DEwind: The Week That Was October 6th

Filed in Delaware by on October 13, 2008

Watch Delaware Liberal’s last part of our interview with Delaware’s next governor, Jack Markell. Also, we interview Democratic candidate for Insurance Commissioner, Karen Weldin Stewart.

Delawonk points out that Delaware ranks a dismal 46 out of the 50 states on its campaign finance disclosure laws. This needs to be addressed by our next governor prior to the next election cycle.

Also at Delawonk, Mark blasts the Lee-Copeland campaigns for lacking ideas in their most recent foray, the DNREC.

Casual observers might be tempted to believe that this prop means they want to reorganize the agency.

It doesn’t.

It means that the Lee/Copeland campaign is so bereft of ideas, so lacking in real meaningful proposals that they have taken to scribbling on amateurishly crafted placards in an attempt to resonate with voters.

I’d have more respect for these guys if they were all sizzle and no steak (like some other campaigns), but no sizzle and no steak — come on!

Delaware’s Republican Gubernatorial campaign is showing itself to be a microcosm of the Republican Presidential campaign. What do you do when your campaign is void of ideas and issues? Work out a smear campaign. Tom Noyes at Tommywonk writes:

In a losing campaign, there comes a time when a candidate faces the decision of whether to go negative. I’ve been involved in winning and losing campaigns, and I am pleased to say that the candidates I have worked with never chose to get nasty. I have seen the impulse to start slinging mud restrained by candidates’ better angels, as well as the cold reality that it probably wouldn’t make any difference. It’s one thing for a hockey player to start checking harder or for a lineman to grab his opponent’s jersey in a close contest. But it’s another thing to get dirty when the game is effectively out of reach.

The slow, agaonizing death of the Reagan Republican Party is not a pretty sight.

While on the Markell-Lee contest, Delaware Watch reminds us of the issues.

Kilroy continues “to call” the Lt. Governor race for Copeland despite a look at the facts: 53.2% Matt Denn (D), 38.6% Charlie Copeland (R). Is it me or does this smell like an endorsement? You decide.

Let’s face it, having disappointments coming from both parties Democrat and Republicans. As for Delaware I think have a Democrat Governor and a Republican Lt. Governor might just be the balance needed

Delmar DustPan, That’s Elbert and What A Smell? got together to interview the candidates for Delaware’s 40th Representative District Biff Lee and Barb Hudson: Part I, Part II and Part III. The interview starts with a question regarding gun control. Why is it that wingnuts are more concerned about the 2nd Amendment rather than the 1st Amendment? (May God have mercy on my soul for opening up this can of worms). One of the last questions is most telling about the current political environment today.

for Barb Hudson:
This is a question many Democrats are asking in the national election, so lets bring it down to the local level. If it’s questionable for a potential Vice President, with all the amenities of that office, then how can you (in a much smaller state position), be expected to efficiently, share time between your teaching job in Delmar, the State House and your day to day family / home requirements?

Hudson: I have found that people who are productive and are involved in many things are the people who you can depend on and generally work harder at what they do. If for any reason I am not efficiently fulfilling either position, I will retire/resign my teaching position so that I can concentrate on my duties as State Representative.

Elbert: For my clarification on the last question regarding balancing your many responsibilities, would I assume that you would continue to teach while serving in Dover?

Hudson: I actually have not made a decision about continuing to teach or not. I will evaluate the situation if I win. I will also need to discuss options with the Delmar administration. As I stated, if I do decide to continue teaching and either job suffers as a result of trying to do both-then I would definitely retire from teaching.

Good luck Barb.

Over at the Delaware Libertarian, State Representative Republican candidate for the 4th District Tyler Nixon lampoons Mayor Baker’s Hope Commission saying, “The ongoing negligence and lurching nonfeasance of many entrenched public officials only exacerbate our public safety challenges.” If you can get past Nixon’s partisan bickering, you’ll find an interesting read. Also, The Delaware Curmudgeon points us to a Comcast interview with Tyler Nixon.

Regarding other state races, The Delaware Curmedugeon directs us to Ed Osborne’s scorecard on Eminent Domain for the upcoming election. I just wonder how fair and balanced the scorecard is with so many Democratic candidates’ grades “Not Available”.

The Mourning Constitutional’s Brian Shields endorses Mark Anthony Parks for Delaware’s Congressional seat. I guess Brian just ignores the odd Citizen’s Rule Book Parks links to.

Karen Hartley-Nagle continues her uphill climb against entrenched Bushite Mike Castle. Is anyone paying attention to the Congressional campaign other than Delaware Liberal and Delaware Way?

Unlike Steve Newton’s view of kavips, DL and others, I enjoy my daily reading of kavips. You should to. Interestingly enough, I feel Newton blasts the left much harder than he did the right. If it talks like a Republican, walks like a Republican, thinks like a Republican, it is a Republican.

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  1. jason330 says:

    Great rundown. I think Delawonk has graduated from Pinoccio status and is now a real live blog. Mark need not thank me – his personal Jimminey (sp?) Cricket.

    BTW – In spite of all his “I like gays” talk, Steve Newton is a Republican.

  2. Steve Newton says:

    jason
    you are so full of shit your eyes are brown

  3. Steve Newton says:

    nemski
    Frankly, in DE right now the left-leaning blogs are far more enamored of name-calling than the right:

    you guys are the ones running posts that call other bloggers a “piece of shit”; or suggesting that anyone with a party identification different than your own is happy to be defined by their anxieties; or that anyone from a different party than you only wants power to abuse it….

    you have become tedious, not edgy….

  4. jason330 says:

    Typical Republican. Also – it was party-mate Copeland that I called a low lofe piece of human garbage. Is he a blogger now?

  5. anon says:

    LOL:

    Steve: “the left-leaning blogs are far more enamored of name-calling than the right”

    Jason: “Steve Newton is a Republican.”

    Steve: “you are so full of shit your eyes are brown”

  6. Raisa Heckle says:

    “you guys are the ones running posts that call other bloggers a “piece of shit”; ”

    Yep, DV is guilty as charged.

  7. feces throwing monkey says:

    The slow, agaonizing death of the Reagan Republican Party is not a pretty sight.

    I’m enjoying watching it.

  8. “The Mourning Constitutional’s Brian Shields endorses Mark Anthony Parks for Delaware’s Congressional seat. I guess Brian just ignores the odd Citizen’s Rule Book Parks links to.”

    I read the first 25 pages of the 44 of the Rule Book, and it seems on the up and up. What part about that do you take offense to? It has some religion interspersed within the message, but aside from that the core ideals within the pdf, that I have read so far, are promoting individual freedom, the Constitution, Juror’s rights, and the founding father’s philosophy.

  9. Unstable Isotope says:

    LOL @ anon and ftm. And ftm, pass the popcorn.

  10. cassandra m says:

    Nice roundup, nemski!

    I’ll recommend Delaware Way’s post on the Hope Commission that adds some information to the discussion.

  11. pandora says:

    Sorry, Nemski. I was so busy writing my post I neglected your hard work! Thanks for the great round-up, and pointing out some great blogging I had missed.

  12. thatselbert says:

    Nemski wrote: Why is it that wingnuts are more concerned about the 2nd Amendment rather than the 1st Amendment?

    My question: When will the nutroots finally realize that the 2nd amendment guarantees the 1st? I’m very concerned about both.

    Nemski, I’m not sure what your saying when you wrote: One of the last questions is most telling about the current political environment today. What was wrong with that question?

  13. nemski says:

    Sorry for the delay in responding.

    Citizens Handbook
    Brian, this piece of Christian trash says the following:

    There are few ways out of bondage. Bloodshed and war often result, but our founding fathers
    learned of a better way. Realizing that a CREATOR is always above and greater than that
    which He creates, they established a three vote system by which an informed citizenry can
    control those acting in the name of the government. To be a good master you must always remember the true “pecking order” or chain of command in this nation:
    1. GOD created man . . .
    2. Man (that’s you) created the Constitution . . .
    3. Constitution created government . . .
    4. Government created corporations . .etc.

    I am not beholden to your God or anyone else’s God.

    2nd Amendment
    My question: When will the nutroots finally realize that the 2nd amendment guarantees the 1st? I’m very concerned about both.
    1. You couldn’t have written your statement without the 1st
    2. You are finding a relationship between the two which isn’t there
    3. Your first question was about gun control, not free speech. To say you are “very concerned” is not quit true is it?

    The Mom Question
    No one in the media has asked The Mom Question to Sarah Palin. Some are questioning Palin’s commitment to being a parent as she brings it up all the time. Is Hudson saying that being a Mom makes her qualified?

  14. I agree with your point of view, but the man has the right to believe. Many of us base their beliefs on their religious upbringing, and I would be lying if I said I don’t also.

    It was one paragraph out of a 44 page document, which ends with the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence in full text. It also explains the jury system in full detail, and the founding fathers’ intentions in setting up the system we have. Those reasons are most likely why the document is linked.

    If he starts going religi-nuts, preaching between his stump speech, then I will withdraw my endorsement.

  15. thatselbert says:

    Nemski, gun control is an off and on issue in the state. If free speech becomes an issue in the state, then it will be covered too. More than likely we will have some 1st amendment issues on a national level if Obama is our next president, judging from his party’s support of the unFairness Doctrine and his Missouri Truth Squad. Those can be discussed with the US House candidates.

    And yes, there is a relationship between the first and the second, unless you just want to forget all about that nasty Revolutionary War.