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elleng

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Fri Aug 14, 2015, 10:44 PM Aug 2015

O’Malley, in Iowa, Touts ‘Progressive Values,’ Executive Record.

“I am not the only candidate for president in our party who holds progressive values, but I am the only candidate for president in our party with 15 yrs of executive experience,” Democratic 2016 contender Martin O’Malley says.

The former Maryland governor and Baltimore mayor says his “15 Goals to Rebuild the American Dream” reflects “bold ideas, concrete plans, actions to make our country stronger”

O’Malley, speaking at a Democratic event in Iowa that also includes speeches from Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, emphasizes that he’s a candidate of “actions, not words”

Takes aim at financial industry, saying Wall Street bonuses last yr totaled “twice what every American worker working at minimum wage earned combined”

Questions why not one Wall Street CEO was convicted of a crime related to 2008 crisis

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-08-15/o-malley-in-iowa-touts-progressive-values-executive-record

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