MARTIN O'MALLEY

Position on Issues: Guns

Position on Issues: Education

• Increase gun control

• Allow refinancing college loans and income-based repayments

Position on Issues: Immigration

Position on Issues: Taxes

• Ban dozens of assault weapons

• Create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants

• Encourage more public charter schools

• If elected president, Martin O'Malley plans to mix spending cuts with tax increases

• Complete College Maryland: incentives to finish on time

• Pass the DREAM Act (conditional residency)

• Require fingerprints to buy a handgun

• He also wants to restructure pension plans

• Provide necessary resources for students, teachers, and parents

• Offer all parents Charter Schools and public school choice

• It is not clear if O'Malley wants to balance the Federal budget

Fun Facts About Martin O'Malley

Position on Issues: Environment

• In 1990, he married Katie Curran and went on to have four children (Grace, Tara, William and Jack)

Position on Issues: Science

• Martin O'Malley is currently 52 years old

• Passed milestone of preserving one million acres of open space

• O'Malley fully believes in science

• He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law

• He was the 47th mayor of Baltimore and the 61st governor of Maryland

• Science creates jobs

• Flush Tax: fund green upgrade to wastewater treatment plants

• He's a Roman Catholic

Video:

• Adopt the Clean Cars Act to fight global warming

• https://www.facebook.com/MartinOMalley/videos/10156337348730393/

MARTIN O'MALLEY

Do We Think He Would Make a Good President?

Position on Issues: Women's Rights

Position on Issues: Healthcare

• All-payer system: state caps medical costs and hospital fees

• Yes, because he seems open-minded about most topics. Also, even though he is Catholic, he thoroughly believes in science. He is pro-choice on the topic of abortion and he believes that same-sex marriage should remain legal.

• He has increased access to contraception and pregnancy councilling

• Obamacare will work once it gets past the scare tactics

• Supports government-run healthcare

• Believes that expanding mandated paid overtime would benefit women

• Adopt national health reform legislation before the end of the year

• Even though he supports strict government regulation on guns, he believes that government should stay out of personal and controversial issues such as marriage, reproduction, and abortion.

• Increased support for new mothers: signed the Maryland Parental Leave Act in 2014

• Health care should be a right, not a privilege

Position on Issues: Foreign Policy

Position on Issues: Economy

• Economic injustice is tearing the country apart

• New foreign policy of engagement and collaboration

Position on Social Issues

• Fight big banks that cannot be jailed

• Respect right to shy away from foreign policy

Abortion

Same-Sex Marriage

• Middle-out economics instead of trickle-down economics

• Israeli separation barrier might be called "peace wall"

• Abortion should be legal, without government restriction

• Same-sex marriage should remain legal

• Supports federal abortion funding

• Limit budget growth to below inflation and reduce taxes to help job creators

• Progressive Internationalism: globalize with the US pre-eminence

• Pro-choice

The Death Penalty

• Opposes the death penalty

• He reduced the sentences of Maryland's four remaining death row inmates