In New Hampshire Visit, Hillary Clinton Rival Doesn't Want to Talk About Scandals
Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley speaks at a Democratic fundraiser at Gibson's Bookstore and True Brew Cafe March 6, 2015 in Concord, New Hampshire.
Photographer: Darren McCollester/Getty ImagesCONCORD, N.H.–For much of a busy news day, it had led the Drudge Report. O'MALLEY TO NEW HAMPSHIRE! Former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley's long-planned trek to the first primary state had taken on Beltway significance after two weeks of damaging revelations about Hillary Clinton. Like other potential rivals for the 2016 Democratic nomination, O'Malley had declined, through spokesmen, to weigh in on either the story of the Clinton Foundation taking large foreign donations or the former secretary of state maintaining a private e-mail account in apparent violation of secrecy rules.
Yet after a fundraising event for local Democrats at Gibson's Bookstore, when prodded again and again by the press, O'Malley declined to criticize Clinton directly.