Comments on: Comment Rescue: Kowalko Slams Copeland on Valero.

By: mike meeker

mike meeker — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:39:33 +0000

this is not in defense of valero, but the port arthur (texas) plant IS a union facility. i’m just saying.

By: Joanne Christian

Joanne Christian — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:28:44 +0000

So now we get a LOVE Canal, instead of the C&D. Any stimulus money in clean-up?

By: El Somnambulo

El Somnambulo — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:06:58 +0000

Geekster: Gary most certainly was on Minner’s team. For years, Gary has been one of Minner’s most important confidants.

By: liberalgeek

liberalgeek — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:27:31 +0000

I believe that Greg is Gary’s son. Gary was not on the Minner team, Greg was, and is on the Markell team.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:43:16 +0000

Would Gary Patterson be related to Greg Patterson… under the employ of Jack Markell?

I’m sure glad we have Jack and not just a bunch of Minner cronies…

By: Geezer

Geezer — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:00:47 +0000

You’re right, John, she wasn’t competent enough to blame for everything bad. We’ll have to be content with “worst governor since her former boss.”

By: Geezer

Geezer — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:59:00 +0000

“Ever go without a paycheck for five years, Geezer? I imagine that would feel like a long time.”

No, but I have friends who have. And yours is still a dumbass statement, for the reason I laid out and you can’t answer. Either say something intelligent or shut your piehole.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:43:36 +0000

John — Did Ruth Ann Minner not allow Valero to squeeze 8 years of dirty profits out of that plant? Was one of her top handlers not Gary Patterson, the state’s chief oil and gas lobbyist?

Also, if there’s any verbal tic here, it’s name is Bush.

By: John Manifold

John Manifold — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:06:32 +0000

Like parallel verbal tics, some people credit Reagan for everything good, and others blame Ruth Ann for everything bad.

By: Frieda Berryhill

Frieda Berryhill — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:37:14 +0000

Why has no one brought up the real villains in this story, Ruth Ann Minner & Gary Patterson?
Oh anon…they would have been lynched for “costing us the jobs”

You said it yourself, look up there “Ever go without a paycheck for five years, Geezer?
There you have it.

By: Brooke

Brooke — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:46:03 +0000

It’s caught me a couple of times. I choose to take it as a compliment.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:28:30 +0000

Why has no one brought up the real villains in this story, Ruth Ann Minner & Gary Patterson?

By: Frieda Berryhill

Frieda Berryhill — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:54:13 +0000

Wow ! Iam old enough to remember when Mr. Getty, sitting over there in England used to say “I will run this outit anyway I want to, or I close it ” And everyone kneeled.
Acusing Mr, Kowalko of not sympathizing with the workers is a low blow.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:20:03 +0000

“Is that what you consider a “long time,” you corporate-loving dumbass?”

Ever go without a paycheck for five years, Geezer? I imagine that would feel like a long time.

And to Mr. Kowalko, I find it interesting, given your deep concern for the people involved, that your first instinct was to write a statement protecting your ideology with no mention of those people.

I would agree with Mr. Copeland that the state of Delaware has been hostile to that installation ever since the days of “to hell with Shell.”

By: Geezer

Geezer — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:48:52 +0000

anon sez, “a company who paid a lot of payroll to Delawareans for a long time.”

Shows how little you know. The company in question, Valero, has paid salaries in Delaware City for less than five years. Is that what you consider a “long time,” you corporate-loving dumbass?