My Mea Culpa
In addition to being a contributor here at Delaware Liberal, I am also involved with the Progressive Democrats for Delaware (PDD). On Tuesday, I made a series of comments after the Marriage Equality vote, and specifically concerning the no votes from Representatives Charles Potter and Earl Jaques. When I made these comments, I left the impression that I was speaking for the PDD in its disapproval of their votes, and I mentioned that both either should or will lose their endorsements from the PDD in their next election. In case you don’t know, decisions regarding endorsements or non-endorsements are the exclusive domain of the Endorsement Committee of the PDD. So my speaking on their behalf or leaving the impression that I was speaking on their behalf regarding an action that has not yet been taken was wrong. A decision regarding any future endorsement of Earl Jaques and Charles Potter has not been made yet, and if a decision is made, it will not be made by me. So I was wrong to leave that impression.
I attempt to maintain a wall of separation between the two roles of being a liberal blogger and being involved with PDD, and this week I failed, so I apologize for that as well.
There’s nothing here for me to forgive, DD, mainly because I understood you to mean that you would be *advocating* the loss of PDD endorsements. Which would be a reasonable action to take, really. Time to stop looking the other way when people who are supposed to be on our side put their finger in the wind and vote that way.
But this was good of you to clarify. (I’m not a PDD member, BTW.)
Funny, I never take anything you say as representing anyone but yourself. When you say something like “progressives will remember this” I assume that’s a generality and not a statement from PDD.
Yeah, but I specifically mentioned the PDD and endorsements, and if you knew I was part of PDD you might assume that I was speaking on behalf of PDD. Hence the need for this apology and clarification. To be clear, I stand by everything I said as my personal opinion.
Delaware is fortunate to have so many interested and involved people (bloggers, advocates, leaders, etc, etc) with such passion.