Democrat Scott Spencer is running for Congress. More details will apparently be coming out tomorrow.
I don’t know who this is, but if he is a serious candidate, it is nice to see him getting an early start.
Update from the Newark Post:
Congressional candidate to make short whistle-stop tour
Published: Saturday, March 28, 2009 10:05 PM CDT
A press conference will be held at 3:00pm on Monday, March 30, 2009 at the Wilmington & Western Railroad Greenbank Station on Rt 41 to announce the date, train schedule and ticket sales for the first steam powered, whistle-stop campaign train to be operated in Delaware in over half a century.Scott R. Spencer, 48, a Wilmington transit consultant will announce this spring that he will be a Democratic candidate for Congress from the campaign train that will make traditional political campaign whistle-stops on the Wilmington & Western Railroad from Greenbank to Hockessin. The campaign train will be will be powered by one of the last “American” class steam locomotives �“ Wilmington & Western Railroad Engine #98 which is celebrating its centennial year of service.
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He, almost singlehandedly, brought sunday bus service into being. Go, Scott, Go……….
He spoke to PDD in January. I believe he is a serious candidate.
I like Scott but have been mystified by his having embraced breaking up Amtrak, during the height of the Bush Counter-Revolution. Scott led a panel that advocated privatizing passenger rail:
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/feb/08/news/mn-26960
He’s going to have a tough time breaking in downstate. We can’t even get a coherent bus schedule, let alone service!
After I listened to Scott speak, I thought he was o.k. but he wasn’t really up on all the issues of the day yet. It got me thinking – what books/articles/other things would we recommend to someone planning to run for Congress? What about someone running for state office?
I thought for Congress maybe:
David Cay Johnston’s Free Lunch
Thomas Ricks’s Fiasco
What else?
Mike Castle may well suck but not as much as his Democrat opponents. The contrast is such that he appears to be almost as conservative as his opponents claim him to be.
He needs a primary and Delaware needs a real choice.
Question: Does Barney Frank also suck?
Did Barney Frank vote with Bush 95% of the time?
Okay then.
Question: Does Barney Frank also suck?
resisting.snarky.comment…must.resist…log.off.now…
There is some fruit that is too low hanging for me to pick.
Oh right.
“He needs a primary and Delaware needs a real choice.”
Paging Mike Protack… Paging Mike Protack…