Comment Rescue: Waiting for the News Journal and other futile endeavours
Dana has a post up about how the News Journal is not covering an proposed change to the Wilmington’s city charter (HB 161) which, as Dana puts it “ would change Wilmington’s city charter to make Wilmington residents pay for their sidewalk repair: in effect, reversing by legislative fiat a change to the city charter that Wilmingtonians directly voted for by referendum in 1979.“
The News Journal sucks. That is a given, but check out this sad state of affairs:
I have emailed The News Journal about this and was told a story was in the works recently, but was put on hold. I believe now that is has been voted out of committee it is back on the radar at TNJ.
I also emailed all of the sponsors about the bill, along with my state rep, Diana McWilliams. Only Rep. McWilliams responded. She said she will have to talk to those who will be affected by the bill before deciding how she will vote.
Williams, Keelely, Plant, Brady and Henry all have ignored my email. I did not copy the email to McDowell since he was not a co-sponsor, but he has never once responded to any of my emails, so there would have been no point.
That is just pitiful.
Tags: Local Media Sucks!, Media Watchdog
Folks in the city are calling for blood.
I just heard that Helene Keeley is saying “Take me off of this bill, it was a mistake and it is Killing Me.”
Dennis Williams is the primary sponsor. He has a history of changing up city policy by taking it to Dover to circumvent his constituents. Dennis went to his fellow DEMs a few years back to get his son-in-law out of trouble by requesting that the legislature change the residency rules for the city police.
The DEMs would not touch it, wanting it to go to the residents for a referendum. Allegedely, Williams relative had been caught living in Middletown in violation of the rules. So, Dennis went to the state GOP and they delivered. The legislature voted to shorten the residency rules for city cops.
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