The blind squirrel that is Celia Cohen finds a nut.
On a personal note, I find this story particularly gratifying because I first became aware of Cohen’s wretchedness as a reporter just after Senator Karen Peterson helped us open the Howard Dean campaign Headquarters in Newark. The opening was an event that Cohen demolished on her blog, with the normal sneeringly aloof, insidery bullshit that she imagines to be journalism.
I was speaking with someone the other day that suggested that DL and FSP are simply opposite sides of the same coin. Where DL is reflexively “moonbat” liberal FSP is reflexively “wingnut” conservative.
While I guess I could see where they were coming from, I think there is a core differences between DL and FSP that this reductive analysis fails to capture.
Dave Burris is a Republican Operative. He is part of the Republican Party in a way that I am not a party of the Democratic Party. While part of the editorial mission of this blog is to support the Delaware Democratic Party – I don’t meet with the Democratic Party leadership and coordinate anything with them the way Dave does. So this blog is not a “Democratic Party Blog” the way FSP is an organ of the DE GOP.
To me that is a big difference. I think it gives us much more freedom and objectivity than FSP. We not only feel free to comment on Democrats who are not doing a good job, we feel an obligation to call them out. Meanwhile, at FSP, with the notable exception of John Atkins, Dave does not have the freedom to comment on or criticize any Republicans. Or, if he feels he has that freedom, he is not exercising it.
Take wind power for example. It is now abundantly clear that Charlie Copeland and Terry Spence (as well as some Dems) are acting under orders from Delmarva Power to scuttle the Blue Water deal. Dave was a big early supporter of wind power – but as the DE GOP leadership goes, so goes Dave and FSP.
I’ve drafted a letter to Bruce Ennis, but I thought I’d leverage the power of the internet tubes and make it an “wiki” style document that you lot could add to or edit. In the interest of time (and full disclosure) I should note that I’ve already borrowed from Dana Garrett.
Comment away.
Bruce,
As a constituent and supporter who walked with you while you knocked on doors in my neighborhood, I am writing to you to urge you to support pending legislation that would make nearly all records of state and school district expenditures accessible to the public by placing them online as well as a resolution to change Senate rules to open the public hearing process.
As you know, we Democrats are now playing catch-up and have allowed the Senate Republicans to steal the issue of good government from the Democratic Party. However, you now have an opportunity to correct the misperception that good government is a Republican concern by providing a co-sponsorship for the transparent reforms that have been proposed.
Thank you for your commitment to good government, and for providing leadership on this important issue.
Read this nutbag crap.