DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 4, 2022

Attention, Dem Officeholders:  I don’t care if you just have to reach your fundraising goal–especially when you are either running unopposed or facing negligible opposition–especially when some of the money you’re raising gets passed through to Delaware Way types.  Which reminds me, for those of you considering runs for higher office down the line, selling out for Delaware Way candidates (oh, like, say, Deb Heffernan and Nnamdi) does not endear you to progressives who might otherwise be inclined to support you.  No, you don’t HAVE to back these types to prove you’re a ‘team player’.  You’re just saying to progressives that you’re on the wrong team.  You’re on the cops-can-do-no-wrong/anti-pot/pro-environmental racism/pro-corporate secrecy team. It has not gone unnoticed. If you continue to take your marching orders from Corporadems like Carper, Freel and Carney, then you’re on the Corporadem team.  It’s that simple.

One more note–there was an article this week where it was mentioned that John Carney signed something like 23 bills, at ceremonies up and down the state, in the last couple of weeks.  Every photo, every photo, I’ve seen, and there have been several, from these ceremonies prominently features Bethany Hall-Long, who had nothing to do with the passage of any of them.  Betcha she wasn’t in a photo of Carney vetoing the marijuana bill.  She’s utterly shameless.

Guess Who’s Pulling The Football Away This Time.  Yep, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Were she and Tulsi Gabbard separated at birth?

Homeland Security ‘Watchdog’ Was Fox Guarding Henhouse:

The Homeland Security watchdog now under scrutiny for his handling of deleted Secret Service text messages from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol previously was accused of misleading federal investigators and running “afoul” of ethics regulations while he was in charge of a Justice Department inspector general field office in Tucson, according to a newly disclosed government report.

In the 2013 report from the Justice Department’s inspector general, which was never publicly released, investigators said they did “not believe” Joseph V. Cuffari’s explanation for why he failed to inform his supervisors — against federal rules — about his testimony in a lawsuit brought by a federal prisoner.

Separately, they found that Cuffari broke ethics rules by referring law firms to the prisoner’s family, including firms where some of his close friends worked. “We concluded Cuffari’s actions violated the [inspector general] manual’s prohibition on unethical conduct,” said the report, which also noted that he may have violated guidelines by using his government email to lobby for a position as inspector general for the Arizona National Guard, among other issues.

An internal team recommendedreferring Cuffari to the inspector general’s investigations unit for a deeper review of his actions, the report said — but he quickly retired and the following month joined the administration of then-Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) as a policy adviser for public safety.