Bushweller lies and acts like a complete dick to a constituent
In the video, Sen. Bushweller said he knew nothing of Pillbury’s attempts to meet with him and when asked why he didn’t vote on the minimum wage legislation, before answering, he said “if you’re just going to stand there and piss and moan then I’m not going to talk to you.”
Sen. Bushweller said he didn’t vote because of potential ramifications to the casino industry. “The reason I didn’t vote was because I was concerned of the job loss at Dover Downs and Midway Slots (Harrington Raceway and Casino).”
Pillsbury, a millennial, said he’s tired of being condescended and that he and his generation are “tired of these old people telling us we don’t know what’s going on in the world when we’re the ones living it.”
This guy, Michael Pillsbury, is my hero. If he returns to his Senator’s doorstep… a couple of proposed follow up questions for Bushy VonBushstache.
If Dover Downs is in such suck ass shape, why are executives regularly getting pay increases?
If Dover Downs, a monopoly, is being managed so terribly, why are the executives raking in $1.4 million a year?
I knew the Senator when he was a DSEA Uniserve rep. He was not a dick then. He was warm and supportive. Now his positions suggest an inappropriate relationship with the gambling industry in DE. How fitting if he becomes the motivation to “get the money out” of DE politics. We could even call it the “Bushweller effect anti-corruption act”. In the meantime, his behavior disgusts me.
The wealthy in Delaware have been showered with tax breaks and acceleration in their riches. It’s time for workers to get a cut.
This issue will touch Trey Paradee who is running to fill this seat. I sincerely hope Paradee realizes that he has more hourly workers in his district than he has wealthy Dover Downs executives.
He literally shows up at Bushweller’s house unannounced and starts yelling like a crazy SOB… I’d be a dick too. This dude is crazy, Bushweller had legitimate concerns for his district and he voted accordingly.
At least we agree that Bushy is a dick.
As for this….
“Bushweller had legitimate concerns for his district and he voted accordingly.”
Really? Do the millionaire’s who mis-manage Dover Downs really live in his district? I doubt it.
@A: your opinion bites, and have the courage to use your real name.
“If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” —Malcolm X
Bitter, selfish, corrupy old white men are a cancer on this nation
Can you imagine how totally duped one has to be to think that millionaires, rentiers, executives and share-holders need such significant protection so that millions of people can live in poverty and have their labour stolen to support the millionaires, rentiers, executives and share-holders.
“But scapegoating poor whites keeps the conversation away from fascism’s real base: the petite bourgeoisie. This is a piece of jargon used mostly by Marxists to denote small-property owners, whose nearest equivalents these days may be the ‘upper middle class’ or ‘small-business owners.’ FiveThirtyEight reported last May that ‘the median household income of a Trump voter so far in the primaries is about $72,000,’ or roughly 130 percent of the national median. Trump’s real base, the actual backbone of fascism, isn’t poor and working-class voters, but middle-class and affluent whites. Often self-employed, possessed of a retirement account and a home as a nest egg, this is the stratum taken in by Horatio Alger stories. They can envision playing the market well enough to become the next Trump. They haven’t won ‘big-league,’ but they’ve won enough to be invested in the hierarchy they aspire to climb. If only America were made great again, they could become the haute bourgeoisie—the storied ‘1 percent.'”
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I so want to follow in Mandela’s example. I so want to see these people as victims too. Bushweller is a victim. He’s being used by his attachment to his tiny house and small nest egg. It’s sad.
Regardless of how you see these people we need to united everyone against them. Untenable the way it is.
I write only to show my disdain for his dumbass plaid shirt and suspenders.
Agreed. So much to dislike, I include those on my list.
Well, he’s not wearing them for effect. That’s apparently how he dresses at home.
What this demonstrates is that politicians, like cops, should always assume that they are being video-recorded, no matter where they are or what they’re doing.
Yeah, and I’d hate the suspenders to deflect that fact Bushweller is a dick who feels the need to defend Dover Downs executives who regularly getting pay increases (now topping $1.4 million) while they claim the casino is in dire financial shape.
This whole thread is disingenuous. Posit this: Bushweller understands that the casino’s employees, a great many of who live in his district or the immediate area, will lose their jobs if the casino closes. Does his action — to try to keep the casino going by rolling back some of the egregious tax increases on the casino’s revenue that were passed in the last decade (which rollback will undoubtedly help the business) — constitute helping ONLY the business owners? I call bullshit.
Previous contributors here have bewailed the company’s compartmentalizing of gaming, NASCAR, the hotel, etc. as somehow dishonest or dishonorable. Again, BS. Assuming that’s bad puts you in the same camp as the parish of Saint Anthony of Padua trying to cream off revenue from Padua Academy to support the parish. Compartmentalization allows one to see what portion of the business is doing well and what part is not.
Michael Pillsbury is the left’s version of the guy who took down ACORN. As @A notes, “He literally shows up at Bushweller’s house unannounced and starts yelling like a crazy SOB.” It appears the biggest bad thing some contributors here object to is suspenders and plaid shirts. Get over yourselves.
“Egregious’? They were the beneficiaries of a state-created monopoly, and still screwed it up. They chose to build a hotel that turned into a money pit, and now they want the state to underwrite their failed business decision. Just don’t make THEM give back any of their increasing salary.
I don’t even so much blame Bushweller for carrying the casino’s water. I blame Bushweller for denying a minimum wage increase for workers throughout the state under the pretext of looking at, and ONLY looking at, the purported impact of a minimum wage increase on the casino. It’s totally disingenuous.
Such bullshit from this guy.
“Bushweller understands that the casino’s employees, a great many of who live in his district or the immediate area, will lose their jobs if the casino closes.”
…And yet, being a dick, he somehow neglects to bring the stratospheric executive pay into consideration. A simple question: If the casino is in danger of closing why do the execs keep getting raises?
“He literally shows up at Bushweller’s house unannounced and starts yelling like a crazy SOB.”
That’s a lie. Watch the tape.
ALSO – Excellent points from EL Som.
“Bushweller understands that the casino’s employees, a great many of who live in his district or the immediate area, will lose their jobs if the casino closes.”
Better to sentence them to wage slavery! And for the profits of the Executives! I love the Waltons. Walmart is my church!
….Unfaithful Skeptic… I call bullshit on your Bushweller bullshit. Take that weak shit elsewhere.
Wait…didn’t we come up with “video lotteries” in order to save the horse racing industry? Didn’t we allow table games to save the casinos?
If these morons can’t make gambling work for their businesses, they need to go out of business.
@Faithful Skeptic: The casino’s options are not binary. There are many other options beyond “getting a tax break from the state” and “closing.” At the top of any list of other options would be to sell out to another operator.
What actually will happen is what should happen in the first place: A lot of the ancillary attractions, like a few of the six (6) restaurants on the premises, will close. Those restaurants, like the restaurants at every casino, take business from all the free-standing restaurants in the area. People who lose jobs when casino restaurants close can get jobs at any of the hundreds of other restaurants that will gain more business when they don’t have to compete with a business that subsidizes restaurants to keep patrons on the premises. You can look this up; research on gambling operations shows this to be the case all over the country.
The only thing unique about Delaware’s casinos is that none is owned by one of the national gambling firms. And you’ll notice that the owners of Dover Downs have never even once hinted that they would sell out, for the simple reason that one of the national casino companies would snap it up in seconds — and, in the process, make the state’s other two casinos look like the rank amateur operations they are.
Linking his shitty min wage vote to the fucking bullshit issue of the viability of Dover Downs was so fucking stupid. He really is a dick. A dumb fucking bought and paid for asswipe.
Like Carper, he can work up more sympathy for corporations than people.
Wow. Double wow. Discussion focuses on letting a going business go under because you don’t like the salaries of the owners. Cmon, guys, think about the folks who work there. Alby says “People who lose jobs when casino restaurants close can get jobs at any of the hundreds of other restaurants that will gain more business when they don’t have to compete with a business that subsidizes restaurants to keep patrons on the premises.” Sounds like William F. Buckley re-runs, everybody has to constantly be disrupted in a godly capitalist economy.
I get it that y’all don’t like business that doesn’t suit your politics. The focus point here was and should bethat Bushweller is working for his constituents first and foremost. Hardball played isn’t ever pretty.
Jason330 quotes me quoting @A saying“He literally shows up at Bushweller’s house unannounced and starts yelling like a crazy SOB,” then adds unhelpfully “That’s a lie. Watch the tape.” It would be helpful if somewhere in this original discussion a link to said tape had been provided.
As for RE Vanilla’s remark “….Unfaithful Skeptic… I call bullshit on your Bushweller bullshit. Take that weak shit elsewhere,” America-Love-It-Or-Leave-It went out of fashion a couple decades ago. How about we deal with the question at hand, not exiling the questioner? I mean, just for argument’s sake.
Oh, almost forgot lebay. “Wait…didn’t we come up with “video lotteries” in order to save the horse racing industry? Didn’t we allow table games to save the casinos? If these morons can’t make gambling work for their businesses, they need to go out of business.”
Competition for gambling was weak in the early days of gambling in Delaware. Now that is not true — Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey all have casinos and they intercept gamblers coming to Delaware, so we’re not seeing them. The future of gambling in this over-saturated market is bleak, and the cheerful Darwinism of some of the posts here seems likely to come to pass. But that does NOT excuse a cavalier willingness to let workers’ jobs disappear without a fight. Bushweller’s doing the right thing.
Try a little empathy.
Empathy for whom? People earning minimum wage? I do have empathy for them. That’s why I want it raised.
How many people at Dover Downs are earning less than $9.25 an hour? Without that information, you’re just swallowing their line of BS.
You failed to address my point: If they’re doing so badly, bring in some professionals to run the place, or sell it to them. They intend to do neither, seeing taxpayers as their first and last port of refuge.
Darwinism? Was it Darwinism when the state allowed slots so the racetracks didn’t fail? Was it Darwinism when table games were allowed so the slots parlors could “compete”?
Just because you’re too dumb to understand the con being run here doesn’t mean there isn’t a con being run.
Preserving jobs is not the government’s function. Look it up. Government gave — not sold, gave — gaming licenses to these operations. Last time I checked the profits go to the stockholders, not the public. What you call “Darwinism” is actually called “capitalism” and, while it sucks for most people caught in it, that’s the way this country and world work. If we’re going to exempt people from those rules, I see no reason on Earth to start with Dover Fucking Downs.
Brian Bushweller is a man of limited abilities who has leveraged every job he ever had into a better but unrelated one, so I assume his chief talent is bullshitting people. People like you.
“Discussion focuses on letting a going business go under because you don’t like the salaries of the owners.”
Don’t be a sap. The salaries of the owners are the proof that the business is not in danger of going under. How can they give themselves regular pay raises and make over $1.4 million a year and still claim that they will fold if they have to pay cleaners a measly 50 cents more? They can’t. That’s the point. How can Bushweller buy into that bullshit? He can’t. Unless, I suppose, he is getting paid.
Also – There is a link dummy. I can’t teach you how to use the intenet.
Alby – I suspect he isn’t too dumb to understand the con being run, but is getting paid.
As for the restaurant workers, you’re apparently unfamiliar with the business. Cooks and waitresses change jobs frequently, because restaurants that aren’t loss leaders for casinos go out of business frequently.
Why you think Dover Downs employees should be exempt from the market forces the rest of us face is the question you ought to ask yourself, once you’re finished with your empathetic crying jag.
Dear Faithful Skeptic,
Please address the questions I asked. Until then, kindly go fuck your hat.
People come here anonymously and fucking cry about being “exiled.”
Take your weak argument elsewhere fucko.
Minimum wage is theft. I’m getting pretty tired of hayseeds and halfwits in Dover. I’m certainly not standing for anonymous dipshit cowards making dumb argument here.
Interesting, when the Democratic party thinks my friends Bob Venables, Tom Carper and Brian Bushweller no longer have a place at the table, they are on the verge of losing.
Great comment, David. Please keep reminding us that you’re friends with these people.
For the record, this isn’t a Democratic party space. You’re such a simpleminded dolt you can’t work out what’s happening here.
“Bob Venables…”???? You lost your argument there.