Martin O'Malley Packs the House in Iowa

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His speech was filled with several statements that would make all of us burst into raucous applause and cheering, saying things like:

“Tell me how it is, that not a single Wall Street CEO was convicted of a crime related to the 2008 economic meltdown. Not a single one.”

“Tell me how it is that you can get pulled over for a broken taillight in our country,but if you wreck the nation’s economy, you are untouchable.”

In that speech O’Malley went on to draw sharp contrasts between himself and Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Jeb Bush, saying “Recently the C.E.O. of Goldman Sachs let his employees know that he’d be just fine with either Bush or Clinton, I bet he would!” . .

As O’Malley has hit the campaign trail, even before he made his announcement in Baltimore on the 30th of last month, he has been saying the things that we had hoped to hear from Elizabeth Warren. O’Malley is running the campaign that we wanted from Elizabeth Warren.

“We can’t let ourselves become the party of Dodd-Frank-lite,” referring to a Wall Street reform law signed by President Obama back in 2012. He’s also said recently, “If a bank is too big to fail without harming the common good of our nation, then it’s too big and we must break it up before it breaks us.”

And he recently told reporters, while visiting New Hampshire, “I think we need to reinstate Glass-Steagall.” (Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaheaded a “21st Century Glass-Steagall Act” in 2013.)

But it isn’t just O’Malley’s announcement speech, Wall Street’s response to it, or the things that he’s saying as he’s on the campaign trail that should draw attention and admiration from progressives, it’s his record as governor.

http://www.youngprogressivevoices.com/2015/06/08/sanders-warren-candidate-progressives-need/