DL’s Open Source Candidate Questionnaire for People Running for the Office of Governor
All the cool orgs have questionnaire’s, so why not us? I only have one question. “What do you see as the ‘Democratic’ approach to this role?” It reveals a lot, but there are probably other questions that need to be asked.
For example, will you try to force state retirees into some shit ass, for-profit version of Medicare? Or something to that effect. What about LEOBOR?
You get the idea. Help me draft this motherfucker.
1. What is your plan for improving openness and transparency in state government?
2. Three or four years ago, taxpayers received their refunds 3 or 4 weeks after filing. Now it takes 10-12 weeks, and sometimes more. How do you propose to improve the responsiveness of the Division of Revenue?
3. Should public-private partnerships that receive state funds be subject to the Freedom of Information Act? If not, why not?
4. How would you improve management of state government to ensure that debacles like Bloom Energy and the Port of Wilmington/Gulftainer are not repeated?
I like all of these; if anything I would pose them as cross exam questions to force their hand; ie, do you agree that by accepting public funds the university of Delaware is subject to foia?
1. By what amount will you raise taxes to force the wealthiest Delawareans to pay their fair share?
2. By what amount will you raise Delaware’s minimum wage to support the lowest-paid workers in our state?
3. What will you do to combat wage theft, labor violations, and union-busting by employers to create an even playing field for Delaware workers?
4. What will you do differently from the failed attempts of the Carney-Hall-Long-DeMatteis Administration to stop the state employee brain drain and make the state an employer of choice again by hiring more and better people into state government careers?
Hopefully the reply to union busting will be more robust than the utter silence when the poultry worker’s union was decertified in Sussex County. Coons? Carper? Crickets.
I see what you did there.
I didn’t support BHL when she ran for Lt. Governor. I’m not backing her, or anybody yet, for Governor.
But she wasn’t handpicked to be Carney’s Lt. Governor. Not like when Carper forced Carney onto the ticket with Minner. So it’s inaccurate to paint her as part of this administration.
Framing is 90% of winning the debate.
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Wow. Did they teach you that at Oxford?
I’m trying to remember who actually is a part of the Administration. Oh yes, Eugene Young.
Not elected independently. Actually appointed and serving – at this very hour – at the pleasure of John Carney. A true outsider.
Frame that and put it over your fireplace. You’ll be looking at it a lot over the next several months.
Hey, you should know that someone is spouting gibberish and posting it under your name.
I was gonna say, looks like we’re already in Campaign Troll Season.
This is my problem with voting a lt governor for governor in de – it’s a worthless position and should be abolished so if you are in such a position why should you be considered for a higher position? It’s like Milton waddams were promoted to ceo
It is officially a part-time job. And it’s modeled after the vice-presidency, which is also a “worthless” position unless and until the chief executive dies or quits.
And if the position didn’t exist — let’s say we changed the state Constitution so that some other executive moved up if the governor left office — then that office would become dramatically more important.
We pay the person $80K. You can probably list 10 ways the state wastes more money than that without thinking too hard.
If it’s the voting you think we could do without, go after the row offices. The voting public has no clue who ought to be the Register of Wills.
I could see the merit in electing the row offices in small rural counties like Kent County, Maryland where abuse of them mixed with family feuds could definitely likely be a thing. Having them be elected in NCCo is pretty ludicrous in the modern era IMO.
We used to elect something called the prothonotary. To this day, I can’t tell you what the prothonotary does.
Clerk of the Superior Court
Matt Meyer: Do you continue to plan to sleep with every Developer and their attorney like you did as CE selling out thousands of residents?
BHL: Will you simply hire all the retreads (do anything for a state job) of the Carney admin? Or bring in some much needed outside Dover experience?
To be fair, the job of county executive is to sleep with every developer and land-use attorney doing business in the county. Every county executive sees growth as desirable.
Don’t you live in a very nice house in Hockessin that a developer built for you?
Hey, Isabel. Developers build houses. That’s what they do. (Unless they’re the kind that focuses on offices, shopping centers or warehouses.) If you’ve got a house, bet that a developer built it.
In what way does that change the truth of what I said?
better than a crappy house in Hockessin. where is your tent?
Isabel doesn’t change the fact that most developers and their attorneys are POS
I think the motivation was more about attacking me than defending developers and their attorneys.
Spending 40 years in the public eye has taught me many things, among them that ad hominem attacks are not just the first but often the only avenue people take to express disagreement.