2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Marylanders-dont-like-martin-omalley-so-why-would-the-rest-of-america?? [View all]Koinos
(2,792 posts)Baltimore has been baggage for every mayor who tried to govern that city. O'Malley did his best. He had to attend the funerals of ten Baltimore policemen -- half of them black and half of them white. He monitored the police, took feedback from the community, and lowered the murder and violent crime rate.
O'Malley has experience, working with community groups -- black and white -- to solve crime, poverty, and race issues in a major city. That makes his mayoral executive experience superior to that of Sanders, in my opinion. Getting something done with extremely difficult conditions is, in my mind, of greater merit than getting something done in a city with little or no racial tension, a low crime rate, and much less poverty.
You prefer Sanders. That's great. I am not you. There is more to a candidate than his positions. I prefer O'Malley, and that is also great.
Neither of us is going to vote for Scott Walker, a much less successful governor than Martin O'Malley.