Thursday, July 05, 2012
Politicians - Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley
Someone once warned me not to trip over the desk I was at while looking at the desk I wanted.
Perhaps, that's the case here; or, else it's just plain old corruption...
Gregg Easterbrook gives his opinion at theAtlantic.com:
"Meanwhile Maryland's governor is Martin O'Malley, constantly mentioned -- just ask him! -- as the Democratic Party's hope for the White House in 2016.
Yet in six years in office, O'Malley has done nothing to address his state's power-utility woes. Four days after an unusually strong 'derecho' thunderstorm struck the nation's capital area, Dominion Power, the utility for the Northern Virginia suburbs around Washington, D.C., had restored 67 percent of its outages. BG&E, the utility for Baltimore, had restored 61 percent. Together these two high-performing utilities had restored power to about 750,000 customers by the fourth day. The woeful Pepco, which serves Montgomery County and parts of D.C., had restored just 43 percent of its outages, bringing a mere 200,000 back online. Some 239,000 Pepco customers remained without power, and the utility was saying it would be until Friday night before power was back, and then only to 90 percent of outages. This is happening as a heat wave pushes daily temperatures close to 100 degrees.
Montgomery County, Maryland, is one of the nation's bluest and wealthiest counties; its perennially awful power service raises the question of whether liberals can make the trains run on time."
