Martin O'Malley
Related: About this forumClinton and Sanders Have a Shared Weakness, and Martin O’Malley Is Exploiting It.
Presidential candidate Martin OMalley is polling a distant third among declared Democrats, ten points behind Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and more than 60 points behind Hillary Clinton. Closing that gap in any significant way will require taking stronger positions than his rivals on the issues most important to the party's base. He's done just that with his aggressive new plan on climate change, which the former Maryland governor will pitch to Iowans over the next three days. . .
But environmental campaigners are starting to notice OMalley now.
We look to presidential policy platforms for vision, and we're rapidly approaching, if not already at, a point where it's no longer enough for a Democratic candidate to diagnose the problem, Climate Hawks Vote founder R.L. Miller said. [W]e need policy prescriptions. Sanders' platform is basically what he's been pushing, without success, in the Senatea carbon tax and a million solar rooftops.
In other words: Namechecking Keystone and making fun of climate-change deniers doesn't cut it anymore.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122227/omalley-exploits-clinton-and-sanders-shared-weakness
randys1
(16,286 posts)make that 3
His climate change platform is awesome
Glad you've noticed!
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)The more I look at O'Malley's record of results, and what he's proposing in a real substantive way, the more I like him. I think he's an outstanding too. Keep reading more here in this group & elsewhere. You'll like what you see.
Andy823
(11,527 posts)And anyone of them that wins the nomination will have my vote, though I do prefer O'Malley.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)That's what we need - a long term plan for clean energy. One that provides good paying jobs and one that establishes us a a leader in environmental policy.