The DEGOP stands ready to do its part to help “fix” Wilmington

Filed in National by on November 11, 2015

Get a load of Copeland’s response to the recent NJ editorial in the city of Wilmington. It would be funny if the stakes were not so high.

GOP Reaction to News Journal Editorial

Newark, DE — The Chairman of the Delaware Republican Party, Charlie Copeland, released the following statement this afternoon after reading today’s News Journal editorial “Wilmington, our broken city, must be saved”:

“The News Journal has hit the nail on the head, and I commend them for their editorial this morning. I was particularly struck by the line, ‘We must work to improve access to high-quality education in the city. We must work to ensure our young people have employment opportunities and the resources to succeed. We must stem the tide of guns flowing onto our streets’.

“Republicans have not held a significant seat at the table in the City of Wilmington in over 40 years, and we have not controlled the Governor’s Office in 24 years. This has left the City in the hands of one party control, and the results of that have been devastating. Our Party is well aware of this fact, and we have begun to reengage in the City to offer residents a real choice when they go to the ballot box.

“Republicans feel strongly that our party has real solutions to the very real problems that face the City of Wilmington. We are prepared to meet with the Mayor, and others who have an interest in saving Wilmington, to work in a bi-partisan way to make things better.

So…What are they, these solutions? Why the secrecy? Can it be because the GOP’s “solutions” amount to a handful of tax cuts for the businesses and individuals that are already getting a pretty good deal? Maybe we’ve taken tax cuts as far as they can go, and now Charlie is going to propose direct subsidies to our wealthiest businesses and individuals. I wouldn’t put it past him.

“The time for summits, rallies, and press conferences is over. The time for focusing on the protection of personal political power over serving the residents of Wilmington is over. The time for avoiding meaningful, and difficult, decisions is over. It’s time to #fixwilmington.

The Republican Party stands ready to do its part.”

Why do I get the idea that the DEGOP wants to ” #fixwilmington” the same way Sam Brownback “fixed” Kansas and George W. Bush “fixed” America?

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  1. cassandra_m says:

    The Republican Party can stand up some candidates who can actually connect with the people who live in the city. 40 years of Democratic control did not come without the GOP ceding any political role in the city.

  2. john kowalko says:

    “Charter School Charlie” is probably planning a significant expansion of Charter Schools in Wilmington owned by and transfusing taxpayer money to the business community that “CSC” supports and benefits from. At the Senate hearing on HB 50, the testimony from the Chamber of Commerce, RODEL and the Business Roundtable had a common theme that the business community wanted to help “reform/improve” public education and leaving the smarter balanced assessment in place and mandatory was the only answer.

    I testified afterwards that I welcome the business communities engagement in public education. I iterated that it should involve (but not necessarily be limited to) placing their collective checkbooks on the table, disengaging from every aspect of education that they are not trained for or experienced in and step back and let the professionals make the decisions. I also advised that they take their classic “photo-op” “Principal for a Day” program and reformulate it so that two of the VP’s for Bank of America would spend one to two afternoons a week for an entire school year between 4-5PM mentoring some of the inner city youngsters in the impoverished neighborhood schools to help them learn and learn how to learn. Two or more executives from Astra Zeneca could do the same in a science subject. Two or more of the Delaware taxpayer engorged JP Morgan can come on site and mentor math ( or perhaps how to get cash from DEDO). Can you imagine how significant an effect these captains of industry would have on these students. They could even have their action photos published in their business periodicals claiming true “Superstars in Education” status.

    State Representative John Kowalko

  3. Paul Calistro says:

    Actually given the wrong primary scenario ,a Republican candidate could win

  4. cassandra_m says:

    ^^^With the right candidate, this is certainly a possibility. It was a possibility in 2012, too. And the GOP still can’t find a decent candidate.

  5. kavips says:

    If you want your kids to grow up fvcking people over, take others’ assets for their own, and slave-rob their workers to pay their own exorbitant salaries, then perhaps allowing business to run education is a good idea.

    But, I know of no parent who wants that. I think most would agree that the greater the distance business stays from educating little children, the better we all are…

  6. Geezer says:

    I love how the Republicans complain that residents of cities deserve their condition because they voted for Democrats.

    It’s a crock of pure shit. “You didn’t vote for us enough, so we’re not going to run any candidates” is perhaps the lamest blaming-the-victim excuse-making I’ve ever heard, and naturally, these frauds say it all the time.

    The highest-ranking Republican official in Wilmington is Mike Brown. I think the GOP itself is to blame for the party’s lack of useful ideas and competent candidates.

  7. David Storm says:

    You forgot to mention their job program. “Right to Work” zones, or more accurately “Right to Freeload”.

  8. “We must stem the tide of guns flowing onto our streets”

    okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

    Are we going to see more GOPers who agree with Copeland and who will vote for gun control in Delaware?

  9. John Manifold says:

    Actually, the GOP had a prominent “seat at the table” for years. Joe DiPinto.

    But by now, the Clatworthization of the Delaware GOP is so complete that Joe DiPinto and Mike Harkins are on the invitation committee for a fundraiser next week for two Democratic legislators.

  10. Dave says:

    The situation in Wilmington is dire enough that if any solution(s) were easy they would have been tried already. Top down approaches are often met with responses such as the code of silence. My opinion is that the community (meaning those who live there) also need to engage from the bottom up as well. It needs to be a concerted effort from the entire village. I guess it’s a chicken and egg thing. If the police can’t protect the citizens, the citizens can’t be expected to help. It’s a conundrum.

    I read an interesting article in Newsweek last year that kinda encapsulates the situation. From what I can tell it the same article could be printed today:

    http://www.newsweek.com/2014/12/19/wilmington-delaware-murder-crime-290232.html

  11. Tom Kline says:

    Nothing in Wilmington worth saving.

  12. Courage says:

    I guess lives do not matter to you Tom, It appears there is no solution for your problem.

  13. Jason330 says:

    Copeland is now trying to sound more like a grownup:

    “It would be easy for me to talk with you today about the perils of one party control of state government. It would be easy for me to stand here today and lay blame on a host of Democratic Party leaders who have abandoned the city and its families over the last 40 years, but I’m not going to. If we are going to save the City of Wilmington then we need to work together in a bi-partisan manner.

    “I, and all Republicans across the state, extend a hand to the leaders of Wilmington to sit down and talk about real reform and real change to improve the lives of City residents.

    Charlie knows how “easy” it would be to lay blame for Wilmington on Democrats, because that’s what he has been doing until this statement.