Health & Fitness
O'Malley Pulls a 'Sorkin'
Recycling is easy if you try: Whether it's jobs or connecting homes to the power grid, the most important one is always the next one.
Gov. Martin O'Malley loves a good turn of phrase.
The poet-governor took a page from screenwriter Aaron Sorkin Monday during an update on storm recovery. Sorkin, writer of the West Wing and other movies and television shows, has a reputation for liberally borrowing from himself (some would say "self-plagiarizing").
It is in that tradition that the O'Malley Monday offered reporters and the public this re-heated line:
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"The most important home we restore to power is the next one," O'Malley said, speaking about efforts by BGE and PEPCO to restore power to customers around Maryland.
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O'Malley has used a variant of this before in comments about job creation:
"This is why the most important job we create is the next one."
O'Malley said that during his February 1 State of the State speech and again during an April 13 Innovate Maryland speech.
In the movie "Bull Durham," Kevin Costner advised Tim Robbins to work on his cliches: "They're your friends," he said.
So can you really blame the governor if he re-purposes his own words every now and again?
It got Sorkin all the way to the White House (twice).
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