Open Thread for Thursday Oct. 26, 2017
You don’t need ESP to sense there’s a much deeper story here. Kathleen Davies, Tom Wagner’s chief administrative auditor, has been on administrative leave for more than a year. Now she has created a campaign finance committee and says she will run against her boss as an unaffiliated candidate.
The good news: A majority of white Americans agrees we have racial discrimination in this country. The bad news: They think it’s against them. Funny thing, though — fewer than 1 in 5 whites claim to have actually experienced this discrimination that they’re sure exists. That friend of a friend sure must have a lot of friends.
To nobody’s surprise, Trump’s data guy tried to team up with Julian Assange to fight Hillary, Scourge of America. When those emails finally turn up, what do you want to bet they’re as interesting as Al Capone’s vault?
This is an tantalizing window into how Trump’s data people pulled off the impossible. If you’re infuriated, remember that if Hillary had used Cambridge Analytica to engineer a win this way we’d be praising her genius. That’s what we did when Obama used then state-of-the-art data to target voters. The only part that’s illegal is Russia’s involvement.
Republicans in Congress are following the health-care game plan on the tax cut for the rich, hiding the details to avoid criticism ahead of the vote. But word gets around, and Slate reports that members of the House have been circulating a plan to lower the cap on annual 401K contributions to just $2400 a year.
The biggest obstacle to Congress passing anything, anything at all, remains Trumpelstiltskin (he spins gold into straw, which he then sets on fire. The latest example: He won’t OK the bipartisan health care patch that he takes credit for.
It’s nice that two Republican senators have criticized Trump, but as Our Leader pointed out yesterday, that’s worth nothing if they don’t vote against him. Meanwhile Steve Bannon vs. the erstwhile GOP establishment looks like the biggest rout since First Manassas.
So, let me get this straight. Davies has been on Administrative Leave from the Auditor’s office for well over a year, allegedly due to misuse of travel funds. And she’s running for Auditor? Who are her role models? Chip Flowers and Velda Jones-Potter?
The big question will be …who has regularly paid his/her mortgage?
So Bloom will pay back 1.5 mil to the state for all their missed hiring goals which were supposed to be hit by the end of oct. will they be paying back the remaining 10.5 after that? and how much will be refunded to the DPL customers who have been charged the surcharge? yea i know.
Meanwhile, TNJ hasn’t mentioned the auditor or AG race. But they did do the hard-hitting Coons-Brony investigation, so that counts, right?
Next Tuesday the POS 45 maggot supporter Rob Arlett is going to try to introduce a right to work for less ordinance for Sussex County. If you are here or know anyone who will be, please let them know about the meeting.
Christina Jedra has another slam dunk against Wilmington Council and Theo Gregory over the grant business: http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2017/10/26/council-president-earmarked-grant-himself-before-leaving-office/769548001/
Talk about an embarrassment.
@mouse: At his next meeting, if he takes public comments, ask what kind of a realtor loses $200,000 on his own house? Ask if he’s only running for office because he’s so lousy at his job — as if selling real estate was an actual job — that he can’t earn a living.
If Matt Denn does not prosecute this clear case of public corruption, then I don’t know what case will ever be brought. Theo himself created the slush fund, built it up over the years and arranged for a nice slice of it –while he was still in power— right before he went out the door…. he used his official power in office to enrich himself,,, SLAM DUNK PUBLIC CORRUPTION!
The article says Davies would need 6,900 signatures to get on the ballot. That’s an awful lot of weekend afternoons out in front the Acme. She obviously stands no chance without major party backing. If she does get on the ballot the best she could hope to do is take votes away from whoever the Ds put up against Wagner (assuming he runs again). Makes no sense on the surface.