Sher Valenzuela In the Disinformation Bubble
This post is to rescue this great comment from today’s Open Thread:
Sher Valenzuela blamed George Soros for releasing the information about her company, First State Manufacturing, and the millions in government loans and grants that it takes, when she was on Delaware 105.9 this morning with Gaffney.
She also claimed that the City of Milford doesn’t pay her utility bills. Why? Because her utility bills are paid for by a program funded by the City of Milford to subsidize “job creators” utility bills.
I can’t vote for someone THAT stupid who thinks I’m even MORE stupid than she is.
As a group of DLs commenters documented pretty thoroughly, the information on the subsidies that Sher received for her company are easily found by anyone with a computer and some sense. And hey — isn’t this what government transparency is for? So that citizens aren’t so easily bamboozled by their representatives?
But instead of just owning up to the fact that She Didn’t Build That, she wants to spin up a conspiracy theory on how the information got out there. So she’ll insult her supporters by blaming it on George Soros, rather than owning up to a campaign tactic that just isn’t working. Besides — how galling is it that the Delaware Liberal commenters who found all of this didn’t get any credit!
After this election season, bet there is going to be some effort by Congress to put more of this subsidy information underwraps.
Tags: Republican Bamboozlement
I have to give Matt Denn an award for restraint. His campaign released a video about the work he’s done with businesses around Delaware and he didn’t profile First State Manufacturing in it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRjaPDOgbVA&feature=youtu.be
It’s pretty obvious Valenzuela thinks we’re all stupid. When she doesn’t break 40% maybe she’ll wake up to the reality that we’re not all brain dead tea partiers.
She’s not insulting her supporters, anon, she’s pandering to them. And by doing so she insulted the intelligence of the 73% of Delaware voters who are Democratic or unaffiliated.
We wish we’d had Soros’ help! We just don’t like B.S. and know how to use google.
http://www.firststatemanufacturing.com
Besides, we think it’s great that government has been there with First State Manufacturing “every step of the way.”
Sher Valenzuela is a perfect example of someone who, on paper, looked like a pretty strong candidate, but once she succumbed to her party’s worst elements, she’s become a joke.
Consider: a woman, minority, self-made businesswoman, child with special needs (whole reason for said businesses). She had an abortion, so she can speak personally from experience.
She could have run SO differently and been a much-stronger candidate. Instead, she’s just cut from the same cloth as every far-right Republican that’s come along in the past three years: blaming George Soros and the liberal media for everything that’s wrong, blasting the government when receiving local, state and federal aid, practicing IOKIYAR regarding abortion, etc.
Sher is a case study in exactly how tea party ideals can completely ruin what could have been a credible candidate.
Yep, and for someone whose own Party handed her a plum speaking spot at the convention, what does she do?
Throws the Party’s Senate candidate overboard for that grinning gargoyle and rumor-mongerer Alex Pires.
Classy, Sher.
Sher is a right wing idiot with a high school education. She is not mexican, her husband is, but she sure does ride that mexican name to the government subsidized bank a lot.
“Sher is a case study in exactly how tea party ideals can completely ruin what could have been a credible candidate.”
Actually, that really is an interesting point. The Tea Party tends to destroy rather than create. It’s like a moth drawn to a flame. Candidates can’t stay away but when they get to close, they get a visit from the ghost of George Soros and ultimately lose all credibility. At least that what seems to happen in Delaware.
Does the Tea Party help create the whacks or do they just attract the whacks?
Dave: Definitely the latter.
The Tea Parties didn’t start until ’09, and most claim to be motivated not by social and moral issues but by economic concerns like government spending and the national debt.
But many of the people who have they have championed in elective office were around long before that clown on CNBC filed for the Tea Party domain name.
Mike Protack got involved in politics in the wake of the Gingrich class of ’94 and the subsequent effort to recruit conservatives to local offices. Abortion was among his early issues. Christine O’Donnell worked the abortion-criminalization movement pretty much exclusively since her graduation, though her views on onanism gained more attention. Glen Urquhart dates back to Reagan; he relocated here in an attempt to ram through a large housing development near Milton that violated every salient zoning plan on record.
You can see the same pattern in many of the nationally prominent Tea Party favorites. Bachmann came out of the pro-life movement before branching out into anti-gay activities. Sharron Angle (1998), Joe Miller (2004), Joe Walsh (1996) and several others first ran for elective offices long before 2009. The Tea Party merely created the political climate for them to thrive. Could a disgraced Army officer like Allen West get elected until our era? Ollie North couldn’t.
In Delaware, Republicans have no corner on the sketchy-candidate market; its small size has frequently beckoned to refugees from far more populous states (Rose Izzo, for example). Gadflies have always existed, and a populist movement like the Tea Parties is draws them like moths to a flame. Literally, as Joe Biden would say.
Disinformation? I heard rev bullock talk about sewers in brandy wine and the rev said he was in his basement with his wife doing laundry and saw water. Makes Sher look good
Geezer as always don’t know nothing. Protack was wrong about abortion from day one and he was nowhere near the Gingrich years. In 2006 we rallied against Protack because he was weak on pro life , never supported life amendment or attended a single march. At least he did not do what Sher did. Geezer is WRONG as always .
Protack was rallied against in 2006 because he was unelectable, only the nut job Christine O’Donnell whined that he wasn’t pro life enough. Protack was the head of pro life organizations and ran as a pro life candidate. The only person besides O’Donnell who would say Protack was “weak on pro life” would be Protack himself, in an attempt to appear more moderate for the NCC voters.
Now he’s trying to alter his writing style because I told him I can always tell it’s him.
Protack’s first run for office was 1998, IIRC. How is that “nowhere near the Gingrich years”?
Geezer
“Now he’s trying to alter his writing style because I told him I can always tell it’s him.”
You’re incredible in your God-like worship of yourself. I wish I was a writing savant like you. Among your many talents, of course is a degree in analytical writing, with a minor in “crystal ball fortune telling.
Now who’s just hurling insults? Do you want to discuss this respectfully, or as your usual over-confident, under-educated self?
Look at the two examples above, from “iSewer King” and “iBaby killer.” Do you think they were written by different people? If not, why do they have two different names on them?
It isn’t an insult if it is true. Protack and his sockpuppets are notorious for showing up here and trying to trash the place. Mainly because we’ve banned him because all he would do is trash the place.