I was just going to say that we endorsed Trinidad Navarro for Insurance Commissioner because he is not Karen Weldin Stewart, but fuck that. It is an election year, and the Insurance Commissioner isn’t some bullshit job like Lt. Governor. When Matt Denn was in the office between 2004 and 2008, he was squarely on the side of the insurance consumer, and he had a huge positive impact on Delaware’s small business by fixing how worker’s comp was calculated for companies that have great safety records. Conversely, Karen Weldin Stewart has been a shit show. Anyway, I knew that my usual lazy half-assery wasn’t going to cut it, so I took a hard look at Navarro and this is what I found out.
Trinidad Navarro is exactly the kind of Democrat that this backward piss-poor excuse for a Democratic establishment needs. He annoyed the fuck out of John Daniello when he ran against a sheriff that had been in office since before Delaware’s motto was changed (by then Governor Tom Carper) to “The Usury State.” And here he is again, taking up a campaign against one of the so-called democrats that thinks that large multinational corporations are in need of a champion.
He also has the support of Mitch Crane who only lost last time because of a KWS diluted field. That’s a huge plus in my book, because any friend of Mitch Crane (not named Sneaky Pete Schwartzkopf) is a friend of mine.
What does he say he is running to do? Stand up to the insurance companies that have been coddled by the current IC for the past 8 years. Can he do it? Who knows? Insurance companies are the worst. They don’t make their billions by paying out legitimate claims, or by being guided by silly antiquated nonsense like “fairness.” But at least Navarro says he wants to try to get them to act responsibly. And I’d rather have that than someone who is not neutral, but is openly on the side of the big guys.
So yeah. Fuck it. I guess it does boil down to “He isn’t KWS.”