This post is to rescue this great comment from today’s Open Thread:
Sher Valenzuela blamed George Soros for releasing the information about her company, First State Manufacturing, and the millions in government loans and grants that it takes, when she was on Delaware 105.9 this morning with Gaffney.
She also claimed that the City of Milford doesn’t pay her utility bills. Why? Because her utility bills are paid for by a program funded by the City of Milford to subsidize “job creators” utility bills.
I can’t vote for someone THAT stupid who thinks I’m even MORE stupid than she is.
As a group of DLs commenters documented pretty thoroughly, the information on the subsidies that Sher received for her company are easily found by anyone with a computer and some sense. And hey — isn’t this what government transparency is for? So that citizens aren’t so easily bamboozled by their representatives?
But instead of just owning up to the fact that She Didn’t Build That, she wants to spin up a conspiracy theory on how the information got out there. So she’ll insult her supporters by blaming it on George Soros, rather than owning up to a campaign tactic that just isn’t working. Besides — how galling is it that the Delaware Liberal commenters who found all of this didn’t get any credit!
After this election season, bet there is going to be some effort by Congress to put more of this subsidy information underwraps.