Sher Valenzula is a fraud and a liar
Yes. It is that simple. In her speech to the Wingnut National Convention, she had the opportunity to tell the truth about how she leveraged government programs including recent stimulus funding to build her business, but instead she decided to lie. She blamed the President for keeping her business down by imposing “new regulations” while never acknowledged the government’s role in getting her business off the ground.
But the Obama administration, Valenzuela said, has imposed new regulations that have cost businesses billions of dollars and millions of hours in paperwork requirements.
“That’s what worries me about this administration,” she said. “They seem so eager to ‘fix’ society. But they don’t have a clue about how to fix the economy.”
I have one question for Ms. Valenzula. You say that your business is being hobbled by “new regulations” imposed by the President. Can you name one?
Can you point to one single new regulation imposed by the President that has impacted your business negatively? In your little power point presentation you can list dozens of loans and grant programs that you’ve benefited from, can you name ONE SINGLE regulation that has hurt your business?
No you can’t because you are a liar and a fraud.
http://blogs.delawareonline.com/firststatepolitics/2012/08/27/fake-site-lampoons-valenzuela
Sher’s business was BUILT on government regulations.
I wonder if Sher made it to any of the round of Executive Order 36 meetings that were held in all three counties this month:
Jeez, even Reagan knew enough to come up with an anecdote about excessive regulations, even if it was bogus. But these Republicans would rather just complain instead.
The article on the front page of the News Journal doesn’t mention that fact that Sher lied until the middle of the second page of the article, which is pathetic.
There’s one odd thing in Sher’s bio that bugs me. I hate to be the bastard who calls her out on it, but she repeated it in an interview last night, so she put it on the table.
She says the reason she started FSM was her and her husband’s jobs didn’t bring in enough money to provide extra care she felt was needed for her special needs child. So they both quit their good jobs to launch FSM.
I don’t know many families who would make that choice, to give up good jobs for a risky startup. But when you examine FSM’s special preference certifications, it all seems clear why that choice made sense for them.
Note that FSM is NOT qualified as a woman-owned business. But they are certified with minority and disabled veteran status. Which means that Sher owns less than 50% of FSM, so the business can qualify for preferences apparently based on her husband’s status.
So now that startup doesn’t seem so risky. I’m now envisioning their decision to quit good jobs as very prudent and sensible, considering the special advantages that were available from taxpayers.
I’m imagining them conceiving this plan after watching a Kevin Trudeau infomercial about “How to get free money from government. ”
But this business plan is completely at odds with Sher’s own claims, and blows her anti-government rhetoric out of the water.
Now to be the bastard: Since she put her child in the campaign, I think Sher owes us an explanation of what government regulations and assistance she has taken advantage of for his care, including FAPE regulations (which are civil rights), which Republicans are currently attempting to evade with their charters and vouchers. And more importantly, what kind of special assistance she was able to buy privately. Campaign aside, I think the parents of autistic children deserve to know what works.
I agree. The News Journal reporters (and the WDEL news readers for that matter) just take her “everybody does it” justification at face value and leave it at that. Pitiful.
Here’s the thing. Since she couldn’t afford the proper care for her child (which he obviously deserves) wouldn’t you think she’d be an advocate for more resources for other parents of children for special needs, since starting your own business isn’t an option for everyone?
Nope. She got hers already. I forgot.
FYI, the Republicans got the memo about her government assistance. They moved her out of prime time and her speech was mostly a feel good emotional testimony of her family’s struggle and success.
The Republicans could have set themselves up for an ass whooping over Valenzuela and the whole “we did build this” mantra, but they didn’t. There is no story here.
That was the hurricane. Republicans are not that aware of how foolish they look.
Nope. She got hers already.
Just another example of Republicans pulling up the ladder after they get to the top.
Since she couldn’t afford the proper care for her child
What additional care was needed – a dancing therapy horse? I don’t take this story at face value. Trust, but verify. I’d rather this issue was not part of the campaign, but Sher made it an issue all by herself.
In the context of this Delaware campaign though, it’s not worth following up on.
I feel the same way about her being a fraudulent Latina. If she wants to pretend, so be it. It’s a free country.
The state of Delaware has some of the best resources in the country for children with autism, like the Consortium in Lewes. Delaware’s public school system is a fantastic and free place for children with autism to learn and grow, in fact, the public school system is by far a better place for a child with autism than virtually all of the private schools and facilities in Delaware put together.
This is true, anon. The Delaware Autism Program is one of the best (public or private) in the country, although perhaps not as glorious as it was 10 years ago.
Yes, it is true. I’ve heard that people actually move to Delaware just for that reason. Good call anon, or shall I call you honey?
Kristof has a nice op-ed on this in the NYTimes today.
“The Secret Weapon: All of Us”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/opinion/kristof-the-secret-weapon-all-of-us.html
It’s good that this is getting more attention.
“She says the reason she started FSM was her and her husband’s jobs didn’t bring in enough money to provide extra care she felt was needed for her special needs child. So they both quit their good jobs to launch FSM”
neither of them even had jobs when they moved to delaware and her husband is NOT disabled in any way. so???? she was a secretary for IBM when she lived in texas, she was not an executive that’s for sure with her high school education. delaware was a choice because there was a lot of government money to be had if you were a minority and had a skill.
Just for the record, the Valenzuela family isn’t quite finished benefitting from government programs. http://www.udel.edu/cds/downloads/CLSC%20Gazette%20May%202012.pdf
neither of them even had jobs when they moved to delaware
Yes… she says they quit their jobs and moved to Delaware to care for her mother, then found work. Those were the jobs they quit to start FSM.
Sher2012.com: “What we quickly realized was that even though we both held good jobs that supplied good health insurance, the “whatever it took” when it came to getting what Simon was going to need to overcome the odds weren’t going to be enough… Tossing security to the wind, we both quit our “real” jobs and banked on our ability to bring in the funds required for the specialists it would take to overcome the odds. ”
she was a secretary for IBM when she lived in texas
Sher2012.com: “From her days as a communications director in the white-collar world of IBM, to her work as a news writer for the Delaware State News in Dover, Sher has made a living communicating ideas.”
her husband is NOT disabled in any way.
Then who is the disabled veteran owner?
Thanks to the “republican loathed” ADA there are lots of categories of “disabled.” Cancer, epilepsy, diabetes, psychiatric issues like depression, and a history of alcoholism or drug abuse are all qualifying conditions.
It doesn’t add up. This is clearly bullshit:
“…even though we both held good jobs that supplied good health insurance, the “whatever it took” when it came to getting what Simon was going to need to overcome the odds weren’t going to be enough…”
I’d also like to see which regulation President Obama is using to hobble her business,
Probably the ones requiring business to provide their employees good jobs that supply health insurance. Sher is hoping all her employees quit to start up businesses of their own.
I think that when Republicans send their children to a public school or university, or take a misbehaving competitor to court, or drive over one of our great bridges, or sign an overseas contract made possible by a painfully negotiated and monitored trade agreement, they honestly don’t realize they are benefiting from public services. They think if they just cut out taxes for all those services, those services will still be there and everything will be just hunky-dory, having slain the spending monster.
Mike Castle Republicans know of those services, but still think that taxes meant for them will be misspent by undeserving welfare recipients.
Why is another Republican lying newsworthy? Can they do anything else? Perhaps it is a genetic defect.
“Sher2012.com: “From her days as a communications director in the white-collar world of IBM, to her work as a news writer for the Delaware State News in Dover, Sher has made a living communicating ideas”
come on folks, do you honestly believe with a high school education that IBM would have her as a communications director? She wrote a crappy little article for the state news once a week, did that make her nationally syndicated? If she had properly vetted they would of found out most of her work history is a lie.
Mary: IBM will hire people (as will any company) in whom they have faith and confidence in their ability to do the job. Your notion that a person without a degree couldn’t be hired by IBM is obviously wrongful. But, I know about liberals’ belief systems, and I know also that no fact on earth will dissuade you from your narcissistic, Ptolemaic mentalities.
I see you guys are getting scared. Let’s see, you are wrong about her role with the State news, I worked with her regularly, she was an assistant editor there who ran the the opinion page.
Not scared — Matt Denn will win by pretty huge margins — but still intolerant of the bullshit you folks throw around in lieu of actual ideas or solutions.
The only people who are “scared” of Valenzuela are the Republicans who ripped her from the 9:30 p.m. prime time speaking slot right before Chris Christy and relegated her to 7:30 p.m. because they realized that her non stop feeding at the government trough made everyone look hypocritical.
“… send their children to a public school or university, or take a misbehaving competitor to court, or drive over one of our great bridges, or sign an overseas contract made possible by a painfully negotiated and monitored trade agreement, they honestly don’t realize they are benefiting from public services.”
While you continue to defend the indefensible, and rationalize our president’s naive statements, ask yourself… Who funds those “public services”? If you’re too lazy or stupid to derive an answer… Working taxpayers funded those services. The same services available to ALL of our citizens, whether they contributed or not. It may come as a shock, but the money and resources did not magically appear. Perhaps your mentality originates from when you were hanging onto your mother’s teat, where the resources were free and endless, and you’re afraid to let go.
“They think if they just cut out taxes for all those services, those services will still be there and everything will be just hunky-dory, having slain the spending monster.”
Even though the misguided left would have everyone believe the conservatives would advocate cutting out all those services, it’s a blatant lie contrived out of your ignorance, or the foolish belief that all things good come from the government.
In short, WE built that. Well, us productive members of this society did. But, feel free to use it anyway.
If writing about one’s opponents proves one is “scared” of that opponent, then what is Delaware Politics but a pants-pisser’s paradise?
“Working taxpayers funded those services.”
Right. So it would be nice if the workers got the same respect from Republicans as the “job creators.” We ALL contribute, even hypocrites who work on the public payroll and spend their free time praising the private sector.
“Perhaps your mentality originates from when you were hanging onto your mother’s teat, where the resources were free and endless, and you’re afraid to let go.”
Since none of the people posting here are actually on the programs they are defending, maybe you’re wrong. But maybe you think that way because you’re overly proud of having let go of your mother’s teat.
lol, I laugh at your post Miscreant, a name well suited by the way. Tell me this, WHO put our country in the financial abyss it is now in? GMA said this morning that we all know why Bush/Cheney are not at the RNC, because it would remind everyone there of the horrible mess their administration got us into…all over their need to control oil in Iraq. Well we see where that got us 10 yrs. later. Stuck in a war no one can and will ever win, thousands of lost lives and our country in ruins financially. Valenzuela is now a detriment to the republicans because of all of the government money her business got, kind of hurts her weak platform doesn’t it.
Miscreant is a hoot. The GOP has been uncharacteristically clear and forthright about what they want to accomplish. It isn’t a matter of opinion to say that the GOP created the current deficit. It isn’t a matter of opinion to say that they manipulated the deficit “crisis” to further political aims. It isn’t a matter of opinion to say that conservative orthodoxy now includes tax cuts regardless of the budget or programmatic impact.
These are simply the facts.
“We ALL contribute, even hypocrites who work on the public payroll and spend their free time praising the private sector.
Bullshit. You know as well as I do, not everyone contributes. Some surf the free tit their entire lives. Most of them vote Democrat. I was in the private sector before, and after, my government service. While serving the people, and working hard for a fair wage, I still proudly contributed my share to the infrastructure by paying taxes, and still do. Odd, that you resent the same government (especially their employees) on which you depend for sustenance.
“But maybe you think that way because you’re overly proud of having let go of your mother’s teat.”
I suppose that could be true. Unlike most liberals, I can’t remember my mother’s teat.
“lol, I laugh at your post Miscreant, a name well suited by the way.”
Hi, Mary. Thanks for the compliment. I see you have your very basic liberal talking points in front of you this morning. Just mindlessly follow them, and you will be endeared at Delaware Liberal. You may want to update them. Our president has already (ab)used the Bush/Cheney thing for the past four years.
I don’t resent government workers. I resent government workers who demonize government.
My point is that you are simply projecting your biases, not citing anything factual.
Who in your view are those who never contribute? Even the poorest of the poor buy cigarettes and liquor. Ever see how cheap those would be without taxes?
“I don’t resent government workers. I resent government workers who demonize government.”
I don’t demonize all government, and think limited governance is essential. Just not the ‘cradle to grave’ type.
“My point is that you are simply projecting your biases, not citing anything factual.”
I think we’re all guilty of “projecting biases”, if you mean ‘stating an opinion’. I’m told everyone has them.
“Who in your view are those who never contribute?”
If you’re trying to get me to specifically categorize a segment of the population, that’s not going to work. I have some distant relatives, and some neighbors who haven’t held a steady job in over 15 years. When they do work, it’s under the table, so they can retain their entitlements, and they aren’t taxed on it.
“Even the poorest of the poor buy cigarettes and liquor.”
Where do they get the money for that? When I was in the private sector, living in my car in Florida, while working for a Labor Pool. I didn’t have money to waste on liquor, and I never smoked. My parents did, but they worked.
“Ever see how cheap those would be without taxes?”
Hell yeah! Been to Canada lately? A bottle of Seagram’s VO is about $55. It’s $18 here. They use liquor taxes to fund their socialized healthcare plan. Some of them are rather proud of that, the rest make their own liquor.
This kind of fraud is such a small slice of the budget that it is not relevant in accounting terms. And yet it is the slice that angers old white guys like Mis to the point of apoplexy.
Can someone answer me this question. Of the SNAP benefits(formerly known as food stamps)how much of most grocery profits come from them and not an average consumer. I would bet potentially a third 33% or more at least come from WIC and SNAP. Could one of the high speed journalist bloggers look this up? Cause I think every store from Walmart to Pathmark to the corner store on 4th and Franklin. Does anyone have any addition insight on the actual economic impact of slashing SNAP benefits?
“This kind of fraud is such a small slice of the budget that it is not relevant in accounting terms.”
Total bullshit. It’s widespread and ingrained. You obviously have lived a sheltered life, Jason, and need to get out and mingle with the great unwashed for a while.
Example: I was just in Kansas City last week, where my son-in-law owns a small business (which he made built with no government assistance. He does use the roads and bridges, though). He said about half of his prospective employees blatantly request “under the table” wages so they can still get their ‘benefits’.
View the apoplexy. You should be in a sideshow alongside the “tax cuts work” guy.
“I think we’re all guilty of “projecting biases”, if you mean ’stating an opinion’.”
When the “opinion” involves telling people who disagree with you what their motivations are, they are technically “bullshit.” I don’t know what motivates you, and I wouldn’t make the silly charge that it’s the same as what motivates all conservatives.
AS for the under-the-table workers, when was it not that way? I haven’t seen any change since 40 years ago, when I worked under-the-table whenever the boss said that’s the way he preferred to handle payday. These practices seem to take place in the same trades today as then — food service (especially servers), day labor, anybody who works for tips, etc. Has your experience been different?
Example: I was just in Kansas City last week, where my son-in-law owns a small business (which he made built with no government assistance
well GOOD for your son-in-law, too bad SHER VALENZUELA and FSM weren’t able to do the same, right? They took a ton of money but she stands on the platform that this administration doesn’t give money to start up companies or small businesses.
And can YOU explain WHY Bush/Cheney weren’t invited to the RNC? Betting you don’t want to because the RNC clearly didn’t want anyone there reminded of the fiasco that pair left our country in! Oh I can’t WAIT for the Obama/Romney debates..look for a huge bounce in the polls for Barack because Romney will come across as the wooden rich I-don’t-give-a-rats-ass-about-the-middle/lower-class ass that he is..rubbing my hands in glee!
Apoplexy is right. Especially since more than 90% of the so-called entitlement programs dollars go to elderly, disabled and low-income working families. The kind of fraud Mis notes is Walmart’s employee benefits program — they routinely tell employees to go get Medicaid for health care since they don’t provide it except to a small group of their employees. Even then, since most of the other benefits are definitely time limited, a relative who is maintaining those benefits while not being either elderly or disabled is probably committing fraud and one would wonder why Mis hasn’t turned them in instead of trotting out this story as proof that they whole system is corrupt.
You mad brah?
Delaware GOP Pro-Abortion Candidate Gets National Exposure
Tuesday, August 28, 2012, 9:31:46 AM
Pro-Abortion Candidate
Sher Valenzuela
Delaware Lt. Gov. hopeful tells our listeners not only is she Pro-Abortion, she also had an Abortion and it was not to save her own life.
The Republican is challenging Democratic incumbent Matt Denn.
Delmarva Public Radio spoke with Valenzuela about the issues facing the GOP.
Listen to the full 6 minutes.
valenzuela_-_final.mp3
http://publicradiodelmarva.net/podcasts
I was pissed at Sher for her hypocritical business stance. I frankly couldn’t care less about her health issues and I think I’ve already spent too much time on her relative to her chances v. Denn.
TGarcia123@aol.com
10:29 AM (1 hour ago)
She has admitted that she would not do it again. Many women were in her situation and regret it. Matt Dem is for abortion also, so this should be a non issue.
“She has admitted that she would not do it again.”
What she has done is said she wouldn’t do it again. This is, of course, an incredibly convenient thing to say, and bears no relationship to anything that happened or could happen in reality. In reality, she had her reasons for wanting an abortion, and thanks to its legality, she got one.
“Many women were in her situation and regret it.”
And many more were in her situation and do not regret it.
The issue isn’t whether she had an abortion. It’s whether she will keep it legal for others. From what I read above, she will.
But you, judging by your screen name, would not. So you, not she, is the hypocrite.
Lying Ryan even lied about his time in a marathon race. I hope Joe asks him to explain this along with the GM plant thing.
Valenzuela imploding…after recently telling NPR she had an abortion and is pro-choice, state GOP is trying to dance on this one and spin the issue away with clever wordsmithing.
Fact: Sher was supporting Glen Urqhardt in his rough attacks on Michelle Rollins who has the same postion as Sher. Sher holds the same position as Mike Castle. Wonder if Sussex GOP will turn on her like they did Mike Castle?
Mrs V will be a guest on the new 105.9 at 11A.
Their On-Air # is 302.839.1059. Call and give her heck for me.
WHAT? JJ you say she had an abortion and is PRO-CHOICE? That’s a joke. She is someone that used to throw her body down across abortion clinic steps. THAT is what a hypocrite does, uses the system to have her abortions, then when she finds GOD, rallies to stop others from having them. What a joke this woman is to the state of Delaware. Wonder what other secrets are in her closet?
Does anyone really care what Valenzuela says? She has no chance of defeating Denn.