1. Maybe some candidates filed for the ballot this week, maybe they didn’t. You see, the Delaware Department Of Elections chose this week to roll out their new ‘improved’ website. Yes, it’s more visually appealing. And less informative. Here’s what I got when I was finally able to burrow down to click on the list of qualified candidates:
The requested URL /elections/primary/services/candidate/candidate_list.shtml was not found on this server.
Oh. Well, if you filed for the ballot this week, and would like people to know about it, please share the news here. Right now, even if you filed six months ago, your name appears nowhere as a candidate. The optimist in me thinks that perhaps the key staff people have been reassigned to conduct an emergency audit of BHL’s finances. The realist in me says, ‘No fucking way’.
A sincere request: Assuming that these are just the normal growing pains of installing a new site, please don’t bury the listing of qualified candidates as it appears that you are doing now.
2. Memo to candidates: Nobody cares what your own internal fundraising goals are. Man, way too many of these urgent messages, with a few campaigns being relentless repeat offenders. There’s nothing urgent about them–to us.
3. I did make two additional year-end contributions–one to Monica Shockley Porter because she called me, and one to Frank Burns because I got one and only one request from him.
4. The final beg from BHL of the year? Probably not. She’s now a proud card-carrying union member, which didn’t stop her from sitting silently while Carney slow-walked minimum wage legislation for eight fucking years:
With unions under attack across the country, Stephen, workers need champions now more than ever – and in this race, that’s Bethany.
Not only has Bethany been endorsed by both statewide and local labor unions – from the Delaware Building & Construction Trades Council (James Maravelias) to the LIUNA (Laborers’ International Union of North America–Brian McGlinchey) – she also would be the first card-carrying union member to serve as Delaware’s governor.
Bethany doesn’t just talk the talk when it comes to standing with the working class, she walks the walk. Bethany has worked as a nurse for her entire career, and she’s proud to stand side-by-side with other workers and union members in their fight for fair wages, labor practices, and more.
Her number one goal as Delaware’s governor will be to make this state the best place to live, work, and raise a family. Sign your name now, and let Bethany know you stand with her and with the unions and workers she’s fighting for.
Thank you!
Team Bethany
Ho-kay, kids, putting aside the fact that her citation of union support runs the gamut from A to B (nothing but construction trades), anybody ever seen her ass on a picket line? Guess they’re the only places where she doesn’t go for photo op ribbon cuttings.
That’s all I’ve got. What’d I miss, and whaddayathink?