Wagner’s Disgrace Is Big Boost for Davies
Today’s Department of Labor ruling in favor of Kathleen Davies in her dispute with her former boss, Auditor Tom Wagner, was no doubt satisfying for her in a professional sense. It showed that there was no factual foundation for the allegations against her, and pointed pretty clearly to another employee of the office who stepped way out of line in pursuing his or her personal, unauthorized “investigation” of Davies. When those charges were investigated, an outside agency found that at least one of the unnamed employee’s allegations was demonstrably false.
More importantly from a political standpoint, it got prominent play in the News Journal, which also used the opportunity to talk about her place in the primary race for auditor. This is the sort of publicity she should capitalize on as soon as possible. The way they used the system to muzzle her — she couldn’t quit without giving up her employment rights, but she couldn’t say or do anything as long as they kept paying her.
One thing the story didn’t follow up on: The unnamed worker who started all this. I would like some assurances that this worker has been severely disciplined for the unauthorized “investigation” and smears against Davies, which has cost the state well into six figures. And I’m pretty sick and tired of the “personnel issue” dodge for keeping everything secret. These motherfuckers work for the taxpayers. Let them answer to their employers, the people.
Wagner has a history of punishing those who seek to ‘audit’. He fired the guy who wrote the report outing Dick Cathcart as ignoring procurement practices in order to reward lucrative no-bid contracts at Delaware State. Oh, and then recommended the ethically-bankrupt Cathcart for that Delaware City gig before he’d even released his final ‘report’, which was a whitewash.
I hope Davies runs as a real auditor who will do her job and let the chips fall where they may. That will contrast her with both Wagner and Park City Kathy.
I agree with most of this but disagree on one point. I have no inside info but anyone can read the reports and figure out who the person is.
I think a more likely scenario is this; Wagner wasn’t there and the office devolved into chaos. A brand new manager had in her mind legitimate concerns about what was going on and didn’t know what to do. She went outside the chain of command and her complaints were used for political purposes from there. In my mind, she is a whistleblower and should be afforded protections.
You can’t be a whistle blower when the charges are untrue and/or unfounded. I agree with the beginning of your premise. Wagner wasn’t there. He turned over control of the office to his #2. Some jealous coworker was upset that she had to take direction from Davies. She sought to find dirt on Davies to remove her from Wagner’s favor. She connected dots that did not exist, which led to Davies’ firing. This is not a whistle blower. There are no awards for being petty.
I’m sure the office did devolve into chaos. They were actually asked to do audits for the first time in decades. I mean, I can only imagine when she woke up the first staff person from the agency’s mandatory mid-day nap to audit financial documents, the place probably gasped with horror.
Davies was punished for doing what an auditor should do–uncovering waste, fraud and abuse in the operation of several of Delaware’s charter schools. Taxpayers’ money that was going to waste.
You know damn well that Park City Kathy will NEVER look at waste, fraud and abuse in the operation of Delaware’s charter schools. Not with so many well-connected charter schools supporters behind her candidacy. In fact, the entire raison d’etre for her candidacy is that she’ll look the other way to protect her powerful backers.
@El Som: In which case the office will operate as it has for at least 30 years.
Exactly.
It’s a great dodge. You’ll notice that Democrats, though they controlled every other office in the state, never made a concerted effort to dislodge Wagner. There are several possible explanations, but I will invoke William of Ockham to suggest that his lax attitude toward auditing said Democrats was involved.
Oh, yeah. “You don’t look at anything we do that stinks to high heaven, and we won’t oppose you.”
Simple as that.
I broke this news a month ago and it took the News Journal a month to cover this? Come on! As well, the News Journal took in the employee who began all this crap and let them run their mouth off. The News Journal was more than happy to print whatever that employee said. The fact they did not issue a retraction on that article from two years ago speaks volumes.
There’s a lot here – I’m going to split this up into separate posts:
I believe Alby and El Som are absolutely correct in their assessment of past Auditor’s races. It never seemed like the establishment D’s got behind Brenda Mayrack, I think we’d be in a better place today if she had been elected 4 years ago.
As someone who has attended an unemployment board hearing, I can say that it is heavily weighted in favor of the employee which is as it should be. But a favorable finding in that setting falls well short of an exoneration and it leaves unanswered questions. So she got Wagner to approve a trip to Pittsburgh for an AFL-CIO conference, why did need to she go? So it was possible for the Audit Report draft to be released to Rep Williams ahead of time for a legitimate purpose, what was that purpose?
For what purpose? The public’s right to know. Which the Auditor opposed. In fact, he somehow was able to get the General Assembly to bar the release of ‘work product’, as in the damning audit Robert Hicks conducted on Delaware State’s (read Dick Cathcart’s) procurement practices. And guess who got to define what ‘work product’ was? The auditor. In burying anything critical of his good ol’ boy enablers. Likely would’ve done the same to Davies work if she hadn’t shared it. And we’d never know.
I want someone determined to protect the PUBLIC’s interest for auditor. Sure looks like Davies to me.
“I broke this news a month ago and it took the News Journal a month to cover this?”
Yes. It boils down to the simple fact that they had to contact everyone involved, a step you as a blogger can skip, often to the detriment of your credibility. Your misleading attack on Mike Ramone, for example, would never have been allowed to run in a mainstream media source as it did.
Also, this is a highly political story. Wagner has lots of protectors, as you’re well aware, and the newspaper — unlike you — will have to interact repeatedly with those people, so they’re not going to rush something into print.
It also appears to me that they held the story until they could tie it to breaking news, and they also used material about the primary so they wouldn’t have to cover the race in a separate story.
Something you should know: Leakers, by definition, want their information out there, and savvy insiders are well aware that a legitimate newspaper — because of the threat of a lawsuit, not honor — will double-check allegations. Bloggers often do not, so they go to bloggers first.
Lastly; the vast majority of fraud / waste / abuse is uncovered by internal whistleblowers. External auditors with no prior tips account for about 4% of frauds uncovered. Every report that I can remember coming from the State Auditor’s Office reporting on fraud, including the Charter frauds, got its initial lead from a whistleblower.
A strong whistleblower program state-wide is central to the effective operation of Auditor’s Office and it is a very bad look when the cyber pitchforks come out against someone whose motives we can’t begin to guess at on this.
“So she got Wagner to approve a trip to Pittsburgh for an AFL-CIO conference, why did need to she go? ”
I really don’t care. Pittsburgh is a short trip and nobody goes there to soak up the scenery, unlike in, say, Denali.
If the News Journal weren’t so lazy, it would produce a record of all the travel of all state employees. I’m sure it adds up, and I’m sure it would rile up the same people who resent every nickel the government spends.
I have no idea what really went on in the office, but it seems pretty clear to me that the Delaware Way boys want no part of her. That’s good enough for me.
You know who ended up being an internal whistleblower? Davies. Released info the Auditor wanted buried. Got fired under dubious circumstances because of it. And, yes, was vindicated.
As to Alby’s point. We get stuff all the time that is clearly just someone looking to plant a story. I like to think we’re savvy enough to just dismiss the stuff. Doesn’t hold true for everybody, though…
” it is a very bad look when the cyber pitchforks come out against someone whose motives we can’t begin to guess at on this.”
Bullshit. I certainly can begin to guess motive when someone “whistleblows” second-hand information and, when it is dismissed as false, moves on to slander.
Consulting the sage of Ockham again, it sounds very much to me as if the motive is personal. And that’s the problem with painting every “whistleblower” as legitimate. The ones that aren’t should pay for tainting the process and making whistleblowers in general less credible. Due process, of course, but I want this other individual subject to the same scrutiny her target was.
I am not here to defend Wagner, far from it.
Kathleen Davies is not Kathy McGuiness and that’s good enough for everyone here, OK.
She spent 6 years working for and with Wagner. I don’t have the ability to check to see if she was there for the Cathcart fiasco. We can all agree I hope that the Office is not what it should be, she was the #2 person there and acting #1 for a time, what is she going to do differently?
She has shown that she will prepare audits that demonstrate that institutions have wasted public dollars. She’s also a true auditor. Kathy is not an auditor and she has given no indication that she cares at all about being the public’s watchdog. Rufus, what do you see in her that we don’t?
My problem is this El Som, I just don’t see a good choice here.
Kathy McGuiness is the candidate of the party machine, that much is plain. There is nothing in her background or experience that suggests she will be an effective independent auditor.
Kathleen Davies can deliver a beat down on the Charter schools, but what else? She was in that office for 6 years, I don’t think she can take credit for its few successes and get a pass on the failures.
KM wins the primary – I think she would breeze through the general election. She would be able to increase the funding for that office, but would likely only go after targets without political cover.
KD wins the primary – I think she would struggle in the general the same way Brenda Mayrack did. Assuming she wins the general what then? What will she do differently? Is she going to be able to shame the GA going to increase funding for the office? I don’t like those odds.
Which is better and which is worse, I don’t know the answer.
Wagner complained that the office wasn’t adequately funded, while he made sure that the auditors who WERE funded sat on their asses. Then he shrugged his shoulders and said, ‘Hey, the office isn’t funded properly. What am I supposed to do?” How about putting your staff to WORK?
Oh, look what I just found (seriously, just did a Google search):
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/afge-endorses-delawares-kathleen-davies-for-auditor-300672418.html
That’ll help.
Rufus, I recommend that you check out her website. You’ll know where she stands and what she’s done:
http://www.kdaviesforstateauditor.com/
Then stop by Kathy McGuiness’ site:
http://votemcguiness.com/
To me, one is substantive and the other is empty politics. But YMMV.
“She was in that office for 6 years, I don’t think she can take credit for its few successes and get a pass on the failures.”
I see no evidence that she rather than Wagner set policy, until the time period when Wagner couldn’t work, and the failures of the office are policy decisions she’s not responsible for. Just as you can’t blame a reporter for not writing a story his editor won’t let him write, I don’t think you can blame Wagner’s employee for failing to initiate audits or for covering for political cronies, which are his biggest failings.
Also, Mayrack ran against a longtime incumbent. Whoever wins the Democratic primary will face a GOP tomato can in a year when GOP candidates are paddling against a heavy current.
“If the News Journal weren’t so lazy, it would produce a record of all the travel of all state employees. I’m sure it adds up, and I’m sure it would rile up the same people who resent every nickel the government spends.”
Completely agree but I’d substitute “Auditor’s Office” for News Journal.
Proof that Kathy McGuiness is scum:
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2018/06/26/auditor-race-mcguiness-calls-davies-open-hearing-public/735349002/
Just to be fair, I hereby call on Kathy McGuiness to release all the information she provided to Elaine Manlove of the Department Of Elections to justify her voting in Utah while supposedly maintaining Delaware residency. Davies isn’t hiding anything despite Park City’s sinister tone; Park City has hidden a lot.
I also call on her to tell us what other public officials besides Ernie Lopez she’s had sex with. You know, just to, pardon the expression, ‘flesh’ out this claim from her phony baloney website:
“Kathy has spent decades holding those in power accountable in government.” That, my friends, is a lie. Lopez’ wife held him accountable, but not Kathy. Who else has been compromised into supporting her?
I’m sorry. She is one of the sleaziest individuals, and is backed by some of the sleaziest individuals, to come down the pike in Delaware. Which is why I intend to hold her to the same standards she would apply to others.
Oh, and to some of the ‘better’ people supporting her, like…:
Dave Sokola
Bryan Townsend
Sherry Dorsey Walker (ok, they’re not ALL that good)
Sarah McBride…
how can you support such an amoral candidate and still look at yourselves in the mirror?
First of all, thank you, Rufus, for previewing what the McGuiness attack would consist of.
“In two months, Democratic primary voters will be choosing their nominee for this critical state office and deserve to know what was found in the independent investigation leading to Kathleen Davies’ initial dismissal from the Auditor’s Office”
Here’s what else they deserve to know. Compile two lists, one of all Davies’ political contributions, one of McGuiness’. Which candidate do you think will be INDEPENDENT?
I really don’t care about her morality beyond the fact that she lies when convenient, as she did in withdrawing her votes-for-corporations proposal in Rehoboth.
You’ve been, and are, one of our best commenters, Rufus.
But your comments today were…disingenuous. I respectfully think you should have identified yourself as someone with some ties to the campaign rather than creating the misimpression that your comments were independent of that campaign.
All is forgiven, though. You ARE still one of our best commenters.
It dawns on me that the McGuiness campaign must’ve been in semi-panic mode today once the article was published, and sought to change the subject ASAP.
One of my faves was calling the Auditor’s Office the ‘Wagner-Davies’ regime. Because EVERY auditor fires his subordinate for doing their job instead of hiding what they found. Only a campaign as cynical as McGuiness’ would tie the two together. Who’s their campaign manager, Vince D’Anna?
This is the boring inside baseball shit I always talk about.
Puts everyone to sleep. Take it to Blue Delaware. It’s like a quaalude.
Personal beefs and intuitions. Take a break.
Yeah, well, over 300 readers have been ‘bored’ so far…this race is important, though perhaps not to you.
The Delaware Way is a thing, and it’s bad for Delaware. Not everything we write is designed to keep you from being bored. Lotsa other outlets out there.
Here’s what else people should be aware of: Kathleen Davies came here 6 years ago from New Jersey as an auditor, not as a politician. She is running for office to combat the Delaware Way network she ran into when she tried to do her job.
Kathy McGuiness, on the other hand, has been networking her way through Delaware politics for some years now, and apparently will run for anything just to force her way in. Her record of prevarication as a Rehoboth commissioner is evidence that we shouldn’t trust her.
On a side note, Rufus is playing coy about who this is, but this looks like some kind of vendetta to me, not necessarily by higher-ups, perhaps by whomever this person is. Again, if I had to guess, I would put my money on someone who was fairly senior when Davies was brought in over his or her head. In the absence of the boss, there’s room for all kinds of cutthroat moves, and a DW networker could — and apparently did — outmaneuver an outsider fairly easily.
@REV: No occasion to combat wrongdoing is ever too small, grasshopper.
I received the following email from the McGuiness campaign and wanted to share the message with my response.
John Kowalko
8:22 PM (0 minutes ago)
If this is any kind of example of the direction your campaign is headed than I respectfully request that you remove me from your email list. I do not appreciate negative conjecture, hypothetical queries intended to cast aspersions or any other type of negative campaigning. You should be ashamed of yourselves and correct this misguided course immediately with full and public apologies. THERE IS NOT NOR EVER HAS BEEN A “WAGNER-DAVIES” AUDITOR’S OFFICE.
Representative John Kowalko
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Quinn Ludwicki wrote:
McGuiness Calls on Davies to Release Independent Investigation Report and Allow Her Hearing to Be Open to Public
Kathy McGuiness, Democratic candidate for Auditor, responded to today’s News Journal report detailing the latest developments in Kathleen Davies’ dismissal from her post as Tom Wagner’s second-in-command and issued the following:
“In two months, Democratic primary voters will be choosing their nominee for this critical state office and deserve to know what was found in the independent investigation leading to Kathleen Davies’ initial dismissal from the Auditor’s Office. Based on the News Journal account, the Wagner-Davies Auditor’s Office operated without leadership for years.
The decision allowing her to receive unemployment insurance is only the first step of the investigation into Ms. Davies’ professional conduct while working for Tom Wagner. The Auditor’s office has to operate transparently and maintain the public’s trust. To have critical investigative information about a candidate for State Auditor withheld from the public and to have a hearing closed to the public, where serious accusations about her professional conduct while on the job is a disservice to voters and undermines the public’s confidence. Because she is a candidate for public office, I call on Ms. Davies to authorize the Auditor’s office to release to the public, the content of the Grant Thornton investigation as well as any other pertinent information relating into her conduct as Tom Wagner’s top assistant, and permit her July hearing before the Merit Employees Relations Board to be open to the public, so voters have all the facts.”
For more information about Kathy McGuiness for Auditor, please visit http://www.votemcguiness.com
Friends of Kathy McGuiness
235 Rehoboth Ave Rear Office
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
From TNJ story:
“So far the only candidate from [the GOP] to file is Joan Winters.”
Presumably running on the slogan “Winters Is Coming”
‘Rear Office’?
People are fired every day because of lies and bullshit from malicious axe-grinders who have the ear of the boss. But rarely do you see the ex-employee get to put the boss on the stand and prove he is a liar.
Release the report..If Kathleen Davies genuinely wants to be transparent for all Delawareans, release the report!!!!
Why the secrecy about the name of the fake whistleblower?
Release the report!!! What do you have to hide???
Hey Mark Stewart, this is why it isn’t some easy thing to “release the report”…
https://exceptionaldelaware.wordpress.com/2018/06/26/kathy-mcguiness-victim-shaming-kathleen-davies-is-a-new-low/
As I wrote, the report wasn’t even complete by the time the unemployment hearing officer got it. Wagner was the one that paid $100,000 of Delaware taxpayer money for the thing but couldn’t find it in him to use the full report in a hearing? I would love to see this report. Not to find some info against Davies, but what it assuredly must say about Wagner. Davies can’t produce the report. Only Wagner can. If I were Davies, I would be issuing a subpoena to Grant Thorton for the FULL and unedited report!
You are spot on Kevin. Lets get the report released to show the truth in the name of transparency.
Thank you for the kind words El Som – I’m not worthy.
I have no ties at all to either campaign, period.
Rightly or wrongly, the name of the whistleblower is not really a secret, it is in the hearing report which is linked to in the DE Online story. One thing I just noticed about that report is that Tom Wagner is listed as “Claimant Witness” which I interpret as him being called as a witness by Kathleen Davies. So he fired her, denied her unemployment claim, then got called as a witness by the person he fired, too much.
I suspect the Grant Thornton report is a nothingburger. If it contained anything substantive, why wouldn’t it have been revealed at the hearing?
Kevin is correct and is on to something. That report is worthy and will show Wagners antics. Lets demand the release. Davies would have nothing to hide and prove she is accountable for her “alleged” misconduct.
Look at Mark Stewart using Trumpian tactics.
Without sounding too cynical, McGuiness has just put Davies on equal footing with herself. Big mistake. McGuiness had name recognition, Davies did not. Any back-and-forth will negate that advantage.
Clubby they are. Bright they ain’t.
If I was Trumpian I would say Lock her up. I am BERNIAN and demand transparency.
Mark Stewart, can you explain WHY you want this report released so bad? You need to address Wagner for that and I would HIGHLY doubt he will. Even though Delaware taxpayers paid $100,000 for it. Can’t tell what your angle is here…
why are we as Democrats afraid of the truth? We should demand the GT report and then focus on these 15 primaries. We need to make sure Dover represents us.
Alby wrote in response to this earlier comment I wrote:
“I broke this news a month ago and it took the News Journal a month to cover this?”
“Yes. It boils down to the simple fact that they had to contact everyone involved, a step you as a blogger can skip, often to the detriment of your credibility. Your misleading attack on Mike Ramone, for example, would never have been allowed to run in a mainstream media source as it did.”
I’ve written over 3,900 articles on my blog. Can you let the Mike Ramone thing go? Mike and I made up!
All this News Journal article did was pretty much write the same stuff I did three weeks ago. I am very curious what the article they were already planning on writing would have looked like had I not come out with that article!
As well, Alby, you wrote:
“Something you should know: Leakers, by definition, want their information out there, and savvy insiders are well aware that a legitimate newspaper — because of the threat of a lawsuit, not honor — will double-check allegations. Bloggers often do not, so they go to bloggers first.”
A legitimate newspaper would NOT have run the story they did on Davies two years ago. They went SOLELY by the same whistleblower that proved to be out to lunch at the unemployment hearing and smeared Davies name. Do you think it is a coincidence they squashed a follow-up story on Davies that would have come out had I not posted my article? What the hell would they have written about her with that article? Do you think it is a coincidence they assigned the new article to their education reporter and NOT their political reporter? There is some funny business going on with all this and the News Journal is waist-deep in the middle of all this.
Release the GT report.
Why is no one talking about Dennis Williams any more? Did I miss something?
“Do you think it is a coincidence they assigned the new article to their education reporter and NOT their political reporter?”
The political reporter is busy covering the Legislature at the moment. TNJ has always assigned statewide races to reporters outside of the normal political / government beats to spread the work around.
@SW: His name is poison, which is both his doing and not his doing.
Wow! 300 readers and you 8 commenter. I’m overwhelmed.
Sorry I’m missed this riveting and repetitive snooze fest. I was doing anything else.
Alby, I’ll see your cynical and raise it to borderline paranoia.
The old courtroom adage is never ask a question unless you already know the answer. It wouldn’t surprise me if the McGuiness camp already has a copy of the report and already knows what’s in it.
A back and forth could work to Davies advantage but she needs to come out swinging.
Rufus, the only way the McGuiness camp has the report is if Tom Wagner gave it to them. Someone who has the capability (and has shown) to not complete the full report and could very well have edited the thing. Like the Hosts on Westworld, how would we know what is real and what is not?
And if Wagner did give out the report, in the middle of an ongoing situation with Davies which will result in a Merit Employee Review Hearing next month, could that not be seen as evidence tampering if he gave out an edited version of the report? I imagine there would be a few other laws that he or someone from his office broke if they did hand the McG camp a copy of the report.
True. Wagner got legislation passed which prohibits the release of ‘work product’. Meaning, Wagner, who appeared to know nothing about what was in the report, has either selectively leaked it, or hasn’t. If he has, he’s violated a law that he pushed for.
Wagner tried to get McGuiness’ opponent fired, and got knocked down for it.
Is he now helping out McGuiness in her disingenuous attack on Davies? Quite possible. They are both ethically bankrupt and are subservient to the good old boys who enable them.
You know, it’s a fair point. Fighting the Delaware Way, etc. Keep supporting Davies. I support Davies.
My issue is you guys get sucked into the low-rent soap opera of clowns and half-wits and it’s a distraction, I think.
McGuiness wants to be in the office and Davies wants to run the office.
Did anyone notice that Mcguinnes touted her ‘fraud examiner’ credentials in the last Debate? I didn’t some asking around and apparently she recently got that credential via online courses … If you’re qualified for this office why do you need to rush out and get a certification?
Davies is literally the only person I can vote for in good faith.
I pray Dems do the right thing this Sept! Next step we need to strip Pete and Val of their power!
That’s the spirit.
Electing Laura Sturgeon, Tizzy Lockman (S. Elizabeth Lockman on your primary ballots), Don Allan, Jakim Mohammed (PBUH), etc. will go a long way in drafting pistol Pete’s retirement paperwork. It won’t happen overnight, but it’ll happen.
Fraud examiner? She examines a fraud every time she plucks her eyebrows.
I have met all three candidates for Auditor and attended one candidate forum and watched another on Facebook live. As a Democratic voter I have also done my homework.
I agree that McGuiness is completely unqualified for the position. She has struggled to answer questions and it was clear she had no idea what she was talking about or had a clue about the job she was running for. I don’t care about her personal life, in fact I think the comments about it here don’t help and take away from the more serious issues – she is not qualified (I don’t think a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy helps a lot), she is not independent, she is not honest. On top of that, she is not really a Democrat (she switched parties to run for Lt. Governor) and she campaigned against the Democrat and for Republican Ernie Lopez and help to get Lopez elected.
Williams is qualified for the job. He is an accountant and has worked as an auditor and has a master’s degree from Wharton. Sounds good to me. Being a State Representative is great experience for this job. He served on the Revenue and Finance Committee and the Capital Budget Committee. Plus, he has been a Democrat for 40 years and is the only real Democrat running in the Democratic primary.
Davies has worked as an auditor but she has not even been truthful or accurate with respect to how long she worked in the Auditor’s office.
Davies continues to say that she worked for Wagner for 6 years but the Unemployment Benefits Hearing clearly states in the first sentence under “FINDINGS OF FACT” that: “This tribunal finds that the Claimant {Davies} was employed by the State of Delaware (Employer) by the Delaware Auditor of Accounts (Auditor) as the Chief Administrative Auditor (Claimant) from January 2010 through December 20, 2017. Claimant reported directly to the Auditor and was his ‘second in command’”. That is eight years. That is obviously an easy calculation. Further, she was on leave for 19 months getting full pay. That’s almost 2 years getting paid to not work. Wow!
I also agree with Rufus, that Davies can’t take credit for the successes of the office and get a pass on the failures. She leaked the incomplete work product to a State Representative. Clearly, if Davies was in charge of this failed office for years why should we expect her to do a better job if she were to get elected.
Most people commenting here seem to overlook the fact that Davies is just like McGuiness – Davies is not really a Democrat (Davies switched parties to run for Auditor), and Davies campaigned in 2010 with Republican Tom Wagner against the Democratic candidate and helped to get Wagner re-elected. Davies also can’t say she is independent either now that she has two State Representatives endorsing her including one who is helping run her campaign.
For me and I hope for you, Dennis E Williams is the only qualified and experienced Democrat running for this important office, an open seat for the first time in 30 years. He has my vote and I hope he will get your vote too.
tl;dr
He’s a DE Williams guy. We’re supporting Davies. Just skip this.
Dennis E. Williams is an untrustworthy snake who is despised by virtually everyone in Delaware politics. He also has the same name as the despised and deposed Wilmington mayor. He has as much chance of winning this as the Togo has of winning the World Cup.
Davies, unlike the other two, is not in this race because she’s a politician. That’s good enough for me.
Also, your abysmal math skills at determining how long she worked in the office demonstrate to me that you’re not the person to go to with math problems.