Mike Gave Us Quarters
You will remember when I first came to Delaware Liberal, my new compatriots were kind enough to allow me to bring over a logo I used on my old blog “Daily Delaware,” the one with the Caesar Rodney quarter. I did not learn until many months later that our illustrious founder Jason330 was kind of reluctant to do that, since Mike Castle was the author of the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act of 1997 that created the 50 State Quarter Program, and since Jason330 was Mike Castle’s mortal enemy. I felt kinda bad about that.
I was put in mind of that after reading the latest Kavips:
If you haven’t followed closely, the local media is pushing for Castle. Which means … if you want change, Mike Castle is exactly the person you do not want to vote for.
If you like inaction, people who say one thing and vote another, and prefer someone who sells Delaware out in a heartbeat to the whims of the National Republican Party, then Mike Castle is your man…
If you have ever heard Chris Coons speak, you know he is the future of Delaware. Running New Castle County, is a thankless job… especially during a time of financial collapse. But for 10 years, Chris Coons has done just that… While Mike Castle was wandering the halls of Congress sort of like Spinal Tap lost in the labyrinth of passageways underneath their venue, Chris Coons was getting things done with less…
Sometimes you have not to look at what was accomplished, but at how much was accomplished out of nothing… and that will probably be the legacy of Chris Coons during this decade.
Chris Coons built something out of shrinking revenues. Mike gave us quarters…
Now that is a slogan. It must be something to spend nearly 2 decades in Congress, and your crowning legislative achievement is redesigning the quarter. Thanks Mike.
Tags: Chris Coons, Kavips, Mike Castle
Can you be someone’s mortal enemy if they don’t know that you exist? Speaking of Coons, I got an invitation to a Coons event today. That’s good I guess. Would I like to hear him on WDEL pouring boiling oil on Castle? Of course. Do I get why he isn’t? Sorta.
BTW – You are the genius behind the new logo, so win/win.
Coons’s slow start is looking a little smarter now. No need to distract anyone from the O’Donnell train wreck. Let her beat up on Castle while she self-destructs, while Chris keeps his hands clean. Why jump into that fray with some attack and become part of THAT story?
I see Coons is a lot more visible lately. I think his campaign is warming up.
His latest press release goes after Castle as well for voting against the jobs bill….
Yes… If Coons is attacking Castle from the left while O’Donnell and the other midget GOPer candidates are attacking from the right – Castle gets to sit tight and say “I must be doing something right…. see, I really am a moderate.”
Actually, Castle has already moved to the teabag right on a myriad of issues, from healthcare to jobs to opposing the stimulus and bailouts, and he is even flipflopping on cap and trade. So all O’Donnell has left is abortion and stem cells. It is why her campaign has fizzled before it even began.
I don’t know anon. If Coons is saying “look Castle is really a conservative Republican” and Castle is saying “look I’m really a conservative Republican” doesn’t that stick in people’s minds?
His latest press release goes after Castle as well for voting against the jobs bill….
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So, I didn’t see any presser anywhere. Coons’ web site is still barren of all campaign information. No record of pressers. Nothing (well, outside of several mischaracterizations of his record on the home page –IMHO).
Do you have a campaign if there is no record of your campaign?
A friend of mine stopped into the DEM HQ yesterday and the first thing the receptionist said to him was ‘oh, are you here to volunteer for Chris Coons?’ –rather absurd considering Bob’s endless hassles with the Coons land use dept.–
Coons used the DEM HQ in 2008 and prolly before that. A few other DEMs inquired whether they could house their campaigns in the HQ office and were told no. Why did Coons get that priviledge? He did end up hiring the NCC DEM Chairmans’ brother as a 100K plus salaried employee whose duty was often described as Coons private driver (Nello Paoli).
I hear that there are demonstrable records showing that the NCC DEM Chairman – Jimmy Paoli, paid the phone bills for telephone numbers advertized on Coons campaign literature. There is a question of whether or not the HQ office space was entered into his campaign reports as inkind contributions.
Now that it looks as if Coons has continued the practice of using DEM HQ as his campaign office there is a question of whether that is even legal for this run for federal office.
I hope he shits or gets off the pot sooner than later and gets a campaign office and staffers already and puts this nasty business to rest.
(I just signed up –joined– on his web page so mebbe I will get some of his pressers.)
Nancy, your concern trolling is tired. Nancy will not be happy until the corrupt bastard Tom Gordon is running for Senate.
If Coons is saying “look Castle is really a conservative Republican” and Castle is saying “look I’m really a conservative Republican” doesn’t that stick in people’s minds?
And that’s why, if I were going to give Castle some campaign advice (and you just know I do, don’t you?) it would be to ignore O’Donnell as much as possible. The only time he has to do the “I’m really a conservative” dance is in fending off her attacks. Coons’ biggest avenue of attack still should be to make clear that in the end, it really doesn’t matter whether Castle is a true conservative at heart. If he gets into the Senate, he’ll be forced to vote like one whether he likes it or not.
Do you have a campaign if there is no record of your campaign?
This is the Delaware Memory Hole, which is an important component of the Delaware Way. Everybody does it.
Go try to find the questionnaires for Castle or any candidate that were published on the News Journal websites for 2008 or 2006….
Gone. And the audio of the debates and candidate call-ins to radio shows? Pffft.
And then there are all the deleted blogs, and now there’ s Twitter to make information even more ephemeral.
The Delaware Memory Hole sucks accountability down its vortex, so Delaware politicians can re-invent themselves every two years. The only people who could call them out for their past statements are the journalists with access to the records which are no longer available to the public.
That 25% property tax increase for New Castle County is going to come back to haunt Coons.
I’m sure you’ll work hard at making that happen. Except that tax increase was also accompanied by alot of cutbacks too and the entire package has certainly kept the county running in a responsible manner.
And governing in a responsible manner is something that Castle left behind when he decided to start voting the way his caucus told him to.
Is Cassandra allowed to sockpuppet on DL? The above is verbatum to an anony comment the other day. Just sayin’.
DD, address the issues and you will bloom with credibility. As it is….not so much.
One thing we agree with is that it is incredibly awful for the citizens of Delaware that the DEM Party didn’t do more to encourage Ted Kaufman to continue for another four years. Did anyone see him on Countdown last night? He is one hell of a righteous dude who perhaps, almost single-handedly, will bring some honest legislation to bear on Wall Street titans.
“The above is verbatum to an anony comment the other day.”
That’s what happens when you post a common-sense account of reality — other people see it, too.
Geezer, everything in life is a conspiracy to Nancy. If two people agree on a blog, one must be a sockpuppet for the other.
Nancy, yes, we agree on Kaufman.
I guess that means I am Nancy’s sockpuppet.
Nancy is quick to resort to her conspiracies when she has no other way to respond to the persistent challenges to her skewed universe.
Nancy- Chris has his own HQ now. Sign up for his e-mail list if you want to know what’s going on, and discard the conspiratorial musings that have no validation. SHEESH
Coons’ E-mail blast below:
Last week, 550 people with research and development jobs at AstraZeneca’s New Castle County facilities learned that they would be losing their jobs.
Two days later, the House of Representatives voted to pass President Obama’s jobs package – one that offers tax incentives to businesses who hire new workers and spurs much needed infrastructure projects that also create construction jobs.
There is nothing more important than working with businesses to create jobs and put people back to work.
Unfortunately,almost every Republican in the House of Representatives — including Delaware’s Republican Congressman Mike Castle — chose partisanship over progress by voting against this good legislation.
As Delaware’s next Senator, I would support legislation that offers businesses opportunities to create the new jobs we need. And it disappoints me to see Washington Republicans standing up to oppose a jobs bill just at the moment that we need it most – as Delaware’s unemployment number reaches 9% and more of our friends and neighbors lose their jobs.
From job growth and economic recovery to quality education to accessible, affordable education opportunities, we need leaders who will stand up and fix what’s wrong with Washington.
But I cannot do it alone. Please join my campaign team today. We need critical early financial support and volunteer help as I work to take my message to Delawareans from Hockessin to Bridgeville. Visit my website – http://www.chriscoons.com – where you can contribute online and sign up to help in your community.
We can bring a new energy and new approach to represent Delaware’s values in Washington. Please join my campaign team today. I look forward to seeing you on the campaign trail.
“That 25% property tax increase for New Castle County is going to come back to haunt Coons.”
Because paying $100 more a year to keep cops on the street and libraries open is a death blow. Typical repub.
The 25% property tax increase will hardly be noticed by taxpayers because most of the tax bill is actually school taxes.
Of course, Coons will argue that he has to deal with the deficits and poor economy that Mike Castle and the Republicans created.
Hold on a sec — isn’t fiscal responsibility popular amongst the Tea Party/GOP these days? How is balancing a budget supposed to be a negative?
If Castle starts arguing about tax increases for the county Coons should start arguing about how Castle’s tax cuts for the rich mania actually doesn’t cut our taxes, it just shifts the burden the cities and states.
Senator Castle plese.
Anyone who complains about taxes, can be beaten with this club…. How come when we paid more taxes during the Clinton years, we balanced our budget, had a surplus, and every income bracket felt that increase flow directly into their pockets?
How come when Bush cut taxes, the whole economy fell apart? Pensions caved in by half? Incomes dropped to the gutter?
Unless one is deaf, dumb, or blind, Republican financial policy obviously makes no sense. (Before you argue otherwise, please look around and see the results).. If Republicans had any of the right answers, why is that we are still in this Republican caused Depression?
Mike Castle voted with the “Deficits Don’t Matter” Republicans.. He is part of the problem; not the solution. That is obvious. We really do need more taxes on the wealthy… It is only after we get the Cheney/Bush bills paid down to zero, should we let up and cut taxes on the top 1%….