Day: January 12, 2014

The News Journal this Sunday morning prints a long piece that purports to look at the "pay for play" culture in Delaware politics. It is interesting, since they don't really get much into real instances of pay for play, with the exception of the possibility of the Stolz project. Also interesting since one of the people who has been convicted for improper political donations was frustrated enough by the process to scream at his judge that he never got anything for his contributions (Zimmerman). Most of this looks at the charges being thrown at Veasey that he was too light on the people he looked at -- pretty much coming down on the side that there wasn't much there for Veasey to work with. This seems to be the place that any reform effort needs to point towards:

The problem Veasey faced is that the state’s election law is a “Mickey Mouse statute,” Hurley said. “It’s poorly drafted and full of holes.”