If Jonathan Starkey’s candidate forum report from the Siegel Jewish Community Center in Talleyville was any thinner it could be measured in microns.
Here are the reported facts:
– Carper, Markell, Cragg, Pires, Kovach, Mobley, Wade and some other people who didn’t say anything quotable took part in a “mostly friendly event” hosted by the Jewish Federation of Delaware at the Siegel Jewish Community Center in Talleyville.
– Cragg challeneged Markell on Fisker and schools. Cragg also doesn’t believe in science. “I’m a little bit more of a skeptic on climate change,” Cragg said. “The weather will be different next year and it will be different over the next 100 years.”
– Markell defended his record.
– Alex Pires, called Delaware “the most corrupt state in the union,” accused Carper of accepting campaign contributions from banks and supporting them with his votes in Washington and said that Carper was against caps on swipe-fees charged to merchants and tightening trading rules at banks.
– Alex Pires said “I think he (Carper) is the most corrupt politician in the history of the state,”
– Kevin Wade, repeated some debunked Fox News talking points about President Obama avoiding meetings with Israeli leadership but seeking meetings with Muslim leaders in Egypt.
– Carper said “There are plenty of bomb throwers in Washington these days, I don’t think we need any more of them. We need bridge builders instead. That’s what I do.”
– Tom Kovach, said he would not favor the full repeal of President Barack Obama’s health care law but added, that additional reforms are needed to drive down cost.
– Ben Mobley’s remarks about lowering health insurance rates and increasing competition in the health insurance market were well-received. He also criticized Stewart’s approval of the Highmark/ Blue Cross deal.
– Also present (but apparently not speaking) were Lt. Gov Matt Denn, John Carney, Sher Valenzuela,Andrew Groff, and Karen Weldin Stewart.