I Give This Protack Ad an A+

Filed in National by on October 10, 2007

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Of the ones I viewed this was clearly the best.

Clear, direct and focused.

It is about time somebody started to use this medium.

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  1. Dana Garrett says:
    October 10, 2007 at 9:14 pm

    He did do a good job. But he still needs to lose the ‘stache. If Carney could see the light, why can’t he?

  2. Disbelief says:
    October 10, 2007 at 9:42 pm

    Oh, I don’t know, Dana. The ‘stache works for Ruthy.

  3. Dana Garrett says:
    October 10, 2007 at 10:03 pm

    “The ’stache works for Ruthy.”

    LOL! That is just too funny!!

  4. tommywonk says:
    October 11, 2007 at 7:08 am

    Did he just say $3 billion is unaccounted for? As in nobody knows where it went? If so, this would be a huge story. Perhaps he meant we haven’t gotten the results we should from the money. Is it too much to ask that a candidate for governor know what he’s talking about and understand the words he’s using? Or am I just being picky?

    And I just heard him say “we can do better,” a phrase Markell (who announced via video back in June) has been using.

  5. jason330 says:
    October 11, 2007 at 7:42 am

    Tom –

    I just listened again and knocked him down to a C.

  6. anon says:
    October 11, 2007 at 7:49 am

    Tom… remember Protack is a Republican. You have to cut him some slack on things like that.

  7. anon says:
    October 11, 2007 at 7:51 am

    …anyway, it is a very effective tactic to state that nobody knows where the money is. Because the only response to that is “Sure we know where the money went! We spent it on…uhhh… I mean, we can account for every penny! We have a task force working on that report right now!”

  8. donviti says:
    October 11, 2007 at 12:22 pm

    who’s mike protack?

  9. Protack for Governor says:
    October 11, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    From the News Journal:

    “To pay for higher fuel and transit costs, Delaware transportation officials asked for a 7 percent increase in their operating budget Friday. But they left the Herculean task of proposing a separate roads projects budget — the one facing a $2.7 billion shortfall — for a later date.
    Transportation Department Secretary Carolann Wicks […]

    Thanks for the comments. Small point, sitting in traffic applies to everyone regardless of political party and that is what most people care about. Remember 100+ hours a year is a lot of time looking out of your windshield.

    As for the we can do better, we launched a better deal for Delaware long before Markell used the phrase, but it still applies here.

    Have a great day.

  10. Dave says:
    October 11, 2007 at 12:44 pm

    But the money’s not unaccounted for. In fact, it hasn’t been spent at all because it doesn’t exist. Tom’s right. That’s a pretty strong allegation to make and not be accurate. The shortfall comes from the difference between approved projects and the money we don’t have to build them.

    There’s PLENTY to criticize Dover for. But to accuse them of using money and not accounting for it is amateurish at best.

  11. G Rex says:
    October 11, 2007 at 3:51 pm

    Speaking of things that are missing, whatever happened to all those sex offenders Ferris Wharton lost? Did Beau find them all yet?

  12. r smitty says:
    October 11, 2007 at 9:29 pm

    And I just heard him say “we can do better,” a phrase Markell (who announced via video back in June) has been using.
    …and…
    As for the we can do better, we launched a better deal for Delaware long before Markell used the phrase, but it still applies here.

    My memory may be fuzzy here, so I expect nothing but corrections if I am wrong, but didn’t John Kerry mutter that phrase, ad nauseum, in his acceptance speech in 2004?

    Anyway, it’s hardly a trademarked phrase. I think it now qualifies as a cliche, though, worthy of a vomitous gag reflex (and that’s a knock on its overuse, not on Markell or Protack).

  13. Protack for Governor says:
    October 11, 2007 at 10:08 pm

    From the News Journal:

    “To pay for higher fuel and transit costs, Delaware transportation officials asked for a 7 percent increase in their operating budget Friday. But they left the Herculean task of proposing a separate roads projects budget — the one facing a $2.7 billion shortfall — for a later date.
    Transportation Department Secretary Carolann Wicks […]

    Maybe the saying should be, ” we have to do better”.

    The road shortfall is a result of poor management and very little leadership. It is a challenge but more importantly a chance to excel.

  14. that's elbert says:
    October 12, 2007 at 12:28 am

    “It is about time somebody started to use this medium.”

    I’d agree with you on that one. Maybe we’ll see more of this in the ’08 campaigns.

  15. Simon Says says:
    October 14, 2007 at 12:48 am

    ‘There’s PLENTY to criticize Dover for. But to accuse them of using money and not accounting for it is amateurish at best.”

    You’d know about that Dave.

    Protack is the new politics for the GOP. A breath of fresh air from the old ward politics of the dinosaurs who run the GOP in Delaware. That’s why they are scared to death.

  16. Dave says:
    October 14, 2007 at 7:24 am

    Is the “new politics” for the fabricating things to make people think legislators are stealing?

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