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Despite the odds he faced in the general election, Tufaro promised to campaign against O'Malley, not taking defeat as an inevitability. [30] He pointed to Bret Schundler, the mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, as evidence that a Republican could be elected in a heavily Democratic city. [31] Schundler came to Baltimore to campaign for Tufaro. [32]
Regarding public housing, Tufaro called for renovations rather than demolishing vacant buildings, which drew criticism, as Housing Commissioner Daniel P. Henson III pointed out that renovating was more expensive than demolishing. O'Malley promised to enforce provisions of the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, which require banks to invest in poor neighborhoods. [33] Tufaro further proposed a plan for school vouchers and to drug test students, which drew opposition from the Baltimore Teachers Union [34] and from O'Malley, who favored expanding pre-kindergarten and after-school programs, while making summer school mandatory. [35] When discussing the problem of HIV/AIDS in Baltimore, which disproportionately affects African Americans, both O'Malley and Tufaro promised to continue the city's needle exchange program. [36]
Tufaro criticized O'Malley's zero tolerance policy, suggesting it would lead to increased police brutality towards minorities. He instead proposed continuing Mayor Schmoke's community policing strategy. [36] Opponents of the zero tolerance policy tried to tie O'Malley to the Baltimore Police shooting of an African American car theft suspect. [7]
WMAR-TV conducted the only poll of the general election with SurveyUSA, which showed O'Malley leading with 87% of the vote. [37] On Election Day, O'Malley easily defeated Tufaro in the general election, receiving over 90% of the vote. [38]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Martin O'Malley | 87,607 | 90.5 | |
Republican | David F. Tufaro | 9,207 | 9.5 | |
Total votes | 96,814 | 100 | ||
Democratic hold |
Following his election, O'Malley's first personnel decision was to retain the director of the city's economic development agency. [9] O'Malley had his transition team, and had them compile policy drafts by mid-December, so they would be ready to compete for state funds when the Maryland State Legislature reconvened on January 12, 2000. He participated in the Newly Elected Mayors Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in mid-November. [39] By the beginning of December, he named five deputy mayors and filled most of his cabinet. [40] He finalized his cabinet on December 7, during his last session as a city councillor. He was sworn in as mayor later that day at the War Memorial Plaza, near Baltimore City Hall. [41]
In his first year in office, O'Malley adopted a statistics-based crime tracking system called CitiStat, modeled after Compstat. The system logged every call for service into a database for analysis. The Washington Post wrote in 2006 that Baltimore's "homicide rate remains stubbornly high and its public school test scores disappointingly low. But CitiStat has saved an estimated $350 million and helped generate the city's first budget surplus in years." [42] In 2004, CitiStat accountability tool won Harvard University's "Innovations in American Government" award. [43] The system garnered interest from Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, [42] as well as crime officials from the United Kingdom. [44]
O'Malley considered a run for Governor of Maryland in the 2002 election, but decided not to run. He was reelected as Mayor of Baltimore in 2003, and announced his candidacy for governor in the 2006 election. [45] The Baltimore Sun endorsed O'Malley, saying: "When he was first elected mayor in 1999, the former two-term city councilman inherited a city of rising crime, failing schools, and shrinking economic prospects. He was able to reverse course in all of these areas." [46] The Washington Post criticized O'Malley for "not solv[ing] the problems of rampant crime and rough schools in Baltimore", but further said that "he put a dent in them.". [47] O'Malley defeated incumbent governor Bob Ehrlich 53%-46% in the November 7, 2006, general election. [48] O'Malley defeated Ehrlich in the 2010 election 56%-42%, receiving just over one million votes. [49]
O'Malley was ineligible to run in the 2014 gubernatorial election due to term limits. O'Malley publicly expressed interest in a presidential run in 2016 on multiple occasions. At a press conference at a National Governors Association meeting, O'Malley stated he was laying "the framework" for a presidential run. [50] [51] [52] [53]
A fictionalized version of the events of this election were presented in third and fourth seasons of The Wire , a drama about crime and politics in Baltimore, which aired in 2004 and 2006, respectively. [54] Many saw the connection between O'Malley and the character of Tommy Carcetti, a Caucasian Baltimore City Councillor who is elected mayor in an election against two African American opponents. Carlos Watson of MSNBC once introduced O'Malley as "one of the real-life inspirations for the mayor of the hit TV show The Wire", to which O'Malley responded that he was instead the show's "antidote". [55]
Show creator David Simon denied that the character of Tommy Carcetti was supposed to be O'Malley, [56] though he did acknowledge that O'Malley was "one of several inspirations" for Carcetti. [57] He further stated that while Carcetti was "reflective" of O'Malley, Carcetti was a composite drawing aspects from other local politicians that he had covered when he worked as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. [55]
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