KWS’s WDEL Interview Raises Eyebrows & Highway Death Toll
This goes in the “making matters worse file.”
Karen Weldin Stewart consented to be interviewed by Allan Loudel on the afternoon drive time newscast to explain her choice of Tom Gordon for her transition team. To describe the interview as a train wreck for KWS is an insult to train wrecks.
I’m sure we will wake to find that car crashes spiked in NCC at around 5:06 pm when our Insurance Commissioner Elect opened her mouth.
And that’s it? No details? No podcast?
I can’t do it justice. I’m hoping for a podcast – but I’m sure WDEL will be under some pressure to burn the tapes.
If anybody else heard it – feel free to back me up.
on behalf of all crashes I applaud this one
http://www.wdel.com/story.php?id=623014375946
OMG–she sounded dellusional!
I’d say that they were kind with regard to the clips they chose.
Is she still wearing the big button?
Is there a short version of what happened for the lazy?
Thank you anon for posting that clip. Unbelievable. I’m starting to think that we need to bribe Allan to interview her once a week or so for the entertainment value since I think that might be the only upside here.
I haven’t heard it yet, but I’ll post the podcast in the morning.
Jason, thanks for talking me through my accident late this afternoon. I knew you had to be listening to that, so that’s why I called you once it was over. I just knew you would understand my driving into a solid, brick wall.
Funny thing is, to your multitude of readers, I really did call Jason, for exactly the reason that he would completely understand me by uttering these very few words: “What the F was that train wreck?!” He knew…oh yes, he knew exactly what that was about.
Don’t say I didn’t warn all you Dems who voted for her just because of the “D.”
This is only the beginning. You were warned.
Complete and total ditz! When she was on InDepth Delaware with Brady and Savage, it was apparent and sooo obvious this woman was over her head. The only topic she could discuss was insurance companies she was going to bring to Delaware using some insurance speak. She hasnt a clue about health insurance.
Matt Denn has made sure she can’t screw up the dept. too bad, since he made arrangements to keep all the employees who actually know what they are doing. I hear she can only hire one person.
Someone should ask her why she is still on the board at PSA, holding secret meetings, refusing to adhere to the Bylaws and fire the Ex. Director. If her dealings at Peoples are any clue to her ability to comprehend simple bylaws and we are expecting her to do great things for the insurance dept…a lot of dems should be having buyers remorse. Should have voted for any of the other candidates…any would have better.
Don’t blame me. I voted for John Brady.
Here’s the even better news. The insurance companies are following the banks and auto industry, its just that our leaders don’t want to give you all the bad news at once. Because then you’d panic and vote everyone out of office. Its better to just keep grinding you down so you lose all hope.
Anyway, insurance companies have seen a huge drop in the money put away to pay your claims. In fairness, I’ll say that even someone as competent as Denn would have one hell of a time in the next four years. KWS? Not so good.
The podcast is now posted at the WDEL.com podcast page. It’s eight and a half minutes of comedy gold.
Not to pile on..(okat to pile on) but I heard that Karen’s election night acceptance speech video has gone viral among Democratic Party gluttons for punishment.
So, we’re not in Good Hands w/ AllState? and I don’t Own a Piece of the Rock? Nationwide is not on my Side? Glad I didn’t Get Aflac, and have every bit of faith in USAA, because they sent me a letter warning me that everyone is in trouble, but we’ll be fine-do I want a credit line or to re-mortgage?
Podcast link
Nationwide is not on my Side?
No. First hand experience. Three brutal years of back and forth with them and I am fighting to keep my family afloat as a result. Thank God my father told me that even at 39 (I swear), as a “former” dependent, I was still eligible for USAA via his Navy service. Apparently, USAA broadened the dependent rule a handful of years ago. As soon as we made that connection, we switched. Knocked a few hundred per year off of my homeoweners and auto, combined. The customer service is both competent and responsive. Consider this a free, major plug if you are eligible to use them.
I voted for deh gay
USAA is the shiznit. Wouldn’t wish to have any other company. Had two accidents and they treated me like royalty. Bing, Bang, boom, things were handled fast and appropriately.
Matter of fact, my first accident I gave the auto body shop a bad review because they bungled things and took a month to fix things (12 days past their estimate) and the next time I went with the same auto body shop (what, they fixed everything perfectly, just took too long) and the bad review sparked a fire under their ass and I got the car back in 5 days.
Damage in the same area, 1st, a deer, 2nd, rear ended a car due to weather (and tailgating).
USAA is the shiznit.
USAA family here too. I just hope it’s one positive that came out of Hef suffering in the sub. You know DV, they changed the rules for enlisteds?
I love USAA, despite the fact that they are the ones that called me to cut my Home Equity LOC.
On and they don’t sell homeowners here because we are a coastal state?!?!?! WTF?
Other than that, I love them.
Listening to the podcast now. Yikes!
Geek, I have homeowner’s here in this coastal state, and I even live in the swamps. Call again. What they don’t provide is flood–that’s a federal thing though–very affordable, and another can of worms.
Perhaps they are not issuing any new policies since Katrina.
OMG, KWS is the queen of dead air, on WDEL and between the ears. So sad.
Oh…my…fucking…god. I just listened to the interview. The last minute is FUCKING gold. “I also talked to a lot of other people.”
A train wreck into an orphanage.
USAA is da’ schnizzel.
Comedy gold is just about right.
What I want to know is why the transition to this job needs so very many people and I want to know what they are really doing. Are they coming up here (because a decent number of them don’t live here) to review any Department Ops or what?
Yeah…cuz, you know…the office was such a disaster under Matt Denn.
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Geek, after your similarly dead-aired performance at Coons’ WFH hearing you are lathering on some pretty thick bull.
I say that KWS knew as well as the rest of you here that Loudell was loading the questions up for bear and she was rightfully inspecting the traps for signs of blood. I figured he was angling for a lead in on who has jumped off of her committee since its inception.
He kept trying for a response on why she had sent the transition team presser. Yeah Allan, real smooth. Everything he was going on was from this blog including the fact that the list Jason initially published from the ‘tipster’ is composed of a few different individuals from the current roster.
Dumb is a dumb goes and dumb KWS isn’t. Are you guys playing dumb or just being coy?
she is nearly illiterate. i can’t believe anyone voted for her. this is completely a political piece and she sounds like a bad shill for all these unemployed people.
Everything he was going on was from this blog including the fact that the list Jason initially published from the ‘tipster’ is composed of a few different individuals from the current roster.
Really? Who did the tipster get wrong?
Ah! Nancy explains it! KWS is just pretending to be dumber than a burlap-sack full of wet toilet paper in order to one-up Loudell!
She seems to use that strategy a lot. Guess it works for her.
It’s really fun to watch Nancy Willing try to pull a snow job ON BEHALF of someone in power. The fact that she’s failing miserably notwithstanding.
Nancy,
You’re full of shit on this one. Obviously, your personal relationship with KWS as it relates to, umm, other ventures is clouding your better judgment.
Yeah…cuz, you know…the office was such a disaster under Matt Denn.
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Jason, you know that Denn’s initiatives failed in the Assembly. Maybe customer service improvements are being examined in part for ways to improve the language in bills for an insurance pool etc..
Also, you may remember the failure of Denn to include enough families into the CHIP program even though there are plenty to qualify, he had to return a huge chunk of dedicated CHIP money to the feds.
Those are only a few areas where we need some real improvement out of the IC, whether it is in better cooperation with the Assembly or better communication with the populace.
I’m down with that Nancy.
I stand by my take on it. Jason is usually infuriated at Loudelly’s angling because it is typically undermining DEMs he likes. That this is a DEM he doesn’t shouldn’t cloud the meme, IMHO.
Loudelly is a often a tool. He has many great moments, don’t get me wrong, but he is often waaaaaaaaaaaaaay out in ‘left field’.
Dave, you don’t pay much attention to me if you think I’m all salt, no sugar. I build the powerful up as often as I take them to task.
Really? Who did the tipster get wrong?
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I see that you really aren’t playing dumb. I never said the tipster got one thing wrong. D’OH. Pay attention.
Geek, after your similarly dead-aired performance at Coons’ WFH hearing you are lathering on some pretty thick bull.
Huh? I don’t even recall you being in the room, Nance. And given what I’ve seen in my one county council meeting and a BWW presser, I am WAY kicking your ass in public speaking. Add to that the fact that I hadn’t planned to speak at all and I’m pretty happy with my performance.
Oh, and I was talking as a citizen, not an elected official who couldn’t multiply 4 and 20 on short notice.
Geek–is this the same WFH hearing I was at? If so, let it be known you were given a prescribed 3 minute window of time, in an arena unknown if public comment was being taken via voice or written communication. You spoke and we clapped, and whistled, and hollered, and did you see the gal next to me throw her shirt off?
I just listened to the interview… wow. She sounded absolutely oblivious that announcing a transition team with controversial characters would be controversial.
Oblivious is the best word to describe her interview.
As an interesting side point, I remember in one of my phone calls with Elliot Jacobson about the matters going on at my blog the week before the election that he said she was going to be surrounded by good, knowledgeable people should she win.
Maybe announcing the transition team was a way to clear up fears that she isn’t up to the task and over her head. It seemed to blow up in her face.
I was there. I was sitting in the back right behind the VP of Landmark Engineering and I certainly remember you stuttering through your presentation with plenty of lapses in speech and gaps in attention. Not to mean, really. You were trying to express a complicated POV and probably weren’t fluid because it wasn’t your baliwick.
Joanne did very well. As did the people involved with stayoutofmypocket but Dave Carter, as always, was the brightest bulb. The Appoquinimink (sp?) rep was superb and there were others just as good.
Worst was the guy from the state dept who described the impact formula and exposed how outdated it was even though he seemed immune to that.
Mr. Ennis was solid and Mr. Powers did a really great job.
Mr. Coons was fucked over royally because his new Land Use Chief, Mr. Culver gave a weak presentation and didn’t engage in Q& A directly. No one got their questions answered because they don’t have the answers.
I just listened to the interview… wow. She sounded absolutely oblivious that announcing a transition team with controversial characters would be controversial.
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that is total bullshit. Jason published the post of the ‘controversial trans team – read GORDON’. The blog flew into a frenzy and the old team roster was also tipped and published. The WNJ read the blog and went with a story by the afternoon. Then WDEL picked it up as a news blurb.
By the next day, KWS sent a presser with the current team roster and their very highly touted qualifications in order, I would guess, to counter teh stupid being promoted in the media.
By the time Loudelly called her up, all of the above had transpired.
He inverted the question of why she should have sent the presser knowing full well that she prolly sent it in response to this blogosphere crap in order to set the story straight but he wanted to press it out as if she had sent the presser before some fuckass tipped Jason who published the GORDON role in her team. This shit started here, people.
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Brian has an excellent point — it certainly looks as though she was trying to impress folks and the whole effort just backfired. Someone needs to ask her how a bunch of folks from out of town are supposed to be useful for Delaware issues. And ask about the logistics about the participation of these out of towners for a local office.
And as for Denn — the SCHIP program is a DHSS show and the IC office committed to help get kids signed up to try to avert sending money back. And I don’t think that anyone would have blinked if enrollment stayed a DHSS show. Some Denn legislation did not make it through the Legislature, for sure, but it seems certain after this current KWS performance that she won’t have even Denn’s allies.
On and they don’t sell homeowners here because we are a coastal state?!?!?! WTF?
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Perhaps they are not issuing any new policies since Katrina.
Geek, I changed to them just this year (around Feb or so). I was able to get both auto and homeowners without a problem. You really should check that again.
Yes, Nancy, we’ve noticed that you suck up to the powerful whenever they flatter you by telling you some “inside” information. I believe the term for that is “attention slut.”
Well Geez, tell me how you really feel.
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Brian, look at it this way, perhaps. You are an elected official going in to take over a vast department of bureaucrats. Their system and hierarchy may not be so amenable to your wishes, the wishes that had persuaded the populace to vote for you.
You have to have something in place to structure the bureacrats so that they can understand how you may or may not want them to do their work differently.
One thing that is an ideological reality is that the GOP typically favors companies; but the HIGH DEM’s primary nominee, Reed, seemed to favor them too by taking 100K of their money. No one is kidding themselves that the GOP takes money and delivers for corporate lobbyists, nor should DEMs pretend that it isn’t a rife practice with our pols too. The Castle/Carper/ Minner admins are all well known as doors-wide-open-for-special-interests. Funny how the local corporate business lobbyists are, almost to a man, former Assembly members…
The influence on the IC’s office that Gene Reed may have wielded was in serving the industy corps who gave him so much cash. We need an IC that serves the common good not private profits.
The day to day acitivities of the desk bureacrats who KWS will have to lead when she walks into office in January are now being examined by the trans team. They assess what is now in place and make recommendations for how to improve it and/or reform job directives to better serve KWS’s platform initiatives.
but it seems certain after this current KWS performance that she won’t have even Denn’s allies.
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Cass, one would hope that you aren’t so jaded as to hope for that…plus you are showing your stupid when you take opposition to field experts examining DE insurance practice. Hopefully, the DC initiatives will be impacting DE in a positive way with some kind of federal mandate for universal healthcare. Putting your nose out of joint in hating this woman is just teh stupid.
Markell’s leadership is imperative in anyone getting anything done this year and though I hesitate to say much to this crowd of whackheads, KWS and Markell are looking forward to working together.
Nancy, this is a good response “You are an elected official going in to take over a vast department of bureaucrats. Their system and hierarchy may not be so amenable to your wishes, the wishes that had persuaded the populace to vote for you.
You have to have something in place to structure the bureacrats so that they can understand how you may or may not want them to do their work differently.” So of course you would want someone who was fucking his underling and having state police run patrols around her house and ‘borrowing’ night vision goggles to see if her fat as was riding any other middle aged, hair plugged ego maniacs.
why do i have the feeling this was a “if i get elected you do this and if you get elected we’ll do that.” deal between KWS and Gordon.
It isn’t about hope — it is bout not getting off on a particularly competent footing. And on the competence front, KWS has an awful lot to prove here.
Starting with how this giant panel of so-called experts is really supposed to contribute to a local Delaware office from their perches in Texas and Virginia. Plus Gordon, whose selection to review fraud practice is especially tone deaf.
Oh, come off it. The News Journal endorsement crowed, as she did, about her vast experience. This “vast department of bureaucrats” consists of about 60 people, and most of them aren’t bureaucrats.
She has never held a job in her life that involved managing a department full of people, and that’s not going to change just because she’s willing to pal around with a bunch of has-beens. She’s as unqualified for the job today as she was the day she won the election.
“By the next day, KWS sent a presser with the current team roster and their very highly touted qualifications in order, I would guess, to counter teh stupid being promoted in the media.”
If so, then why did she sound so surprised by the question, and why can’t she say what you just said?
And why was her justification for the guy “He’s not stupid.”
Hell, that means I’m qualified.
Hah! The Delaware Blog-of-Record strikes again. We post it, then the News-Journal covers it, then WDEL follows up. Citizen media in action. Score one for the good guys.
OK OK OK — it is what it is and we work with it. But Nancy, please put on KWS’s list– full allotted enrollment for CHIPS, and tougher penalties for uninsured drivers. Especially, those drivers who hit my family, crossing a median strip head-on with their black BMW, landing 2 of mine in the hospital, who upon discharge the child is bedridden for 10 weeks, necessitating personal care from mama, of which I don’t begrudge, but did have to leave work, thus income. Oh, and the black BMW? Well gee, his wedding plans may go on hold now, and he filed bankruptcy.
I will personally ask her to look into that Joanne. In fact, Karen is interested in running a department that has the citizen first in customer service which is what she did for McDowell…helping constituents…but now she will be doing it statewide.
Any way. Loudell brought out the story again on the news hour, this time asking Rich Heffron of the DE Chamber about KWS and the ‘controversy’ starting with the breathless ‘have you ever heard of anyone in a statewide office having a trans team…and how about sending a presser and will she sustain ‘damages’?
Heffron responded that 1). he didn’t even remember that Denn had a trans team much less that he had served on it as a sub-committee member. So he didn’t think anyone was going to remember any of this in four years either.
Got that Dellies, your precious Matt Denn had a trans team with sub-committees to boot…
2). Heffron thinks that the people KWS chose are justified because they have the background for it. He thinks that Gordon will be useful and was a good pick.
HA.
JC –
What a low-lfe. Will tougher penalties for uninsured drivers influence the behavoir of such a low-life.
Starting with how this giant panel of so-called experts is really supposed to contribute to a local Delaware office from their perches in Texas and Virginia. Plus Gordon, whose selection to review fraud practice is especially tone deaf.
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what ever
go ask Denn what he thinks about how much his ‘giant panel’ helped him.
Christ. Get off the hate train, woman.
Nancy is Mrs. “Delaware Way” all of as sudden. Go figure.
Bottom Line: Karen Weldin Stewart is a dope who we will have to endure until the next election.
If so, then why did she sound so surprised by the question, and why can’t she say what you just said?
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heh, Brian, knowing Karen, she was probably just surprised at how stupid Loudell was being. It may have taken her a moment to absorb teh stupid of the paper chase following her live in the lobby of the Conference of National Assoc. of Insurance Commissioners and a radio news guy asking ridiculous off point questions like – why did she put out a presser with controversial people on it and didn’t she think it would damage her. She obviously is thinking a hundred miles above this small-minded tripe and is focusing on running an exremely important state department that is poised for some potential monumental changes in federal mandate from Obama’s platform wishes. And if Allan had been interested in something substantial related to insurance for Delawareans I am sure she’d have been on target.
Nancy will be ever more satisfied with the Delaware Way as she worms her way into a job with it.
Mrs. Delaware Way, is just about right — who isn’t much interested in speaking truth to power as she is in venting the conspiracies and the made up shit as well as covering up for her friends.
She had lots of chances to sound intelligent talking about insurance before the election. Anybody out there think she succeeded?
As for “speaking truth to power,” I’ve read I can’t count how many screeds about Chris Coons. How many of them have contained any “truth” in the way of evidence backed up by anything but more of her whispers, most of which originate with Tom Gordon?
deal between KWS and Gordon
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oh lordy…
Cassie Cassie you know I got you. You were flat out wrong. Now your sour grapes are staining your fingers.
I have a few friends I hold dear, don’t you?
Oh and time will tell whether I was right about the Coons shit. I am and one day it’ll come out.
You have got to be kidding, Nancy. Are you really so blinded by Coons hatred that you can’t smell what kind of rats you have crawled into bed with? Keith Lake, Harris McDowell, Karen Weldin Stewart, Tom Gordon — not a straight stick in the bundle.
Many in Delaware have far more experience with these people than you ever will, and cannot be hoodwinked by your happy talk , especially since that talk turns so ugly when you’re dealing with anyone who disagrees with you. You make a fool of yourself and damage your credibility whenever you speak up for these people, and every time you do that it carries you one step further from your goal.
Or has your goal now changed from saving LaGrange to landing a cushy government job?
“One day it’ll come out.”
You fool. If you could string two intelligent thoughts together, it might have come out already.
And now here you are playing gossip games with Cassandra. Grow up.
LOL!
So… Asking her how many times she has been to a NAIC meeting is below her. She was too busy calculating actuarial tables in her head to give a coherent answer.
But don’t worry Joanne, she will definitely want to get involved in your incident and do constituent services. Just don’t ask her a question that is “below” her.
I’m not wrong.
And you will be able to tell then when I am not the one busily trying to save the threads of an already threadbare reputation (yours) in trying to erase any previous links to KWS.
You don’t need much time on the Coons stuff. You are wrong now, especially since you very lazily blame him for just everything.
But lazy is your stock in trade.
What makes you think I am hankering for a job, dearie? I quit a nice job to do this mocking wankery in 2005 by sitting in on the Coons’ Comp Plan Update meetings – all of them for over a year. I am used to being a pauper.
I also happened onto PSA by getting to know and befriending Susan Regis Collins who was working there in 2005. It is a block away from County Hall and I spent all my time between the two working on Delaware Clean Sweep untill Liz Allen became too much of a hassle to work with and that disolved.
The three things that I cared to oversee were PSA, Civic League and Common Cause. Most people think of CC disolving because we were too successful for the DE Way to handle. A few PDD members are the type to go along with pol pressure and managed to squelch that altogether.
This year, the pressures on PSA from its adversaries became too great and I left the Civic League to concentrate on the east side of Wilmington and I am glad I did.
No matter whose masters McDowell or even Lake may serve, they apply themselves to helping the poor of the City of Wilmington and in that effort, you bet I will stand with them.
Whoever you are you are insider enough to know a little but outsider enough to make that dangerous in its ignorance. PSA will be cleared of the charges levied against her.
Jesus Cass, you are as tiring as the Burris-man with the ill-considered quips and the constant bull shitty recaps of nonsense.
I won’t bother to go back and properly point out where you teh sucked.
Coons gets the blame he 0wns. Do you know one thing about the county? I suspect you know him personally and nothing of his professional responsibilities.
He is being sued by three groups of citizens right now: lower, mid and upper countians; all over his corrupt land use department.
I am not making this shit up. He is a thousand times worse than Gordon but about on par with Freebery.
Also, how am I ‘erasing links with KWS’, pray tell?
Well, of course, you can’t point out anything I was wrong about for Chris Coons. And of course, the only thing you can say is that I probably know him. Thank you for making my point about the laziness of your presence here.
Making shit up is what you do, Nancy. Making shit up is why the circle of folks who consider you trustworthy — well, isn’t yet a circle.
But hey! Keep it up. Not enough people know how completely stupid you really are, yet.
I can only go so far without getting sued. These are blogs and those are pols and they can take the heat.
Pointing out truth from fiction is another matter.
Maybe it my background in human nature, but there are some people who are genius at a certain level of functioning and not so much at another. Only the haters here are basking in their derision over pure nonsense.
Again, Geekster, you really can’t talk considering your performance was much weaker of the two.
Joanne – I am so sorry to hear that. The deal with my wife’s accident was UNDERinsured. The person who hit her HEAD-ON at 50+MPH on Boyd’s Corner Rd (the other person crossed the double-yellow to do it) had minimal liability and that was it. Needless to say, with a helicopter ride to the hospital and the first few moments in the ER, that 15k went poof real quick. That’s where our battle with our ins company came into play. Although UNinsured and UNDERinsured are tandem coverages, they fight them completely different. Summary of the three years of pure hell in this fight, we did not come out with enough for the total bills (after fees) and going forward. That aforementioned company is NOT on your side!
I wasn’t talking about Coons inasmuch as your bull shit above on the ‘oooooohhhhhh trans team’.
Sorry not to have made that clear. oh my.
How is assuming that you know Coons lazy. Just answer it. You live near him or where he used to live. You are also neighbors with KWS and she is surprised at your venum.
You are one of those kinds of people – mostly female – that make enemies easily and in that I see where you fit in with your pal Walsh. But I ain’t interested in petty shit. Go get a room with your ego.
Your cracks are showing with comments about my friends. Come on down to Newark and meet most of the town. 🙂 my friends.
You can’t get sued for saying something about a politician unless you know when you say it that it’s untrue. Don’t use that as an excuse for not speaking up on Coons.
And you must not know much about any of the people I named above if you think Gordon is better than any of them. Or are you buying “It was all Sherry’s fault”? Is he actually saying that now? That she wore the pants in that relationship? Ask anyone who worked with them back then about who wore what.
Okay, allow me to clear up a few points. I know Chris Coons. He use to live up the street from ME. KWS is MY neighbor.
And I normally don’t comment on the local posts since I’m still learning about local stuff, and try not to shoot my mouth off on subjects I’m not familiar with (Read Coons and KWS).
So, Nancy… are you confusing the female DL contributors? And, if so, is the dirt you claim to have on me?
oh, now I comprehend your erase the links quip, Cassandra.
No, I don’t play that way with friends.
Do you? Seriously. You are digging a hole here.
You are one of those kinds of people – mostly female – that make enemies easily and in that I see where you fit in with your pal Walsh
This is funny. It is more about not suffering fools gladly and since you are clearly a fool, well, there it is. And I am in Newark fairly regularly with my own friends. Where folks don’t seem to have much truck with you, either.
So here you are still — making pretend that you know things about people that you clearly don’t; ascribing bullshit charges to people that you can’t substantiate; spinning our improbable stories that you excoriate people for not believing and trying to pass off gossip as some insider cred.
You are a complete fraud, Nancy.
Hum, I don’t have any dirt, Pandora. Is that why everyone is in such a snit? I said that if Cass keeps calling me a liar I’d likely go looking for some on her. Everyone has something to hide.
I know you live near McDowell, Pandora, because you once told Liz to stop repeating that he doesn’t live in Wilmington because you see him at home a lot.
Unless Cassandra isn’t her real name, that is who Karen thinks is a neighbor, I thought.
I do know that Cassandra answered the phone one evening when I called Loretta to verify in person whether she had, in fact, took back her endorsement of KHN. Cass will remember the convo. Cass lives in that district too, no? Near my friend Susan Regis Collins? (heh, one of my best friends oh nooooooooooooooooooooooo who feels the same way I do about The Coons Monster).
Where folks don’t seem to have much truck with you, either.
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heh, now you are just being an ass
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Nancy, your very accusation of my poor performance, actually clears me to critique poor performances by others. Criticize away. I can take it, and I assume that you can also. And certainly KWS can take it, she is an elected official that cannot do simple math on the fly.
Granted, I usually do my public speaking in my right mind and have full recollection of what I said. So you have me there…
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You can’t get sued for saying something about a politician unless you know when you say it that it’s untrue. Don’t use that as an excuse for not speaking up on Coons.
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it has more to do with name dropping a certain lawyer who Coons threatened. It isn’t wise to mess with lawyers.
When my friends, the Ardays, were sued by Pam Scott-Paul Clarky, I was deposed. Mr. Bonkowski was the interrogator.
Coons, if anyone bothers to recall, hired Bonkowski to defend him when Richard Corn sued him over the masquerade of Gordonberry’s surplus disappearance (Bonkowski was then of Saul Ewing, Pammy and Wendy Stabler and formerly Wendy Danner’s law firm).
Well, come the morning of the Chancery Court hearing, the judge bounced Bonkowski right out of the room for conflict of interest. Being curious, I wondered what Bonksters was doing for Coons or the county to where he wouldn’t be allowed to represent Coons against Corn (Corn won btw).
I now assume but don’t have solid proof, that because Bonkowski was getting ALL of the County Bond Business through Saul, that that was the conflict. Imagine how lucrative controlling the county bond business is? Very.
Coons uses his county contracts as a cudgel. Don’t believe if you don’t want to.
During my deposition, Bonkowski focused on two questions rising from the 300 emails I had had to produce to Pammy Scott in discovery. The first was about a statement I and Susan Arday had made about Coons, Nathan Hayward and the lands around Glasgow. The second was about a statement I had made (these were my private emails) about the Capano family as a controlling interest in La Grange LLC.
Tom Capano was a partner at Saul right after he worked for the state and during his ‘courtship’ of Annie Fahey. (I went to middle school with Bobby Fahey…small world).
So, no, I will only go so far in divulging interesting information that I know is true. Tough shit if it offends you.
Geek, you are a beautiful fella and when you finally spit it out, what you said was gold.
just sayin!
Consider me offended, Nancy, if you and KWS are discussing me – especially since both of you got my identity wrong – and yes, those neighborhood references are directed at me, and me alone.
And threatening to “dig up dirt” on someone who argues with you on a blog is petty, vindictive, and childish.
…Richard Corn sued him [Coons]…
I thought Korn sued the county over the Gordon’s amdinistrations misuse of these funds, not Coons’ administration. It just so happens Coons was in already in office when the suit finally took place. You are referring to the case where Polloquin was the attorney working with Korn, right?
Pandora, you were the one working for Loretta? It has been a while.
I am sorry if you think that the way Cassandra has been gutting me like a fine rainbow trout is ok. I don’t. I probably shouldn’t have said that I would go fetching but who knows when the good lord sends some muddy boot tracks my way and leads me to some smut I can shove up some asshole’s nostrals? That shit tends just to drop in my lap.
Korn, he ran against Freebery. Maybe the suit was against the GB. Coons attended a meeting we had to try to get him to spend the park money earmarked for La Grange and he refused, saying the county was broke right before he took office. Of course he went on to pay for everyone’s storm water ponds whether they needed the charity or not. Can’t continue to infill if the storm water is flooding the place.
asshole’s nostrals?
I was not working for Loretta, not that it seems to matter to you if your facts are straight when you and KWS were gossiping – yes, gossiping – about me.
I’m really pissed about this, Nancy. Tell me, has Karen spread these lies about me though my neighborhood? Should I bring this thread to my next neighborhood association meeting? Or, better yet, to Karen’s front door?
Consider me offended, Nancy, if you and KWS are discussing me –
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puhlease. KWS made a statement of disappointment that you were discussing/desparaging HER on the blogs and mentioned that you were her neighbor. That is the extent of that. For gods sake.
Start another war if you like but do it on the facts.
And… I’m not here to protect you from Cassandra. You’re a big girl, Nancy. Don’t try and deflect your bad behavior by blaming it on someone else. You’re dealing with me now.
So then I am correct that you were not who I spoke with at Loretta’s house? I guess I just assumed that Cass lived in the district since she was on Loretta’s team.
Get the fuck over your self Pandora.
What lies are you talking about.
As I said. Karen expressed disappointment that her neighbor was dissing her on the bl0gs and wasn’t going to vote for her. Period and end of story.
Don’t mix my blogging crap with KWS. Is this cocktail hour or something?
And I am dealing with you, Pandora. Do you comprehend what I am communicating?
sheesh.
Facts about Pandora. She lives near McDowell. She wrote that she wasn’t voting for KWS.
True? yes or no and untwist those panties. please. God, cocktails. Much?
Karen won’t be threatened by you going door to door like an a-hole either, btw. One of the things that makes me like her is that the bull shit really doesn’t get to her. She doesn’t let it. When Mike Matthews called me up to tell me he heard she stold PSA money she giggled for 10 minutes.
Is this cocktail hour or something?
You would know, Nancy.
Have it your way, then. But if, as you now claim, you really don’t care whether people believed you, you wouldn’t spend so much time trying to convince us, would you?
“I said that if Cass keeps calling me a liar I’d likely go looking for some on her. Everyone has something to hide.”
You are definitely spending too much time with Tom Gordon. That’s his mantra. And you someday may find out that there’s nowhere near as much difference between him and SF as he pretends and you believe.
“when the good lord sends some muddy boot tracks my way and leads me to some smut I can shove up some asshole’s nostrals? That shit tends just to drop in my lap”
If you don’t want shit dropping in your lap, stand up more often. The people you’re hanging with are a tiny little echo chamber who spend most of their time diddling themselves and each other and then gossiping about it. Not too much different than the old hippies you used to hang around with, just doing it with the public’s money and trust instead of on their own dime.
If I have to trust you on Coons, then you should trust me on this: The real shit happens at a level Tom Gordon could only dream about. What happened happened when these little social climbers tried to play with the big boys, and had the poor social grace to try to blackmail their friend the judge. That was the result of Sherry spending so much time with the worst drunk in the rotted-out duPont family tree.
They’re not good people, Nancy, whatever the BS they feed you. If you work with them to get what you want, you’ll find yourself showering hourly to try to get the stink off. Ask yourself whether they’re willing to help others without helping themselves along the way.
That last line goes double for your newest friend, the competence-challenged Ms. Weldin-Stewart.
“Start another war if you like but do it on the facts.”
Rules that apply to everyone except Nancy Willing, of course. It’s nice to see more people exposing Nancy and her made up garbage.
FSP commenting makes me wish this whole thread was being hashed out on DTR. Holy crap that would be freaking great radio. Well, maybe to our intellectually constipated circle, but still great radio.
Thanks for sharing our conversation, Nancy. I don’t generally have a problem with people who renege on an “off the record” conversation, so it’s all cool.
I am so itching for the Wilmington studio to be up and running so we can get Nancy, Cassandra, and Pandora in the studio! You all have no idea. This shit would do gangbusters!
Definitely count me among the intellectually constipated!
What I don’t get is how Pandora thinks that I am lying about speaking with Cassandra at Loretta Walsh’s house because Pandora decided that she was indeed the subject of the entire thread.
PANTIES!
I am going to have to go to Deer Park and unwind.
Definitely count me among the intellectually constipated!
Well, I have to give wRonG some credit, we’re going to get a lot of mileage out of that phrase. Nobody self-depricates better that the wingnuts around here (and I mean the complete circle, not just DL).
Ah there you are C’ ASS.
I see you have no interest in clearing up the ‘phone call’ issue.
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Laterz bats…oh shite, this is feeling so warm and fuzzy like Eschaton…heh.
Off to the bar.
One of these days I hope to discover the identity of the chicken shit who goes by Geezer. It almost has to be Gerry Fulcher.Mebbe not after reading…thing is that people are ascribing too much to my involvement with any of these people.
I am merely a lowly blogger with sumptin to say.
Mike – sorry about that. Water under the bridge and all. I forgot if you said not to tell.
Nancy – just admit that KWs is a clueless dingbat. You can’t possibly think she is intelligent and knowledgable. Oh wait, I forget – everything seems better after a few drinks…
Why would I clear it up? Just like LG, I don’t expect you to be here in whatever passes for your right mind or to remember what you have to say on a daily basis.
Just keep babbling your usual bullshit and you’ll come across the right story once or twice more.
Nice try at back-pedaling, Nancy. You were flat out wrong – how novel. And, not only were your facts wrongs YOU tied them to me. You made this about me through your laziness and penchant for gossip.
And, yes, that bothers me. You owe me an apology, Nancy. You also have some phone calls to make in order to clear this up. The question is… do you have the guts to admit you were wrong and correct the situation?
I know it’s only December 4th today, but this thread makes it feel like the 25th over and over. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
“I said that if Cass keeps calling me a liar I’d likely go looking for some on her. Everyone has something to hide.”
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I see it more as a function of karma than anything else. I walk with a spiritual gait as much as possible and understand the world through that lense. If there were shamans in NCC that would be my profession. My trade is part hippie, yes, but intellectually was heavily trained in the curative arts, human nature and science-based psychology. People interest me and writing is my gift, or so all the English teachers in Brandywine HS told me.
I will trust that you offer a warning that I shall honestly hold close. How about that!
And by the way, the muddy boots drip as with gravity. God’s landing on my lap is not the mud, only the enlightenment.
How do I get Karen Hartley Nagel mentioned in this thread…? Hmmm…?
Think Jason… THINK DAMMIT!!
OK Dellie ladies, be that way. I am going to the bar.
Are you sure you want to get into this? In case you haven’t noticed… I’m not backing down.
Which isn’t what you said Nancy — as usual, your threat implied that you actually had some real dirt that could be revealed right then. The backpedalling now tries to make you look like a victim — which you aren’t.
You’ve just been called on your shit and you can’t find a way out that doesn’t confirm you to be a complete idiot.
No cAss, I was definately wishing I had some shit to throw in that fuckface of yours but since I don’t, why would I say I did.
I think you gals are diverting attention from your failure to establish your bullshit on the new State Insurance Commissioner. Losers.
Poor losers at that.
FSP commenting makes me wish this whole thread was being hashed out on DTR. Holy crap that would be freaking great radio. Well, maybe to our intellectually constipated circle, but still great radio.
Sort of like a Delaware McLaughlin Group, huh?
This would work if we had someone on the KWS side who could actually hold up her end without calling names, forgetting the thread of whatever tale she is spinning, making shit up, or appealing to gossip or the conspiracy du jour.
Wrong again, Nancy. I only joined this discussion after I realized you and KWS were discussing me. Spin all you want, it doesn’t change the facts.
No, I think that we pretty much established that KWS isn’t doing herself any favors on the competence front (including sending you out on a defense sortie) — the rest of the sins are pretty definitively your own as the permanent record of this thread will detail.
P. you run a blog where you discuss everybody…WTF is your position again?
This freaking discussion, I want to leave and it keeps drawing me in, INNNNNNN.
Lame excuses for your own bad behavior. I speak for myself, no one else.
Don’t leave – I just went to get popcorn
P., and I am going to DP for beer after this, you really mean to say that after trashing your neighbor in a blog you give a shit if that neighbor complains about it in a private convo. D ‘OH.
Look in the mirror chickee.
BTW, who is messing with the classic rock poll?
Here is more of the Nancy stupid — Pandora saying she won’t vote for KWS does not equal trashing.
Perhaps you should try this again after your beers, maybe you are better at keeping the thread then.
Another lie, Nancy? You just can’t help yourself. Show me where I trashed my neighbor. I dare you. You can’t, because I never did.
Go ahead… prove it, back up that statement. I’ll wait. And so, I guess, will everyone else.
Delawareliberal is an 8 headed monster and some of those heads don’t like Harris McDowell, maybe that was it?
this is why I don’t care for local politics
I’ll stick to macro stuff
Local politics is fine. It is some of its local adherents who are whack.
Just want to point out that this is a 135-comment flame war that doesn’t include me, Jason, Mike, DV or Dana Garrett.
Don’t know that this has happened before. I’m almost jealous.
Dave, you might be wrong about that. 😉
I KNOW!@!! was thinking that too
Sorry guys, but I won’t tolerate people making up stuff about me.
Still waiting for that proof, Nancy.
Indeed, sorry gang — I’m not in the habit of tolerating threats.
Don’t wait too long, Pandora, for that proof. It isn’t forthcoming.
Funny, Cassandra, but I don’t think we’re the ones who need to apologize.
No, but we do recognize that perhaps not everyone wanted to witness the flaying.
You are quite right, though!
Oh, no. We’re happy to witness the flaying. No apology needed. It’s just the first time one of us wasn’t in the fray. Continue.
Earth men are easy!
Still waiting on that proof, Nancy.
I just spoke with Tom Gordon. He tells me that he has no intention of working for the Insurance Dept. There are no jobs there, all merit employees stay. That he was not supporting KWS during her campaign, but after a few phone calls from her asking him to attend a couple of meetings, he agreed. He was unaware of any press release naming him to the Transition Team (for attending a couple of meetings??) and was blindsided by the calls from media re: the entire incident.
He says there are people from Richard Layton and Finger and 10 other people, why aren’t YOU all questioning them on the team.
So this is all about nothing, just a bunch of rumor with no basis in fact, and DL has turned into a “rumor” mongering bunch of no nuttins.
Geezer: aka Al Masscitti I see you are still at the “hate Gordon campaign” and doing your damndest to spread the hate. You are clearly possessed with your personal hatred of Gordon. You really need to move on to another target.
“He was unaware of any press release naming him to the Transition Team”
So he didn’t even agree to be on the transition team? Do the others know they’re on a transition team? This gets better by the minute.
“People interest me … writing is my gift, …”
I sure hope you kept the receipt, Nancy.
Well if Gordon was unaware he was on a Transition Team, them maybe that explains why the named team is so huge — they have no idea that their names are being attached to a this.
On the other hand it is Liz and who knows who she really spoke to.
Missy! Feelin’ the love, babe.
The Assholes spin is tiresome. A guy says he wasn’t aware his name was on a presser. You spin it into he wasn’t aware he was on a trans team. Pathetic shitholes.
Assuming Liz is telling the truth, why would Gordon be blindsided by press calls? If he knew he was on a transition team, he had to know it would be made public at some point. Methinks he didn’t know his name would be used at all.
okaay back from DEEP (Deer Park) and the idiots womenz of Delly are talking to themselves and pretending I am listening….
Dear Pandora, you are correct that since you and Cass may or may not be using the names your neighbors know you by, there is certainly confusion surrounding WTF? Is that my fault that you both are too chicken shit to use your names?
Wake up tomorrow after the vodka passes through and read this thread with your coffee and get back to me.
FSP, your pal Heffron didn’t even remember that he was a participant in Matt Denn’s trans team. That is how big a deal this should be. The only reason stupid media is ‘tintillated’ is because Jason took the bait and I’d bet that Coons set that bait. He hates Gordon so bad. Petty Fucker.
This wins the award for most fascinating thread of the week.
I’d bet that Coons set that bait
There we go! The 6 Degrees of Chris Coons’ Fault. Clueless as ever.
And you should not be advising anyone here to revisit blog posts after drinking.
If he knew he was on a transition team, he had to know it would be made public at some point. Methinks he didn’t know his name would be used at all.
Unless there was some understanding that this would not be a particularly high profile transition team. Which it shouldn’t be. I wonder if these other names know that they are being touted as part of a transition team?
This is one of the reasons I was interested in how transitions get funded. Several of the names on the KWS list are definitely out of towners. Are they coming here for meetings and audits and who pays for all of that? It just seems like real overkill for this kind of a department.
after trashing your neighbor in a blog you give a shit if that neighbor complains about it in a private convo. D ‘OH.
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this is my point, P.
to Karen, you (or which ever one of you two is her neighbor) talking about not wanting to vote for her on a big DE blog was somewhat horrifying.
In that regard I dubbed it a trashing.
Karen just thought it mean.
You are oblivious to any of the finer points and I’ll attribute that to the vodka. You are better than this.
Cassandra: you really no sooo little! Transition teams are not funded…they are volunteers, offering some expertise. No Gordon did not know his name was going to be in the paper because he attended two meetings. No he didnt support KWS during the campaign, he was running his own campaign. And no Cassandra I am not a liar…you just have a habit of calling people liars when you feel like it. I think Nancy is right about one thing…someone passed some dirt to Jason and he took the bait. Rumor mongering really isn’t about truth its just about rumors. Do any of you have anything else to do except gossip and destroy people who disagree with you. Get over yourselves you mean very little in the big scheme of things.
Jason wouldn’t no Tom Gordon if he fell over him. Its Geezer, aka Al Mess who Jason takes his ques from. Pathetic little minds!
Liz, who knew this stupid thread would bring us into a tad of harmony, heh.
cAss is being deliberately thick. What she doesn’t get (and I have no idea what professional experience she may or may not have) but what isn’t in her tool box is the least concept of professional courtesy’s nor friendships that come to the fore when one puts together a team such as this.
Karen had been in this game for years. A career’s worth of years. She worked for the administrations of several of the people who agree to help her with advice; from TX etc.
Why cAss wants to assume that they are jumping on jets at someone’s expense is her own silly problem. I rather expect that they are being forwarded digital info or perhaps FED EXed stuff for review.
cAss still stubbornly refuses to acknowledge how far astray she sent herself when the very issue of a trans team was derided here and everyone ran with it, including the serious Denn fan club. When it became obvious earlier today that Matt Denn had a trans team she should have packed it in.
I think if there is a Sarah Palin modeled here, it is the stubborness that prevents one from backing away once one has been bested.
Plus, you know, you’ve gotten off the point that we just elected an insurance commissioner who can’t do basic math on the fly.
I think if there is a Sarah Palin modeled here, it is the stubborness that prevents one from backing away once one has been bested.
And here I am thinking that you are incapable of any self-knowledge and here you are describing for the world why it is that no one respects you.
As for my professional experience, let’s just say the work from my corner office does not include presiding over the looting and mismangement of a non-profit.
And as a citizen of this fine state, I am wondering exactly what data of mine if being forwarded in any form to any of these people and do they have the appropriate confidentiality agreements or other arrangements the state really should require before shipping off citizen and corporate data. While you don’t have to travel, there are still costs to be incurred (Fed Ex is not free).
Sending around State data without the proper safeguards seems like a story to me.
I want what Nancy’s drinking.
/If it’s KWS flavored kool aid, I’ll pass.
Plus, you know, you’ve gotten off the point that we just elected an insurance commissioner who can’t do basic math on the fly.
Dear Diary,
Dave was right about something today.
why it is that no one respects you.
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er, if you mean Dave Burris. yeh
otherwise, not so much.
the shit about PSA you will regret having said that, I promise you.
There is really no ‘good’ come back I can come up with to express my dismay over your crass and, well, it must be said, lame and disgusting statements. You try and hang yourself out and do better and we’ll talk, Chickshit anony.
I am getting ready to have a conversation with Loretta about you, by the way.
Good Gravy–I leave work, attend a meeting in Dover, hit Sonic, come home to find the same sniping going on, and no new information out there–and will now scream. Could you all cease and desist, and go to your rooms for the night? The boys want the remote. Thanks. See you in the morning.
166!
I am getting ready to have a conversation with Loretta about you, by the way.
Outstanding!
I’ll take this as a translation that you got nuttin’.
Loretta will be just delighted to have this conversation.
168!
169! Heh heh…I said 69!!!
My point will be to get the good council woman to concur that she was contacted about a confirmation concerning the KHN unendorsement. Why, what were you getting all excited about, there cAsshole?
Your corner office? Someone gave you a corner office, what, to scrub? Or are you one of the faceless bureaucrats on the tax payer’s dole. Living up to teh stupid. 🙂
Back to the main point…KWS. I find it odd DelDem hasn’t chimed in here, seeing how he absolutely, positively couldn’t bring himself to vote for John Brady because he’s an R. Aside from that DelDem didn’t offer much in way of reasoning why he voted for KWS.
He is away on business.
173!!
Lights Out!!! 174!!!
And you still got nuttin’ — except the usual name calling that is all your pathetic wit can manage I gather.
Can’t wait to hear back from Loretta and I will be gleefully blogging about this!
175!
Don’t make me come up there. 176
keep fighting the good fight Cass, I know this is exhausting!
I’ve just read through most of this thread and have determined that Nancy’s MO is to simply change the subject when she’s proven wrong… again and again and again.
BTW, I really don’t appreciate the alcohol references. And I might point out that it wasn’t me who was heading to a bar at 3:45 in the afternoon.
Also, I went through the comments section and didn’t find any one where I said that I would not vote for KWS. In fact, the only comment of mine that comes close is when I said I voted a straight Dem ticket. A decision I’m rapidly coming to regret.
so nancy you dont have a problem that gordy admitted to sleeping with an underling, having state police do drive bys of her house and taking night vision goggles from police stocks and using them to spy on her fat ass? if you dont have a problem with that, then lets put Rachel Holt on the CHIP transition team.
Please pass the Scotch and wake me up at 200.
Pandora – Nancy always changes the topic or comes up with cutsie nick names for herself or others when she can’t answer the questions – or lost the question somewhere after 3pm in the beer.
I’m learning fast, Suzanne.
Oh, and here’s the link. Check out comment #3.
http://delawareliberal.net//2008/11/03/insurance-commissioner-decision/
That’s it–I’m calling Santa.
I feel a little jealous that the women of DelLib are having a conversation and I wasn’t invited. All I can say is that I’m definitely feeling some buyer’s remorse on KWS.
I think I might be slow here. Is the contention that KWS named a transition team of people who attended a couple of meetings?
For the heat Karen Weldin Stewart is taking over Tom Gordon being on her transition team, I hope he gives some great insights.
Whatever talents and virtues he brings to the table, he does seem to polarize discussion a bit.
Poor Liz. She can’t stand the fact that I will never let the public forget what Tom Gordon wants it desperately to forget — that he is far from innocent and, far worse IMO, has never acknowledged doing anything wrong.
That is precisely why he is unfit to serve. Despite Liz’ self-induced blindness, there are a thousand questions Tom Gordon has never answered, a thousand misdeeds he refuses to acknowledge let along apologize for. He is a child. So is Liz.
As I have said before, many times, they are perfect for each other. It speaks volumes of the man that his two chief defenders in the Delasphere are Liz Allen and Nancy Willing.
And, just for perspective, it speaks volumes that Karen Weldin-Stewart doesn’t even have that much support. She’s only got Nancy in her corner.
Er…um…if Tom Gordon was not aware he’d be in a presser (about him being on the Transition Team), then that makes me wonder even more about KWS in that there is no proper communication.
(made up quote)Hey, thanks for helping….(turns to next person)…psst…quick, call the media and tell them that so-and-so is helping me
THAT is what this sounds like!
HEY! There has not been a comment here for over two hours! WTF?! Will you people get on with it? Your reading public awaits!!!!
#186.
Smitty-Ever get coal?
Smitty gets clean coal.
Not this year.
Did hear through the grapevine (no, not Celia) that many were asked, but few responded to KWS plea for big-name transition members. One ‘wheel’ actually instructed his phone-lackey to respond to all calls from the KWS ‘team’ saying: “He’s dead; don’t call again.”
There’s no such thing as clean coal.
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Watch it, Joanne. I will cast a pox on your family with mouthfuls of cavities!!! Now, that would be a hard sell for the business!!!
buwhaaa haaa haa haaaa!!!!!
#192
One ‘wheel’ actually instructed his phone-lackey to respond to all calls from the KWS ‘team’ saying: “He’s dead; don’t call again.”
Now we know why Dave Burris isn’t on the Team. I was wondering about that.
#193
Psst-Cass–let the clean coal go-it validates Santa–sometimes we parents have to do these things–thanks.
Oh and Dave Burris-he’ll be playin’ Santa Claus–that’s why he’s not available.
And Smitty–there goes that fee schedule again–for you–if we ever get you in the chair!
This is all about Tom Gordon trying to gain rehabilitation without acknowledging doing any wrong. Some of us will do what we can to keep that from happening.
So, who looks worse in this story – KWS or Gordon – it’s really hard to decide.
can gordon look any worse, with those hair plugs? then again can kws look any worse than she already does. good thing that 20 year old glam shot is still working for her.
I know who looks the worst on this thread.
200!!!!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA —- I tried to tell you about KWS I don’t know how many times, but would you listen? Nooooo…… Serves you all right. All you sanctimonious hypocrites (with a few exceptions) will be stuck with this totally unqualified dumb shit for the next four years. HA HA HA….. Too funny. Exactly what you deserve for not doing your homework. So glad that all of KWS’s lies are already coming back to haunt her and she’s starting to crash and burn before she’s even taken office. That’ll teach you to believe an idiot like her who suffers from severe delusions of grandeur.
I’m beginning to believe KWS election day support was a GOP conspiracy so that Bush would not go down in history as the worst elected politician ever.
All you sanctimonious hypocrites (with a few exceptions) will be stuck with this totally unqualified dumb shit for the next four years.
Unfortunately, we are ALL stuck.
For even more fun, check out the comments about KWS on the insurancejournal com website, under “East” news for December 4. They were posted in response to KWS’s appointment of Gordon.
From today’s wires, a story that seems germane to the Gordon end of this discussion:
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — A 105-year-old singer whose past as a singer in Nazi Germany has dogged his reputation for decades is back in the spotlight after telling a Dutch television show Adolf Hitler was a “good guy.”
The Dutch-born Johan Heesters, who now has Austrian citizenship and is still popular and performing in Germany, was asked by a Dutch journalist what he thought of Hitler.
“A good guy, that’s what he was,” he said on the clip shown Thursday on the current affairs show “De Wereld Draait Door” (“The World Keeps Turning”).
His wife, Simone Rethel, immediately corrected him, saying that Hitler was the worst criminal in the world.
“I know, doll,” Heesters responded. “But he was nice to me.”
Well, I guess when they (ins cos) all come to DE for the apparent safe haven, there will be more jobs.
Look, I am trying the half-full side of this argument, ‘K?
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Interesting but not unexpected stuff on KWS. I have to agree with Gabriel that there was plenty of warning about her before the election that everyone tried to dismiss. I was dying to hear the WDEL spot but couldn’t get anon’s link to work. Any other attempts to get to the WDEL site failed today, too. Did this KWS farce cause so much traffic that it crashed? Did they take it down because they got pressure from someone?Does anyone know?
It is curious that Matt Denn, who leaves the Insurance Commissioner’s Office next month , has organized a public hearing on the Blue Cross release of private medical information of 3700 Blue Cross customers but , Karen Weldin Stewart’s position on this is not mentioned in the article in the 12-5-2008 News-Journal linked to below.
The hearing, which includes a public comment period, is set for 1 p.m. Dec. 30 at the Wilmington office of the insurance department. For more info :
All Insurance Commissioner Consumer Service calls to 1-800-282-8611 are toll-free in Delaware
http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20081205/NEWS01/81205012/1058/DCP
Is this a situation where she feels there can only be one insurance commissioner at a time?
Although, maybe the News-Journal did not seek her out due to their own staff shortages.
It’s not curious at all. The News Journal is on Stewart’s side, having hyped her throughout her campaign, and they have plenty of staff. Stewart simply doesn’t have a clue about nor any interest in anything beyond getting herself into office, as she’s proven several times already. Nor is she capable of understanding the issues. Stewart may know enough not to appear in public together with Matt Denn, because the glaring difference between his compentence and her lack of it will be obvious to anyone at the meeting. But then again, maybe she’s too oblivious even for that, and her hangers-on have advised her against appearing to further their own interests.
KWS is still lying her fool head off. By now we all know how clueless she is and that her claimed experience doesn’t exist. Neither does her supposed consulting business, The Weldin Group. Despite all of that or maybe because of it, here’s what Harris McDowell’s people have apparently put together for KWS:
http://www.ifawebnews.com/articles/2008/11/13/pennsylvania/doc4911eedba9502098909966.txt
Makes her sound competent, which she isn’t, and arrogant, which she is. Plus all the suggested changes aren’t only unnecessary, but the suggestion that they’re needed is an insult to Matt Denn.
Is this a situation where she feels there can only be one insurance commissioner at a time?
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you people~!
heh, John knows better…
The Blue Cross’ loss of private information just happened. KUDOs for Denn to jump on the news with some of his own. But, KWS is still in TX.
She won’t be sworn in until January so no, she isn’t going be acting on this news nor should Denn sit through the month abandonning the office.
Thanks for the links though. So now all of her preparation is ‘just an insult to Denn”?
Give us a break, Nancy. Preparation? You know very well KWS doesn’t have the brains to put together a simple sentence without a prepared script or to read or write above the level of a first grader. If you dispute that or don’t believe it, have her sit down in front of witnesses and give her a blank sheet of paper and a crayon.
You are and always have been a shill for KWS so you can further your own interests. Same as McDowell who hand picked her for her stupidity and is already starting to use her push his own agenda. That’s clear from the info in the link.
“All her preparation” Nancy?
By preparation do you mean ‘real’ college?
By preparation do you mean law school?
By preparation do you mean insurance regulation experience?
Kind of lost me on the KWS ‘preparation’ point…
Couple of points:
This did happen on Matt Denn’s watch.
The NJ had no problem tracking me at 3 different locations, for a small quote, insight on the LEAD report, which most people could care less about, the very next day after all the staff and reporters were let go.
Interpretation-If they wanted KWS, she would have been included, AND, she should be grateful, she dodged this bullet.
Bullet-dodging may be the reason why KWS went to Texas, if she isn’t just hiding out here in DE after Ron Williams at the NJ probably gave her a heads-up. He’s supported her all along. On the other hand, she may be in Texas to schmooze with her insurance lawyer campaign contributors (look it up in her disclosure statement) to get her personal debts taken care of before they become a public issue? And where did she get all the money for these constant out of state trips when she hasn’t worked to speak of in the past eight years? Too many questions and not enough answers. What a disaster this is for Delaware.