Charlie Copeland, on behalf of the people of Delaware, go straight to Hell and burn.
The impervious duPont heir thinks Governor Markell is wrong to think about people’s safety and their well being, and has criticized the Governor for closing state offices in all three counties today at noon in advance of the hurricane, sending all non essential employees home to prepare for the storm and get to safety if they are under an evacuation order. Here is what the little shit Copeland had to say while wallowing in greedy ignorance:
I’m looking out my office window in New Castle County at 2:00pm, and it is mid-80′s, humid & sunny. I understand that it has just started raining in North Carolina. I recall former Governor Minner pulling a similar stunt, calling a state-of-emergency a good 24 hours before the weather turned. Perhaps due to the road configurations in Sussex County, we should let everyone go this afternoon, but Kent & New Castle Counties seems overkill. Your tax dollars might be at work, but the offices are empty…
All evacuation routes leaving the shore and going north or west are parking lots, and it will take residents still remaining downstate many many hours to reach safety. For those up north, and those downstate not evacuating, they have to prepare their homes and the homes of their loved ones for the storm. That includes the proverbial “batten down the hatches,” taking furniture and other loose items inside, getting gas, food, water and other supplies. The residents of Delaware have to do that today for tomorrow will be too late.
But this unmitigated bastard Copeland thinks the little people should still be working and not preparing. And he would leave thousands stuck in traffic tomorrow when the storm hits if he had his way.
Charlie Copeland, on behalf of the people of Delaware, go straight to Hell and burn.
City of Dover has called in electric department employees for 12 hour shifts starting tomorrow morning. Maybe its tax money, but preparedness prior to going out and trying to get power restored seems like pretty good planning to me.
Those are essential employees in a pending disaster, and you are right, that is good planning. But office workers? DMV? Other non essential employees? It is right to send them home so that they can prepare.
The irony is, for Copeland an honest day’s work involves being handed a flute of champagne and receiving a back-rub.
At least after this post Charlie will never be Governor.
Saturday will be too late to buy a lot of stuff you need. The store shelves are already emptying out. Not that Charlie has to worry about doing his own shopping.
Current weather report from National Weather Service (I hate to use facts with you folks, but…):
This Afternoon: Scattered showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 84. South wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 72. South wind between 8 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Saturday: Tropical storm conditions possible, with hurricane conditions also possible. Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High near 80. East wind 22 to 27 mph increasing to between 32 and 37 mph. Winds could gust as high as 45 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.
ok – charlie (or whoever you really are)- but I have elderly family and neighbors down at the beach – they cannot secure their homes alone – they need help
having me off work allows me to get to them – prepare their homes and get safely back to mine..Tides will be high on the ocean front and back bays – did you consider that?? i see only wind and rain in your advisory – obviously you dont have a clue about marine weather – in a state with this much water – you should learn about it.
I am sure your staff is preparing your home and beach properties – those people have their own familes and homes too -ever consider that
or is your view only limited to covering your own ass??
you are done and that comment will haunt you – I and others will see to that
Hey Charlie, if you are wrong, and if you actually had any power to put lives at risk, those lives would be on your head.
Sit back and shut up and let Governor Markell do the job he is doing instead of making inane and petty and life threatening criticisms.
It is simply unbelievable to me that you are this petulant to criticize him on hurricane preparations. Go fuck yourself. Seriously.
“East wind 22 to 27 mph increasing to between 32 and 37 mph. Winds could gust as high as 45 mph”
ever hear of STORM SURGE??
Charlie Copeland, Irene, 2011 = Barbara Bush, Katrina, 2005:
“And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway,” she said, “so this is working very well for them.”
good one anonone!!
Chris Christie just called Charlie Copeland irresponsible on Channel 6. Not directly, but he said “responsible elected officials from South Carolina to Massachusetts are preparing their states and evacuating their citizens.”
“This is a serious storm, and we are hoping it won’t be as bad as we think it will be, but we must be prepared. Get to the stores, get five day supplies of food and water.”
Charlie Copeland would still have Delawareans at their desks.
Well the hedges aren’t going to trim themselves.
What a TWIT!
You can’t even blame “chutzpah” Charlie for this outrage. As I drove around looking at the gas lines it quickly became apparent where the right-wing inspired greed would be manifested. All of the numerous gas stations on South College between Newark and I95 have jacked up their price for regular by almost 20 cents per gallon and then to further prove their commitment to “free-enterprise” and “supply and demand” economics of the Copeland-Class variety they pasted little notes on all the pumps (I’m not kidding) that the lower grades were “out of order” (not empty)and you could only buy high-test. Imagine that coincidence, all those pumps that pump the different blends through the same nozzle had some kind of malfunction that defied scientific explanation. Unfreakin-believable and who thought conscienceless price-gouging was missing from our society. Stop asking for tax cuts you’ll all just waste it on car trips to the soup kitchens.
God bless the United States of Capitalism and its children borne of mother Wall Street.
John Kowalko
Good think Noah didn’t tell God “Look out the window, the sun is shining – You want me to do WHAT??”
@John – I might be wrong but isn;t that called “profiteering” and punishable by the state
if not – pics should be taken and posted for all to see
and those stations boycotted in the future – with complaints to the BBB and Chambers of Commerce
to bad their business licenses cant be pulled
Luckily – I have NOT seen that at all in Sussex and filled the car, both SUVs and the gas cans for the chain saws and other gas-powered things we have – at the same price as yesterday and the day before
@john – again
it does not seem that Delaware has a specific law about this but:
http://blogs.delawareonline.com/delawareinc/?p=1755
report the bums anyway – photos for evidence
” This evacuation for these areas of the state needs to be completed by 9 a.m. Saturday morning. As I said last night, there will likely come a point during the day on Saturday when winds will require us to shut the bridges over the C&D canal and concern about flooding will require shutting the Indian River Inlet Bridge. People need to travel well before we reach those points Saturday. Again the C&D bridges will likely need to be shut at some point Saturday, and people need to be at their destination before that happens” Text from Gov. Markells speech
with this in mind I was wondering when a good time to close the state offices would be? Hmmmmm?? Mr. Copeland??
In case you have not read it yet – the evacuation routes in Sussex are jammed and all that traffic is coming your way – into Kent and New Castle.
So, as long as you are up there and safe and dry – the low areas of Kent and NCCO can go to hell? hope you are nowhere near the Brandywine or the Port – I hear its gonna be a mess
AGGGHHH mean people SUCK!! – STUPID people are WORSE!!!
And what you guys forgot to do when a wingnut comes here pretending to quote some authority was to go check on it. And Charlie Copeland edited out the first and most critical part of the forecast:
Hazardous weather condition(s):
Hurricane Warning
Flood Watch
Hazardous Weather Outlook
The last three are in red and provide links to the specific details of these weather warnings.
So we hate to bother you with the complete context of your *facts* Charlie, but it is pretty despicable that you couldn’t cut and paste all of it when your effort of the day was watching the pool guy cover your pool.
ps. While I’m at it — the State employees who weren’t sent home early today will be working all weekend. Between evacuations and other emergency services, there are State employees doing thankless work while we are sitting in our homes.
Once again, Charlie Copeland shows his true colors. It’s despicable that such statements came from the man who has named himself Chairman of the Delaware Academy of Public Safety and Security! Does anyone find the irony in that one?! His statements like this show us why the good people of Delaware have kept him out of statewide office. Really, Charlie… we don’t care what you think or what you would have done. If we did, the majority of people might have actually voted for you.
I agree w/ the following part of Copeland’s statement:
Perhaps due to the road configurations in Sussex County, we should let everyone go this afternoon, but Kent & New Castle Counties seems overkill. Your tax dollars might be at work, but the offices are empty…
There was no reason to let state employees in the northern 2 counties leave at noon. The notion that “state employees need to prepare their homes, blah blah blah” doesn’t hold water. EVERYONE needs to prepare their homes, but those of us in the private sector worked a full day and then went home to prepare.
By the way, does anyone remember Hurricane Gloria? I do. I was about 15 at the time. Schools were closed. Panicked Delawareans emptied store shelves. Nothing happened in NCC. NOTHING. The sun was shining by noon. Enjoy the hysteria.
It’s easy to second-guess in advance when you have no responsibility for, you know, actually doing anything.
And the only reason he has the bucks to promote his message is b/c Wilmington Trust bailed out his debtor dad, “Mottsie”. Or was it his first cousin by intrafamilial marriage?
Hard to tell with that family of bloodsuckers.
Cassandra for the win.
hey chump – anon40 – with the “but those of us in the private sector worked a full day and then went home to prepare.”
I worked a full day and Im still at work – and will be until tomorrow AM – and then again after that, while you with your private sector job, get to sit in your home and prepare
you chose your life, I chose mine and I would not change that nor do I whine about it. So why dont you quit your bellyaching and remember its some person with a public sector job that will come and bail your butt out if you need it.
and while you waste you time being hysterical – we are pre-planning how to save your life, your family’s life or your property – while we secure our families as best we can then leave, hoping they will be OK to fend for themselves.
Charlie Copeland once was a republican even unions could rely on for negotiation. Then he found the value of tea and all the double chins chiming.
Hey Charlie, so your filling O’Donnell’s mattress or what?
If those stations had put out notices that they were out of the cheaper/lower grades and weren’t, (as I suspect), they may have been in violation but I see no way to prove or disprove a claimed malfunction in equipment, hence my suspicion that it is bull. The huge price increase, while not illegal, is certainly testament to a greed fueled price gouging practice. I think if stores started doubling the price of milk or bread there would be a reckoning or hue and cry. The gas providers do not fear any consequences for their actions because there are most likely no consequences to fear. They drove prices up a dollar per gallon in the last year with unsubstantiated drivel about middle east in crisis and outright lies about supply and demand disruptions. The silence from political leaders was indeed deafening.
John K.
thanks John for the follow up
maybe in light of this issue/after the fact, a nice new piece of legislation making price gouging illegal in Delaware would be timely and appreciated.
PS – can you move and represent my district – or can I move into yours??
I think that once the storm passes, we should all go up to Charlie’s house and take a huge dump on it. Let him know that we think he’s shit.
John K – Please look into that and amend if that’s the case. Delaware Dem – Great post. Gotta love that pic of Charlie. Definitely the keeper of all time.
Charlie doubles down on his tonedeafness. in the middle of a completely irrelevant tangent about his own company’s storm preparations:
Where does Charlie get his money? Well he has a job of course. But that is not all. On his last financial disclosure form he wasn’t required to give amounts, but he stated he had “Irrevocable Income.”
Think for a minute what “Irrevocable Income” would mean to you. I don’t know about you but my income is much too revocable.
There is a remarkable court document from 2009 that provides a peek into several of Charlie’s trust funds. According to this document, Charlie is one of ten grandchildren sharing income from two funds totaling approximately $22 million as of 2008. These funds are from the Copeland side and are invested in the House of Morgan, and is completely different from the du Pont funds which are invested with Wilmington Trust, with unknown amounts and terms.
But even a tenth-share of the income from $22 million, while it might be above Delaware’s median salary in a good year, is lunch money for Charlie.
El Som mentioned Charlie’s dad’s spectacular bankruptcy in 1970, which was (and I think still is) the largest personal bankruptcy in the US (hasn’t Trump had several that are bigger?).
By the way, Charlie’s dad is still alive as far as I know, God bless him, and is by all accounts a perfectly nice guy. So no cheap shots please.
The bankruptcy was also notable for the way it was settled, which gives us another insight into Copeland finances, and helps explain Charlie’s passion for eliminating the estate tax:
Those ten years passed quickly, and would have expired around the time Charlie was emerging from Princeton.
Trivia: The judge in the banruptcy case was Murray Schwartz, a name that resonates in my memory as the presiding judge in the (1976?) desegregation case.
There is a book called “Ten Cents On The Dollar” that has a chapter on this bankruptcy. I used to be able to read nearly the entire chapter on the Amazon site, but they turned off this feature for that book. I guess I have to buy the book now.
But the big kahuna is the Wilmington Trust funds. So far I haven’t seen any information on the trust funds from the du Pont side kept by Wilmington Trust, but presumably that is where the real money is. If I recall correctly, that wealth-management portion of WT wasn’t included in the recent sale.
Also these folks seem to assign the trust income to their grandchildren rather than their children, so there is no telling what Charlie’s share is unless documents emerge.
So Charlie, fix the damn roof.
Sorry, I got Charlie’s alma mater wrong. Duke of course.
Fix the damn roof.
in case anyone was wondering, when you all wake up in the am…
yes, I’m still awake and yes Im still at work……..
tomorrow/well today is gonna be another long one…..
oh thats right – anon40 is sleeeeppppinnnggg – shhhhhhhh….
Charlie – fix the damn roof
Another thing Charlie seems to forget is that the State is a state-wide employer, and you don’t get to choose where you work. Many who work in Kent County LIVE in Sussex, and there are certainly people who work in New Castle County but live in Sussex. It was a good idea to let them get to Sussex in time to do what they need to do to protect their property.
Ok, We are going to try AGAIN to get gas and evacuate . Mrs.Capes employer would not close early yesterday (WSFS).WSFS EVEN EXPECTED MY WIFE TO WORK SATURDAY TILL 3 PM .They finally backed down at 5:45 Friday and closed Saturday . We both tried multiple times yesterday to get gas but there is no gas in Bethany Beach,Ocean View and Dagsboro area .Mrs. Capes calculates her car will go 84 miles on quarter tank she has left. We are hoping that “frenzy” has died down and we will be able to go up 113 to get gas in Millsboro,Georgetowm or Dover . 113 has been parking lot for two days. Rt 26 coming out Bethany Beach Friday was backed up from Dagsboro to “Gates of Heaven” cemetary . Peace. Capes
Dear Mr.Capes
the roads are open and free. Gas is to be had in rehoboth and Lewes areas – in case you are driving inland gas is also available on Rt 113. the WAWAs are nt gouging, neither are the rt one gas stations in the area.
the congestion is gone for right now – how ever – get a move on coz they may close the Indian RIver Bridge and the C&O Bridge as well later as the wind rises
travel safe!!
There will be a meeting of the faithful who believe that being conservative Republicans grants protection from a higher power. The meeting will be held at 6am Sunday on the rock jetties at Indian River Inlet. We’re hoping to have Mr. Copeland speak to the faithful.
Speaking of duPont wingnuts, Howie Klein waxes eloquent today on Irene duPont’s 1930’s fascism:
downwithtyranny.blogspot.com:
I’ve always been a firm believer that when criminals from among the ruling elite get away with their crimes– as happens 99.9% of the time– the tragedy is epic and bound to be compounded over time. They rarely slink off to lick their wounds and count their lucky stars. And no country is worse in that department than our own. [Glenn Greenwald writes about this tendency of America’s elites to see themselves above the law over at Salon this morning.]Thursday we saw how most Americans rue the fact that Wall Street’s top executives are getting off scot-free for the criminal activities that brought on the economic devastation for millions of families. We’re not looking backwards… we’re moving on. It’s an American mantra, carefully inculcated by the ruling elites and the mass media they own.
Many people were angry that recent American politicians guilty of outrageous crimes, from Kissinger to Bush and Cheney, were never brought up on any kinds of charges. But that’s as traditional in America as mom and rhubarb pie. Let’s turn to my current favorite book, The Nazi Hydra in America by Glen Yeadon for a brief look at how America let all the big name Nazi traitors– even the ones who tried to overthrow FDR in a coup– get away without even facing a trial, let alone a firing squad. Most of these families have continued pushing an extreme right-wing fascist agenda, even today. Many of the same families who financed the rise of Hitler and Mussolini– some of who were called out by Senator Harry Truman as outright traitors for trading with Germany and sabotaging U.S. war efforts– have provided the money for the teabagger astroturf movement and have backed fascist governors, particularly in Wisconsin, Ohio and Michigan, each of which was a hotbed of pro-Nazi activity in the 1930s. Today we have the Koch’s funding their own homegrown fascist movements here in America. As Yeadon reminds us, “As of yet, no one has exposed, in a comprehensive manner, the connections between the 1930’s fascists and today’s American right wing.
Many of the events of the decade have been quietly swept under the rug, such as the plot against Roosevelt. The press downplayed the assassination attempt at the time and even today, most people are still unaware of it… The Nazis found willing accompanists in the media, the halls of Congress, as well as corporate boardrooms.”
There are numerous parallels between the fascist groups of the 1930s and the far right groups of today, they are as striking as they are disturbing, and should stand as a vanguard, warning of the hidden agenda of right wing elements in this country. Among the many common elements between yesterday’s fascists and today’s far right groups are the intense hatred of minorities and unions, isolationism, destructive division, nationalism and religion.Only the little seditionist and traitors have been rounded up by the FBI. The real Nazi Fifth Column in America remains immune. And yet there is evidence that those in both countries who place profits above patriotism– and fascism is based entirely on profits although all of its propaganda speaks of patriotism–…..It is this unbridled corporatism that is the very heart of fascism. … Here we have the heart of the problem of the next century: corporate power. Corporations have acquired too much power. They have become so powerful they can openly flaunt our labor laws, our environmental laws and even sell materials for weapons of mass destruction without fear. The problem has become so widespread, and corporations have become so powerful, that society now serves the corporations rather than corporations serving society.In short, as we progress into the new century, the right wing issues at the forefront of today’s political scene are nothing more than recycled pro-fascist issues of the 30s. It is an agenda of corporate rule…. There is no better event to begin with than the attempted coup d’état against Roosevelt financed by Irénée du Pont along with the Morgans and a few other wealthy industrialists of the time…..Irénée, the power behind the du Pont throne at the time, held a controlling interest in General Motors. He was an avid fascist and supporter of Hitler, tracking Hitler’s career closely from the 1920s. On September 7, 1926, du Pont gave a speech before the American Chemical Society, in which he advocated the creation of a race of supermen. Injecting special drugs into them during childhood would create these supermen. Not every child would receive such injections; du Pont insisted that only those of pure blood would get the injections.Throughout the 1930s, the du Ponts invested heavily in Hitler’s Germany through their corporate empire. General Motors under the control of the du Pont family had invested thirty million dollars alone into I.G. Farben. Wendell Swint, du Pont’s foreign relation’s director knew that I.G. and Krupp had arranged to contribute one half of a percent of its payroll to the Nazi party. Swint testified before the 1934 Munitions Hearings that du Pont was fully aware that it was financing the Nazis through the Opal division of General Motors. Even more telling is the amount of financial backing the du Ponts provided pro-Hitler groups in the United States. Starting in 1933, du Pont provided financing for the American Liberty Lobby, Clark’s Crusaders (who claimed 1,200,000 members) and the Liberty League.
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/dupont.html
http://astore.amazon.com/dowwittyr-20/detail/0930852435
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-werent-fascist-coup-plotters-irenee.html
FYI I have a comment in moderation. I forgot and put in three links at once.
The post in moderation refers to Irene duPont’s fanatical fascism in the 1930’s and it made me want to do more looking into the News Journal editor who decided to quit rather than bow down to the New Castle County duPies and their bullshit.
http://elizabethscheinberg.blogspot.com/2011/08/who-said-it.html
“As every editor knows, a newspaper can generally avoid controversy and criticism if it will publish everything that people want published, suppress any news that may be unpleasant to anyone, close its eyes when it sees some wrongdoing and remain silent when vigorous leadership that might offend someone is needed.” –Creed C. Black
The following obituary is from the News Journal.
Sorry about that, Nancy. You’ve been rescued! 🙂
Come on Nancy, we don’t have to bring up the Business Plot every time Charlie Copeland’s name comes up, even less paste a lot of column inches from somewhere. Obviously I know about it, but didn’t think it necessary to mention in this topic.
I agree the parallels between the Tea Party and the Liberty League are uncanny, as is Charlie’s interest in that kind of politics. But that is a topic for another post.
Now if you can find some direct connection, that would be another thing entirely. There are a lot of personal papers still under seal at Hagley that may shed some light on this when the seals expire.
So now Charlie is being victimized by a leaky roof?
If he is leasing that space, then he has recourse for getting that fixed. And a landlord who can’t fix a piece of property he owns is a landlord who is in pretty big trouble. And the landlord who repairs the roof of that leased property gets to expense it off of his taxes — unlike real people who don’t get tax breaks for keeping their property in good working order.
In other words, its a bullshit claim to “working-classhood” and if my business was in a building whose roof leaked, there would be hell to pay or I’d move.
Howie Klein made the stretch to the topic today because the storm is called Irene, the name of the devilish dupie. 🙂
City of Newark is warning us that water tower pumps are in a flood plane and may have to be removed to keep them from damage. City workers will be sand-bagging the area but may have to pull the motors to safety.
We are warned that we may have no water for a few days because of it.
This was one of the major flaws in design in the Japanese nuke plants -their water pumps were below sea level…..duh.
Greg Palast has a great article up this am. Long Islands South Hampton the “bankers katrina”. Jack Markell was right on in this emergency. We should give a big sigh that no teabaggers like Charlie the Tuna is in a position of power.
Charlie should just buy the building.
I complemented charlie copeland for having the courage to risk his entire business and the salaries, benefits, and livelihoods of his employees because he won’t fix the roof to his building, thus allowing the rain to potentially destroy his equipment, network, or even make his building uninhabitable.
(I am not making this up, btw. You can read his own comment in the thread.)
Anyway, being the modest person he is, I think my effusive praise was too much for him and he removed my comment.
I am pretty sure that Charlie already owns a nice building on the Riverfront that used to house his printing operations. It is the beauty behind the fence just beyond the Market on the left as you come up to the stop sign heading from Harriet Tubman towards the ball park. It has appeared to be unused for some time now.