Nominations: Biggest Delaware Policy Screwup of 2007
This is where you can nominate the biggets policy screw-up of 2007. Here’s some suggested topics:
- Not providing conduit funding to DMA
- Delaware Psychiatric Center Mismanagement
- City of Wilmington Eminent Domain Abuse
- Tom Carper Propping up George Bush
Nominations will remain open in the comments section through 3PM Friday. Voting then begins in earnest.
Tags: Delaware
DelDOT?
Roger that. Our own bridge to nowhere?
Howabout anything to do with recycling and the state of Delaware. One of the lousiest states nationwide.
Finally you get to the Democrat scandals. I was going to re-submit the Wilmington wage tax assessment scandal, but then I heard Mayor Baker’s pathetic interview on WDEL. Softballs all the way from Zoolander, but then Jensen’s on vacation – I expect the mayor wouldn’t have agreed to do the show otherwise. At least there were a few callers to call him to task, but he basically called them all liars.
That brings me to my nomination: Sidewalk-Gate! No, it’s not particularly sexy, but it’s a perfect example of the colossal incompetence and arrogance of the Baker administration. (I’ll trust Tyler Nixon to fill in the details if necessary – apparently the call screeners at WDEL kept him from calling in.)
Statewide, though, the award would go to DelDot – for anything they’ve touched.
Yesterday was the salacious, today is the more policy-based screw-ups. Sidewalk-gate is an excellent nomination.
Thanks for the plug, G-Rex and geek…
Actually I will be hosting the Al Mascitti show again tomorrow morning from 9 to noon and it just so happens I had long planned the show around a 2007 review of the city government’s outrages.
I am thrilled that Mr. Baker is now on the record at such length after his interview today, especially on the sidewalk issue.
We will be having Ed Osborne and Mike Matthews on tomorrow to ‘review the tape’ and set the record straight.
It should prove quite revealing…and fun.
Good luck with that. Feel free to plug DelawareLiberal to your listeners. The more votes we get the better… 🙂
Biggest Delaware policy screw up:
Meddling in power generation and distribution markets!
Actually I had invited Jason onto today’s show, but he was unavailable. I will be sure to mention you guys tomorrow.
(Al – I know you read DL so I trust you are OK with a shameless plug on your show, for the crew here.)
Mayor Baker on WDEL was pathetic. This man truly lives in LaLa Land. We have Wilmington the corporate city, in the corporate state, on of the most impoverished cities in the nation, murder capital of Delaware, side walk gate, police officers still without a contract, some leaving to take jobs in Middletown and elsewhere, an administration filled with nepotism, and corruption of the highest order! Emminent domain abuse! Course this Mayor blames the poor and disadvantaged and believes he as Mayor has no responsibilities for the people. Its time to send Baker packing, am sure there is some non profit he can work in…since thats how he got his start in Wilmington politics. Take him on Tyler. While he was speaking today, I got several calls, “are you listening to this nut case”! I told the callers to hold off until tomorrow and then lets put his “record” right i his face. Interesting to me that he would go air with Brian Seedlander (a Torturin Tom press man), guess the Mayor felt he would have an ally on the air…turns out he did. Brian didnt challenge him on anything…Mock Radio.
Why do y’all think I moved out of Hockessin? And that’s the best part of New Castle County!
Geek, my man, you may have to devise several categories: Worst state, Worst county, Worst city of Wilmington and other municipalities…..we have a lot of ammo…..and we are PISSED OFF too.
The mere fact that Baker refuses to go on air with Jensen and instead waits for a day when Selander’s got the airwaves to himself proves exactly what type of crackpot mayor he his who doesn’t think it’s his responsibility to answer tough questions from constituents. Selander will get the big-name Dems on the show now. Because he doesn’t challenge them. I heard him two weeks ago with Norman Griffiths. Jensen asked some serious, hard-hitting questions re: Eminent Domain and Selander just tut-tutted the valid points made. Selander and the rest of his Carper/Minner-bred ilk are sadly not an anachronism in this state; the Dems — and to a large degree, the state — are still largely controlled by such thugs.
Whoever,
Alas, I cannot use up all of the page for these polls, and the end of the year is nigh. We must conserve. I promise, the site will be here for you to cut loose whenever you would like, on whatever topic makes you feel better. Want to see a post on something? Shoot an email to liberalgeek ~at~ delawareliberal.net. We’ll try to get you on the air…
How about GA and wind farm negotiations?
They created a lawful procedure to ensure renewable energy sources and then stepped in and snatched it all back at the last minute.
It ain’t a negotiation when there are no other options on the table.
“Sign here” smells like Don Corleone! (in your wet dreams donviti….)
There were options on the table. They lost. Now the job is to decide on the interface to Delmarva. Should all of the choices of energy rest with the power companies? I gotta tell you feral, you are in a minority smaller than Bush supporters.
Come to think of it, you must be Gary Stockbridge.
It’s not an option to be forced to sign a no-bid contract.
PJM is bigger than a bunch of fartknocker liberals playing energy traders for a day.
I enjoyed watching you all get played like cheap dates.
Zoolander! Wow…is this the best the guy has to offer. Today tryig to redeem Torturin Tom Carper! Zoolander knows nothing about local politics, can he find his way to Dover!
The guy is a total bore, challenges no one, but then thats what the morally bankrupt WDEL wants…two neo cons…1 repuke, l demorat.
His guest today was an obvious demorat plant but the best sentence out of was: Tom Carper tried to stop the guy from going to Iraq! Right Torturin Tom, keep those you know ouf of harms way, send other peoples kids. Torturin Tom should be waterboarded and made to tell all Delaware how he became the “power” in the Demorat Party. How Torturi n Tom’s good bud, Vince Merconi (there is no abuse) from being fired for his total incompetence! Isn’t it amazing these press people and ex staffs of these politicans end up on the airwaves….or worse end up in plum cabinet positions. Clean sweep Delaware starting with Torturin Tom, and James Baker!
The above comment seals it ( by Stockbridge)lol….All the other screw ups carry an initial high WTF factor….But by 2039 they will be not even be remembered… Mayor Baker? Who’s that?
But paying $450 an month for household electricity, when we could have paid $ 80 – 90, reminiscing about a place called Rehoboth on the ocean floor, and finishing our lives between 30 and 40 due to unrestrained asthma, will come down to a decision made by two people: Copeland and McDowell.
That, looking back from 2039, will be repeated in every grade’s school textbook as the ultimate example of man’s folly…….
That, not to vote prematurely or anything, is the true scandal of 2007.
Wow….I didn’t know you could roll kool-aid into a splif!
Two words genius: competitive bidding.
I love it, everyone’s calling him Zoolander now. For the origin, see comment #4 above. Glad I could contribute to the lexicon.
Oh, and I don’t think Gary Stockridge has ever seen Road Warrior…he’s more Lord Humungous anyway.
NRG, Conectiv, Bluewater Wind
Competitive bidding:
NRG and Connectiv lost.
Biggest policy screwup to date and in the longterm would be the interference in the well-vetted, well thought out PPA to secure a price stable, renewable clean energy alternative generation capacity as presented by the Offshore Wind Farm. Notwithstanding the obvious-“why weren’t questions raised and answered over the course of the past year by GA leadership’? one can only guess why questions were raised and answered in discussions obscured from public view and other participation by other members of the GA who may have provided answers or directions to secure answers.
John kowalko
It wasn’t competitive bidding for the “wind project.”
It was barely competitive bidding for energy, since they chose the most expensive option in the hopes of getting environmentalists to deep throat it.
Gee, I wonder who could have orchestrated that ratepayer ripoff?
Since Kowalko stopped by, how about HB 4’s failed vote/passed vote/drawer stuffing?
And shouldn’t the DDV be the biggest policy screwup of every year?
Dave,
The only thing standing in the way of HB 68 (Kowalko’s bill banning an immediate transition to a lobbyist job by General Assembly members) is placing it on the agenda by the self-styled good government republican caucus. Maybe you can use your formidable influence to assure that the republican majority allows this bill to the floor since it is already out of committee and on the ready list. Or is obstructionism a one-way street in your neighborhood and good government only a political slogan and republican P.R. maneuver?
If I were Speaker, I wouldn’t run Kowalko’s bill. I’d run Debbie Hudson’s HB 196, which includes not only legislators, but members of the administration as well, in the ban. It’s a better bill.
Funny. I noticed 12 Republicans signed onto Kowalko’s bill, but ZERO Democrats have signed onto Hudson’s bill which includes Administration officials as well as legislators in the ban.
Explain that one.
Democraps suck?
To coin a phrase (from above)….”Glad I could contribute to the lexicon.”
Me too! My contribution:
JIM & HIS FAKER ADMINISTRATION (not my original but very good none the less).
Not copywrited so use and ‘fire’ at will.
ZOOLANDER…the guy who knows nothing about delaware politics, nothing about community needs….whoever coined it I’m gonna use it…Faker Baker…another excellent name for Hiz Honor! But Torturin Tom, thats mine….but feel free to use it.
Liz — Is there anybody with any degree of power in the world who you DO like?
I am with Kavips on the wind-power, but I think the Delaware Psychiatric Center cover-up is the biggest disgrace. There is no justification on it.
Think of the recent year not as a series of disgraces but one of many lost opportunities to move Delaware ahead on health care, education and economic growth.
When you have 62 voices (Legislature) speaking for Delaware and not one (Governor) you have what you have in a 8 year old soccer game. Everyone is kicking the hell out of the ball but not moving the ball towards the goal.
A Governor’s primary job is safety and security and there I think David Anderson is correct because we failed to protect people.
Hey Dave, I love you…thinkin of a fling in 2008…we can share the power!
Seriously, there are many people I admire because they choose to serve the people, not the party.