Ex-Doctor Enters Plea in Abortion Fatality

Cape Woman Died During Abortion.

I’m sorry I missed the Markell presser. From the release it sounds like it Carney’s miscalculation is going to cost him.

Brian Selander, former Communications Director for Senator Tom Carper, member of the Progressive Democrats of Delaware, and Democratic Committeeman began the press conference demanding that the Carney campaign pay back the full cost of the radio commercials.

“Delaware Democrats deserve more than these underhanded campaign tactics,” Selander said. “It’s just plain wrong. With so many Democratic campaigns that need help against Republicans – campaigns that we can all agree are a priority – why would John Carney allow them to spend thousands of dollars running his ads? His actions are disappointing.”

It is a great point. The underhanded campaign tactics show that Carney is either desperate or lacking in judgement.

“I was the first state-wide elected official in Delaware to endorse Barack Obama,” said Markell. “I recognized that the country needs real change and new ideas,” Markell continued. “And after eight years of the failures of the Bush administration we should all be doing everything we can to help make sure that change comes about. It is disappointing that Lieutenant Governor Carney is using the State Party to pay for ads for his own campaign with funds that should be used to support Barack Obama, or my friend Matt Denn, or a great legislator like Terry Schooley, or our entire slate of Democratic candidates in the fall.”

This Democratic party debacle puts Jack on the side of good Democrats like Denn, Schooley and Obama - and Carney on the side of the corrupt status quo.

Dr. William W. Boyer, Emeritus Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Delaware, put the ads into context, stating, “The State Treasurer is one of the six constitutional officers along with the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Insurance Commissioner and Auditor. Jack Markell is one of the leading Democrats in the state, and received over 70% of the vote in his last election. I’ve never heard of this before. That the State Democratic Party would spend money supporting these ads in a primary is unheard of. I can’t remember anything like this ever happening.”

Unprecedented maladministration by the state party. Carney needs to do the right thing and return the money.

Al Mascitti is just reporting that he has received a press release from the Carney campaign demanding that Jack Markell refund the money he received for his campaigns for State Treasurer to those who donated.  They are saying that Markell transferred that money to his gubernatorial bid.   This is a Rovian preemptive strike to distract attention away from the controversy caused by the Delaware Democratic Party’s running an ad for Carney paid for by party money.

Little do the Carney people know that it is perfectly legal to transfer money for one campaign to another campaign.  Hillary Clinton raised 60 million for her easy reelection campaign to the Senate in New York in 2006.  She did not spend 60 million on that race, so she transferred all of that remaining money to her Presidential campaign.

Carney is perfecting his inner Karl Rove.

We don’t pay you to think shitbag!  Get back to work! 

Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, said he was determined to stop a “secret rule” that he described as a Bush administration effort to block the next president from trying to reduce worker deaths and illness caused by workplace toxins.

 Awesome! I can’t imagine any company in Delaware could benefit from this either. 

The people trying implement the rule used this arguement: 

“There is no industry or occupation in which more than 5 % of workers remain with a single employer in the industry or occupation for a period of even 35 years,” the authors wrote.

Oh, well, then nevermind. Feel free to kill people. Our bad, what were we thinking.

Right now on WDEL.

Update: Jason Scott is on with Al right now.

From the News Journal:

Protack said he didn’t mind much. He was getting a lot of mileage out of an about-face Lee made this week to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. After two days of controversy, Lee changed his mind and said it was a mistake.

“After the circumstances of this week, it would take 10 times that filing fee to rescue Bill Lee,” Protack said.

Protack was referring to the $5,300 filing fee he finally paid to officially enter the Republican primary yesterday.   And it was mentioned in the article that the fee will find its way into the pockets of Bill Lee somehow, to which Protack said he didn’t mind, as quoted in the article.   How does a filing fee paid to the state end up in Bill Lee’s pockets?  Or the DE GOP’s pockets?   Can someone explain that to me?

More importantly, however, is Protack’s reaction to Lee’s Hillary-like gaffe on offering driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.   He thinks it will be the issue to sink the Lee campaign.   But, as we have seen nationally and locally, illegal immigration as an issue does not have the potency that the GOP and its stalwarts think it does.   Indeed, illegal immigration is a problem created by the free market, and the GOP cannot be seen attacking the free market without further destroying their brand as a party.

Is illegal immigration wrong?   Sure.  I do not condone people entering this country illegally.  I much prefer they do it legally like my great grand parents.   Should illegals get drivers licenses or any other government benefits save emergency health care?  No.   But you can’t work yourself up into a rage over illegal immigration because the illegal immigrants are really not the reason illegal immigration exists.  Our economy and labor market is the reason.  There is a demand for cheap labor that is not being filled by our own citizenry.  Thus, it is being filled by someone else’s citizenry.     The problem with illegal immigration ever becoming the wedge issue the GOP dreams it to be is because we are the ones to blame.  We basically invite them here, so how can we scape goat them at the same time?    Sure, some idiots will try.  But they have not been successful to date.

Today’s NJ reports that McCain will try to capture “one point twenty one jigowatts!!” of electricity for his moribund campaign by driving his flux capacitor modified Delorean near the clock tower on main street at 10:58am on __________________ by picking __________ to be his VP.

You fill in the blanks in the comment section and win a copy of “The Life Aquatic” starring Bill Murray and Owen Wilson, directed by Wes Anderson.

What is a more important issue to you; War on Terror or the Economy? Why?

By now, we all know about the Delaware Democratic Party funding an ad lauding Carney and DeLuca as the true heros in the Bluewater Wind deal.   In essence, the Party paid for a campaign ad for John Carney.

I strongly oppose the Party’s actions here, but to me, it was to be expected.

When the party endorsed Carney at the convention, we knew this was coming.   The only thing I am surprised about is that they did not spend our money on behalf of Carney sooner.   The Delaware Democratic Party needs to reform itself in ways too voluminous to discuss here today.    But in relation to this situation, the Party needs to stay neutral in primaries.

I know John Daniello loathes primaries, but it is the responsibility of the Party to remain neutral while two of its members contest for the Party’s nomination for whatever office.   This includes the office of Governor, Lt. Governor, Congress, or dogcatcher.   Now, supporters of the current structure and establishment will say that the Party needs to line up behind a candidate early since the primary election is so close to the general election.

Well, there is one easy way to fix that problem, isn’t there?    Move the goddamn primary up to May like normal states.   It is not an adequate excuse that tradition says we must hold the primary in September.  Traditions are made to be broken.  Hey, we are liberals and progressives, after all.

But if the Party loves its September primary, then they must do away with the Party convention in May, or failing that, then they must not endorse any candidate who would be subject to a primary in September.  This would seem logical and obvious, given that the deadline to file for the primary is in late July, a full two months after the party convention!

John Daniello and the Delaware Democratic Party needs to take its cues from its national counterpart.       Look at the epic Obama v. Clinton primary we all participated in this past winter and spring.  Howard Dean, Daniello’s counterpart on the national level, remained neutral, even though you knew that he preferred Obama due to Obama’s strategy and message echoing his own.  Meanwhile, many of the party’s long serving establishment preferred Clinton.   While individual Democratic officials endorsed, the party organization remained neutral.   They let the voters decide.

Daniello and the Delaware Democratic Party has failed all Delaware Democrats in choosing sides.   They are silencing the voices of their own membership, many of whom, if not a majority of whom, prefer Jack Markell to be our nominee to face Bill Lee for the governorship.

If Daniello refuses to change, then he must resign.

I read DelawarePolitics.net so you don’t have to.

Christian Hudson: Palestinians are good guys, because Obama said something nice about Israel. When he says something bad about Israel, Palestinians will go back to being terrorists.

David Anderson: Obama doesn’t care about the troops because he cancelled a visit to Rammstein. Had he made the trip it would have demonstrated Obama’s contempt for the troops.

David Anderson: Call or email the Delaware Democratic Party and urge them to keep paying for John Carney ads. delaware@deldems.org phone: (302) 328-9036

Time to come up with a new talking point.

The Tricastin nuclear site contains a power plant and a treatment facility

A French nuclear monitoring body has expressed concern at the number of leaks from French nuclear power stations in recent weeks.

The director of Criirad, an independent body, said the organisation was worried by the numbers of people contaminated by four separate incidents.

In the most recent leaks, about 100 staff at Tricastin, in southern France, were exposed to low doses of radiation.

It came two weeks after a leak forced the temporary closure of a reactor.

There has also been a 10-fold increase in the number of incidents reported by people working in the French nuclear power industry, Criirad director Corinne Castanier said.

Today, Obama was in Germany giving a speech in Berlin.  John McCain had a meeting in a German restaurant in Columbus, Ohio.

This is where my expertise is going to pay off.  I have actually been to both of these places.  In fact, I suggested Schmidt’s Sausage Haus in January.  They have some pretty good German potato salad and sauerkraut, but to be honest, the sausages weren’t very German.  I much prefer the Bratwurst that can be found at the Mars Cheese Castle in Kenosha, WI.  I have also been to Berlin, albeit not to the spot that Obama was speaking at today.  The German food is much better in Germany.

Here’s the thing, though.  I am a bit of an elitist when it comes to travel.  I once asked my sister why they don’t take a year off of Disney and go to Europe (it was a bit cheaper then).  She said that they could have lunch in Germany and dinner in Mexico and they didn’t have to leave Epcot.  That’s John McCain today.  Hangin’ out in Epcot while his opponent is working with Germans in Germany.

Are killing you. Why am I not surprised?

Ok, so the wife and I are wanting to go see this game.  It is a pretty historic game I might add.  Md is consistently ranked in the top 25 nationally year in and year out. 

Anyone know of bus groups forming up?  Anyone going?  contact me if you do….

It’s just wrong.

John Carney has started running radio ads promoting his record, but instead of using his own campaign to pay for the ads, he’s using money from the Delaware Democratic Party to do it. That’s right — money given by grassroots Democrats to help elect Barack Obama and help elect Democrats to the State Legislature is instead being siphoned off by John Carney to promote himself.

No wonder dozens of rank-and-file Democrats who have contributed to the State Democratic Party are speaking up to express their outrage that the money they’ve given to support Barack Obama is being used to support John Carney instead. It’s just wrong for John Carney to use the money from people who may not be supporting his candidacy to promote himself. Say NO to insider political deals!

Email John Carney and Tell Him to Give the Money Back!

The money paying for these ads could be spent fighting back against George Bush’s Republican Party, helping our candidate for Lieutenant Governor win against a well-funded Republican candidate in November, or helping win both houses of the State Legislature for the first time in years. This is an example of insider politics at its worst.

If you want to send the message that Delaware is tired of politics as usual, then please call John Carney’s Headquarters and ask him to give back the money his campaign is taking away from grassroots democrats.

Call Carney HQ now at 302.633.1000

Andrew Roos
Campaign Manager

P.S. Come to our Headquarters in Wilmington at 11:00 on Friday morning to make your voice heard. There will be a press conference with Jack and other Democrats who want Democratic money to focus on beating Republicans.

Paul Baumbach has also extended and revised his remarks….

The Delaware Democratic Party is sponsoring radio ads promoting John Carney’s candidacy for Governor. On the one hand, this makes some sense, as the state (and county) party endorsed John Carney (despite support for Markell from RDs including the 23^rd). However, I have two objections with the party’s actions. First, I would prefer that our party’s resources be used against Republicans (and fusion candidates) and not against faithful Democratic candidates such as Jack Markell. Second, I would prefer that their ad was factual. The ad portrays Carney as the primary force behind the BlueWater Wind deal. It brings to mind the comment about the fellow who was born on third base thinking that he hit a triple. Carney eventually provided some support for the deal—he was in no way a leader in bringing the BWW deal to fruition.

Jack Markell is hosting a press conference at his Riverfront campaign office (920 S Justison, Wilmington, DE 19801) on Friday at 11am, to present his disappointment with the actions of the Delaware Democratic Party in directing resources against Democrats rather than Republicans.

If you agree with Jack that this is a poor use of Delaware Democratic money, and/or if you agree that the fact-checking in the ad is atrocious, and a dis-service to the Delaware voters and to the DelDems Party, then try to attend the press conference.