The O'Malley Insult
I understand that Martin O'Malley is a panderer. Everybody knows that. I understand that Martin O'Malley wants to make sure that he appears as somebody who "understands" the immigration issue. Somebody who wants to look like he cares. I understand that Martin O'Malley was buying Delegates off on promises of drivers licenses for illegal immigrants in order to get his Constitutional Amendment on slots passed.
But Martin O'Malley's using the term "New Americans" as a term to describe illegal aliens is a gigantic insult to a pretty large swath of Maryland's population.
So many Marylanders are descended from recent immigrants, families who came to the United States in droves from Ireland, and Italy, and other far flung locations. Many of them just in the last century. It is in no way hyperbolic to say that we are indeed a national of immigrants, those who have come to the promised land in search of the best of all possible lives.
But most of those folks came here legally.
What Martin O'Malley does by calling illegal immigrants "New Americans" is to attempt to legitimatize illegitimate and illegal behavior. There is nothing American about one's first act in the United States to be breaking the law. Nor is then anything legitimate and proper about our state's Governor trying to turn a blind eye to such behaviors.
But this goes far, far beyond Martin O'Malley turning a blind eye to and helping to fund illegal behavior. What O'Malley said was thoroughly insulting. It is insulting to the families who came here through legal means so many years ago. It is doubly insulting to those immigrants who are living and working with us right now who are applying for citizenship through legal means. Those are the folks who we should be encouraging. Those are the folks who are truly inspired to become "New Americans" in the tradition of the millions who have come before them.
Martin O'Malley was trying to score a cheap political point with the members of his base who support such illegal behaviors. What he really did was stick a thumb in the eye of millions of Marylanders who see through the cheap political stunt it truly was...
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I descend from the Wallace family that once owned most of the land along the Potomac from Anacostia up to Rock Creek. They came here in the 1730s, built a farm, fought in the Revolutionary War with the Dandy 5th, and then gave the land so it might be given for the new capital.
In the 1790s the left Maryland to settle and found Washington County, PA. They even were the key leaders in the Whiskey Rebellion.
As an "Old American", I am insulted.
And as an "Old American" who is also one of O'Guvnah's employees, I will make my displeasure known to him on every occasion.
Gunpowder-
Don't you risk becoming an ex-employee? Make your displeasure known on Election day (or earlier with Early Voting).
Chester,
Thanks for the concern, but I've got mad skills with what I do, and I'll find another job if it comes to that.
I view myself as citizen first, taxpayer second, and employee somewhere else on the list.
Which is the view I think any state employee should always take.
If the Ehrlich campaign does not jump on the MOM comment, and Bob's follow-up, and make an ad to 'law-abiding citizens', they are nuts.
I have been telling everyone about the corruption of Martin OMalley and Illegal Immigration for years now and all of you ignored me until it came time to elect the next Governor. Perhaps you all should have jumped on my wagon from the beginning and then we would not be having this discussion today. Help Save Maryland has been trying to educate the state of maryland and its state assembly for years, all turned a deaf ear until now. Myself along with Newly Elected Chris Shank held Donald Munson accountable for his Casa De Maryland support and he is now Ex Senator Munson. I have called on Investigations into OWEMALLEYS tie ins with Casa for the past 4 years and no one has listened. Mikulski, Cardin, Edwards, Van Hollen, Cummings, Madaleno, Frosh, Neimann, Miller, Busch, Lt Gov Brown, Ana Sol, Hixson, Ramirez, Harrington, and the head cheese himself, Vallario, all linked into Torres and Thomas Perez and not one person has done a thing about it. So, now that it's out in the open even more, for those of you who simply ignored myself and others, it's to late, you had the chance, Ehrlich had the chance early on in his campaign. Billions of dollars have gone to Casa, Tax Dollars and County Funding and State Funding. It's insane and while we are all suffering under the regime of OMalley Miller and Busch, nothing has been done.
Cecil Calvert
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