Springer said although “the Democratic Party of Wisconsin is not endorsing or supporting any candidates in the primary”.
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One of the five Democrats running for president who will attend Tuesday’s debate says he has a strong passion for Wisconsin politics.
Again, during the debate O’Malley reaffirmed his support for the gun controls he passed as governor-even in the face of surging gun violence and record-setting homicide rates in Baltimore-and he told Americans his governorship was characterized “by principle” rather than “by pandering to the NRA”. While O’Malley may have been good at passing gun control laws, comparatively speaking his gun laws weren’t good at gun murder control.
Hillary Clinton, not to be outdone, said she was also proud to have the NRA as an enemy, although in 2008, the story was a little different.
Tonight was the opportunity for the three trailing Democrats to make a splash and introduce themselves as the antidote to the insider/outsider tango Clinton and Sanders have been dancing for last few weeks.
A perk for Boston politicos watching the debate, while simultaneously keeping one eye on Twitter, was the sudden and somewhat comical role of Boston City Councilor Matt O’Malley, who was subjected to numerous instances of mistaken identity throughout the night. Look how glad we are actually to be talking about the issues that matter most to people around their kitchen table.
“I said it was a mistake”, Clinton said. We see leaders to vote for, rather than clowns to vote against.
It wasn’t all smooth sailing though.
Martin O’Malley is calling for a green revolution. Sen.
But he teamed up with Sanders to tangle with Clinton on fiscal policy, saying she doesn’t want to reinstate Glass-Steagall, a Depression-Era law that separated the banking industry from the securities industry that was repealed in 1999.
They are not attempting to ban these firearms because they threaten the lives of law-abiding citizens, but explicitly because such arms form the backbone of the “well-regulated” (smoothly-functioning, i.e., well-armed and trained) citizen militia that the Founding Fathers insists we need to keep the federal government in check and act as a counterweight to future tyrants who would use the military against the people. It’s hard to say that either former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee or former Virginia Sen.
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In his closing statement, O’Malley complimented his fellow contenders and drew a contrast with the two Republican presidential debates.
