Flip Flop. Anybody remember when you couldn’t fire up the news without hearing this about John Kerry? And even though that charge was mostly untrue about Kerry, Flip Flop is a good description of Mike Castle’s position towards Delaware stimulus projects. He votes against them, then shows up to take credit for them.
He put out a press release back in January announcing the award of $495,297 in federal funds for food and shelter programs in Delaware and another $4.7 million for homeless assistance programs in New Castle and Wilmington. And when asked about this (the NJ article seems to be behind their archive wall now), Castle sent out his spokesperson to re-write the provenance of those appropriations — claiming that these funds came out of the regular appropriations process.
That is, of course, untrue. HUD notes that the Continuum of Care funding comes from ARRA monies, while the Emergency Food and Shelter grant comes from FEMA ARRA monies.
So maybe in honor of the Olympics, Mike Castle has invented a new flip flop move — vote against a program, take credit for the benefits of the program, then pretend that all of these new benefits are from the normal appropriations. Maybe you guys can help me give this new move a name.
And let’s remember last week’s NJ article on Castle’s flip flop on the wastewater project that he is delightfully posing with the stunt check for:
Voting against the money but taking credit for getting the projects funded is a real Flip Flop.
And I’m hoping that someone starts asking Mike Castle how effective he thinks he can be if he goes to the Senate to say one thing and come back here to tell us something else all together.
(Many Thanks to Rob Tornoe who gave me permission to post up his excellent cartoon here. He is the Best Cartoonist in Delaware and his work appears weekly in all of the Dover Post Papers locally, including the Community News.)