Adventures Of Our Senate Candidates
The News Journal did in-depth profiles of both Chris Coons and Christine O’Donnell. If you’ve been paying attention I don’t think there is much new stuff in either article. The profile on Coons details his college years (and the “Bearded Marxist” article), his time at Yale and his work on advocacy for affordable housing.
As a law student, Coons became an advocate for housing and homelessness issues, joining a group of students who sued Connecticut on behalf of 1,200 homeless men, women and children.
Coons carried his work on fair housing into his political world. As council president, he led a two-year fight to institute New Castle County’s first rental registration and inspection program.
As county executive, Coons started a task force to crack down on rental properties plagued by high crime rates and rampant building-code violations.
Christine O’Donnell’s profile describes her years as a rightwing activist and her early runs for Senate. I’m not sure what goes on in Christine O’Donnell’s mind but she claims to have heard the audible voice of God.
Just four years ago, she told The News Journal that during the primary she “heard the audible voice of God. He said, ‘Credibility.’ It wasn’t a thought in my head. I thought it meant I was going to win. But after the primary, I got credibility.”
Two years later, during another Senate run, she implored voters: “When you go into the voting booth, ask God which candidate will further the kingdom of God.”
These days, she talks more about the Constitution than the Bible.
One of O’Donnell’s classmate says she’s a nice person but is skeptical of O’Donnell’s claim to have dabbled in witchcraft in high school.
Morelli said he never heard of anyone involved in the dark arts at Moorestown High School.
“Goodness gracious, when I think Moorestown, that’s the last thing I think of,” Morelli laughed. “I think of penny loafers with pennies in them and every other preppy attribute that would go with that.”
O’Donnell has started doing interviews and making appearances again. She’s quietly broken her pledge to do local media only. In an interview with Greta van Susteren O’Donnell told us what Senate committee she would like to serve on:
Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell said Friday she “would love” to be on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee if elected in November.
And really, why shouldn’t someone with such a nuanced position on foreign policy serve on the Foreign Relations committee?
She referenced the foreign policy of former President Ronald Reagan. “His foreign policy was summed up in four words – We win, they lose,” she said. “And he did that by not backing down, by not compromising, by strengthening our military and making it once again that the threat of military action, U.S. military action, had some teeth to it. Right now, it doesn’t, and that’s tragic.”
Way to insult the troops there, Christine. Also, how do Republicans explain Reagan’s withdrawal from Lebanon after a terrorist bombing? I guess like all the tax-raising Reagan did, Republicans just ignore it or pretend it didn’t happen.
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Ol’ Ginger was at it again on Christine. It’ll be nice when Ginger moves to Newark, NJ. The Coons article was interesting. But what I’m left to wonder is: How did Sally Coons, a single mother from out of town with three kids, fresh out of bankruptcy and divorce, end up in a social circle where she would mingle with the likes of Robert Gore? You don’t suppose she started out as one of his secretaries, do you? Hey, things like that happen sometimes. Then Gore turned on the money spigot and Coons was off to Tower Hill and Amherst and leftwing communist leanings.
Oh well, Coons is a wannabe radical and O’Donnell is a wannabe conservative. Neither is competent to run a 7-11 store.
County Government is no place to hang your hat. The place is a mess and if the GOP has their head out of their asses they will run and win the NCC Prez job.
If not they are DOA for years. And please do not pick one the usual GOP hacks ass kissers.
Chrissy the Pooh shows in her remarks that she has the barest understanding of Reagan’s foriegn policy. Why is it that these people concieve of foreign policy and military action as some sort of school yard fight where it’s weak to “back down” from your posturing? Are they afraid Iran will throw spit balls at us from the back of the bus or that Venezuela will give us a noogie?
Reagan’s foriegn policy was nuanced in a way that shallow minds like Chrissy the Pooh will never understand. Take his work with Gorbachev on nuclear disarmanet- Reykjavík being one example.
The thought of a certifiable Bozo sitting on the Senate foriegn relations commitee is terrifying.
Yes, a wannabe radical. If he were a wannabe radical, wouldn’t he have already given away his very valuable shares of stock in WL Gore? Considering that he spent years running the legal department at Gore and has spent six years running a $200-million-plus county government, on what basis do you claim he isn’t “competent to run a 7:11 store”?
You’re giving new meaning to “knows nothing.”
“It’ll be nice when Ginger moves to Newark, NJ.”
Why’s that? So we are without a competent reporter and writer who has covered this race well? I guess you’re thinking that with Gibson gone, COD can go about her method of campaigning without worrying that anyone will notice that she is full of shit.
Geezer, et al, Coons does not have ‘valuable shares of stock in WL Gore.’ Because it is a PRIVATE company! Hello? Moreover, if Coons isn’t ‘competent to run a 7-11 store,’ how was he able to make W.L. Gore’s (non-existent stock valuable b/c it doesn’t exist) stock valuable.
Your comment(s) is/are incongruent, defies reason, logic and rationale. Btw, O’Donnell is serially ‘incompetent’ in ALL matters, not just fiscally-initiated ones.
Business lesson #1:
Publically-traded companies ‘offer’ and ‘buy/sell’ shares of stock.
Privately-held companies DO NOT.
The trolls are reduced to glopping about the travails of a single mother in economic distress 35 years ago. Delbert’s usually useless; here’s he’s beneath despicable.
How did Sally Coons, a single mother from out of town with three kids, fresh out of bankruptcy and divorce, end up in a social circle where she would mingle with the likes of Robert Gore?
First of all, none of our fucking business.
Secondly, now that I know this I am liking Chris Coons even more for ending up a Democrat and (hopefully) a progressive one. He has seen both sides of life and chose the right path.
“Comment by Polemical on 11 October 2010 at 11:32 am:
Business lesson #1:
Publically-traded companies ‘offer’ and ‘buy/sell’ shares of stock.
Privately-held companies DO NOT.”
Business lesson #2: Polemical doesn’t know what the f*ck he’s talking about.
Polemical: You are wrong. WL Gore does indeed have shares of stock — they just aren’t publicly traded. Employees’ retirement plans give them fractions of a share, because a total share is worth something like 6 figures.
Perhaps the company has a different terminology for these “shares” of “stock,” but that’s how employees refer to them.
“I am liking Chris Coons even more for ending up a Democrat and (hopefully) a progressive one. He has seen both sides of life and chose the right path.”
Ironically, much of this is explained in the now-infamous “Bearded Marxist” essay. Before he went to Africa, he was a Young Republican. As usually happens, travel, especially to a foreign culture, opened his eyes.
I’m interested in these latest antics by O’Donnell. I was following the tweets from the UUFN forum on Saturday and it sounds like O’Donnell only came after Chris Coons could wait no longer. Is she afraid to face them?
Why is O’Donnell keeping the local media out of her UD appearance today?
O’Donnell has no choice but to shun the press because there is no “there” there.
Leave it to Delbert the nitwit to start a rumor about Coon’s mother. Hey Delbert, shouldn’t you be gathering eye of newt and bat tails to throw into O’Whack-a-Mole’s cauldron? You are lower than low.
If you said something like that about my mother to me, you’d be spitting teeth.
The NYT has a profile of Chris Coons.
Coons has some funny lines.
Regarding O’Donnell’s I’m not a witch commercial:
This is my favorite:
Chris Coon’s mother married Bob Gore and sent her child to collge where he graduated and has become a successful addition to society.
Meanwhile COD’s mother allowed her teenage daughter to have midnight dates on blood stained altars and turned a blind eye while her daughter became a college drop out after 7 years of screwing around instead of getting her 4 year degree. COD’s mother stood by while COD pretended to be a college graduate. COD’s mother stood by while COD tried to extort 7 million dollars out of a company on the premise that poor COD had to withdraw from a Master’s program that she was never part of. COD’s mother has stood by for 6 years while COD lives as a 40-something without a job. COD’s mother has cheered happily while her mentally deranged daughter lied, cheated and stole her way into a US Senate race.
Any mother worth a piece of shit would have sent a fucked up kid like COD off to therapy where they could get help, but not COD’s mother, she encourages her daughter to be a liar and a fraud, which makes COD’s mother worse than a piece of shit. But what does COD’s mother care, she’s on the payroll.
Well, regardless of fortune in upbringing and moral positions held in their youths, both candidates are middle-aged adults now. And I must say that education-wise Coons has qualities. Much more so than that bum Joe Biden when he was elected at age 29. And even though I’m right leaning, I’ll still be happy if Coons wins. Because Castle is out, Joe Biden is out, and Bo Biden didn’t run. I wonder if Joe can talk Coons into stepping aside for Bo next election.
Not happening Delbert. Not now not ever .I knew and worked with Chris Coons in his W.L. Gore days In Cecil County, Maryland .Solid guy we will be proud of regardless of party…..MJ .I need photo credit for picture of Pete S. and me For my mailer at Farley Printing.
Chris has conducted himself in a competent and respectable manner while Christine and her minions grasp at straws. Looking forward to what utter nonsense she spews tomorrow night. Remember, Chris was a two-time debate champion at Amherst and will be ready for whatever craziness she spouts off on!
[Coons]”and (hopefully) a progressive one.”
He told Maddow that he is a fiscal conservative. It’s hard to tell what that means w/o further elaboration on his part. I fear it might mean that he is more concerned about balancing the budget than spending to stimulate this moribund economy. I hope my fear is baseless.