Governor Markell will be holding three town halls up and down the state over the next four weeks. Starting off in Kent County tomorrow at the Delaware Tech’s Dover campus at 7 pm. The next one will be down in Sussex County on Thursday, October 3, at the Cape Henlopen High School in Lewes. And finally the Governor comes back up north to New Castle County on Thursday, October 10 for a town hall at Delcastle High School near Newport.
“It’s another tool for me to get out and share with the people of the state what’s going on, hear from them what’s on their minds,” he said. “It’s been a little while and it just felt like a good time to do it again.” [..]
Markell said he’s prepared to defend his administration’s efforts to bring jobs to Delaware by offering incentives and taxpayer funding to employers. Some of those deals, like the funding package offered to electric car-maker Fisker, have failed to meet expectations.
“I’m certainly prepared to talk about all that,” Markell said. “We are always interested in suggestions, and if they have things they’re concerned about we can talk about that as well.”
Methinks the Governor should be prepared to talk about education as well. And I wonder if there will be any questions about this:
[E. Norman V]easey[, the independent special prosecutor appointed by Attorney General Bau Biden in 2011 to investigate campaign finance in Delaware,] has brought three cases against small businessmen who used others as conduits to exceed the legal limits on campaign contributions for Markell. In each case, supporters with no known connections used the same scheme to give more than the legal limit to Markell’s campaign: they reimbursed friends, relatives or employees who were named as giving money to the candidate. […]
[Veasey is now] looking into whether Gov. Jack Markell or anyone on his 2008 campaign helped donors contribute illegally or knew about the schemes.
“We have been looking carefully into the question of whether Markell or any campaign knew about or suggested reimbursement,” said E. Norman Veasey, an independent prosecutor who was tapped by Attorney General Beau Biden in 2011 to lead an investigation into election finance in Delaware.