Carney Turned Down Treasurer?
Maybe he see it as a step backwards.
I don’t know…Lt. Governor job does not seem to make future political jobs a sure thing.
Recent Lt. Govs:
Mike Castle became Governor then got himself appointed to Congress where he has slumbered ever since. SB Woo …who? Dale Wolf got to be Gov for 20 whole days when Castle was appointed to Congress. Ruth Ann Minner got her chance to pretend that she lived in Woodburn. John Carney…?
A mixed record, but if RAM can leverage it into being Governor….
As and aside, someone who knows more about this stuff than me, once told me that Governor, Congress and Senate are the big leagues.
Everything else is just a minor league sideshow.
Could just be a big FU to the state party.
Well, treasurer does pay more than lt. governor . . .
Perhaps he’s got other plans, like running for Senate.
I had heard that he was mulling an offer for Treasurer. He has a competing private sector offer as well, so perhaps he is taking some time off of public life. Hopefully for a full fledged run at the House or Senate.
Jason wrote:
Sorry, but this statement is terrible; a reader who didn’t know history or the Constitution would think that Mr Castle entered Congress on an appointment, when, in fact, he ran for Congress and was elected by the good people of Delaware.
The Constitution holds that a vacancy in the House of Representatives must be filled by a special election; no one can be appointed to such a seat. Mr Castle was nearing the end of his second term as governor — a position to which the people of Delaware has twice elected him, and was constitutionally ineligible to run for a third term. Representative Tom Carper (D-DE) chose to run for governor in 1992, and Mr Castle for the House; both were elected to office.
Some people saw that as an agreed office swap by two popular politicians, but that still doesn’t mean that both didn’t have to actually run for the offices they sought.
Jason, your statement was dishonest.
You say office swap, I say appointment.
Tomato, tomato.
Mike Caste has never really run against a challenger. The Delaware way has made the road a level one for him.
I don’t even say office swap. Both Mr Carper and Mr Castle are very popular politicians in Delaware, but both still had to actually win an election to get the jobs they had and now have. No one was appointed to anything, unless you have a far different — and very inaccurate — definition of the word “appoint.”
And I do like the “snow” falling through the site, but it’s actually snowing up here in God’s country!
Mr Castle (is) a very popular politicians in Delaware,
I take the poll results that show that 44% or DL readers think that he was hired to follow along with whatever Bush cooked up as evidence of that.
It was hardly a cakewalk to the House in 1992 for Castle. He beat Janet Rzewnicki in a GOP primary, winning 56 percent of the vote, and S.B. Woo in the general election, with 55 percent. With the exeption of the 1984 governor’s race, those were the toughest statewide campaigns he’s run.
Jason may have a greater point in the stupidity of the Democrats for not running more serious, better-known candidates against him (Micheal Miller a two-time nominee? Give me a break), but that’s hardly Castle’s fault.
Jason wrote:
And I’d take the fact that he wins elections convincingly as evidence of that