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Sunday, January 31, 2016

O’Malley: ‘I Banned the Box,’ Decriminalized Marijuana, and Reduced Fatal Police-Involved Shootings

(CNSNews.com) - When asked how he plans to ensure racial equality, Democratic presidential candidate and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley said Monday that he decriminalized marijuana, “banned the box” for those with criminal records seeking state employment, and reduced the number of fatal police-involved shootings.

“I drove down fatal police-involved shootings to three of their four lowest years in Baltimore history, and as governor, I restored voting rights to 52,000 people. I ... decriminalized the possession of marijuana. I banned the box on people who are applying for state employment,” O’Malley said during the Democratic presidential town hall in Des Moines, Iowa on Monday.

An audience member asked, “How are you planning to ensure racial equality when your history in office contradicts your current platform to fight structural racism?”

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18 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow. Such great accomplishments.
All this moron could hope for is a janitor job in the Sanders camp.

Anonymous said...

Yeah but taxes and fees went up for everyone.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Yeah but taxes and fees went up for everyone.

January 28, 2016 at 10:28 AM

40 some tax increases...

Anonymous said...

Lies, Lies and Lies. All he is doing is saying what he thinks the audience wants to hear. Fatal police involved shootings?? That wasn't even an issue when he was mayor or gubner so it's only a recent issue and not in the State of Maryland. However it has always been an issue with thugs shooting and killing cops, but where was he then!!

Anonymous said...

O'Malley did this? Is he sure he was in Maryland and not Colorado or Oregon?

Thornton Crowe said...

It sounds like more of a 'dream' list than anything else. O'Malley is at 0% on some of the polls while others show him in single digits. Is he hanging on as some kind of death rattle? Why is he even being given a stage to speak on is a mystery to me.

Anonymous said...

He raised taxes, raised taxes, and then he raised taxes.

Anonymous said...

11:58 AM - and then diverted money from bridge tolls and Federal Highway User Funds to pet projects that didn't yield a thing.

Anonymous said...

A legend in his own mind!

The rest of us are still suffering from what you did to this state Marty! Thank goodness Governor Hogan is repealing some of your inflictions foisted upon us!

Anonymous said...

he's so in love with himself
somebody needs to set a mirror in front of him

Anonymous said...

Maybe he could be the State Department representative to some Third World country, so that he could work his magic for their people, too! I'm thinking that Haiti and any one of fifty African nations could use his help.

Anonymous said...

1:00 PM - just the place that Obama needs to go after he leaves the White House. Kenya comes to mind, for some reason.

Anonymous said...

And he apologized to a group for saying "all lives matter" instead of "black lives matter". He is a p.o.s.

Anonymous said...

O'Malley should not even be in the news.

Anonymous said...

and what about his greatest of all times RAIN tax

Anonymous said...

He must be smoking allot of the pot he decriminalized to think he did a good job for the citizens of Maryland

Anonymous said...

What a bunch of crap

Anonymous said...

Rain tax, flush tax and 38 other increases on fees and taxes.