DL Open Thread: Friday, August 14, 2020
Tracking Trump’s Efforts To Stay In Office By Any Means Necessary. Your one-stop shop on how this autocrat plans to de-democratize the election. An absolute must-read. Trump comes right out and says it: He’s destroying the post office to win reelection.
Federal Judge Demands Trump To Produce Evidence Of Mail-In Ballot Voter Fraud. In Pennsylvania. So far, they’ve provided none.
FINALLY, Someone Asks Trump The Magic Question. Every bleeping reporter there should have followed up on that question, but none of them did. Trump didn’t even try to answer. How could he?
Who Raked In The Big Bucks During The Pandemic? The Insurance Companies. You know, the behemoths that don’t provide one single dollar to, you know, healthcare. Tell me again why Medicare For All isn’t in the national Democratic platform.
Carney: Delaware Can’t Afford Trump-Mandated Unemployment Benefits Match. Trump has put all 50 states in a huge financial hole. He doesn’t care.
Carney Signs Chokehold Ban. This deserves more than a mere footnote. A direct result of the George Floyd protests.
Women Sue State Over Workplace Hijab Prohibition. Seriously, the state couldn’t have come up with a reasonable policy here? It is religious discrimination, pure and simple.
What do you want to talk about?
” He’s destroying the post office to win reelection.”
Trump should lose with the lowest vote total of any candidate ever. Any Republican that ever claimed to be an American first, and a Republican second how votes for him is an out and out fraud.
I just got my absentee ballot. What does insurance commissioner even do and which candidate is better?
The IC office says it is there to…. Protect Delawareans through regulation and education while providing oversight of the insurance industry to best serve the public.
I take it to mean that when Insurance Cos want rate increases they need to be checked out and approved by the ICs office. Except under Matt Denn it has been a bit of a doormat, and a rubber stamp. (Don’t get me started on how great Matt Denn was).
I’m voting for the Dem incumbent, Trinidad Navarro in the primary and general.
The Insurance Commissioner regulates all insurance companies doing business in Delaware. That means licensing, approving mergers and acquisitions; approving requested rate increases; assuring companies honor their policies and properly and promptly pay claims. The Commissioner arbitrates claim disputes and proposes and lobbies for changes in law. The Department also licenses and regulates insurance producers (agents, adjusters and appraisers). Relative to rate increases, until 2009 the Commissioner did not have the authority to regulate health insurance premiums). The other types of insurance include Property, Motor Vehicle, Life, long-term care, pet, workers compensation, travel, as well as the Delaware Captive insurance industry.
The DOI also conducts regular and targeted market conduct examinations of insurance companies domiciled in Delaware.
The DOI is NOT funded by tax dollars. It is funded by mandated payments from the insurance companies based on premiums paid by Delaware policyholders and licensing costs paid by the companies and producers. The DOI does contribute to General Funds in that penalties paid by companies and producers for violations of the insurance code do directly to that fund.
Candidates for Commissioner, unlike for other Delaware elective offices, may not receive contributions from Insurance companies.
This is an important elected office because the Commissioner has to act in the best interest of insurance consumers, a position that may not be in line with that of a Governor, who appoints the Commissioner in most other states.
Mitch Crane
Regulatory Specialist (DOI) 2007-2011
Acting Director of Consumer Services (2009-2011)
Chief Deputy Commissioner (2017-2019)
The U.S. Postal Service is being dismantled, but never fear. Sen. Tom Carper, a champion of the USPS over the years, has issued a sternly worded tweet. Sen. Chris Coons has done likewise with more frequency.
So you can’t say they’ve done nothing. Persuasion has failed, so whaddaya gonna do?
Massachusetts College Democrats try to manufacture a scandal to sink a gay progressive candidate challenging House Ways and Means chair Rep. Richard Neal.
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/12/alex-morse-college-democrats-chats/
And the leadership of the Massachusetts Democratic Party, including the grandson of Franklin Roosevelt, helped them with the scheme.
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/14/alex-morse-richie-neal-state-party/
Heads should roll over this, and Jim Roosevelt should be removed from the State Party & the DNC.
I’ve been wondering about that race. Neal is timid to the point of him running interference for the Rethuglicans.
Has there been a backlash yet?
I don’t fathom what resonates in the media this cycle, your guess is as good as mine. With some of people I’ve heard are involved in the story (Glenn Greenwald, among others) it could all get washed out spectacularly for all I know.
The Boston Globe picked up the story yesterday and Alex Morse (the smeared candidate) is getting some good fundraising days in response, so there’s that. Remains to be seen if the Mass. Democratic Party will conduct a fair investigation of their own leadership. I’m likewise tampering expectations that the DNC will do anything in the run-up to the convention.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/15/metro/umass-amherst-state-democratic-party-conduct-probes-wake-allegations-against-holyoke-mayor-alex-morse/