Things I Learned From Ron Williams
This week’s Ron Williams column in the News Journal was more informative than usual. I learned the following:
- Anthony Wedo is rich.
- Anthony Wedo is not running for the DE-AL U.S. House seat, did I mention that Wedo is rich?
- Richard Korn has black hair, is from New York and has a New York accent.
- People in Sussex and Kent Counties have Delaware accents, and not New York accents.
- State employees don’t want to lose their benefits.
Of course, Ron Williams takes a lot more words to say this, but I read these things so you don’t have to. You can thank me later.
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The Delaware Republican Party is on sale at distress prices, and Wedo is buying. Nothing wrong with that, lots of people come down here to do their shopping.
What do I care where Richard Korn was born? He lives here, is involved in the community and cares about what happens in Delaware. Isn’t that the important thing?
Williams’ parochialism drives me nuts. To all of you non-natives, we’re glad to have you.
I for one welcome a little New York energy injected into Delaware’s torpor.
You will recall that Richard Korn performed a great public service by running for 20th District State Rep and convincing Roger Roy it was time to retire. We should all be grateful for that.
Still carrying water for Gordon, Freebery and their attendants, he touts Ron Morris’ hope to snare a state paycheck [“negotiations … to be a financial consultant”].
The attack on Korn is also carrying water for Gordon. If you’ll recall, Korn filed the lawsuit that opened up the Gordonberry budgeting process to scrutiny.
“the Gordonberry budgeting process to scrutiny.”
who was the county council president who approved all of those “Gordonberry” budgets?
The County Council president doesn’t approve the budgets, county council does. Don’t you Republicans EVER have an intelligent thought?
That Ron Williams is getting paid for his jottings is pretty amazing.
Ron Williams gets his news from Tom Gordon and Paul Clark. hence the attacks on Korn, Weiner, etc. When Paul Clark runs for County Exec in 2012, Tom Gordon will run for Council President.
I hear that Gordon will primary Clark, actually. But then, by then, the GOP will bring in someone strong to run and they’ll hopefully take over the horrible partronage snakepile created by all these DEMs of whom Coons is one of the worst.
One thing Ron Williams neglected to report recently was new Coons’ hire, Pat Creedon’s, husband’s name.
Anyone who can’t figure out why Coons placed this woman in a top county administration job just has to look at her spouse. Creedon –who, as a staffer in a trade association told me– “ran her business into the ground” and lost a state level 2008 election is apparently a wholey unqualified individual to run the Special Services Department.
Ron Williams wrote this a few weeks ago:
In another county development, Coons has appointed his fifth manager of Special Services in five years. This time it’s someone from the private sector who has no previous government experience. Pat Creeden used to run Creeden Electric, and her husband is a labor union leader who supported Coons’ re-election.
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100210/OPINION05/2100317/1106
How hard was it to actually name her husband? Spit it out Ron! His name is John Czerwinski and he’s the pipefitters union’s business manager –with plenty of business before the county and…a big Coons fundraiser…just in time to raise lots of cash for the Senate run. YAY.
All you Coonsies –when you see John yucking it up with the development attorneys at Coons’ parties, tell him I said hey. {{{MWAH}}}
“the GOP will bring in someone strong to run”
is this the punchline?
Gordon is going to run again??? Didn’t his last embarrassing loss show him he should just sit back and enjoy his pension(s) and that he basically got off scott free for the unseemly shenanigans of his administration….
Nancy,keep ranting, Ron is just crazy enough to listen.
The General Assembly is going to have to step up though to make sure Clark is not the next de facto executive should Chris win or take a DC job….
Gordon sure isn’t going to run for Council President. He may well run against Clark.
I am thoroughly disgusted with DEMs in county politics. I intend to work with the GOP to get people into county offices AND NOT PROTACK please.
Gordon sure isn’t going to run for Council President. He may well run against Clark.
If this is true, we might as well vote to put the NCCo Government in suspended animation until someone who will respect that government and its taxpayers decides to run one day.
And given how well Coons trounced Gordon last time around — when there were real expectations that this race would be alot closer — I’d be very surprised indeed that he would want to do that again. But not surprised that he would you out to float his trial balloon, Nancy.
I was reading the comments on that NJ thing from Williams and the commenters are pointing out that:
Bill Roth was from Montana
Tom Carper came from someplace else (WVA, right?)
Joe Biden came from someplace else (Scranton)
So apparently it isn’t as tough a sell to get Delaware voters to vote for people who were not born here as wRong cluelessly claims.
But not surprised that he would you out to float his trial balloon, Nancy.
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In English please? Wooed me out? Would seek me out?
WTF?
As I said, Cass (and I know you can read even if you can’t type): I am actively working with the GOP on finding suitable people to run the county.
The DEMs are ruining this county. Chris Coons and Pam Scott-Paul Clarky are readying a grotesque unleashing of their infill development on NCC.
This means infill housing crammed in everywhere that will legally skirt the current laws for adequate facility concurrency. They are doing that via workforce housing density bonuses and, most dastardly, by having had written and enacted NCC redevelopment ordinance.
In NCC, the legal meaning of “redevelopment” no longer adheres to anything close to “reconstituting commercial brownfields and greyfields”. It now applies to any damn piece of land in the county.
The term “redevelopment” was ostensibly meant for property where a developer would be awarded density bonuses to encourage the successful refurbishing of rundown or polluted properties. In addition to density increases, incentives for “redevelopment status record plans” include the legal circumvention of traffic impact studies and other normal quality of life concerns.
No one in NCC ever suspected what Chris Coons and Paul Clark et al were up to. No one is happy that there are no provisions for traffic mitigation. Under Gordon, that was a responsibility of the developer concurrent to his construction project. Clearly, the developer is now off the hook for clogging up our already clogged roadways. In the “old days of Tom Gordon”, you couldn’t build unless you took responsibility for mitigating the traffic. NO MORE under REDEVELOPMENT. And we are talking Talleyville and Greenville –people with some money whose toes are being stepped on.
We are going to be royally fucked. There are 70 such “dubbed redevelopment” plans {Barley Mill Plaza is one] already approved by Chris Coons’ land use or about to be approved. By Right baby. Bend over.
Tom Gordon may have run amok to a degree but he put a really decent land use code in place. That really pissed off the development community [go take a look at the Committee of 100 web site archives –its all there in black and white].
That community then got the necessary people in place to gut it: Chris Coons and Paul Clark et al. And now we have good old Jack Markell with Stephanie McClellan in Dover overseeing this mess with the Planning Office neatly tucked under her watchful eye.
There will be a lot of noise coming from Civic groups this year banging the drums against Coons, Clark and Markell. The state’s assembly will be pressured to get the developers under control because of the huge infrastructure costs coming down the pike. Since the developers are going to be legally screwing up the roadways, the state will now be on the hook to fix things up.
And it will all be Chris Coons’ fault. Nice.
Nancy Willing working with the GOP? Genius. Why didn’t I think of that sooner.
Take her, please, Delaware Republicans. May she be as effective for you as she has been for us.
Dumb and Dumber lashes out! Way to address the issue…
Just to clarify, I am a memher of the Civic League of New Castle County whose leadership is currently Republican and who share my concerns with what is going on down at County Hall (although the league itself is non-partisan in its county 0versight / watchdog mission).
There are people from Brandywine Hundred, which is mostly Republican and where I grew up, who are working hard to try to figure out how to stop the destructive and corrupt Democrats in County office.
My father was a Civic League activist, a Delaware Republican and also, might I add, the NCC Park Commission Chairman through the fifties and sixties (anyone who has enjoyed the county parks off of Maryland Avenue or the Iron Hill park has my father to thank). Dad did a stint on the NCC Levy Court as well.
And while on the Levy Court in the 50’s he served with such human excrement as the late Harry Roberts (who was caught in a sting taking thousands in bribes off of Mario Capano in exchange for his son, former councilman Chris Robert’s vote…one of those wonderful Democrats you are so faithful to?).
And up in Brandywine Hundred dad went head to head with the young John Daniello, another person of dubious ethics and thug-like decorum – traits he shares with the Paoli brothers and your delightful Chris Coons.
Ya know DelDem, Nancy has some very reliable institutional history w/ this ol’ Diamond State.