Delaware Political Weekly: Dec. 22-28, 2023
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?
Candidate lists are here: https://elections.delaware.gov/candidates/candidatelist/index.shtml
It’s a pretty fucking awful site. I didn’t think they could make it worse, but they did.
Thanks! So, both Deb Heffernan (D-RD 6) and Shane Darby (D-Wilmington CD 2) filed for reelection this week.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Allen’s Chicken Company used legal maneuvering to decertify the union representing chicken processing workers at Allen Company plants.
The silence from Delaware Democratic elected officials, including the governor and lt. governor on and on was deafening.
NOW BHL CLAIMS to be a “friend” to working men and women? Show me! Liar!
I will add that BHL gave a non-answer answer to a very specific question that was asked during our recent district committee conversation with her:
“Will you ensure that state retirees are not required to go on Medicare Advantage?”
She’s a total phony.
Yet you will all vote for her.because there is a D after her name. As the party has evolved over the last 30 or so years, the little person has been marginalized and replaced by the radical left thinking such as gender neutral, safe spaces, open borders and a welfare state just to name a few. How has that helped the very people you claim to need help? It doesn’t. But it does massage your elitism.
Did AI write this? Or a real person?
Yep, the Radical Left has marginalized the ‘little person’.
You have no clue.
At the same time the radical right Repubs. led by the traitorous seditionist Trump have tried to marginalize and replace DEMOCRACY with a Nazi style fascism you sanctimonious asswipe.
John Kowalko (Retired State Representative and proud “radical left” thinking and acting human being)
You sound unhinged.
And you sound like a trolling, MAGA inspired, conspiracy theorist whose shrunken brain cannot muster up a coherent argument supporting your “unhinged” statement.
Representative John Kowalko
Find another screen name. That one’s been taken for a long time.
Another “Democrat” whose compassion extends only as far as the mirror.
Who do you think “the very people you claim to need help” are, and why do you think advocating for them doesn’t help them?
You are a moron. Go drink your own urine or something. See if that helps.
Dear Bethany, Union card you say? or are you a general member of the Nurses Association? What actual bargaining unit are you in? My guess is NONE! Feel free to correct me you have my number.
My guess is that she belongs to UD’s AAUP chapter.
Would be nice if she posted an image of her card in her next campaign email.
One other thing: even if she’s card-carrying, is she dues-paying? (If she is paying dues, she may well be taking it out of her campaign account. After all, she thinks showing her union bona fides is a campaign attribute.)
She’s part of the union of liars and slum lords.