In a transparent attempt to apply a tourniquet to Mike Castle’s severed southern limb, Ron Williams met with team Castle and decided that the crazy hecklers in Georgetown a not a big problem for Mike Castle because …..wait for it…they are from New Jersey.
Get a load of Williams (once again) using his NJ ink for Castle spin control:
The hullabaloo over Rep. Mike Castle being booed by a bunch of redneck yahoos in Sussex County because he dared to attest that President Obama is an American citizen has been grossly mischaracterized by some media.
While the meeting was in Georgetown, most of the people who showed up to protest Castle’s “yes” vote on the cap and trade bill were not from Sussex County. “The people I talked to were from New Jersey, Maryland,” said Jeff Dayton, Castle’s state director.
Hey Jeff, I know you are reading this right now. Take my adivce and listen to the accents on the clip again. Then issue an apology, because that comment that is going to dig Castle’s hole deeper as the Delawarean wingnuts line up to vent thier outrage over being called New Jerseyan. Seriously, listen to the tape Jeff and take note of the crazy downstate accents. You will be hearing them a lot from now until when Mike retires.
“There were a lot of apologies at the [recent] regional Republican committee meeting for the behavior that went on,” said Rep. Joe Booth, who represents the Georgetown area. “Most of those people [who heckled Castle] feel like the federal government is chasing them. They came to Sussex to get away from Maryland and D.C. and now they feel they’re being harassed again,” Booth said. “That’s all I’m hearing on the campaign trail.” Booth is running in an Aug . 3 special election for Senate.
No shit there were a lot of apologies. But al least Booth allows that these people were SC residents. Williams wraps up with his trademark, “Trust me, I’m a journalists” that has the magical power to paper over every Mike Castle sin.
I worked for years in Sussex County for this paper. Sussex countians just don’t act that way in public. And I worked for years in New Jersey. They do.
Note To Ron: How people acted with southern gentility and decorum in the antebellum Sussex of your youth is of no interest to your readers.