Comments on: UPDATED: Charlie Claims That He Does Not Know (which of 3500 living descendants of Pierre Samuel du Pont) is Propping Up CRI

By: anon

anon — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:25:31 +0000

Whoa! Internet tough guy alert.

Geezer tactic #6: When out logic’d, resort to ad hominem.

By: Geezer

Geezer — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:11:44 +0000

You too, assface.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:07:15 +0000

Sleazy like a whole bunch of anonymous ‘bloggers’ attacking people under the guise of fighting for transparency? Yeah, fight the power, geezer.

By: Geezer

Geezer — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:59:31 +0000

“You are a whole new kind of stupid.”

And you are a whole new kind of sleazy.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:35:07 +0000

“Secret funding to advocate for transparency – it is kind of like fucking for virginity.”

You are a whole new kind of stupid.

By: Geezer

Geezer — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:54:38 +0000

“Secret funding to advocate for transparency – it is kind of like fucking for virginity.”

Kind of, but less fun.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:21:42 +0000

Secret funding to advocate for transparency – it is kind of like fucking for virginity.

By: Geezer

Geezer — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:04:43 +0000

Isn’t it obvious that if CRI had nothing to hide, they would reveal the names of the organization’s donors? Wasn’t it obvious that if Celia Cohen had nothing to hide she would have disclosed the names of those who paid her salary? And so on.

By: Art Downs

Art Downs — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:23:01 +0000

One duPont heiress was rather generous with a loan/gift/bribe to a certain political hack who claimed that she was ’set up by Karl Rove’.

This rather tawdry affair involved a zoning decision that meant a lot of money for a rich old woman and her rather dysfunctional brood. There was even the murder for hire of a hooker and the use of a doddering ’senior judge’ to impose ‘time served’ for a felony conviction. Throw in a side loan to another judge and we may see the Delaware Way running wild.

In the words of the late Boss Tweed “It will all blow over”.

By: Maria Evans

Maria Evans — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:19:47 +0000

~Maria,

For someone who seems as suspicious of unchecked power as you do – you sure are willing to let the hereditary wealth off the hook.~

I don’t think Charlie is required to find out where all of his thousands of family members are donating their money just to satisfy your twisted conspiracy theories.

Incidentally, not all duPonts are Republicans, in fact, a duPont family member, Richard Bayard, was the chair of the state democratic party in 2004, and that’s just one example, there are many, many, many more.

By: Steve Newton

Steve Newton — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:32:36 +0000

Point taken. I was explaining, not justifying.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:30:03 +0000

Not acceptable Steve; he’s got plenty of help, and he’s gotta chew gum and walk at the same time. Press releases aren’t that hard. The News Journal and WDEL are hard up for copy; so send them a nice story about how Markell keeps his promises on time.

By: Steve Newton

Steve Newton — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:24:50 +0000

Is Markell screwing up his communications strategy?

Given the intensity of the budget crisis, happy harrys/walgreens, and sports betting brewhaha would it not be more realistic to attribute any lack of communications finesse to sheer exhaustion?

By: anon

anon — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:20:40 +0000

In other words – CRI is just filling a vacuum.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:19:49 +0000

Is Markell screwing up his communications strategy?

The first phase of the Governor’s Performance Review, promised in his Inaugural Address, was completed on time in May. But it wasn’t released until July 17, allowing CRI and Charlie Copeland to create the impression that the Governor was stonewalling, and only their heroic efforts were able to extract the information from a reluctant Governor.

Then, the state’s online checkbook promised by Markell was also completed on time… but nobody announced it. As far as I could tell, the first public announcement was made on the CRI blog, which states they found it only after repeatedly searching the state website for the phrase “checkbook.”

So, Rogalsky, Selander – WTF???

These are some of Markell’s promises being fulfilled. They are proud achievements, and you should be announcing them with trumpets and chariots.

Why are you letting the remnants of the destroyed GOP get out in front of Markell on his own achievements, and make him look bad when he should be looking good?

Is there some arrogance or aloofness here that we should be concerned about?