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"This is an outrage!" the character says, handing the bill to a woman at the table. "If I were you, I wouldn't pay it!"
For too long, Maryland leaders had been "like Groucho Marx at the dinner table," passing along the state's fiscal challenges without really addressing them, O'Malley said.
He credited his administration with tackling a $1.7 billion structural deficit through a combination of spending cuts and tax increases, the latter of which have generated far more media attention.
"It was hard, and it was painful," O'Malley told the luncheon crowd, gathered in Ritchie Coliseum on the campus of the University of Maryland at College Park.
O'Malley said the effort had allowed the state to preserve its AAA bond rating and continue investing in priorities such as education and public safety.
The governor devoted the balance of his speech to talking about progress made in those and other areas, including minority contracting.
Among those in the audience was former Montgomery County executive Douglas M. Duncan (D), O'Malley's Democratic primary rival for governor in 2006. Duncan is now an administrator at the university.
"It's good to see you again," O'Malley said to Duncan.
-- John Wagner
No. 5 Out of 50
Gov. Martin O'Malley's approval ratings may have sagged in Maryland, but nationally he is among the most popular governors, according to a panel of "high-priced Los Angeles call girls" assembled by Playboy Radio.
O'Malley (D) ranked No. 5 on the panel's list, behind only California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R), Michigan Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm (D) and Iowa Gov. Chet Culver (D).
Former New York governor Eliot L. Spitzer (D), who resigned over a prostitution scandal this year, weighed in at No. 18.
-- John Wagner
