As many of you know Vice President Joe Biden and Gov. Jack Markell will be at the Boxwood plant this morning to announce the Fisker deal. As the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote, “Delaware appears to be an early winner in the nation’s green-car movement . . .” According to Fisker, they will probably bring some 1,500 jobs to Delaware.
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It sounds like Castle angered the crowd a little bit.
There is a live stream from TNJ here.
Carper is up doing a pep rally apparently.
Castle apparently said something about Kaufman that the crowd didn’t care for according the DEPolitics Twitter Stream:
Jack Markell up now — people in that room are really electrified. It is such a pleasure to hear about good news.
watching now
Castle had the nerve to show up? Douche-nozzle.
Charlie Copeland’s current blog post is a sour little whine about how unfriendly Delaware is to business.
What were the UAW jackets all about? Is Fisker going to be UAW?
Fast cars getting 100 mph. Sign me up!
100 mpg
Perhaps Copeland sees his chances at running for governor against Markell slipping away. This is a really big win for Delaware and for Governor Markell.
$40K? That’s alot but you have to start somewhere.
2000 jobs in Delaware!
Charlie thought the grass was greener and he could be more effective from the outside. Seems Markell is proving him wrong.
Fast cars getting 100 mpg — thanks for the correction anon!
$40K is half the price of the plug-in hybrids they make elsewhere.
Reminds me of the work that Delaware did to get Astra-Zeneca.
Mr. Fisker is definitely making the case that Delaware is bad for business is another GOP lie.
Cassandra wrote Mr. Fisker is definitely making the case that Delaware is bad for business is another GOP lie.
Classic Cassandra, classic.
I think you have to give the Obama administration credit as well. They are the ones who pushed the GM reorganization which led to Fisker being able to buy the plant at what I’ll assume is a big discount.
Mr. Fisker is giving a lot of credit to Governor Markell and his staff.
That was a good story — how the UAW would not hire Joe Biden.
Joe Biden just said when he was young he wanted to be a UAW member.
Isn’t he also on record as saying he wanted to be a priest?
That’s why we love you Joe, you sound like us.
The optics on this are beautiful. Nice work pulling this together Gov. Markell.
I think you have to give the Obama administration credit as well.
I’d say so. Fisker got a half billion dollar Federal loan, plus tax subsidies for purchase of their cars.
The DE GOP must be beside themselves.
These speeches are so good they need to go national. With Biden there maybe they will get play on MSM.
Joe’s tearing it up.
Hopefully these will go up on You Tube. We’ll put them up if we can.
Okay Joe, that’s enough…
Joe, “Science and technology are back.”
Does the plant have an old fashioned steam whistle to signal the start of the shift? Time to blow it…
w00t! Geeks are in! I’ve been waiting for this day all my life.
You and me both, UI.
Live long and prosper.
Seven foot tall Secret Service agent walking Biden through the crowd… Sousa march nice touch, is that band playing live or did they track that onto the video?
Geeks have always been in, guys. 🙂
Big thumbs up to DelawareOnline for live-streaming the press conference.
What we’re doing here is believing in America.
Nice touch by Joe and this one is a keeper. Because just saying no to everything, waiting and praying for failure is a posture that believes in nothing.
I agree, LG. I’m going to thank them.
Hey you guys — Geeks are always in. It is just that everyone else doesn’t always know it.
And the News Journal livestreaming was awfully good.
Geeks are always in. It is just that everyone else doesn’t always know it.
Especially girls at my high school
*sigh*
Well for sure we know the stimulus money that went in this deal “will” produce more jobs. Fisker is Republican ???
So is Alan Levin.
Meanwhile, pleas for sneaker-cleaner factories from Italy from the Minner administration to set up shop in Delaware during the horse-shoe crab migration have gone unappriciated in their significant impact on Delaware business.