Nicole Poore Rides The Gravy Train At Public’s Expense

Filed in Delaware by on July 4, 2017

Been poring through the Budget and Grants-In-Aid bills.  My, uh, patriotic duty.

There’s a category under Grants-In-Aid entitled ‘Disabled/Health/Labor’.  Total appropriations under this line are $2,890,641.  That’s for 40 agencies, if my count is correct.

One agency’s take dwarfed what any other agency got.  Wanna guess?

That’s right. Direct from the Grants-In-Aid bill:

Jobs For Delaware Graduates                         $1,116,158.

Meaning that over 38% of all funds going to address organizations in this category go to Jobs For Delaware Graduates.

Sen. Poore (the last name hardly fits any more) is stealing from the public twice. First with her six-figure job as head of this phony exercise in public relations, and second by stealing funds away from far more deserving agencies.

Enabled, of course, by the Joint Finance Committee upon which she serves. Ethical bankruptcy on the part of all involved.

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  1. chris says:

    News Journal should really expose this stuff. Good sleuthing!

  2. Jason330 says:

    This budget is a nauseating travesty on so many levels.

  3. bamboozer says:

    The budget is a good reminder that Delaware’s government is every bit as dysfunctional and corrupt as anything in Washington, and shows no sign of improving.

  4. Stewball says:

    The News Journal should start publishing some of the ridiculous photos that state legislators post on social media. Nicole Poore’s photos on Instagram and Facebook are especially bad but she is by far from the only one.

  5. loritool says:

    Look nothing will be done, even on here. All talk but no primary, we talk for a day then nothing . Poore , Hanson will get a lot of money from the Dems. Mark my words

  6. jason330 says:

    Wow. The WordPress spam filter is really breaking down.

  7. bct2000 says:

    The Delaware Way at its best! In just a few years, she has learned how to.play the political game. Get on committees that then vote on how much funding to give to the same agencies you are in.

  8. Your premise has to be questioned. Point 1, what evidence do you have that this is not a great program. You are the only person that I have seen claim otherwise. It may be true, but give me at least an antidote or stat to back it. Point 2. The organization was receiving significant grant in aid money before Poore was the head. let alone elected in the Senate, was it not? Should it be penalized because Poore was elected by either losing someone they think is an effective leader or by losing money needed to be effective?

    Question though, where did Poore get off not abstaining from the vote? It is true that there is an exemption if it affects more than one member of the body, but Senator Poore claimed instead because Jobs for Delaware Graduates was not the only program. That is a violation of Robert’s Rules, therefore, Senate Rules. I don’t like it. If we actually followed the ethics rules, maybe there would be fewer questions. I say keep them coming.

  9. jason330 says:

    Republican David stepping up to defend government pork. Being an elected official has changed you Republican David .

  10. David, you may not know that Poore, in her leadership position, has held up consideration of keeping the current Labor Secretary on.

    Why? Because she had proposed to conduct an analysis of all job training programs that get money from the State to determine which ones worked and which ones didn’t.

    Jobs For Delaware Graduates has been mostly a public relations exercise from its start back around 1980. It was a good spot for Pete DuPont to stash some of his less able sycophants. Since it does not receive federal money, it does not have to conform to Fed requirements demonstrating its success.

    That money could be better used almost anywhere. If JDG is such a good program, why doesn’t Poore want it evaluated? Question answers itself. It’s her sinecure and she damn well intends to keep it.