Via BuzzFeed:
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, a potential presidential hopeful whose latest round of legislative measures in the state is being cast by political observers as particularly left-leaning, is pushing back against the liberal-hero moniker with what he calls his own “bumper-sticker label.”
O’Malley — according to O’Malley — is a “performance-driven progressive.”
It’s a term he used in an interview this week with Bloomberg, and again during a gaggle with reporters on Monday, the last day of his legislative session, in the halls of the Annapolis State House. Teddy Davis, O’Malley’s strategic communications director, tweeted specifically about the descriptor on both occasions.