DL Open Thread: Sun., July 28, 2019
Waste Management Bribes Minquadale Civic Association In Exchange For More Landfill Space? Sure looks that way. $4-5 mill over 10 to 20 years. Profits from the landfill. BTW, county leaders stand firmly in opposition to the landfill height increase from 130 to 190 feet. There is, of course, a Dover connection, and it raises questions. Rep. Franklin Cooke sponsored HB 212, which caps the height of an industrial landfill at 130 feet. The bill passed the House on June 25, a full week before the end of session. The lobbyists against the bill on behalf of Waste Management were the Buzzards the Byrd Group, who have long been paid advocates for Delaware’s Most Evil. The bill went to the Senate and…then nothing. This bill should/could have been run in the Senate, but wasn’t. Did somebody get to Senate sponsor Darius Brown? Does Nicole Poore have a new VP position we don’t know about? I’d like to know. I’ll delve into it further on my next day off. But this stinks as much as Minquadale will if the landfill is permitted to expand. Oh, and count this as a rhetorical question, but where the fuck is DNREC? Other than at the State Fair, I mean.
Where Baltimore Rat Infestations Are Most Common. Kushnerville, owned by, yes, Trump’s sleazy son-in-law. Fight verbal attacks with facts, it’s not that difficult. Worst family ever.
One Climate Crisis ‘Bright Spot’: Meteorologists Are Becoming Better At Predicting Heat Waves. Hey, practice makes semi-perfect.
What do you want to talk about?
BTW, the House Roll Call on HB 212 was primarily on party lines. Except Steve Smyk voted for the bill, and the only D who voted no was, wait for it, Speaker Pete.
The people in that civic association are fools if they expect the “$4 to $5 million over 10 to 20 years” will ever come to fruition. The Indians who sold Manhattan Island for $20 dollars in beads will have gotten a better deal. Once Waste Management gets done with allocating costs, the profit will be whatever WM wants it to be.
Duncan Black on rat infested shitholes:
If a Democrat ever talked about rural (I mean REAL) America the way that Republicans talk about urban America pretty much daily, it would be a 24/7 cable news story.
Not sure if anyone got to brown he was at rally yesterday. Prob Poore as usual. Couldn’t stay the whole thing but heard Colby and Kevin Caneco were dueling for best speech. Good to know they are both young and upcoming. Cooke supposedly ran the thing.
While I’ll have more on this in the next couple of days, I took a look at Darius Brown’s campaign finance reports. On his 2018 final report, Bob Byrd, his wife, Kim Gomes, and her husband were virtually the only individual donors to his general election campaign. They all represent the firm that lobbies on behalf of Waste Management. Coincidence?
Please do let us know. Senator brown never “rubbed” me the right way, no pun intended to his offensive touching conviction. While I’m all for forgiving people for a mess up I wasn’t aware Senator brown has essentially a rap sheet
I’m less upset about what happened 10 years ago than some others are. But if he is going to use his office to ‘replenish the ol’ coffers’ instead of protecting the concerns of his constituents, then he needs to be called out. And if the Waste Management lobbyists are replenishing the ol’ coffers in exchange for his selling out his constituents, then they need to be called out. And that looks like what’s happening.