Scott Spencer is running for Congress
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.
Pingback by Scott Spencer running for Congress — Down With Absolutes! on 29 March 2009 at 12:39 pm:
[...] DL has the news. I actually heard about this before Christmas, but was holding off as told by someone close to the candidate. Scott’s a transit consultant and a citizen activist from Wilmington. He was the former chairman of the Delaware branch of the A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI), a policy think tank. In this role, he played a huge part in bringing Sunday bus service to the residents of Wilmington. [...]
Comment by Susan Regis Collins on 29 March 2009 at 12:58 pm:
He, almost singlehandedly, brought sunday bus service into being. Go, Scott, Go……….
Comment by Unstable Isotope on 29 March 2009 at 1:04 pm:
He spoke to PDD in January. I believe he is a serious candidate.
Comment by John Manifold on 29 March 2009 at 1:41 pm:
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
Comment by anon on 29 March 2009 at 8:07 pm:
He’s going to have a tough time breaking in downstate. We can’t even get a coherent bus schedule, let alone service!
Comment by Unstable Isotope on 29 March 2009 at 8:14 pm:
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?
Comment by Art Downs on 30 March 2009 at 7:05 am:
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?
Comment by jason330 on 30 March 2009 at 7:57 am:
Did Barney Frank vote with Bush 95% of the time?
Okay then.
Comment by R Smitty on 30 March 2009 at 8:00 am:
Question: Does Barney Frank also suck?
resisting.snarky.comment…must.resist…log.off.now…
Comment by jason330 on 30 March 2009 at 8:15 am:
There is some fruit that is too low hanging for me to pick.
Comment by R Smitty on 30 March 2009 at 8:33 am:
Oh right.
Comment by anon on 30 March 2009 at 9:11 am:
“He needs a primary and Delaware needs a real choice.”
Paging Mike Protack… Paging Mike Protack…