O'Malley's travel
The O’Governor and Maryland’s Colonel Governor have spent more than $172,000 since taking office only last year on trips around the country, and to Ireland and China. That's a lot for a couple of guys who took office barely 16 months ago -- and at a time when the rest of us, including the business class, are tightening belts on travel.
It wouldn’t be so bad, if maybe Martin O’Malley and Anthony Brown (the lieutenant governor achieved the rank of colonel in the Army Reserve last fall) could show something for it.
I mean, they didn’t even pick the right candidate for president. Some of O’Governor’s expenses include the cost of Maryland state troopers as bodyguards when he campaigned for Hillary in New Hampshire, and when he attended a Tennessee conference of the Democratic Leadership Council, the centrist, let's-be-more-Republican think tank that produced the Clintons -- and is so yesterday . . . . Brown reported the most expensive trip, a weeklong trade mission to China that cost more than $96,000. And what’s that getting us? Are the Chinese about to buy some of the fine T-shirts and sneakers we make here?
We’re in a recessionary cycle, and O’Malley has increased taxes, and his administration is spending taxpayer dollars on political trips – and a dubious one to Ireland. The O’Governor’s ratings have already taken a beating in polls, and this isn’t going to bring them back any time soon. Plus, did I mention he picked the wrong candidate for president?
Comments
It's amazing that O'Malley can raise taxes, spend lavishly on things he and state doesn't need, break pretty much every campaign promise he made (and don't get me started on the new, extremely well-paid "consumer-friendly" PSC), watch his poll numbers drop lower than anything that evil republican guy saw and can still pretty much count on getting re-elected in a couple years without any real challenge since it's now unlikely he'll be moving to D.C. to be part of a new presidential administration .
The power of the "(D)" next to someone's name in this state absolutely confounds me.
Posted by: brstevens | May 19, 2008 7:39 AM
This is what we in Maryland can expect. The Governor rose to power in a climate where the central media sources (News Papers) have failed to protect the people of this state by doing in depth investigative research and reporting on an unbiased basis. Do not blame Martin for his own actions for he is used to doing what he wants with rubber stamp approval from those that are supposed to use the constitutional rights provided to them to be societies gate keepers.
Expect more of the same arrogance for our fine Gov.
Posted by: Ray Zink | May 20, 2008 8:43 AM
Just another example of "you get what you pay for". The people of the Socialist State of Maryland wanted him, and they got him, warts and all. Just don't complain about him now.
The people of Maryland would vote in a dead and buried corpse if it ran as a Democrat. Especially with the backing of the one party paper, the Sun.
Posted by: SR | May 20, 2008 5:14 PM