nominating his brother(John Wagner, “O’Malley to nominate brother as MD Democratic Party chairman,” Washington Post, 2/3/11)
 
Gov. O’Malley imposing wind energy mandates on Marylanders that benefit former top aide. Eight companies, including one with Maryland ties, have indicated their interest in developing wind energy projects off the state's coast…One of the relative newcomers is Maryland Offshore LLC, which has local ties and an executive who's a friend and former top aide of Gov. Martin O'Malley.  (Timothy B. Wheeler, “8 firms vie to put wind turbines off Md. Coast,” Baltimore Sun, 1/14/11)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Keeping it in the family isn't he?

Unknown said...

You left out StateSTAT, BayStat, and some of the other purchases of GIS software he steered to a brother that sold that software and MD never uses.