2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMartin O'Malley...you did us proud...
When you decide to run again.. you know I will be all in.. You smoked it!!!!!
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)He was my second choice after Bernie this cycle.
Peacetrain
(22,881 posts)gave him a thumping.. with a big ole shillelagh
one_voice
(20,043 posts)My daughter txt'd me 'Yeeessssss Martin' I will have to find it online.
FSogol
(45,599 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)Thank you!
JustAnotherGen
(32,064 posts)I'm going to miss those barbs and jabs!
On a serious note - he's right. China wouldn't have come up with Global Warming - they WOULD have come up with Donald Trump to destroy America.
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)Peacetrain
(22,881 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)FSogol
(45,599 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Peacetrain
(22,881 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)Peacetrain
(22,881 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Peacetrain
(22,881 posts)We have the present and the future covered!!.. and an awesome President in the here and now.. it just does not get any better than this
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Even though I am happy with clinton.... would have been happy with Sanders ... I do truly wish O'Malley would have caught on.
glennward
(989 posts)ellie
(6,929 posts)I have never heard him speak.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)In 2024, if M'OM runs, he has my instant support. He has my vote!
O'Malley/Raul Grijlva 2024!!!!
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Our country has come a long way since the Wall Street crash of 2008, when millions of families lost their jobs, homes, and life savings. Thanks to President Obamas leadership, America is creating jobs againand has for a record 70 months in a row. Yet urgent work remains to protect and build on President Obamas legacy, by growing Americas middle class and taking action to make wages go up again for all Americans.
As president, Governor OMalley will fight for American workers, protecting their fundamental rights in order to rebuild the American Dream:
Our economy is not money, it is people all of our people. Martin OMalley
1. The Right To Balance Work And Family. Governor OMalley strongly supports the FAMILY Act to ensure that all parentsmen and women, gay or straight, married or singleare able to take at least 12 weeks of leave, with pay, in order to care for newborn children or other loved ones. He will also set a goal of guaranteeing that no family, especially low- and middle-income families, has to pay more than 10 percent of their income on safe, affordable childcare in a given year. To begin to meet this goal, he will dramatically expand and federal childcare tax credits, on a sliding scale based on need.
2. The Right To A Predictable Weekly Schedule. Governor OMalley will lobby for, pass, and implement the Schedules That Work Act to give workers more control over their schedules, while still meeting the needs of employers. Erratic and constantly changing schedules leave many workersespecially in growing low-wage industriesunable to plan ahead to make ends meet. People who work hard should be able to earn a decent living while caring for their families.
3. The Right To Full-Time Work. Governor OMalley will launch a new, national campaign to promote full-time employment, including supporting policies like the San Francisco Retail Workers Bill of Rights that give part-time workers the choice to take on additional hours before employers hire additional part-time workers. Millions of part-time workers want to work more hours but do not have the option of going to full-time work.
4. The Right To Overtime Pay For Overtime Work. Governor OMalley will ensure that people who work more are paid more. He supports the Obama Administrations proposal to update restore access to overtime pay to millions of workersand will fully enact these new overtime rules as president.

5. The Right To Earn A Living Wage. Governor OMalley will fight to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, indexed to inflation, while supporting efforts to make local minimum wages living wages.
6. The Right To Bargain Collectively For Better Wages. Governor OMalley will champion legislation to make it easier for workers to gain union representation by modernizing the organizing process, bolstering the enforcement power of the NLRB, and creating tougher penalties for employers who violate the law and stand in the way of democracy in their workplace. To fight wage theft and unfair labor practices, he will partner with worker centers and alt-labor organizations to enforce our workplace standards to the fullest extent of the law.
7. The Right To Retire In Dignity, Not Poverty. Governor OMalley has a plan to expand, not cut or merely enhance, Social Security benefits, while adjusting the benefits formula to help middle-class and lower-income Americans the most. His retirement plan will also dramatically expand access to employer-based retirement plans, while protecting seniors from risks to their financial securityincluding by fully implementing the Obama Administrations proposed fiduciary rule.
8. The Right To Equal Pay For Equal Work. Governor OMalley will make closing the gender pay gap one of the most important goals of the federal government. He will fight to finally enact the Paycheck Fairness Act, holding employers who do discriminate in pay accountable and preventing retaliation against women who speak up. He will also work to make pay data publicly available by sex, race, and ethnicity, so that all employees can see that theyre making a fair wage for their job.
9. The Right To Affordable Health Care. Governor OMalley has set a national goal of ensuring access to quality and affordable health care for all. By implementing all payer reforms, he will overhaul our health care system to pay for the value, rather than the volume, of carewhile expanding insurance coverage, bringing down prescription drug prices, investing in research, and providing better long-term care.
10. The Right To A Quality Education And Debt-Free College. Governor OMalley will fight to make a quality education available to every child in America, by investing to make pre-K universal, equitably funding schools, setting high standards for all students, making teaching Americas most respected profession, and preparing all students for college and a good- paying job. His higher education plan will give every student in America the opportunity to go to college debt-free, within five years.
11. The Right To Read Trade Deals Before Our Congress Votes On Them. Governor OMalley will only support free trade agreements that establish strong and enforceable rules for fair competition and create opportunity for American workers. He will reject trade agreements like the TPP that are written by corporate lobbyists behind closed doors, and ensure that all workers are able to read trade deals before they are rubber-stamped by Congress.
https://martinomalley.com/policy/workers-bill-of-rights/
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Cant wait to vote for you in the future!
Bucky
(54,106 posts)SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)I'd vote for him anytime.
Skittles
(153,321 posts)yes indeed
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I'm sure that we will see him again. I have always liked him.