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  • O’Malley: Huh? Education?

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    Governor Martin O’Malley has told businesses in Maryland that we need to once again change the unemployment insurance rules in order to get more federal dollars. This is of course, in spite of the fact that Maryland businesses are about to see another HUGE tax increase because the unemployment insurance [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:58pm EST
    by Martin Watcher

  • O’Malley More UnPopular Than Corzine… WHEN ELECTED BACK IN 2006

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    I don’t want to rain on Governor Martin O’Malley’s new campaign manager’s parade, but on this rainy Thursday morning, I want to give him a lesson on Maryland politics. Tom Russell, who made his name working for some Democrat group in DC, tried to argue that Martin O’Malley will win [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:11am EST
    by Martin Watcher

  • Maryland One of Most INEFFICIENT States in Stimulus Spending

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    I know that it has been a while since I’ve done some original reporting, but I think this one is definitely worth it and somebody needs to expose that Governor Martin O’Malley has created less jobs with his stimulus money than almost any other State. Vice-President Joe Biden held a [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 7:21am EST
    by Martin Watcher

  • “O’Malley is Concentrating on Being Governor…”

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    I guess part of being Governor is going out to play with your rock band. I guess part of being Governor is going to California for TV Shows. I guess part of being Governor is flying to South Beach in Miami, Florida. I guess part of being Governor is ignoring the entire private [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:27am EST
    by Martin Watcher

  • Chris Christie Wins…

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    I’m going to take a different view of the New Jersey Governor’s election than most others, a view that I think is much more accurate, and much more important to Maryland. The election of Chris Christie in New Jersey was not a rebuke of President Obama or his policies. In [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:39am EST
    by Martin Watcher

  • Martin O’Malley’s Gift to Trial Lawyers

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    It’s no surprise that Governor Martin O’Malley wants to do anything he can to help out the trial lawyers that helped fund his campaign. Remember that last minute $500,000 loan that came from trial lawyer and scientologist extraordinaire John Coale? But what could a Governor do for trial lawyers especially [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 7:47am EST
    by Martin Watcher

  • Maryland’s Energy Future Isn’t Looking Good

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    I highlighted before how Governor Martin O’Malley says one thing, but his actions are in the exact opposite. In the mindset of Monday’s post about renewable energy sources, and the Governor’s continued attempt to force BGE to maintain price caps until after he is re-elected, let’s look at some of [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 8:05am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Hindsight Will Blind You If You Stare at the Sun

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    Remember how then-Mayor Martin O’Malley came down hard to stop the merger between Baltimore Gas and Electric and Florida Power and Light? And you remember how as Governor, Martin O’Malley has gone on to make t too expensive to build new coal or natural gas power plants in Maryland because [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 7:28am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • What Are You… Chicken?

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    Governor Martin O’Malley is actively trying to quash the Arundel Mills slots bid. According to the Washington Post told MPT that whichever way “will be fine” but he said he’d prefer to have the slots closer to the race track. With as tenuous as this process is, O’Malley pushing for [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 7:28am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Hey you, over there… why don’t you save some money?

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    Sure I could once again point to the op-ed by Herb McMillan that showed Governor Martin O’Malley STILL has a larger budget and more employees than any previous Governor… but it’s ok… it’s time to cut education AGAIN. Yeah, we could be like the main stream media and pretend this is [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 7:51am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • I Thought He Was Supposed to be a Rock Star…

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    Did you catch “Real Time with Bill Maher” when Governor Martin O’Malley was on the panel? Talk about a snooze fest. But it’s not Governor O’Malley’s fault… well actually it is… but it’s calculated, and the calculation is wrong. O’Malley is known for being a great public speaker when giving a [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 7:35am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Rick Abbruzzese Putz Quote of the Year

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    When asked why Governor Martin O’Malley was being described as a “scholar” for his appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher” the Governor’s Spokesman told the Washington Post, “Really, that’s inaccurate, because he’s also a musician and a poet.” Well he certainly isn’t a Governor because he’s letting the State go [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 7:08am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Never Ending Spending of Money

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    Why is it that when Maryland is down to cutting into bone and muscle rather than fat, Governor Martin O’Malley is out there trying to increase government spending on Medicaid with a series of ads. You know, the kind of ads outlawed by Democrats in the legislature when it was [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 7:53am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Jim Smith Versus the Voters

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    Jim Smith has decided to test whether money can truly buy a political office by moving to an apartment in District 7. Sure, Smith would argue that he’s just getting his message out. However, Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith has spent the last three years representing everything that the four [...]
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    Posted: October 11, 2009, 10:17pm EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • What’s the Next Step…

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    In the event, which at this time has an equal opportunity, that Governor Martin O’Malley is re-elected where does he go in four years? It will be 2014 and President Barrack Obama will be 2 years into his final term. I think all of us believe that he wants to [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 7:53am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Part Time Benefits

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    The Washington Post providing cover to Governor Martin O’Malley’s irresponsible decisions? Say it aint so! The Washington Post’s John Wagner stated about the increase in unemployment taxes as “a situation hardly unique to Maryland”, Mr. Wagner is completely ignoring the past. The reason that unemployment insurance taxes are going up up [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 8:02am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • O’Malley Can’t Keep the Criminals In Jail

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    Another teenager escaped from the Hickey School in suburban Baltimore County. This is one of those things that when it happens all the neighbors can fairly put all of the blame on Governor Martin O’Malley’s shoulders. The process of closing down the troubled school was in process, and rather than [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 7:19am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Developers Get It All

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    Isn’t it sad that it took public outcry on liberal blogs to get Governor Martin O’Malley to finally do a tour of a mental health facility on the Eastern Shore that he was going to close. The outcry was mainly because the Governor was going to be right near the [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 7:38am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Median Income Going Up

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    The Baltimore Sun wrote an editorial yesterday trying to show that everything was peachy in the free state when it came to taxes and business regulation because median income was up. The irony… wasn’t it just a few months ago that the Baltimore Sun was defending the millionaire’s tax by saying [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 7:49am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Virginia Unemployment Rates

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    Governor Martin O’Malley continues to help single handedly cure Virginia’s unemployment problems. First it was when Martin O’Malley increased the corporate tax rate to be 37.5% higher than Virginia’s and now the Governor goes and hires a Secretary of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, the State Agency that handles unemployment for [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 7:56am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Band Needs to Take a Break

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    During his campaign for Governor, O’Malley stopped playing in the band because he needed to focus on Maryland. Well since he can’t seem to balance the State budget, and we are in a terrible fiscal mess, O’Malley needs to once again stop playing with the band and get his butt [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 8:52am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • When The Facts Are Against You… Governor ...

    When The Facts Are Against You… Governor Martin O’Malley is trying to block the Constellation/EDF deal because he the company wouldn’t bow to the Governor’s pressure to give him a little “somethin’ somethin’” on electricity prices. O’Malley is pretty close with the PSC since he appointed all but one of its [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 7:36am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Governor Martin O’Malley is trying to block ...

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    Governor Martin O’Malley is trying to block the Constellation/EDF deal because he the company wouldn’t bow to the Governor’s pressure to give him a little “somethin’ somethin’” on electricity prices. O’Malley is pretty close with the PSC since he appointed all but one of its members from a list of [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 7:36am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Why Montgomery County Should Get a Funding Cut

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    Montgomery County spends $25,000 on an executive retreat. Not on the facility rental, but on consultants… And they’re complaining about budget cuts and wanting to raise taxes. [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 9:25am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • What About This Law Stuff

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    Yesterday we talked about how Jack Johnson and the County Council violated the Maryland open meetings act by not providing enough public notice of a meeting to discuss the budget with the entire County Council. When a quorum of a legislative body meets, the meeting must be announced and open [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 7:46am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Prince George’s Shine

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    The First Click over at the Washington Post is reporting another violation of the Open Meetings Act in Prince George’s County. If Prince George’s County continues to flout the law it’s really going to hurt County Executive Jack Johnson’s chances at a statewide campaign. Actually, who am I fooling, Jack [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 8:04am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Regulatory Actions Belie Words

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    Governor Martin O’Malley’s regulatory bodies are afraid. They are too afraid to make a single hard controversial decision, and because of that, some of the things Governor O’Malley says he is for in the abstract are getting left behind. One of the reasons that Maryland has high electricity prices, and remember [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 7:58am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Lack of Vision

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    Continuing the discussion that former Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan started about the lack of vision on Governor Martin O’Malley’s part, I wanted to preview the 2010 election based upon the playbook by the Democratic Governor’s Association which Martin O’Malley is currently Vice-Chair of. The Democratic Governor’s Association is currently involved [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 7:47am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Return of the MontGuy

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    Doug Duncan had some harsh words for Governor Martin O’Malley. Per the Washington Post, Duncan said “He’s in over his head, you know, this every-three-months-we’re-going-to-make-cuts-to-the-budget, he’s reacting; he has no vision … he’s not engaged.” Yes, Duncan is right that O’Malley has no vision, but let’s be honest here and defend [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 7:47am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Is This Smart Politics?

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    A lot of what I would call “Vulnerable Democrats” are endorsing Martin O’Malley for Governor next year, despite the fact that he increased taxes by the largest amount in history, and will be in a situation to do so again after the election. Most people are looking at this list as [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 7:59am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • A Sustainable Budget

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    One of the claims made by Governor Martin O’Malley when he was raising our taxes was because we needed a sustainable budget, one that doesn’t rely on reoccurring transfers from other funds each year. This was a dig at his predecessor, who instead of raising the sales or income taxes, [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 8:02am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Incompetence of State Government

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    It’s pretty sad that one hand of State Government isn’t talking to the other hand, especially when both of those hands are in the same incompetent Department headed by drunken driving Secretary Eloise Foster. Secretary Foster heads up the Department of Budget and Management, and as was pretty obvious from the [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 8:06am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Cardin News Network…

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    Sorry for my absence all week. I had early morning meetings in order to meet a deadline and this gets pushed to the back burner. So Baltimore City Councilman William Cole is questioning the $300 cost that the Police have determined it cost for Delegate Cardin’s proposal. And it is low. [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 7:47am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Whose Job Is it To Cut the Budget?

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    So we wait for news on the other spending reductions that O’Malley will make. He had promised the locals he wouldn’t make them pay in order to gain favor from MACo so they would support his tax increase. Frederick County Commissioner Jan Gardner was very supportive, along with Jim Smith, and [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 8:01am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Hodge Podge of Fun

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    Martin O’Malley has finally decided that he needs to do something to get more jobs in Maryland so he is going to restart the Maryland Economic Development Commission. I guess since Governor O’Malley had the option to keep the Commission going after the previous Governor, then O’Malley didn’t really care [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 8:08am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Chair of Ethics Committee Refuses to Investigate Cardin

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    Apparently Delegate Brian McHale, the co-chair of the Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics wants to protect his buddy Delegate Jon Cardin because he told WJZ Channel 13 that he refuses to investigate unless somebody files a complaint. I know of at least one person that filed a complaint (although it [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 7:15am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • O’Malley Staffers Partying at MACo…

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    Maryland Politics Watch has unearthed some amazing photos from the Maryland Association of Counties (MACo) event that will probably get Jeremy Rosendale fired. Ok… who am I kidding… it probably won’t. Rosendale is Governor Martin O’Malley’s Deputy Director for Correspondence and Constituent Services, and in that position, it makes perfect [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 7:39am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Senator John Giannetti Award for Public Debauchery

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    It’s been a while since Senator John Gianetti lost his re-election campaign in 2006, getting knocked off in the primary by Jim Roseapepe, but his memory lives on. Today we announce the first ever winner of the Senator John Giannetti Award for Public Debacuhery. This award is best encapsulated by understanding [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 7:35am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Future of Maryland

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    So MACo is over and all your county councilmen and commissioners should be getting back to work today. You should give them a call and ask if they enjoyed their taxpayer financed vacation to Ocean City. County officials were upset that the State wouldn’t let them cut back funding on [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 8:03am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Martin O’Malley’s MACo SCAM Exposed

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    Governor Martin O’Malley’s Chief of Staff ordered around July 29th for all the State agencies to scale back their presence at MACo because of the budget issues. This was promptly leaked to the press and was a great PR move for the Governor, but it was apparently, too little too [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2009, 7:43am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Protesters and Seacrets

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    I want to add a voice to the debate over these town hall meetings.  If Eric Wargotz, who is challenging Senator Barbara Mikulski, wanted to get Towson University to hold a town hall forum on Health Care, would the University jump at the chance as they did for Senator Ben [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 7:23am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Parole and Probation Officers Strike Back

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    This letter really has to hurt. It was sent to Governor Martin O’Malley from AFSME Local #3661 who endorsed represent Maryland’s Department of Parole and Probation members. This is the letter referenced in a Gazette article by Sean Sedam late last month, and it is notable because of the strong [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 7:35am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • O’Malley Can Save Money by Dropping the Incompetence

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    Governor Martin O’Malley has asked the public to give him some ideas on where to cut the budget. Well Mark Newgent had a piece on Maryland Insurance Commissioner Ralph Tyler who has no time to talk to anybody. I wanted to offer some advice to Governor Martin O’Malley on how [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 7:50am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Lobbyists and Insurance Commissioners

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    Lobbyists spent over $13.9 million in Annapolis to sway the legislator’s opinion. I’m guessing nobody wonders why those represented by lobbyists got exemptions from tax increases or other special favors cut. These folks getting the huge dollars are former employees of Senate President Mike Miller or Mike Busch, or Cas [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 7:39am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Medicaid Reimbursement Rates

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    More on Governor Martin O’Malley’s recent budget cuts and priorities. See, there is a debate going on in Washington D.C. that you might have heard about on this “healthcare crisis”. One of the aspects of this crisis is access the quality healthcare. Access is not folks being able to afford healthcare, [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2009, 9:02am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • MACo Is a Waste Afterall

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    Regular readers of this blog should know two things. Governor Martin O’Malley and I rarely agree, and that I have constantly railed against the summer vacation of local government known as MACo. The Maryland Association of Counties summer conference is a week at the beach for local county councilman, commissioners [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 7:38am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • What Long Term Promises Will Be Made That Will Bankrupt the State, In Order to Save Face for the Next Election

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    Governor Martin O’Malley has a history of making a long term promise, in order to boost his re-election chances, and the consequences of those promises don’t seem to matter as long as he’ll be gone. He learned the trick at the Populist School of Government taught by Parris Glendenning. I [...]
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    Posted: July 28, 2009, 7:53am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Process

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    More about Governor Martin O’Malley’s budget cuts. Yes, I told you that O’Malley would announce furloughing state workers for around 9 and 10 days, and I still stand by that. He had to announce $700 million in budget cuts, and he only announced $280, less than half. Even he admitted that [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2009, 7:47am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • I Wonder Who ISN’T Getting Laid Off

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    Sorry for the lack of posts over the last two days. So on Tuesday, Governor Martin O’Malley announced that they were laying off 39 state employees and eliminating a bunch of vacant positions (yeah, we still have vacant positions). Of course, positions in the Governor’s Office that were vacant weren’t eliminated, [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2009, 7:42am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Wage Correction

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    Tomorrow Martin O’Malley will announce the furlough days for state employees, definitely in excess of 9 days, perhaps 10 days. It is the easy way to cut a budget, and the route the Governor keeps falling back on. A furlough is a belief that spending cuts are only temporary. The [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 9:04am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Hey Furloughed State Employee, Gov. O’Malley Needs Your Paycheck to Pay for the Mini-Bar

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    I’m sure most people read Drudge before they come to O’MalleyWatch, but if not, then you missed a great article about how the U.S. Governor’s being worried about the added burden of the Healthcare Proposal being debated in Congress as being a huge unfunded mandate. It is tough for Obama [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2009, 7:30am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • You Probably Have Too Much Freedom Anyway

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    Here is something I missed from back in February. The Mercatus Center at George Mason University did an in-depth study analyzing the freedoms that each of the 50 states afford its citizens. They analyzed each state based on fiscal policy ranking, regulatory policy ranking, economic freedom ranking, and personal freedom [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 7:56am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Subsidized Housing

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    A story caught my eye this morning that reminded me of a very disturbing history during Governor Martin O’Malley’s time as Mayor of Baltimore. The story is in the Baltimore Business Journal and is about how the state of Maryland is receiving $44 million in Stimulus cash for subsidized housing [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 7:51am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • About That Job Creation

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    As the newspaper industry continues to die, one of the biggest victims is the investigative reporter. Sure the Examiner newspaper was never big on it, instead focusing for 3 minute reads, but Len Lazarick has found a new venue which allows for him to excel at a bit more in-depth [...]
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    Posted: July 13, 2009, 9:03am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Death Taxes From Those That Are Still Alive?

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    I am just simply stunned by an article in today’s Washington Examiner that Maryland can collect death taxes on people still alive. According to the article by Nancy Dunham: The Court of Special Appeals recently “required a Montgomery County family to pay $138,518.53 in state inheritance taxes on gifts a rich [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 7:56am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • That Stimulus Thing

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    There are two distinct arguments currently being made about the economy. The Administration for President Barrack Obama is claiming that not enough time has been given to let the stimulus work because despite their desire to do project ready work, only 10% of the money has been expended. Then on the [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2009, 7:37am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Jim Smith Decides Not to Run for Comptroller

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    Earth shattering news… ok, maybe just political watching in Maryland shattering news. Jim Smith won’t run for Comptroller. That doesn’t rule out a run for something else, and it leaves open a huge amount of other opportunities. Will somebody else form the Baltimore region come up and challenge Peter Franchot? [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 7:58am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Electricity Powers The Computer That Posted This

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    “I don’t know another way to move us forward except to be relentless,” Martin O’Malley according to the Washington Post talking about electricity rates . That’s why he waited until his fourth legislative session before introducing his bill to re-regulate electricity. Relentless… in the face of an election. Blair Lee [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 7:50am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Let The SunShine in On the Purple Line

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    An interesting story in the Gazette Newspaper by Andrew Ujifusa on a possible open meetings law violation, the development of the Purple Line mass transit option that O’Malley promised to build during the campaign and Senator Richard Madaleno schmoozing with campaign donors rather than grassroots groups. [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2009, 7:38am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Priorities: Transportation Edition

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    That’s what it all comes down to with the O’Malley Administration and whether you are going to vote to re-elect Governor Martin O’Malley. We’ve already discussed that the Governor spent hundreds of millions of dollars on purchasing land for preservation, but was also the first Governor in years to spend [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 8:45am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Interesting Things to Note…

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    Governor Martin O’Malley went on a vacation and now that he’s back he’ll spend some time assisting local governments in wasting your tax dollars at the Maryland Municipal League conference in Ocean City. MACo will be having their summer conference coming up soon as well. No they didn’t get great [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2009, 7:59am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Will The Death Penalty Really Come Back?

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      Even though the Jim Brochin championed changes to the Death Penalty make it pretty unlikely that we will ever see an additional death penalty conviction in Maryland, even if it were Osama Bin Laden or the DC Snipers, but we do have convicted killers sitting on death row that could [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 8:04am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Reason NOT to Re-Elect Martin O’Malley by Mike Miller

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    Mike Miller just made the case for not re-electing himself, or Governor Martin O’Malley. Yesterday, the Senate President/Neutered Bull promised that if he was re-elected the State of Maryland would pass a gas tax increase in his first year in office.   From the article in the Frederick News Post by Ed [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 7:20am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Baltimore City Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Settled

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    The City of Baltimore decided to settle a lawsuit by black officers in the Baltimore City Police Department who said they were more harshly punished than their white counterparts. Stephen Janis at Investigative Voice has a very detailed account of the past : who was the Mayor of Baltimore when [...]
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    Posted: June 23, 2009, 7:56am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Gang Violence Increases in Maryland

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    Headlines have recently been made about gang leaders in Maryland that have ordered the killings of others but the State has been unable to secure convictions or even use the anti-gang legislation touted by Governor Martin O’Malley.   The legislation was severely watered down by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee because [...]
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    Posted: June 22, 2009, 9:09am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • What Effort?

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    Governor Martin O’Malley’s Board of Education voted not to allow counties such as Prince George’s to spend less on education this year than they did last year. Many counties applied to get a waiver to the maintenance of effort laws, but this was rejected by O’Malley’s Administration. Yay! Right? I [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 7:00am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Ingratiated Yourself with the Big Boss

    Number of comments: 10
    Tomorrow night Governor Martin O’Malley will be in St. Mary’s City but without the Governor before his name as he will be performing with his band O’Malley’s March as part of the St. Mary’s College River Concert Series.   So a College in Maryland that received State funding, and wants to continue [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2009, 7:36am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Tax Revenues Suck

    Number of comments: 10
    So another month goes by, and the State revenues are still down. Sales, income, corporate, and cigarette taxes are not bringing in the bucks. But we’re all still playing the lottery because at this point that’s the only hope for change some folks have.   Too bad we don’t actually have slots [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2009, 7:56am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Do Campaign Contributions Matter?

    Number of comments: 10
    <!– /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:”"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –> Recently, the Supreme Court ruled that a West Virginia judge, who was elected, had to recuse himself" [...]
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    Posted: June 15, 2009, 8:01am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Supreme Court Ruling that Campaign Cash Matters

    Recently, the Supreme Court ruled that a West Virginia judge, who was elected, had to recuse himself because of the large amount of campaign contributions he received from one of the sides in the case. The case, Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co, might have a substantial impact if we [...]
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    Posted: June 15, 2009, 7:59am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • What Perfect Timing

    Number of comments: 10
    What a coincidence. On the same day that the Public Service Commission announced that despite the definitions put into State law two years ago by Governor Martin O’Malley that it had regulatory powers over the Constellation/EDF merger, aides to Governor O’Malley released their plan to get some sort of rate [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2009, 7:53am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • How the Virginia Elections Affect Maryland

    Number of comments: 10
    Virginia has two real big oddities in its Gubernatorial election, (1) a Governor can not run for two consecutive terms, and (2) they conduct their election in an off-year. Tuesday’s election that chose Creigh Deeds to represent the Democrats on the November ballot has some implications for us here in Maryland. Sure [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2009, 8:01am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Constellation/ EDF deal

    Number of comments: 10
    So Governor Martin O’Malley’s inside guys made headlines last week about how hard they were working on trying to secure rate relief for BGE customers by holding the ownership purchase of Constellation Energy Group to EDF hostage. They leaked e-mails between them and Constellation showed that O’Malley’s political crew were [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 7:24am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Table Games in Delaware

    Number of comments: 10
    Sure Maryland botched the whole slots thing, and even though our Governor needs the slots revenue to pay for his travel bills, Delaware is moving forward with table games. Slots opponents always said that when you approve slots that other forms of gambling would then sneak their way into Maryland [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2009, 7:40am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Mike Miller’s Getting Out There

    Number of comments: 10
    Another failed “revenue generation” attempt from our good ol’ General Assembly. These folks really can’t do anything right. Ok, on another subject. Looking at his history, Senator Mike Miller really hates Republican women. I’m not sure why, but his three biggest targets in the last election were the three Republican women [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2009, 7:57am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • An Excercise

    Number of comments: 10
    Let’s pretend… Your son has the second worst grades in the entire class, to the point that he is failing and there is only one big dummy worse than your big dummy. Well he improves his grades up to a D, but so does every other kid in the class, and [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2009, 7:59am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Re-Election Campaign

    Number of comments: 10
    So Martin O’Malley has begun the campaign for Governor. Along with attempting to get on television every chance he can for the last two weeks, O’Malley has also begun to ratchet up the rhetoric and do his favorite thing in a campaign: make promises he can’t keep. Coming off the tail [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2009, 7:45am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Gay Marriage Recognition

    Number of comments: 10
    The big news over the weekend was Attorney General Doug Gansler’s consideration of recognizing gay marriages preformed in other States even though the Maryland Court of Appeals has ruled that marriage in Maryland is between a man and a woman. When it comes to the legal interpretation of the Constitution though, [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2009, 7:58am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Our Democracy Is Over…

    Number of comments: 10
    If we completely absolve elected officials of anything they do while being paid to represent us… [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2009, 8:53am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Ethics of a State Party Chairmanship

    Number of comments: 10
    There are two posts today, make sure you see the “Featured” post about Len Lazarick’s Free State Foundation report on StateStat. The former chair of the Maryland Democratic Party was a guy named Wayne Rogers and he got a bill passed by the Maryland General Assembly that severely helped his company. [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2009, 7:39am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Mystery of StateStat

    Number of comments: 10
    Len Lazarick, former Examiner State House Bureau Chief, has moved on to the Free State Foundation and released a very detailed analysis of StateStat, Governor Martin O’Malley’s holy grail of government efficiency. This is a very interesting read and if you have some time you should delve into it to [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2009, 7:27am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Tax Increases Matter Part II…

    Number of comments: 10
    I’ve been making the contention lately, along with a ton of other people, that taxes matter and that’s one of the reasons that millionaires are “fleeing” the state. This morning Blair Lee from the Gazette was on WBAL making the point that a millionaire can give up their Maryland residency [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2009, 7:56am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Getting Out of a Recession

    Number of comments: 10
    One of the claims made by Governor Martin O’Malley that is almost laughable is that because we “invested” in his priorities that we would “rebound quicker than other states”. Is he just being a cheerleader, or is he choosing his language very carefully? Yes Maryland will get out of the [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2009, 8:02am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • When are Education Cuts Acceptable?

    Number of comments: 10
    During the campaign we all remember Martin O’Malley telling his opponent in the debate not to sully the good name of Joe Curran. The same Joe Curran that forced the State to give drivers licenses to illegal immigrants. But that’s not the reason the opponent was “sullying” then-Attorney General Joe [...]
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    Posted: May 22, 2009, 8:04am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • BIOlogical Urge to Overpromise and Under Deliver

    Number of comments: 10
    Is Martin O’Malley physically unable from going out and speaking without making a promise to spend more money? I mean, he is currently asking every department to cut spending, and then he flies down to Atlanta and makes a speech in front of a Bio-technology conference promising to spend over [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2009, 7:21am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Nothing today

    Number of comments: 10
    Enjoy the beautiful outdoors as you stare longingly from your work window. [...]
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    Posted: May 20, 2009, 7:36am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Cell Phones and Guns

    Number of comments: 10
    Cell Phones in Prison I would applaud Governor Martin O’Malley if he continues through and ignores the Federal Government’s ban on cell phone jamming technology. This would make life safer for witnesses to crimes and correctional officers and if the federal government is going to stand in the way, and our [...]
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    Posted: May 19, 2009, 7:44am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Legal Reform

    Number of comments: 10
    The cost of lawsuits drives the prices for products and services we pay up sharply, some claim as high as 33%. But the legislature in Maryland is dominated by trial lawyers and the chance for any type of legal reform is slim to none. Unless the target of the lawsuits [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2009, 8:41am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Baltimore Sun Editorial Board Can’t Read… errr… Do Math

    Number of comments: 10
    I’m always one willing to know when I’m wrong and that’s why I have pulled down this post. I owe the Sun Editorial Board an apology for questioning their math. Turns out I don’t understand taxes. So the $20,000 difference in taxes claim by the Sun is correct because of a [...]
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    Posted: May 15, 2009, 7:51am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Revenue Estimates

    Number of comments: 10
    In the 2010 race for Comptroller, will Jim Smith attempt to use Peter Franchot’s faulty revenue estimates against him. Personally, it’s the only thing I could see, unless Smith wants to use Franchot’s opposition to the tech tax or millionaire’s tax against him in a primary, which would then be [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2009, 8:04am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Saving the Bay

    Number of comments: 10
    One of the most annoying things to me during the last election was when then-Mayor Martin O’Malley would take an unpopular program of the incumbent Governor’s and exploit it, while not specifically saying that he would get rid of it. What I am specifically talking about is the Chesapeake Bay [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2009, 7:40am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Reform of the Modern Newspaper

    Number of comments: 10
    Newspaper circulation is down drastically and ad revenues are plummeting even faster. Many of my fellow conservative bloggers would say that the recent layoffs from the Baltimore Sun of 61 editors and newsroom staff is a great thing because the Sun’s liberal slant has brought this on themselves. But the [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2009, 9:00am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Ethics Reform

    Number of comments: 10
    So it’s been about a year since the FBI raided the home of State Senator, and Budget and Taxation Chairman, Ulysses Currie. Since that time, several fundraising letters have gone out to help pay for the legal defense of the powerful committee chairman, and he still serves in his role [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2009, 8:04am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Last Promise Standing

    Number of comments: 10
    Blair Lee in the Gazette today on O’Malley’s only major campaign promise that was kept. An addendum to Blair Lee’s column. During the campaign Martin O’Malley also promised to freeze community college tuition. However, they have been hit with back to back to back increases. I’ve already made my thoughts known that [...]
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    Posted: May 08, 2009, 8:01am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • 2010 Governor’s Race

    Number of comments: 10
    George Owings is thinking about running for Governor in the Democratic Primary in order to pull the “hard working” Conservative Democrat vote. Wayne Curry (former Prince George’s County Executive rather than Uly Currie who is the corrupt Prince George’s County Senator) is considering a run for Governor in the Democratic [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2009, 8:04am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Government Produced News Coverage

    Number of comments: 10
    I’m not trying to be coy about the title and once again hammer Governor Martin O’Malley over his well-staffed public relations team. Today I am taking aim at the Mecca of spending, Montgomery County. Who would guess that such a progressive place as Montgomery County would have such an in [...]
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    Posted: May 06, 2009, 8:02am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • And We’re Back

    Number of comments: 7
    Welcome to the launch of O’MalleyWatch.com 2010. As the State of Maryland prepares for the 2010 elections, this website will serve as a valuable tool for voters to see the record of State level elected officials in order to determine who deserves their vote in 2010. And as always we [...]
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    Posted: May 05, 2009, 3:24pm EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • The Democrat Donor Bailout

    Number of comments: 10
    Sheila Dixon tried to give a million bailout to one of the Democrat Party of Maryland’s prized donors. I guess it pays to have friends in high places. You see, Struever, Eccles and Rouse owe Baltimore City $1.7 million and they don’t have it. What they do have is the [...]
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    Posted: May 05, 2009, 7:50am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • Governor Martin O’Malley’s Handling of the Flu

    Number of comments: 10
    The Washington Post did a story on Saturday about the differences between Virginia Governor Tim Kaine’s handling of the Swine Flu outbreak and Maryland’s own Governor Martin O’Malley. The Post’s take on the issue is that Kaine is taking a serious action based approach is a laid out methodology that [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2009, 7:51am EDT
    by Martin Watcher

  • On Hiatus Until May 4th

    Number of comments: 10
    Seriously… and this is so tough… I’m on a break from posting until May 4th. [...]
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    Posted: April 20, 2009, 7:04am EDT
    by Martin Watcher
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