FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 19, 2013
November 19, 2013
Contact:
Steve Crim
scrim@changemaryland.org
(410) 353 3116
Steve Crim
scrim@changemaryland.org
(410) 353 3116
ANNAPOLIS – Business owner and Change Maryland founder Larry Hogan released the following statement on Governor O’Malley's recent release of "Belief." The video is the Governor’s most recent effort to gain relevancy on the national stage.
"Martin O’Malley's ‘belief' video is more like make believe," charged Hogan. “This video is just one more item in a long list of attempts by the Governor to spin his failures into something he can campaign on."
O’Malley's "belief" video makes several claims of success. Change Maryland, the largest non-partisan organization in Maryland released the following fact check of the video:
O’Malley Claim #1: Racial tension down during time as Mayor of Baltimore
Fact: The NAACP and ACLU sued Baltimore City as a result of Martin O’Malley's over-zealous "zero-tolerance" policies. The "mass-arrest" lawsuit led to an $870,000 settlement.
O’Malley Claim #2: Number 1 in education
Fact: Maryland’s exclusion of certain students from submitted test scores has skewed the results in favor of the state. According to the Baltimore Sun, "Maryland excluded 66 percent of fourth-graders with disabilities for the reading test, far higher than the national rate of 16 percent. The state with the second-highest rate of exclusion of special-education students was Georgia, with 32 percent."
O’Malley Claim #3: Number 1 in innovation and entrepreneurship
Fact: O’Malley's own Lt. Governor admits that the business climate in Maryland is bad – 43rd in the country. In addition, the state has lost over 6,500 small businesses and added 120,000 people to the unemployment rate – numbers that certainly don’t indicate a positive climate for businesses or entrepreneurs.
O’Malley Claim #4: Made the Chesapeake Bay healthier
Fact: The overall quality of the Chesapeake Bay remains poor and we consistently miss self-imposed water quality goals. In 2011, most regions of the Bay had Water Quality Index score in the poor range. In 2012, Bay scored 47% for overall health.
O’Malley Claim # 5: He was cutting the cost of statewide government.
Fact: The O’Malley-Brown Administration increased spending nearly eight billion dollars since 2007. The Fiscal Year 2014 Budget, the last for Governor O’Malley, cites a record $37.3 billion, while the Fiscal Year 2007 Budget, the last for the previous administration, was just over $29 billion. He in fact increased spending by 30%.
"This isn’t the first time Martin O’Malley has been caught cherry-picking data," Hogan continued. "In 2012, the governor refuted our Change Maryland Tax Migration Study using taxpayer-funded state resources by eliminating competitive states in our region. Facts are stubborn things for this governor and a slick video can't hide the embarrassing performance of the O’Malley-Brown administration.
"Martin O’Malley hasn’t cut a single cent out of Maryland's state budget. In fact, he has increased spending year after year – nearly 30% since 2007, and has raised taxes and fees on Marylanders forty consecutive times in order to pay for all that spending."
Change Maryland is the state’s leading non-partisan grassroots political movement. Since the beginning of 2013, the organization has added 40,000 people from every county in the state. Change Maryland's steadfast commitment to raising public awareness about the economic decline in Maryland has resulted in the organization becoming the leading voice of opposition to the powers-that-be in Annapolis.
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SOURCES:
City approves settlement with NAACP, ACLU in ‘mass arrest’ case
Baltimore Sun, June 23, 2010
http://articles.baltimoresun.
Md. Excluded large number of special-education students in national test
Baltimore Sun, November 16, 2013
http://www.baltimoresun.com/
The Brown-Ulman Compact with Maryland Business
AnthonyBrown.com, Accessed November 19, 2013
http://anthonybrown.com/
Maryland Loses 6,500 Small Businesses in Three Years
Change Maryland, July 30, 2012
http://www.changemaryland.org/
Chesapeake Bay – Indicator Details: 2011
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies, Accessed November 19, 2013
http://ian.umces.edu/ecocheck/
Chesapeake Bay – Indicator Details: 2012
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies, Accessed November 19, 2013
http://ian.umces.edu/ecocheck/
Change Maryland Chairman Larry Hogan on FY ’14 Budget
Change Maryland, January 16, 2013
http://www.changemaryland.org/
FY 2007 Highlights
Maryland Department of Budget and Management, Accessed November 19, 2013
http://www.dbm.maryland.gov/
Maryland Governor Misstates State Tax ComparisonsBaltimore Sun, June 23, 2010
http://articles.baltimoresun.
Md. Excluded large number of special-education students in national test
Baltimore Sun, November 16, 2013
http://www.baltimoresun.com/
The Brown-Ulman Compact with Maryland Business
AnthonyBrown.com, Accessed November 19, 2013
http://anthonybrown.com/
Maryland Loses 6,500 Small Businesses in Three Years
Change Maryland, July 30, 2012
http://www.changemaryland.org/
Chesapeake Bay – Indicator Details: 2011
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies, Accessed November 19, 2013
http://ian.umces.edu/ecocheck/
Chesapeake Bay – Indicator Details: 2012
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies, Accessed November 19, 2013
http://ian.umces.edu/ecocheck/
Change Maryland Chairman Larry Hogan on FY ’14 Budget
Change Maryland, January 16, 2013
http://www.changemaryland.org/
FY 2007 Highlights
Maryland Department of Budget and Management, Accessed November 19, 2013
http://www.dbm.maryland.gov/
Tax Foundation, July 10, 2012
http://taxfoundation.org/blog/
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