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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGov Malloy: 'Dems were Scared of making contrasts, owing their record & saying THIS is what We did'
Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy has earned the right to talk some trash.
...Malloy enacted one of the most ambitiously liberal agendas of any governor in the nation, from higher taxes on the wealthy to a higher minimum wage, guaranteed paid sick leave for workers, protections for gays and immigrants, strict new gun-control laws, looser marijuana-possession laws, allowing the unionization of daycare workers, and outlawing the death penalty...
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Tom Foley wanted it put out that there we raised taxes. And he talked about it month after month after month after month. But once people started to pay attention, I pointed out what we did with the money, which was lower the crime rate, increase graduation rates, invest in infrastructure, create a Housing Department, create an Energy Department, create a Department of Aging. We did all of these things. It was the right policy, and ultimately people came around.
Democrats elsewhere, he says, were scared of making contrasts, of owning up to their record and saying, This is why we did what we did.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/19/connecticut-governor-dan-malloy-to-democrats-grow-a-pair.html
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Tom Foley wanted it put out that there we raised taxes. And he talked about it month after month after month after month. But once people started to pay attention, I pointed out what we did with the money, which was lower the crime rate, increase graduation rates, invest in infrastructure, create a Housing Department, create an Energy Department, create a Department of Aging. We did all of these things. It was the right policy, and ultimately people came around.
Democrats elsewhere, he says, were scared of making contrasts, of owning up to their record and saying, This is why we did what we did.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/19/connecticut-governor-dan-malloy-to-democrats-grow-a-pair.html
He also calls out Democrats who ran from the president:
I was never going to run away from the president, Malloy said. It was not even in consideration. I support the president. I think the president has been right. I mean, look at the numbers, look at the job growth, sustained job growththe greatest in American history. The. Greatest. In. American. History. Why didnt people run on that?"
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2014/11/20/12476/763
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Gov Malloy: 'Dems were Scared of making contrasts, owing their record & saying THIS is what We did' (Original Post)
kpete
Nov 2014
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ebbie15644
(1,214 posts)1. During President Obama's entire presidency there
has been a refusal to acknowledge his administration's successes. Not just by Congress though, his administration itself hasn't done a great job in "trumpeting" his successes.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)2. Can we borrow him?
Because MA just elected Mitt Romney Jr.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)3. You have my attention.