DE GOP Cleaves To Hereditary Succession
Bill Lee gets the nod over Mike Protack and Laird Stabler III defeats Terry Strine for national committeeman.
In a cynical and calculating move, when it was clear that Strine did not have the votes to win, the party shot callers threw him some crumbs by having him nominated by the Charlie “The Next Big Thing” Copeland. Nice going away present for Strine.
Anyway, now that the GOP stands for “Gambling On Primogeniture” I guess the GOP will be cool with Biden Jr. talking over in the US Senate from Joe when the time comes.
I could almost feel sorry for Mike Protack if he wasn’t so pig headed about being a Republican. Come over from the dark side Mike. Oh, but don’t think you can start out as Governor material. Ya might want to think about starting a little lower down the ladder. What district do you live in???
“I guess the GOP will be cool with Biden Jr. talking over in the US Senate from Joe when the time comes.”
Doesn’t seem as if they have much of a “choice”.
What are you two doing here? It is too nice of a day to be blogging?
I have no life, Jason. So sad. I also think I might be developing a blog “addiction”. Mr. Pandora is concerned!
Mrs. Liberal too. They can form a support group.
I’m jumping back and forth from the kitchen as I clean up from a family birthday brunch. Nearly done and I’m going out to the garden soon.
I’m driving.
Laird Stabler III – New national committeeman and current lobbyist for Delaware State Chamber of Commerce, NRG and Constellation Energy, among many others. Makes me want to cozy right up to the GOP.
Well, when we heard the D’s had a national committeeman who was a lobbyist for NRG, we figured we’d go get our own.
Now, if only we could get a Chairman who’s a lobbyist, too, we’d catch up.
Beau Biden is a man of mediocre talents except for campaigning. Here he shares his father’s talents for working a crowd.
Yet when the scandal at the Psychiatric Hospital broke and there was an orgy of document shredding (in parallel with the intimidation of nurses) the Boy Attorney General seemed to be incapable of action.
This could be an interesting year in Delaware.
“Now, if only we could get a Chairman who’s a lobbyist, too, we’d catch up.”
You just got rid of one, a lobbyist for his own interests. And Vallihuira, Dan Short, and Hudson on the Manufactured Housing subcommittee did his bidding perfectly.
My hope is that Mike Protack continues to grow in the public eye. Delawareans need to exercise the right of choice.
Rebecca: Lay off the laughing gas. Mike Protack is too far to the right for this state’s Republican leaders, and you want him on your side?
Laird Stabler III – New national committeeman and current lobbyist for Delaware State Chamber of Commerce, NRG and Constellation Energy, among many others.
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Huh, and I was only worried about his wife, Wendy Stabler, who is an influencial Saul Ewing land use attorney and bestest friends with Pam Scott-Paul Clarky, Clark who is, of course, the DEM NCC Council President.
Does anyone think Protack and Christine are even more rabid than their Taliban counterparts? (assuming the Taliban counterparts have a chance of being elected/appointed)
Al,
You are wrong about the right wing stuff. I support a smart way to bring about universal health care and renewable energy plus I committed a sin by being a union member.
Also, I am against the Death Penalty. No, it is not a right wing fear at all.
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Trying this comment again, with HTML and format tags coded correctly (grrr…):
Mr. Protack:
Jason O’Neill left a comment in which the following was a part:
Is this true, Mike? You’re using these opportunities to promote yourself to others by discrediting the very party from whom (the voters) you are seeking their primary votes? In conversations “…with others (both R and D)…” you made these observations?
More from Jason’s comment:
Are you supporting Tom’s run in 2008?
Why stop?
Is that going to be the new excuse for complaining about Tom Ross and the other leaders now that Terry Strine stepped down?
There is a new leadership of the party and these are your first acts? It was quite expected of you to act in a vengeful way, although, from being on WGMD to what Jason O commented, I think I am surprised you even made it out of Ruddertowne before throwing the whole thing under your own bus. You couldn’t inject a cooling off period. Cripe, even David Graham, who threw gasoline on any minute chance he had went into cool-off mode.
heh, Graham knew had no chance, knew he had wasted his filing fee and was taken like a chump by the party money people.
Now, what I hope to get out of the guy is the full story of his problems with Family Court.
Delawareans who have been trying to openly challenge Family Court seemto be targets of some pretty unfriendly and unfair abuse from John Flaherty (partly why he now formerly of Common Cause) to Graham and others I won’t name here.