This just in from the News Journal, an important partner for the wind turbine tower construction project has pulled out of a partnership with Delawind. You may remember that Delawind was attacked by the right-wing here in Delaware because one of their principles is John Carney. Delawind had applied for financing from the state to make the project viable and the screams of favoritism and cronyism came from all of the usual suspects, Copeland, Burris, Anderson, Jensen and an assortment of would-be statewide office-holders.
The owner of Amer Industrial Technologies has decided that the kitchen was too hot.
“It became a political issue, so I don’t want it to hurt anybody’s feelings and so I decided nobody needed that,” Amer said. He said there were other disagreements, too. “I don’t like financing, and they do. And they needed money. I don’t need money,” Amer said
I suspect that Mr. Amer was put off by the whole deal because the Republicans poisoned the well. I wonder how many jobs at Mr. Amer’s shop they have now cost? How many at Citisteel? How many at Transformative Technologies?
Some Republicans have started a campaign to get the word out about how technologically advanced and conducive to small business Delaware is, and yet they have now helped to scuttle one of the opportunities that Delaware had to start future-proofing our economy. And all to score political points against John Carney.