Open Thread Nov. 16: County Council Clown Show
The News Journal is too busy dredging up the Capano case (it’s an anniversary thing) to bother covering New Castle County Council, but WDEL was there for an epic meltdown by council President Karen Hartley-Nagle when she was stripped of her last committee assignment by a vote of council. The back-and-forth with Councilman George Smiley is priceless.
Add this to the Joe for President talk: A Morning Consult/Politico poll conducted Nov.9th through 11th and released today. The good news: Biden holds an 11-point lead on Trump, 46-35. The bad news (for Joe): A generic Democrat leads by 14, 48-34.
The #metoo hashtag sweeping Hollywood has brought forward victims nobody expected, and no name was more surprising than actor Terry Crews — president Camacho from “Idiocracy” — who said he was sexually assaulted. He finally told the whole story, complete with the name of his attacker. If an ex-NFL linebacker can be sexually assaulted, anyone can.
Wonder why Sean Hannity quickly made nice with Keurig? Maybe it’s because they aren’t the only ones bailing on his show. Couldn’t happen to a steamier pile of poo.
Speaking of rich white guys who stepped in poo, Papa John Schatter seems to have deduced that there’s more money in liberalism than dead-end flag worshipping, even flipping off the neo-Nazis who said his was now the pizza of the alt-right.
Feel free to add anything else you find interesting.
Got a link for the WDEL KHN thing? I’m not sure if that link was supposed to go to Elvis Costello or not.
http://www.wdel.com/news/this-is-political-this-is-payback-hartley-nagle-ousted-from/article_6f882c48-ca58-11e7-abf4-0f7d57ec6175.html
Thanks, Geek. Fixed it. That’s what happens when you’ve got two screens going at once.
E’gads! That’s a mess.
Why did she not produce the emails that were requested? The statement she read that in her opinion taints Smiley is laughable. That she read out what she thought was bullying sounded like council person Smiley doing his job in questioning why my taxpayer money should be spent for her personal holiday party is spot on! She plays the victim well . . . Oh em gee!
If she was gonna play the victim card, she could have done better than to throw Janet Kilpatrick under the bus.
The one good thing about KHN, as opposed to KWS, is that she shares a council with other people who can point out the crazy as they deem necessary. With KWS, she gave her cronies jobs and they either kept their yaps shut or defended her to the hilt. There was no one from inside the department to point out how disastrous she was.
Blame it on Cain was strangely apropos, so I it could have worked artistically (he says after listening to the actual recording).
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Sadly, the NJ has nothing better to do than to relive long ago glory days of when someone read it for news. All they are doing is once again putting the Fahey family through the ringer
I know, right? And in so doing missed a great Grand Guignol performance by KHN.
Just for perspective, New Castle County has the largest public budget of any entity in Delaware other than the state itself. Who needs to cover its governing body, anyway?
Here’s a question: Given the inept performance of the job’s duties by both the current New Castle County Council President and her predecessor, I have to wonder: Do we even need such a position? Couldn’t we cut the council districts from 12 to 11 and do without an at-large “leader” of the group? Couldn’t they elect one of their own to run meetings?