Charlie Copeland is going to get a new job today.
The state GOP is holding their special convention today, during which they will elect their new State Party Chairman. Former Chairman John Sigler resigned back in May, and the newly elected vice Chair, Nelly Jordan, a Sussex County tea party activist, took over as Acting Chairman. However, she has had some trouble fundraising and is not running in her own right for a full term. She has instead endorsed the only candidate for Chairman, former State Senator and du Pont heir Charlie Lamont Copeland. So really, today is more of a coronation than an election, but whatever.
Copeland is viewed by others in the party as the ideal candidate to heal the civil war within the party between the Northern establishment business Republicans and the Southern radical tea party Republicans. And that is because Charlie embraced the tea party in 2010 while still having the literal bloodlines of the establishment.
“I think the rumors of the death of the Republican Party in Delaware have been wildly exaggerated,” [Copeland] said. “The myth is that there’s a big difference between Greenwood and Greenville.”
I guess he forgets the 2010 U.S. Senate Republican Primary. I guess he forgets Booth v. Bodenweiser. Rollins v. Urquhart. Copeland is your typical Republican. He doesn’t like the facts, so he pretends that the facts and the reality are myths.
But Copeland is pledging to do something that is sure to cause further division in his party.
Copeland said the party needs to focus on chipping away at the 20 percent minority voting bloc that overwhelmingly supports Democrats in Delaware. He said the party needs to reach out and connect with minority communities that harbor some conservative ideals.
“There are, frankly, some on the right who for their own reasons prefer to have a debate amongst ourselves, rather than say, ‘There are philosophically conservative minority voters and we ought to be talking to those people,’ ” Copeland said.
“We’ve ceded large territories in this state. You can’t give away that kind of vote.”
Yeah, we will see how that goes downstate among the bigots.
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So Copand is going big with his ill fated, ill-concieved west-Wilmington strategy. What is he going to talk to these “conservative minorities’ about? How Gays are yucky? How republicans are the real party of FDR because banks need more deregulation? Great political instincts Charlie.
Sources tell me Charlie has been elected chairman without challenge, and that some of the more common tea party rabble rousers did not attend the meeting, hence the lack of challenge. That does not speak much to the unity Charlie was seeking.
Also, on the agenda – a resolution to declare all of Christine O’Donnell’s credit card bills, henceforth, campaign expenses.
Fence mending, bitches!!
Why would there be any challenges or a big turn out. The only GOP members allowed to vote in the special election were the same EDC’s who voted at the prior convention, no substitute voters were allowed.
Seems there is one major issue Wilmington is facing; Wilmington, Delaware ranks #1 in nation for highest rate of violent crime
A short drive from South Philly and Camden and midway between New York and Washington, Wilmington managed to snag the number one spot on our list for highest rate of violent crimes per 100,000 people. And while the overall state of Delaware ranked moderately well in the peace index (which looked at factors such as police per capita, percentage of population behind bars and access to small arms), Wilmington came in the top spot for sex offenders per capita.
Why didn’t you name the source? Because it’s parenting.com? Yeah, that’s exactly where I go when I want some intelligent analysis of crime statistics.
You ain’t got the game to hang here, homey.
So Copand is going big with his ill fated, ill-concieved west-Wilmington strategy.
I think that’s East Wilmington. Where paying Norman Oliver 6K seems to count as a minority outreach strategy.
Copeland’s business model was to leverage family wealth to make capital improvements others couldn’t afford, which drove down his daily costs and drove others out of business.
His political model will be to leverage family wealth to drive insurgent campaigns out of primaries.
“The only GOP members allowed to vote in the special election were the same EDC’s who voted at the prior convention, no substitute voters were allowed.”
Wrongo Jimmy. You have no clue. Those delegates who submit a letter of resignation can and were replaced. The various regions held meetings and replaced those who could not serve.
Try and get the facts straight first before posting.
“that some of the more common tea party rabble rousers did not attend the meeting, hence the lack of challenge.” This may only demonstrate what many have believed all along, that the TEA movement is actually losing steam, that they cannot sustain the level of activism we saw in 2010 and that those who actually know how to win elections, not just primaries, will re-assert control of the party, hopefully this time with a new respect for the base and the wants and desires of all the voters within the party, so that we don’t see the same splintering that we’ve seen in the past.
Charlie Copeland may not be everyone’s first choice, but I for one am hopeful. His first and number one challenge will be fund raising, as is the case in any political party, and the lack of any discontent at this convention can only help in that.
As for the minority issue, well many of us have recognized that problem for a long time, In my view, it is not about talking specifically to minorities, it is about demonstrating that the conservative message is beneficial for all, by applying the same principles to the issues important to these communities and explaining how conservatism can solve them.
In my view, it is not about talking specifically to minorities, it is about demonstrating that the conservative message is beneficial for all, by applying the same principles to the issues important to these communities and explaining how conservatism can solve them.
Awesome. Going to East Wilmington to explain how they should support the agenda of the 1%, by telling them the same lies you tell yourselves ought to be amusing.
Charlie Copeland has been pretending to care about the inner city and its inhabitants for years. Ask him what exactly he has accomplished, then stand out of the way of the torrent of bullshit. I say this from experience.
“Wrongo Jimmy. You have no clue. Those delegates who submit a letter of resignation can and were replaced. The various regions held meetings and replaced those who could not serve. Try and get the facts straight first before posting.”
I posted the facts EXACTLY as they were stated and explained to the Sussex County GOP EDC members at the June meeting.
Frank
I am glad you’re hopeful but the Conservatives of the GOP will continue to re-register with third parties. I heard on the raidio yesterday that the IPoD State Committee are putting together a statewide registration drive asking disgruntled republican and Unaffiliated Independents to register with IPoD. I agree with them and two of my friends are doing so tomorrow. The GOP is dying a slow death and the two major parties are corrupt as hell.
If you’re looking for a party that’s not corrupt, I think you’ll be disappointed. Even with nothing to fight over, IPoD’s history is full of people signing up just to get on ballots, infighting that prompts people to leave the organization — everything the major parties have except candidates who win anything.
Yeah. The IPoD is not a real alternative to the GOP. If the Libertarians are embarrassed Republicans, the IPoDs are too narcissistic to be embarrassed.
The IPoDs can’t decide if they are the People’s Front of Judea or the Judean Popular People’s Front, or the Popular Front of Judea or the Campaign for a Free Galilee.
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iPod will never go anywhere as long as people such as Wolfgang and Ayotte are in charge. There is no core belief system or set of principles – it’s strictly a group of wackadoodles spouting Randomly Capitalized catchphrases and calling everyone else socialists while citing obscure political theorists they’ve just discovered on the Intertubes. They’re less effective than the Libertarian Party, and that’s saying a lot.
All aboard the Von Copeland Express! Can’t wait to see this train wreck!
Mike, you’re killing me. Charlie on the Choo Choo Train?… “it’s a Choo Choo Train, Charlie…. ”
Oh my. This has all the trappings of looking like a beautiful election cycle….
Many of the people who are or would leave the GOP, like the Ayottes, are also many of the people who have given the GOP its label of right wing nut jobs. And while in the GOP they drove away reasonable people to become unaffiliated.
And maybe its time the GOP start pointing out to the people of Wilmington that the years of Democrat rule have lead to high crime, high unemployment and a declining sense of self worth. That’s not about the 1%, it’s about the truth.
“Many of the people who are or would leave the GOP, like the Ayottes, are also many of the people who have given the GOP its label of right wing nut jobs.”
Have you forgotten Charlie Copeland headlining the Tea Party rally at the Riverfront? Charlie is hoping we all have forgotten.
Frank
I’ve noticed that while reading DP and DR that your blogsite is dying a slow and painful death and delawarepolitics, where Ayotte is now an administrator, is gaining in popularity. The statistics are there for everybody to see Frank.
People are steadily leaving the GOP, and they have become irrelevant, while people like yourself, Grossman and Cragg, who are now bent on destroying what is left of the Sussex GOP have now become the pariahs.
BTW, the most ignorant post you wrote was declaring your new sexuality as a Lesbiman, where I received much enjoyment while reading. Me and my friends laughed so hard that our stomachs hurt the next day.
No matter how you slice it Frank, the GOP in Sussex is losing support, while third party organizations are gaining popularity. I opt for the IPoD organization and Ayotte’s organizational skills over anything the Sussex GOP has.
“Occasional Dem” is an Ayotte fan? Ayotte has “organizational skills”? The only skill I’ve ever seen him deploy is a quick trigger finger on removing posts he can’t hope to counter with facts or intelligence.
The Independent Party of Delaware is the genital wart on Delaware’s body politic.
Geezer
I know there is no middle ground with Ayotte but many people like him and those who don’t really dislike him, but you always know where you stand with him.
You never know where you stand with the GOP. I don’t know why there is such hatred for Ayotte, he is a social moderate and a fiscal conservative. That is far from being a right wing whack job.
You are one of a kind Geezer and I don’t much care for you hatred of your fellow man.
The GOP hates Ayotte? If they hate him so much why did he win his 2012 primary for county council?
And maybe its time the GOP start pointing out to the people of Wilmington that the years of Democrat rule have lead to high crime, high unemployment and a declining sense of self worth. That’s not about the 1%, it’s about the truth.
The problems of Wilmington exist all over this state, but the root of Wilmington’s problem is concentrated pockets of poverty. Poverty and poor people are *not* the concern of the modern GOP — not unless they can convince poor people that they’ll get out of poverty as soon as they get behind tax cuts for the 1%. Wilmington’s problem is the problem of concentrated poverty in places all over this state — and the GOP isn’t interested in addressing a single one of them (and have been complicit in some of them).
“I don’t know why there is such hatred for Ayotte, he is a social moderate and a fiscal conservative.”
He is no social moderate, he’s a hard-core pro-lifer. He’s also a not-very-bright man who censors anyone who makes a point he can’t dispute. His ability to develop an argument (in the sense of a supportable thesis) is non-existent; challenge him on any point and he resorts to otherwise-content-free insults, often with profanity, which gets others banned from the site. Do it too often and you, too, will be banned from commenting.
“That is far from being a right wing whack job.”
My ass. I’ve been reading him since he got to DP, and he helped destroy what was once a useful site for keeping up with the DEGOP.
“You are one of a kind Geezer and I don’t much care for you hatred of your fellow man.”
Yeah, I don’t much care for you either, Don.
Wonder when Charlie and Christine will have their first meeting…
I’m still trying to wrap my head around Ayotte as a social moderate/fiscal conservative. Different Ayotte or different universe?
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July 23, 2013 at 12:06 pm
I’m still trying to wrap my head around Ayotte as a social moderate/fiscal conservative. Different Ayotte or different universe?”
It could be that Ayotte is willing to promote this view now that he is with the Pod people.
Geezer’s characterization is correct. Ayotte cannot construct a rational argument with facts. If someone challenges his suppositions he just gets angry and insults people (check out what he does to Frank Knotts). Ayotte is rude, crude, vile, and vicious.
Ayotte’s defection to the Pod People is the best example of addition by subtraction the GOP has ever seen.
Pod people…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEStsLJZhzo
Geezer
You think I am Ayotte but you couldn’t be more wrong. I never knew much about him before a year ago but he knows politics and who to trust or not to trust. He told me, it is more important to know who not to trust.
You are to be pitied Geezer, and you are very foul in your own way. I am not a Republican or an IPoD person, just somebody who admires people with character.
Please. Go insult someone else’s intelligence.
You may not be Ayotte, but you both took the same writing courses in which neither of you learned how to use punctuation properly.
SussexWatcher
A little snarky are we? This is a blogsite and nobody here is writing a doctoral thesis.
“nobody here is writing a doctoral thesis.”
Nor is anyone here buying your line of bullshit. Don Ayotte is not moderate on any issue; he left the GOP because it’s not conservative enough for him.
Geezer
They told me that your hateful butt was kicked off of DP. Is that true and if so, are you really American or just a cheap Chinese knockoff.
Calling someone like Geezer a “cheap Chinese knockoff” is DP’s version of immigration reform.
Yo OD, DP is nothing more than a circlejerk with a half dozen nutjobs. Getting kicked off it is a badge of honor around here. If you are not Ayotte then you are a Ayotte want to be. Time for you to get back in your circle, jerk.
recently it’s been posted a number of times that Ayotte doesn’t have the ability to delete posts. Knotts writes a comment that is nearly the same thing he claimed about Detroit. Wilmington’s problems especially violent crimes is not the same throughout the state. Wilmington has a gun violence problem the rest of the state doesn’t. The poverty problem is due in part to the generational prolific abuse of the system, politics has nothing to do with it. It’s about fucking time people started taking personal responsibility for their lives instead of looking to blame someone else or looking for a free handout. The delaware right claim moving delaware forward is a crock of shit its a group of losers one with an outstanding warrant for drugs, another with numerous civil judgments including non payment of taxes, another has a hair trigger temper with a well known history of disrupting monthly meetings by either shouting or storming out while uttering profanities.
I see little difference between Ayotte who has been accused of deleting comments and a WDEL radio host who verbally abuses callers on air before cutting their calls off.
So the bad behavior of a WDEL host justifies the abhorrent tactics of Idiot Ayotte?
“Many of the people who are or would leave the GOP, like the Ayottes, are also many of the people who have given the GOP its label of right wing nut jobs.”
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Knotts, Grossman and Dukes were all COD supporters. The best the GOP could do in 2012 was Cragg who ran unopposed in the primary the guy has the personality of a fucking garden slug whose surrounded himself with fucking criminals and losers like the person who made the quoted comment.
It doesn’t but when a person does the same thing on a radio show its hypocritical to accuse someone of doing the equivalent in a blog site.
You know, the language here is sounding awfully familiar. Especially that one word – “blogsite” – that ackmed and Occasional Dem use. Where else have I heard that awkward phrase? Hmmm …
Oh, yeah. Don Ayotte.
Also, This nit wit appears to be talking to himself . where have I seen that before ? hmmm. Oh yeah. DonAyotte
Sorry Jason330
None of the folks commenting above is me. Matter of fact, I don’t know who they are and don’t care.
This is what happens to retirees who haven’t developed any hobbies or interests in their lives — they regress and relive grade school.
sussexwatcher the word blog site is used because that is technically what delawareliberal, delawarepolitics and delawareright are. Since libertards are always using semantics and technicalities to justify their beliefs I figured I’d keep it technical.
Understanding the difference between Blogs and Forums.
Blogs are like a keynote speech where the speaker (blogger) is in control of the discussion, but allows questions and comments from the audience.
Blogs are journals often authored by one individual, and sometimes teams.
Forums are like social mixers, where everyone is at equal level, milling about and discussing with others. These many to many communication tools allow anyone to start a topic and anyone to respond to one. Members are often at equal level, and content is usually segmented by topic. (rather than by people).
I know this statement is a bit redundant but Geezer, you are a moronic imbecile and your show is nothing but rhetorical abusive crap.
He was talking about the similarity of the writing styles. Seriously, go back to bed before you hurt yourself.
Congratulations, Don. You spelled all the words correctly this time. On the other hand, “moron” and “imbecile” have specific meanings — they were once scientific terms to distinguish between levels of mental incapacity. So a “moronic imbecile,” while sounding redundant, is actually a contradiction in terms, in that one can be a moron or imbecile, but not both at the same time. It would be like calling someone “stupidly dumb” — would that be someone especially dumb, or someone who’s not good at being dumb?
Which brings us back to square one, Don Ayotte.
If you want to play the dozens all day, it’s fine by me. But don’t you have anything better to do? Maybe yelling at the kids to get off your lawn?
Geez
Kids are welcome on my lawn and that means you too.
Just read your latest screed at DP, Don. Your time would be better spent yelling at the kids.
Fancy Chuck is coming out swinging limply on WILM. Loud moans over the COD IRS blowout scandal of the universe.
He address him as Governor Lavalle. Must vomit the raison d’etre bran.
Gee Geez
Luv you too!