Al Mascitti Flirting with Charlie Copeland
Not pretty to see or hear. I saw Al making goo goo eyes at Copeland yesterday in Leg hall, and now (luckily) I don;t have to listen to it because the radio off button is close to my right hand.
There. All better.
heh, they just had a little love-in session on the radio and Dave Burris is next up to the plate.
Copeland is in the top tier of anti-wind legislators along with Greg Lavelle and they are also stepping all over themselves to support the continued DSWA dump-for-money-even-if-it-is reusable recyclables including yard waste.
Yet they’re in favor of the open government bills. If you’re going to wait for political purity before you work with anyone in Dover, you’ll spend a long time waiting for someone to second John Kowalko’s proposals.
By the way, I also made clear I don’t agree with Copeland on his property-rights position vis a vis manufactured home owners (he’s for the park owners) or Lavelle on the yard-waste bill.
I suppose you guys think the way I shoulld work is to get Copeland on the air, then blast him for the things we disagree on. Doesn’t get much accomplished, in my experience. I’m more interested in talking to the opposition than making self-serving statements about my own doctrinal purity.
I guess it makes you better people than me. There — feel better now?
Touchy touchy Al.
Yes it bother’s me that Copeland is part of the Delmarva lobby in Leg Hall that is working to kill the wind power deal.
His backroom dealings with Stockbridge put the lie to the idea that he is some kind of open goverment hero.
Come clean on Delmarva Charlie! Shock the world.
Ah, so now defending my positions makes me “touchy.”
And correct me if I’m wrong, but you’re essentially saying that because Charlie Copeland doesn’t really believe in open government, I shouldn’t back those bills he introduced. In other words, as I submitted, you don’t want to work with anyone who isn’t doctrinally pure. Good luck with that.
I’d like to know, Nancy: Which lawmakers do you refuse to talk to, or do you berate when you run into them, because you don’t agree with them?
It is more like which legis goes running down the hall to avoid me, Al!
Al, did I berate you here for being lovey-dovey? No. I just stated that you were.
Fact is you were lovey dovey. That’s all. Listen to the interview.
I sure am glad that there is a push for open government but I do sincerely wish that it wasn’t so partisan.
At the end of the day in this election year, we had better see this issue come to a vote in time to call these chicken’s home to roost should any of them try to play this as MINE.
That being said, I am very wary of the Republican leadership on their status quo stances. The Anti-tax coalition, the fostering of horrid DSWA profiteering at our expense, the fostering of PEPCO Holding at our expense . It is bad enough that the status quo DEMs are holding fort against the public’s interest.
Al,
Yesterday I mentioned to Burris that I liked his ( Sorry..Copeland’s) package of open goverment initiatives.
I get that you have to work with people. My point above is that if I had a radio show, I might have asked something like:
“So, how do you square the fact that the Blue Water Energy deal was killed behind closed doors by you McDowell and Adams meeting with Delamrva Power with your package of open goverment initiatives?”
That’s all.
Gotcha, Jason. Now explain to me how doing that would help get the open government legislation passed. I’m not doing this as a reporter. I’m doing this to get something done. Playing “gotcha” ain’t going to get the job done, IMHO. But of course you’re free to pursue your own strategy; my skin’s too sensitive for all those Sharpies.
Nancy, if it wasn’t partisan it wouldn’t get done. Do you think the Republicans sincerely believe in open government, or that they’re doing this to embarrass the Democrats, because they have nothing else to go after the Democrats with? I’m not fooled by any of this — it’s politics, not principle, that put these bills in play. When the parties disagree, the people have room to get something done.
The transparency bills aren’t partisan. It doesn’t benefit any party to pass those bills. If they were intended to be partisan, we would have introduced them with loads of R sponsors and not circulated the bills for cosponsors.
And yes, I was fortunate enough to get about 11 seconds of Jason’s fully-clothed time yesterday before he was hauled off by his fans.
Medocrity is alive and well in Delaware! No legislator who has one dime of stock in DPL, Pepco or any other partnerships thereof…should be voting on the issue. Conflicted interests do not support citizens who overwhelmingly want to “git er done”.
Al has been romancing Dave Burris for some time now.It won’t be long until he crawls from under Copeland to Bill Lee.