Carney, Bonini to debate October 28
Congressman John Carney (D) and State Senator Colin Bonini (R) will have what appears to be their first and only debate at Widener University’s Delaware Law School on Concord Pike in North Wilmington on Friday, October 28th at 8 to 9 a.m. It will be aired live on WDEL, and will also be broadcast on WDEL’s Facebook page via Facebook Live. The public can attend in person at the Ruby R. Vale Moot Courtroom on Wideners’ Delaware campus, but seating is limited to the first 150 people who arrive.
WDEL is taking questions from the public to be asked at the debate. Submit them via Twitter by tweeting at @WDEL.
“Instead of developing Delaware-based businesses, Delaware’s economic development policies have always prioritized inducing out of state businesses to locate here by allowing them to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. What will your administration do to correct that?”
What will you do to decrease class size in our most disadvantaged schools?
What will you do to increase opportunities for small businesses to thrive in the state?
What is your revenue plan for when the casinos close?
I like that one
The lateness of this debate makes it even more pointless than it otherwise would it be.
Will you be more active as governor than you have been during your campaign?
Degrees of pointlessness are hard to discern when one of the candidates is leading by 20 points.
What will you do to protect the DE Inland Bays ? Do you consider them a sate wide resource or just a local zoning issue?
“What will you do to increase opportunities for small businesses to thrive in the state?”
Yes please. A focus on organic economic growth of people who are already here would be so refreshing. We tried flying around the world trying to entice companies to come here and it didn’t turn out too well.
Good luck with inland bays and clean water. This is Delaware where business comes first and moving a turd pipe from the bay to the ocean is considered a good idea.
Markell floated a plan to cleanup/protect inland water resources that got shot down. No one wants to pay for it.
I want to know what Carney’s plan is to fund the WEIC redistricting plan.
Will you, as governor, take the lead and support an end to the practice of civil forfeiture, which enables police to seize property and cash w/o even requiring that charges be filed against those who lose their property and cash?
Markell’s Clean Water Initiative was possibly the worst policy roll out ever. There was no effort put into it after he made a speech.
They wanted to raise taxes for clean water to do what? I would gladly pay more if it was for something real but the counties control zoning. Delaware’s rivers are full of sediment from inadequate forested buffers, no enforcement of runoff regs, allowing parasitic developers and corporate pigs to pollute at will and the chicken industry to pile 3 story piles of chicken shit on the ground next to tax ditches that flow into rivers.
The i and only positive thing from Markell was bike paths
They wanted to raise taxes to do this.
That’s a pretty tall order. And there was plenty of rollout on this — because there was the usual pushback from the folks who want all of the government they can eat for free.
Maybe you should ask the question — What will you do to fix the inland bays in a way I don’t pay for anything.
What will you do to preserve Delaware’s farms and open space and prevent sprawl? In your predecessor’s administration budgeted money was reduced for farm preservation or reallocated to other uses.
Markell’s water plan failed in substantial part because DNREC took forever to come up with the details, especially over the funding mechanism. When Markell realized that it was too late in the session to unleash the details on something that ambitious, he let it die.
There was no excuse not to have a complete bill ready to be introduced the day after the State of the State. Sloppy staff work led to a lack of political will.
It would cost zero extra tax dollars for DNREC to actually enforce existing law.
Details for the first round of Markell’s plan were meant to be collaborative, so that legislators would buy in since some of their own community needs would be addressed. This is not unusual for a big and complex initiative. There were enough details for multiple legislators to get pushback from their constituents on this program, although there was way less pushback here than for the gas tax.
It would cost zero extra tax dollars for DNREC to actually enforce existing law.
DNREC still isn’t adequately staffed to do all of the enforcement it should be doing, so yes, as a matter of fact it would cost more to do more enforcement. You get what you pay for here.
Rising temperatures in the Yellowstone created conditions for the proliferation of a parasite that feasted on white fish this summer. The parasite spread quickly and fish floated, belly up, for miles along the length of the river that is a popular sport fishing and tourist destination. When the river was shut down for all uses by The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, the owners of business along the river were outraged.
Were they angry at the dead fish? No.
The parasites that killed the fish? No.
The warming river that incubated the parasites? No.
The climate change that warmed the river? No.
The CO2 in the atmosphere that changed the climate? No.
The unregulated industries that dumped the CO2 in the air? No.
The lobbyists that bought off congress to unregulated the industries? No.
They were mad as hell at the The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks for “Attacking their livelihoods”
True story.
I believe that story.
It is of a piece with GOP candidates railing against the EPA for “excessive regulation” while bypassing the reality that taxpayers will be stuck cleaning up the mess if you don’t force companies into a cleaner way of doing business up front.
Pretty sure the University of Delaware is having a debate next Wednesday.