Martin O'Malley 2016-- The right kind of hawk.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

When I gave up on Al Gore and Elizabeth Warren as actual candidates this cycle, I started researching Martin O'Malley as an alternative. My idea was to go back to either of my first choices should they declare. But the more I learn about O'Malley, the less likely I am to prefer anyone else. Martin O’Malley is the right kind of hawk, a climate hawk. He talks about it as the real national security issue it is and he has actually done something about it, as documented in the link below.

O'Malley is the rare elected official who seems genuinely motivated to address climate change. "I deal with a lot of politicians in my work as a climate advocate," says Mike Tidwell, director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. "Martin O'Malley, more than any politician I know, really loses sleep over climate change. He is deeply concerned about climate change and his actions over the last eight years reveal that. He's pushed the envelope more than anyone I've seen. He's the kind of politician where his staff comes in and says, ‘Here's what we propose to do,' and most politicians would say, ‘Let's cut that down a little,' and Martin O'Malley regularly says, ‘We can't do better than that? Push a little harder?'"

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/12/martin-omalley-longshot-presidential-candidate-and-real-climate-hawk