‘Bulo on Al’s Show Tuesday
I’ll be on the Al Mascitti Show Tuesday, March 1 at 10 a. m.
We’ll be talking the latest political and governmental issues, including the ongoing controversies facing Tony DeLuca, the bloggers’ meeting with the Governor, and whatever else you want to talk about.
Al’s show is on WDEL-1150 AM from 9 am to 12 noon every weekday.
This isn’t really a topic, but I just don’t see how the DE GOP poses any threat to any statewide Democrats. It is an odd political era that we are entering into.
Awesome! Going to get my coffee now and try to not answer the phone for a bit……
Bulo just had an awesome segment on Al Mascitti’s show. I’m pretty sure there was some serious squirming going on in Dover.
Also – What is the use of going on the radio if you can’t take a couple of shots at Don Carper? Amiright? I just hope Bulo does not end up in a Newark dumpster for his impudence.
He was going after DeLuca pretty well, then I had to shut it off to do some work that required a phone conversation.
Good point about DeLuca getting his state job AFTER being elected to the GA.
Seems to me that if you’re a state hiring manager, you’d know that somebody who’s going to be in Leg Hall 3 days a week for about 4 months a year isn’t going to fill the bill as a FT employee. So why would you want him/her in the job?
Obviously, because he/she is more valuable to your agency when he/she is in Leg Hall than when behind a desk. That’s how the game is played.
It plays to taxpayers for fools, and gives some of them all the more reason to sneer at public employees.
Hope Al posts the entire segment as a podcast.
I thoroughly enjoyed listening this morning. If it weren’t so pathetic that DeLuca got a job he wasn’t even close to qualified for, it would be funny. BTW, he was hired into the DOL as Admin of Labor Law…He didn’t rise to that position.
I’m thinking when that ‘egg’ falls, it won’t just Hatch….it’ll bust wide open.
DeLuca was ineffective before as a leader. The Senate should do a recall on ProTem and send the little bully packing. It still only takes one more vote to oust him. Maybe we need to put some heat on a few other Democratic Senators and not count on Bonini. It is time to put an end to the Sharp/Adams/DeLuca era.
Kudos to Peterson for having the courage to keep this alive!
I had a blast doing the show today. To Mediawatch: DeLuca got that job b/c Mark Brainard & Tom Sharp wanted to get him that job. I hope that any investigation of how this happened focuses on those three individuals, along with Ruth Ann Minner. One thing is painfully clear…this job was established especially for DeLuca. He lacked the qualifications for even the most basic job within DOL, not to mention the chief enforcement officer position. So, by definition, every $ that he makes at DOL is a $ that otherwise could be spent on something, anything, productive.
PI: Karen Peterson has guts. When a public servant puts herself out there like she has, we have an obligation to let her know that we’ve got her back. She represents a real threat to the Delaware Way, which also means that she gives hope to any and all of us who simply want to have elected officials who are committed to public service, instead of a commitment to build their own personal wealth up to obscene levels. At the taxpayers’ expense.
I truly believe that we’re close to a tipping point. DeLuca could be the first to go, if we just keep using the facts to hammer at what is going on. We simply can’t rely on someone else to do this. It is up to us to help this thing reach critical mass. Come to think of it, that pretty much sums up why I blog.
So how do we help, then?
And you *did* do a great job today. Both you and Al sounded like you were having a great time.
Good question, Cass. First, I think it’d help if everyone contacted their respective state senators and let them know how you feel about this.
It also wouldn’t hurt to contact the AG’s office and ask him to investigate this.
Finally, let your friends know what’s going on and help build a movement, one person at a time. Spread the word and try to mobilize people.
I have to say that Deluca was heavily involved with prevailing wage for 15 years as a Labor Leader and is well qualified to do his job. Maybe you crybabies should pull his payroll and see that he stops getting paid when he leaves for Dover. I don’t see any double dipping here. Remember Sen Peterson was an employee that handled federal money at the DOL while holding an elected post at NCC. “Cast the first stone”??? Maybe you guys should go to Dover and talk to Sen Deluca and find out his side of the story before you listen to that Fat Ass Macetti. That’s the one that needs to go! And be careful what you ask for…the Republicans are loving this infighting. The enemy is not the fellow Democrat. Play nice kids.
Well, we did listen to DeLuca. In fact, we listened to DeLuca today on the show from an interview he did with Allan Loudell of WDEL.
In the interview, he argued that elected officials should work in state jobs to understand what it’s like to walk in their shoes. Seriously.
As if getting a $62K/year annuity helps anyone to understand how people are struggling.
He’s getting paid that $62K for a job that he can’t do and that was handed to him by his political cronies. His agency is floundering? It must be Karen Peterson’s fault even though she hasn’t worked for DOL in years.
Oh, and DeLuca claims that he provides the auditor with ‘proof’ that he’s built a firewall. And we can trust DeLuca b/c Tom Wagner is so highly-effective at his job.
Oh, and DeLuca WON’T provide the paperwork to prove that his Senate ‘assistant’ is working her full complement of hours in the Senate before ‘volunteering’ at DeLuca’s DOL office. Even though, as President Pro-Tem, DeLuca has the power to release that information, but simply refuses to do so. Wonder why…
Oh, and the DOL WON’T provide the paperwork they claim to have that would ‘prove’ that everything was above board with DeLuca’s hiring and the creation of a position especially for him. Paging Governor Markell…
I’m encouraged by your surfacing here. It shows that the rock has been lifted and the roaches are scurrying for cover. More, please.
“I don’t see any double dipping here. …the Republicans are loving this infighting. The enemy is not the fellow Democrat.”
You are wrong on both points. Good government practices would preclude any legislator, Democrat or Republican, from holding a job with the state while representing the people. As DeLuca told Loudell, that would “empty have the General Assembly.” That would be an excellent start.
You are especially blind if you think that DeLuca and his ilk deserve protection simply because of their party affiliation. This sort of cronyism turns off the general public, and it’s the major reason the conservative noise machine has found such fertile ground for its anti-government message. If you’re a union man, wonder no more why the public is so anti-union. It’s people like you who are reaping what the DeLuca types have sown.
And it isn’t infighting if you are trying to cleanup your own house. A thing that Colin Bonini’s party wouldn’t get.
But it isn’t as though Senator DeLuca couldn’t present himself here (or on Al Mascitti’s show, even better) to make his *own* case.
De Luca make his own case?
From what we’ve heard from him thus far, the only way he could express it intelligently would be if he were reading a script written by Mark Brainard.
You can hear him make his own case at the WDEL.com podcast page. It’s under the Afternoon News header, and it’s followed by Karen Peterson’s rebuttal. Decide for yourself.