Breaking: Mike Castle’s Jeff Dayton is a Liar or Stupid (Maybe Both) – Digs Castle’s Hole Deeper
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.
Jason: Ron (Jeff Dayton, really) is simply tapping into another well of slack-jawed Sussex resentment — the fact that retirees from other states are moving there because of the tax advantages. It’s actually a politically clever move, as that audience was obviously the Crazy Foam that forms at the top of any rancid political movement like Jesus-based conservatism. The hope is that more rational Sussex Republicans will want to distance themselves from their chromosome-damaged cousins playing banjo in the basement.
I get it. He is gambling though. There is an air of aloof dismissal in Dayton’s Williams prose.
Sheesh. I’ve known Jeff Dayton for a long time (family friend), not politics. Liar or stupid are no words I would ever pin on him. Of course, I have an obvious bias here. Afterall, I always tell people what a fine deck builder you are, too! Corona?
So RSmitty, are you saying those peeps are from New Jersey as well? 😉
Jeff Dayton is neither, he gets the label because he disagrees with you and works for Castle. It is that simple.
There have been other forum disruptions, try looking at Rep. Carnahan in Mo. People are resentful of too much taxes, ineffective government and a terrible economy.
Just as decorum seldom exists on this site is does not exist in the public arena either. Silly things like Cap and Trade or the Public Health Care Option make the boiling point a bit lower.
Mike Protack
So Mike Protack, the leader of the Delaware Republican Party, believes that the peeps were from Jersey as well. Good to know.
Also good to know that he thinks that the environment and health care are silly.
So RSmitty, are you saying those peeps are from New Jersey as well?
Meet me on Jason’s deck and we can talk! Oh, we can marvel at his craftsmanship, too. 😉
…still waiting on la cerveza…
I see Nemski can’t read or understand the English language.
I never said the people were from New Jersey.I assume they live in Deaware.
I never said environmental or health policy is silly. However, policies which are misguided and ineffective should not be enacted.
I support Universal Health care which works for businesses and individuals. I support an aggressive environmental policy such as zero waste, state wide recycling and strict enforcement of state pollution laws.
I will wait for your next uninformed and inaccurate response.
Mike Protack
No, I think Jason330 surmised the situation very well, Dayton is either lying or stupid. I’ll assume that he’s lying.
Castle knows that New Jersey is known for it’s hard-core conservative activism.
“It’s as easy as A-B-C…..Anybody But Castle.”
Move to Sussex, Mike Protack. They think like you.
I washed up on the shores of Kent County in my Kon Tiki raft as a member of the great “boat people” exodus from New Jersey when Brendan Byrne emptied the jails in 1975.
Does that mean (as Dayton suggests) I don’t matter?
Does that mean I’m not a real Delawarean so I should take Dayton’s advice and fuck the hell off?
‘Bulo likes Jeff Dayton as well. But he is what he is–a mouthpiece for Castle. This is political damage control. Granted, not great damage control, but the best they could do under the circumstances. “These ignorant oafs are from New Jersey, they COULDN’T be from Delaware b/c our ignorant oafs are not rude.”
Or words to that effect. After all, if you’re a Rethug, once you’ve lost the ignorant oafs, you’ve lost your base.
This is going to cause millionaires to leave Delaware.
How does this help Castle at all? So Castle is admitting that these people are embarrassing and Delawareans would not dare harass him like that? That smacks of a huge ego and sense of entitlement.
Hey, I’ve only lived in Delaware for 2 years, so that means I have permission to harass Castle. Plus, I have the accent to go undercover.
Do you think if I did a parody of a birther people would be able to tell the difference?
I want to know how this helps Castle too. This excuse seems to say that whatever outreach Castle is doing for his Townhall Meetings isn’t getting to his consituents, but to people in New Jersey?
Come on. The man doesn’t have enough meetings available to his constiuents to even have a New Jersey infestation.
This is typical Republicanism from Castle. Divide people up into groups and start pointing the finger at the “others”.
Pathetic.
No, they’re saying exactly what ES suggests: REAL Delawareans don’t act that way. There were what, maybe 100 people in that hall? There are a heckuva lot more Republicans who ARE too decent to act that way. Remember, even Jason said watching the video made him feel sorry for Castle. A lot of less-deranged voters in Sussex surely feel the same way, and this gives them an avenue to distance themselves from the wingnuts.
As ES said, it’s not great damage control, but probably the best possible under the circumstances. The real problem here is the total lack of professional skepticism on Ron Williams’ part.
Cass: If you moved to Sussex from New Jersey any less than 50 years ago, you are, in their minds, a New Jerseyian. They’re not saying these people still live in New Jersey and Maryland, just that they’re not birthright Sussex Countians.
Link to the Ron Williams column?
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090722/OPINION05/907220357/1004/OPINION/Sussex+County+is+not+known+for+its+heckling
The NJ comments n the NJ site are (as usual) first rate. (kidding) but this one was surprisingly cogent:
Castle: “No more sand for you!”
That sand is to buy off the east of Route 1 SuxCos. The west of Rt one SuxCo’s need more red white and blue bunting.
(PS I just coined “Suxcos” because I am tired of typing Sussex Countians. Please use it and spread it around. Thanks!)
That sand is to buy off the east of Route 1 SuxCos.
Or, as the Western SuxCos call them, “customers.”
Off topic –
Anyone see the shootdown Chancery’s Chandler gave Paul Clark? He attempted to sue his own Ethics Commission to block their report on his infamous Pam Scott Saul Ewing email to the development lobby.
Cass: If you moved to Sussex from New Jersey any less than 50 years ago, you are, in their minds, a New Jerseyian. They’re not saying these people still live in New Jersey and Maryland, just that they’re not birthright Sussex Countians.
OK this makes sense. Sort of like the Amish calling everyone who is not Amish “the English”.
I think the question of whether or not those were “Sussex Countians” misses the mark. I am a Sussex Countian (though I only moved here 23 years ago).
The important thing to note is that there is an undercurrent of resentment rising towards hatred on the right. I’m willing to listen to honest complaints — hell, I have been on the losing side in some recent elections — but that sort of behavior, from where-ever, is not helpful.
Yelling at the elected doesn’t work. It gets you laughed at by the majority. And the thoughtful commentators among the anti-Obama crowd have long said “leave the birth certificate thing alone.”
We have to accept that there will always be people whose emotional response blocks their view of factual evidence. But we shouldn’t encourage that, on the right or the left. And we should not excuse behavior based on our perception of the actors as “hicks.”
So, I guess I am saying, point and laugh if you want, in private. But the better use of our public time is in sober discussion and refutation, where possible, of erroneous opinions.
OK, now it’s done gone NATIONAL!!! Roland Martin’s article on CNN.
Read the articles, but for the skimmers, enjoy these first two paragraphs:
By pissing on the head of that birther lady (metaphorically), Mike Castle is also peeing on the flag, America, the greatest generation, Toby Keith, Branson Missouri, and the corpse of Ronald Reagan.
“the better use of our public time is in sober discussion and refutation”
No it’s not. Look at the comments of the know-nothing trolls at this site. They’re just like the bigger but dumber kids at elementary school recess — so dumb that they point and laugh at facts because they don’t recognize them.
Really, there’s no hope for these people. Did I say people? Sorry, I meant “self-satisfied fucks.”
I’m with Geezer. These people have had a clean break with reality. Time to write them off and give them some toy (a birth cerificate maybe) to play with and allow the grown ups to work on fixing the Bush the economy.
That’s it! Phony but realistic Obama Kenyan Birth Certificates to sell to the birthers. All proceeds to go to promote stuff like gun control, gay rights and the coming progressive revolution! What say you, comrades?
Anyone who knows anything about Sussex should understand we are talking generations of slave holders. Generations of race hating. Castle looked like a deer caught in the headlights….why didnt he have the nerve to “stop that ignorant rascist red suited pig” before she continued her rant. He just stood there while she finished…thinking about what he was going to say or waiting till the room exploded into applause. Maybe Sandcastle will be making an Arlen Spector move….any day now!
I heard that red suited red neck was from Maryland. The rebiblican party sends these uneducated, ill informed boobs to these meetings…these are the real tea partyiers.
After a certain point, the birthers need to be told in uncertain terms that what they’re doing is unacceptable. I’ve already reached that point. I think they are dangerous and crazy and they’ve taken up enough time that could be better spent doing other things with their antics. I want to ignore them but they won’t shut up. What are we expected to do? Just be silent? That hasn’t worked so far.
They may have once been from New Jersey and Maryland, but they are here now and they vote. What a dumb comment.
And which genteel Sussex is Ron talking about? The one where hundreds of right-ring Christians ran a Jewish family out of town on a rail? as Dan Gaffney cheered them on? Those ugly mob scenes happen all the time down here (I live in Sussex).