I see you are taking the lead of Obama except for the decor. Who is paying for this photo op? You talk about jobs while the the economist talk about another recession and the feds print more money we don't have.

More pandering right before the storm.

Make this one of your first stops and talk to these people.

http://dundalk.patch.com/blog_posts/techalloy-to-close-in-st-helena#comment_4682298

O'Malley has to be the #1 cheerleader for the State of Maryland. It is his duty to pitch for business, tourism and education to want to come here, other responsibilites notwithstanding.

Bart, I understand but compare cost of a cheerleaders uniform to that buss. In todays world of communication, i.e. skype, conference calls just to name a few, there are more cost efficient ways to do this.

I don't see cable news relying on buses to gather ongoing news. Today's technology is more sophisticated than that.

There's a lot more to business and promotion than communicating to a lot of people sitting in their underwear on their computers. You have to get out there.
Everybody has a bus.
If O'Malley said the sky was blue, there are those who would disagree with him. There is no sense in discussion.

Steve, the taxpayers don't pay for CNN's budget.

Utilizing a bus is a very efficient way to get your message to the people. Would you rather them spend the money on a leased office somewhere? That wouldn't be very effective.

Is it a "Green" bus?

Perhaps the reason MD is #1 in Entrepreneurship is due to the fact that 1M in MD work for the Fed Govt and get frustrated by the snarl and take the ideas with them as they launch business. Issue I have is I don't see many jobs from these types of upstarts at all. Our State has not done much to prevent jobs from going elsewhere. Example: the MD Port Administration did not dredge for the big Asian Container Ships 20 years ago and that business went to Norfolk VA and Elizabeth NJ. Now we have a good chunk of the Port business back but it is mostly bringing in cars from over seas and not many jobs are needed in this type of an operation. MD port used to be a leader in warehousing, drayage, stevedoring, cartage, repack and ship that offered many jobs to MD in and around the port. Also the trucking companies all picked up extra business as well. Those days are long gone. The Transportation Industry has suffered as much as any in MD for a long time. Now the big save all will be off loading containers packed for destinations all over USA and shuttling them to the Rail Yard for double stacking inter-modal transport. Well this is going to bring in Zero jobs for MD. Oh the increased taxes from the operations in MD will be wonderful, but not many jobs gained at all!

The Port of Baltimore is rocking.

It's ranked #1 in the country for:
Trucks
Imported salt
Imported iron ore
Farm and Construction Equipment
Imported Forest Products
Imported Gypsum
Imported Sugar

......and it's ranked #2 in the nation in:
Autos
Exported Coal
Imported Aluminium

Plus we have the new cranes in from China and we can recieve the Post Panamexs' That's Huge!

No jobs for warehouse employees, dock workers, dispatchers, billing clerks, local P+D drivers, management.....No LTL Freight from any of these imports.

The Port supports over 120,000 and growing...

http://www.thesentinel.com/pgs/Port-of-Baltimore-sign-of-economic-growth

Wait until they get the Steel Mill in Sparrows Point torn down. Then watch the Port grow exponentially.

Rah Rah Sis Boom Bah: what kind of job opportunities for MD people who used to work in the freight industry?

Jobs for the "new Americans" not you! Sorry, your out of luck!

Whatever they are qualified to do. "New Americans"?? Hopefully.

My wife pointed out that I made a mistake. Baltimore is getting the Super Post Panamex ships. Only Baltimore and Jacksonville are the only two ports on the East Coast that can handle them.

Buck. as long as I don't look up.

O'Malley is going on ANOTHER over seas trip for the greater good of Marylanders to bring jobs to the state. Where are all the jobs he promised from all the other trips " vacations " we paid for?

Business trips. It's what a Governor is supposed to do.

This page sums it all up.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/states/MD.html

Results for the trips are what I expect. That's what he promised and didn't make good on it, as always happens.

Of course he did. Maryland exports around $50 million per year to Israel. It's always good business to visit your best customers from time to time.

They are promoting Maryland Businesses. That's what trade delegations do.

Who's paying for all of O'Malley's trips that he makes for the Democratic party? I guess he's promoting business for Maryland on those trips. O;Malley is promoting O'Malley and nothing more at our expense.

A better question might be to ask Andy Harris how his constituents benefitted from his trip to Israel.

http://clerk.house.gov/GTImages/MT/2011/500006417.pdf

O'Malley should be a public servant, not a Democratic dictator. In these times he should cutting wastefull spending, delaying projects until the economy turns around, stop taxing Marylanders into the poor house, do something for the hundred's of small businesses that have gone under since he's been in office. Tax money from the casinos are coming in now but I'm sure that won't be enough for him. O'Malley and friends have been the most backdoor politics group Maryland has ever seen. Nothing good for the tax payers, it's all about him.

How soon we forget all about the BGEhrlich /JAck Abramoff Bromance.

Did we forget that as Mayor, O'Malley fought the BGE rates and when he became Governor, he let the rates rise without a word. He fought the casinos and said they were wrong for Maryland until he became Governor. Talk about self serving.

What a joke. Maryland has lost somewhere in the neighborhood of 6,500 businesses since OweMalley became governor. Either moved out of state (VA) or went out of business.

I'd like to see a link to the 6,500 number too. It smells like a Change Maryland fabrication..

Breitbart or Faux News/Murdoch.

Fox went conservative and they left the others in the dust. The Times is dying a slow death.