Helene M. Keeley (D) is the DE GOP’s “Ace in the Hole”
Helene M. Keeley is employed by the Department of Labor AND she cast the deciding vote on a bill that was written and pushed by the Department of Labor which ipso facto excuses corrupt Delaware Republican party officials like Terry Strine from any culpability whatsoever for whatever egregious, flagrant, corruptastic hijinks they may decide to undertake.
In your face “good government” freaks. The Helene Keeley card has been played. So suck on it!
If I can summarize – Democrats are untrustworthy.
That’s what I got from that, anyhow.
As a died in the wool deconstructionist I support your right to your interpretation.
Jason – You refuse to admit the difference between a legislator with a vote and a party official without one.
And you’re leaving out Viola, who also works for the Dept. of Labor and also cast a deciding vote on the Dept. of Labor’s bill. I understand it may be hard for you to keep track of all of the Democratic legislators who have been hired by the administration since they were elected.
So this is nothing more than you admitting you’re wrong in a “I’m taking my ball and going home” kind of way.
I’m taking your red herring off the table.
Jason — Should it not be unconstitutional for elected members of the legislative branch to be in the employ of the executive branch?
You are freaking in love with red herring. Is that what you serve at Thanksgiving? Do you give the wife red herring earings at Christmas?
Okay I’ll bite on your delicious serving of red herring.
Should it not be unconstitutional for elected members of the legislative branch to be in the employ of the executive branch?
Why not.
Now can we demand some ethical behavior from the Republicans who view public office as a way to enrich themselves and their friends?
i just heard a bitch slap….
yeaaaaooooowwwwww
“Why not.”
I thought so. Talk about people using public office to enrich themselves? I would venture to say that MOST of the elected Democrats in Dover derive at least part of their non-elected income from the state.
For every one Nancy Wagner, there are a dozen D’s who get their dough from Dover. I guess I’ll have to list them.
Keep digging, bro. I like where this is headed.
Keep digging, bro.
Go for it. I’m for good government. Unlike you, I don’t have a partisan agenda so my digging will not be confined to Republicans.
While you are clearly leaving Republican mafeasance off the table.
Dave, the argument is a good one, and ought to be pursued in court. As I recall, a few years back an active state trooper was denied the opportunity to run for a seat in the ASsembly because he was employed in the executive branch. Why the situation would be different for these Dept. of Labor “employees” (isn’t DeLuca in there, too?) is not immediately apparent.
“Unlike you, I don’t have a partisan agenda so my digging will not be confined to Republicans.”
You’re funny.
Golly. No wonder Dave uses the Red Herring. It is so effective.
So much for the Wagner and Strine stories.
I’ve posted the public-private breakdown over at DP, so we can see who’s ‘enriching’ themselves.
Full Strine/Stone protection mode is on.
What?
And I like how, instead of acknowledging the difference between a legislator with a vote and a party official without one, you just added a legislator who you can’t even begin to prove has benefitted from her position. Very Jason of you.
Please. Nobody has done better than Stone. The Center for Public Integrity has a whole book just about her.
I also posted this at Dave’s new site:
I’ve been looking into the question of what the Delaware Constitution allows in terms of dual office-holding.
Here’s a link to the state Supreme Court’s 1998 opinion on the potential candidacy of State Police Sgt. Douglas Salter (it’s a long one; if it doesn’t work, you can Google it):
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:1Q-Pfy_E5PoJ:caselaw.findlaw.com/data2/delawarestatecases/446-1998.doc+doug+salter+delaware&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=us
The gist of the question seems to be whether a person is a public employee vs. a public official. The court’s opinion hinges on whether the person exercises the state’s sovreignity; a state police officer, because he enforces laws as a member of the executive branch, reaches that threshhold, they unanimously concluded.
That seems to leave Helene Keeley in the clear; she is listed as a marketing specialist for the Dept. of Labor, which seems clearly to make her an employee, not an officer.
Tony DeLuca, however, is listed as an administrator in the Office of Labor Law Enforcement. That sounds to me like he holds a similar position to a police officer, which could make it illegal for him to hold concurrently his current job and Senate seat.
Of course, I’m no lawyer, but it seems the state GOP could make life miserable for Sen. DeLuca by pursuing this question.
They will. If only to take the heat off Wagner.
Does anyone know if the tax returns for these guys are public records?
I mean if the central question is “Who is using public office to enrich themselves?”
You could very quickly look at income growth vs a mean and compare Dave’s hated public employees to the sainted class of self-employed.
I’ve got a hunch that the incomes of the “self-employed” grow rapidly while they are in office.
I’m running for office!
The people enriching themselves directly are easy to spot. The problem is the people who are shilling for an entire industry.
“I’ve got a hunch that the incomes of the “self-employed” grow rapidly while they are in office.”
Yeah, Joe Booth probably has the Georgetown dry cleaning market cornered by now. And Greg Hastings surely is drafting more beach houses since his election.
Please.
Your faith in the decency of your fellow Republicans is as unfounded as it is charming.
“Your faith in the decency of your fellow Republicans is as unfounded as it is charming.”
It’s not faith. I know these people, so I know how ridiculous your charges are.