A Two-Way D Primary For Governor?
Going against the Conventional Wisdom, I think it’s possible.
The two candidates? Matt Meyer and Collin O’Mara.
Now hear me out. I write this not only because both Meyer and O’Mara appeared at the dinner that our 7th RD cooked for the Arden Dinner Gild, and not only because they made positive impressions on the attendees. You all know that I like Matt. This was my first official interaction with Collin, who brought his two kids and his wife to the event. There is no doubt that O’Mara has a lot of ground to make up in terms of just meeting Delawareans. But he creates a very positive impression. Both Meyer and O’Mara have visions that they can share with primary voters. I know because I heard each of them explaining to attendees why they’re running. Both have the money advantage over…
Bethany Hall-Long, though, to be fair, BHL attended last year’s dinner. Didn’t, and still can’t, explain why she’s running. I know that the CW is that O’Mara is a spoiler who will help Bethany. I don’t think so. I think that BHL has already maxed out her prospective primary supporters, has nowhere near a majority, and has nowhere to go but down. Some of BHL’s supporters are ‘Anybody But Matt’ supporters who had no place else to go. Now they do. Or, may, if O’Mara can boost his profile.
Without trying to sound too sexist, O’Mara has that Kennedyesque appearance and appeal that might attract female BHL supporters to his campaign.
We still haven’t gotten to the distinct possibility that BHL’s legal woes may not be behind her. I mean, she still hasn’t released her so-called audit. We already know that she’s having problems raising money. We know that Matt is having no problems raising money. And after seeing Collin in action last weekend, I have no doubt that he’ll be able to raise money from contributors. And Bethany will presumably have little to no money coming in from her husband’s bullshit Section 8 house-flipping business now that he no longer ‘works’ for the County and has the inside information he used to access. Oh, and she no longer has that money they ‘borrowed’ from contributors in order to maintain their hardscrabble existence in their country club community.
If someone can explain to me how BHL’s insider candidacy is gonna grow to the point where she has a shot, I’d like to hear it. Otherwise, I think she’s gonna start hemorrhaging votes. At first, they’ll flip to undecided. Then, they’ll either go to Collin, or they will not vote.
Feel free to disagree, and let me know why.
Remember Wilmington 2016. Three-way race, the one white guy wins with less than 50 percent while the two black guys split the remainder of the vote.
Obviously not the same situation, but BHL is no doubt thinking the same principle applies: all she has to do is get 35-40 percent of the vote while the two males in the race split what’s left. I’m not saying she could get 35-40 percent and win, but I suspect that’s what her team is thinking.
Also, based on how they’ve articulated their views this far, BHL appears to be the ConservaDem, with Meyer a little to the left and O’Mara more to the left. So, in BHL’s calculation, Meyer and O’Mara would split the liberal Ds while she carries the old-school labor types.
The campaign might not play out quite that way. O’Mara seems to be following the Markell playbook, with a well-scripted progressive vision, but those who remember Markell will note that the longer he remained in office the more he reverted into corporate D mode. So there’s bound to be some skepticism as to how O’Mara might evolve.
One other issue: if we’ve got a 3-way primary, we likely have a governor who wins the crucial race (the primary) with less than 50 percent of the vote, which could lead to divided loyalties in the GA, which would not bode well for progressive legislation.
Like you, I’d prefer a two-way race, but I think BHL believes there are some good reasons for her to remain in contention.
Are democratic primary voters so dense and cave like as to vote “ohh female, I female, me vote female” or do they vote issues?
I mean I get the whole women voting for women but I think it’s overplayed and lots of women vote for who they want in the privacy of the voter booth.
Sure, lots do. But I learned what I learned when a lot of Republican women voted for Ruth Ann Minner in the privacy of the voter booth because they wanted to see a woman become governor.
I’m talking about people who don’t know squat about the issues, a group that outnumbers those who know anything about issues. Even those who pay attention tend to be single-issue – hence the big anti-Meyer contingent.
I agree with mediawatch. In my experience women vote for female candidates, not good-looking males. Given that most people will be voting without knowing anything about any of them, it will be a big factor.
Her support doesn’t have to grow. If she can get 40,000 votes she can win.
You’ll have to excuse me if I roll my eyes at the notion that anyone will be persuaded to vote for O’Mara simply on his looks and charm. It’s the year 2024, lets try and give women some credit for how they go about making their voting decisions.
This isn’t a comment on the man himself, his looks, or the gubernatorial race whatsoever. Just wanted to push back on that comment in particular.
Also, can we please please please retire the term “Kennedyesque”? Or maybe start invoking a politician from this century?
O ye of little faith…I take your points.
However, I AM from the preceding century. ‘Kennedyesque’ is all I’ve got.
Plus Mediawatch’s point is well-taken–but only if BHL remains a credible candidate. I don’t think she will.
If looks are fair game (and I think they are–plenty of research supports that better-looking candidates have an edge getting hired so why would getting elected be different?), then so is personality.
For me, BHL is perpetually in a hurry to get somewhere ANYWHERE else but where she happens to be. When she’s forced to stay put she’s totally distracted, talks incessantly about where she just was or will be next, checks her phone, and only asks about your well-being out of superficial courtesy proven by the fact she can’t focus on you long enough to stay tuned for an answer. People in the political sphere that like her do so because they feel they have something to gain. She’s a terrible public speaker–just spews buzzwords inside of meandering sentences that add up to nada. No substance. She might be a smart woman (she does have a doctorate in Nursing) but she doesn’t know how to display it. The campaign finance irregularities have not been adequately explained probably because her husband is guilty of using donor money improperly and she is guilty of covering it up. I wish more people were aware of this. Most people I talk to have no idea.
Matt Meyer is remote. He is affable enough but you never get past the surface. He is so private as to be inscrutable. He never met a developer he didn’t love and he doesn’t work well with the trade unions (understatement). He loves charter schools, is supported by the corporate education reformers, and has the temerity to say he’ll be the first public school teacher governor when he only taught a couple of years and did not complete a teacher preparation program. It’s an insult to the people who dedicated their lives to the teaching profession. He is arrogant.
O’Mara is approachable, friendly, shows interest in others, wicked smart (check out his bio), genuinely humble, and running to the left of the other two. Hopefully he clinches some key endorsements from lefty organizations and their members volunteer to help get him elected. I also hope he makes the rounds up and down the state because the more people get to know him, I truly think they will see he has the personality to go with those Kennedyesque (sorry JoshW) looks.
I am voting for O’Mara.
“I wish more people were aware of this. Most people I talk to have no idea.”
This has been my experience as well. That’s why I want to see what the negative ads look like before I rule her out of contention.
That might be the best description of BHL I’ve ever read. Certainly better than anything I’ve written.
First person I ever met who had two phones and was carrying on different conversations in each one while racing to G-d knows where.
The word ‘peripatetic’ might have been invented for her.
You, uh, sure you don’t want to write for us?
“You, uh, sure you don’t want to write for us?”
This isn’t the first time you asked this question to someone who turned out to be a troll. Zascha is an O’mara shill and I’m starting to think you are falling under BloomBoy’s spell
No reason to be nasty Jonny. I’m just a person with a preference for a particular candidate. And I shared my personal impressions of all three. When there was a binary choice, was everyone on here critiquing BHL a shill for MM or vice versa? Or do you save that accusation for O’Mara supporters exclusively? i like the guy okay? You like someone else. Great. Go with God. No need for name-calling.
Your personal impressions ar grounded in feelings, not facts. MM may not be a card-carrying member of the WFP, but he is easily the most progressively-minded, viable candidate we’ve had for governor in a generation.
Show us O’Mara’s progressive receipts. Show me what actions he has taken. All I hear are empty promises from his platform with no track record to back them up.
It’s telling that you think trade union endorsement is a hallmark of progressivism in 2024 in a state like Delaware. Take a drive by the IBEW hall during a meeting night and it’s jacked-up trucks, punisher flags and AR stickers as far as the eye can see. Do you really think they are gonna support the Jewish guy?
She never mentioned trade unions. What made you jump to that conclusion?
What are Meyer’s progressive receipts?
“ …he doesn’t work well with the trade unions (understatement)…”
In addition to the hope center, Meyer has pushed back against the police hegemony and has caught real shit from the unions for it Meyer has been a champion for transit /non motorized transportation, pushed for mj legalization, min wage increase and had actually taught students in a challenging environment. He changed the culture in county government that was effectively poisoned by Gordon and Coons
Most of the things you mention are wish-list items that a county executive can’t do – cannabis legalization (already accomplished by the GA), minimum wage increase, public transit. These are all state-controlled areas, so stating his goals on these issues is no different from anyone else doing so. BHL is the only one who served in elective state government.
There are many conservatives who taught children in challenging environments through Teach for America, so that one proves nothing.
And claiming that the culture in county government was poisoned by both Gordon and Coons, who were mortal enemies, requires some explanation.
I take it this means you’re going to stick with “Johnny” as your screen name.
Also, saying Meyer doesn’t work well with trade unions is a far cry from a claim that O’Mara wants their endorsement. It’s pretty clear they’re in BHL’s corner from their recent fundraiser.
Yeah. Johnny, just dial it back a tad. Not to sound like a republican but don’t be so “triggered”. Fwiw I’m voting for Meyer but I don’t disagree with some of the critiques of him. Alan Levin chief among them. But he’s the better of the three in my view.
Zascha laid out their views and yeah it’s their opinion I guess and I don’t agree with all of it but none of it was unfair. I’m happy to have someone with a candidate who is actually talking about what they are going to do and specifically why they like them. I maybe missed it but I haven’t seen a soul in all of the months we’ve been going through this, that has done the same for BHL. Telling.
I think El Soms take is correct and it’s a two person race. I still think Meyer has the significant edge and will be the nominee. But I don’t think anything negative about omarra other than he should actually live here for a bit and maybe volunteer or be active on, say, education issues, before he graces us with his presence and promises to fix it. It’s a bit tone deaf. If he had done that four years ago or hell even two, I’d give him a little more credit. I am happy he’s talking about issues though and I do hope it informs meyers policy development.
He DOES live here. He couldn’t run if he didn’t. To quote from the Delaware Code:
Emphasis mine.
Also, he was running the National Wildlife Foundation. I don’t think that leaves a lot of time for volunteer work.
It’s official. I’ve now been ‘in the bag’ for Bethany (anon5), a Meyer shill, and now a BloomBoy.
I can think for myself. Can you?
Alby, I said “for a bit”. I don’t doubt that he lives here now because he wants to run for governor. That said, “he couldn’t run if he didn’t.” Sure. If we had an elections commissioner who believed they actually had a job to do then perhaps that’s the case. But we seem to have a totally lawless elections system in the state now which is frightening.
But six years is also when his wife ran for governor in our neighboring state, no? It doesn’t take a lot to be a bit suspicious of that and he needs to explain that. Feels like a very basic thing he should do.
A lot of people have important jobs and are able to live in and contribute to their community. Especially on issues that they claim to be the most critical things facing those communities. He didn’t do that. That’s just the facts and you’re not going to convince anyone otherwise. Because it’s not true. I don’t know what they’re saying at the cafe in your arrondissement but what’s actually happening on the ground is a bit different mon ami
I’m not trying to convince anyone, I’m pointing out the flaw in your argument.
I don’t place a high premium on volunteer work. You do. The fact that others volunteer has no bearing on whether he did. I don’t judge him by what other people do, and I think you’re just looking for reasons to trash him so Meyer doesn’t have to face a split anti-BHL vote.
You’ve made your bias clear. Let it rest there, because my tolerance is low for people who take personal shots at me. I live in Delaware half the year, mon ami and spend the rest of the time in Paris because that’s where my wife lives. Just like O’Mara’s wife lived in Maryland, apparently.
Sorry if it came across as a personal attack. It was intended to be some gentle ribbing. Mostly jealousy. And I’ll admit my bias and questions. But all of that said, I’d certainly vote for OMarra over BHL any day of the week and I hope he does keep talking about issues. No personal or policy gripes with the guy. Glad he got in even though I won’t be supporting him at this juncture.
OK, taken as intended. And you shouldn’t be that jealous. When people ask me what I do in France, I tell them it’s mostly the laundry, the grocery shopping and the dishes.
I will vote for whichever of O’Mara or Meyer is polling stronger as the primary approaches. My worry is that each will get 30 percent and BHL will win with 40.
Man this O’mara fellow sounds like the second coming of JFK-maybe those Qanon bozos were right!
As someone who follows politics casually, Zascha’s description of Meyer sounds an awful lot like John Carney. To me, these are three sides of the same coin — all corporate Dems with no real progressive alternative.
Carney had No Agenda. No ideas and no vision. BHL’s only agenda is getting elected.
You may or may not like what Meyer and O’Mara are proposing, but they at least have ideas worth listening to.
When you talk to Meyer, you can tell he’s listening and thinking about what you’re saying. When you talk to Carney, you can hear the monkey banging cymbals in the space that should contain a brain.
Not the “same coin,” not even a coin in the same hemisphere.
LIKE!
Whoa, no need to come at my neck, as the kids say. As I mentioned, I’m a casual observer and you all have front rows seats to all of this. Here’s the view from the bleachers—
BHL appears to be an incompetent criminal.
O’Mara’s limited public service in Delaware saddled Delmarva customers with higher electric bills for 20 years because of the Bloom fiasco.
I did listen to Meyer’s interview with REV a few weeks ago. My only takeaway was that Meyer supports more bike lanes in Wilmington. Whoop-di-do.
I’ll tune back in when the campaign starts
I think your take is pretty close to most people’s take–other than the incompetent criminal part, which most people don’t know yet.
Meaning–the candidates have a lot of blanks to fill in.
Meyer has a push poll out right now that claims O’Mara “was a political operative for John McCain and Rudy Giuliani”.
He was a republican up until the day Gov. Markell hired him at DNREC according to an article I found on google.
The poll also asked who your “second choice” was, Meyer is clearly losing his shit about O’Mara.
And you know it’s a ‘push poll’ from Meyer how, exactly?
O’Mara did work for McCain in 2000, while he was a student at Dartmouth. As an intern. Can’t find any tie between him and Giuliani.
I didn’t realize he went to Dartmouth. That’s a whole new reason not to vote for him.
Except–he went to grad school at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School. That’s MY jam, along with the Newhouse School.
I know a couple of kids at Dartmouth, both as liberal as can be. They’re not all Dinesh and what’s-her-name, the gay-hater.
https://www.syracuse.com/news/2014/05/collin_omara_former_syracuse_whiz_kid_appointed_president_of_national_wildlife_f.html
Found this article online that says O’Mara was executive director of the Onondaga County Democratic Party (Syracuse) after he graduated from Dartmouth in 2001 and before he left for Oxford in 2003 and he worked for Democratic Mayors in Syracuse and San Jose. Looks like he has been a Democrat for 24 years.
Except that time he was a Republican. He’s still beholden to his corporate cronies. Look at his finance report.
You don’t have to be a Republican to be a corporate suck-up. Most Delaware Democrats are, too.
I’m more worried about his love of bipartisanship than which party his donors belong to. Meyer’s got a lot of Republican donors, too.
As a union member and building trades member Ive been reading these comments under some of these threads and feel like there is some hatred towed us which shocks me coming from “liberals” and “progressives”
I would like to educate people that unions have fought for higher wages, better healthcare, and retirements for everyone, not just their members, and that unions are literally a group of people who go to work everyday and want these, it’s not some shadow cult organization lol. I think some of this might be because people only communicate from behind their screen and have no real idea of issues, or don’t know anything about unions, or believe the BS republicans have pushed for decades to break unions, I hope I can clear up some things here, trust me when I say unions and building trades are beyond frustrated with establishment politics and the machine, you have no idea what is discussed on the job sites and behind closed doors, of why we are and have been endorsing people that don’t help push the issues we fight for. I hope people understand that for decades this was a republican state, then taken over by slightly left leaning republicans who claimed to be democrats, (for Christ sake coons was a republican who switched parties because he knew that was his rout to winning). We know the corporate policies Biden and carper passed to get Delaware to be the banking state. In this state the only real union jobs were some teachers, some state workers, the car plants (which we tragically lost), and building trades. So in turn it had never been a union friendly state, in which unions were always forced to walk on razor blades to not endorse the wrong person over the threat of political retribution and a threat that they would repeal prevailing wage (which requires contractors to pay a fair wage) and make this state “right to work” both of which are shocking for a “blue state”, and coming from “blue” politicians. Now Delaware is one of the bluest states and it is still not union friendly (again shocking of a party and voters who claim to be for the betterment of peoples lives, not to support and help them grow!) reading these comments is obvious people are tired of the establishment and the machine, I think that’s coming to a head nation wide and something both parties are dealing with, I hope the progressive politicians who are getting elected enact strict term limits to prevent this for our future and to help us break the system that creates the establishment, otherwise you just become another politician. so imagine being a union member and having the political machine come behind closed doors and say “we better get your endorsement….) Delaware has a lot!! Of wealthy people who behind closed doors want to keep the rich corporate status quo Delaware has given them under republicans pre 1990’s and “dems” if that’s what you call them now, and that’s exploitive business practices that have made them wealthy, and max profits!! I’m shocked anyone here is claiming Markell or Meyer are liberals or progressives. To me these guys are the worst democrats because they, behind closed doors buddy up to the wealthy and pander as progressives because they “weren’t part of the machine” but get in and pass the things their rich buddies want. Seems people are ignoring their previous work on some of the establishment politicians cabinets or campaigns previous to them getting elected. Same as the machine candidate but worse because they claim not to be.
I’ll start with Markell (mind you Markell is currently in the Biden administration so is he really not part of the machine?)
when it comes to unions, (he didn’t get the endorsement because of the fear if we did and carney won, what would happen) also because he was backed by Alan Levine, and we know what alan Levine stood for.
He did win, we were threatened with right to work multiple times, a lot of laws that promoted good and fair pay rules were repealed, we lost car plants, lost Avon, DuPont became a fraction of what it was, banking became a fraction of what it was in this state (not saying they were his fault but what did he do to fight to keep them or bring in something equal it all happened under his watch with Levine heading up DeDo) you have to understand these were great paying jobs that lifted people out of poverty, offered generations of good pay to many generations of people and families, and had retirement plans, good healthcare plans, those jobs offered great jobs in general even if you were on the maintenance or custodial end in those business.
Then we got Meyer who is markells friend and goes to the same wealthy synagogue, full of people who hate workers who fight for a better deal and again he didn’t get the endorsement because we knew how Markell treated us and knew he was an economic advisor in the Markell administration (again look at all the good jobs we lost and were not replaced under Markell) “not to economic in my point of view for the average worker”
we knew they were pals and worked and fundraiser together. When elected the first thing meyer did was repeal rules on the county level that promoted upstanding companies that had apprenticeship programs to get county work, a bill that directly hurt building trades because we fight for good pay, and programs that bring in the next generation of construction workers, these are programs our contractors have to abide by or can be sued for breach of contract, so now any yo-yo/hack construction company can come in and take your tax dollars if they aren’t from Delaware and essentially steal your money if they screw up because they aren’t using properly trained people. Union rules require contractors hire local people. Meyer claimed to do this to promote equity and inclusion, but there are statistics that say since that was passed minority participation has dropped on county jobs, and I’ll explain why.
I worked non union for the first 10 years of my career, for contractors that belong to the associated builders and contractors, I will tell you now that I’m approaching my 11th year in the union (21 years in the trade) that the union trades are way more diversified then any non union job site I’ve ever been on, i will also say the trades aren’t very well diversified to begin with when it comes to African Americans, but there’s a big difference with their participation on the union side. i will also say the ABC promotes and pushes programs to lower wages and exploit workers (whole nother conversation) but both Markell and Meyer were/are heavily backed and funded by Delaware chapter ABC. Again guys like this, to me are the worst because they portray themselves as something else but are there really pushing republican wants. End of prevailing wage, and right to work, no real democrat, liberal, or progressive would push them bills, these are big business republican bills. Both guys had/have Alan Levine funding them, Meyer claims to be pro higher minimal wage but put Levine in positions in the county to essentially sell the air port to the highest bidder, Markell had him in Dedo (again look at the job loss during that tenure). Look behind the scenes of what Levine really stands for, him and so del concepts fought the hell out of minimal raise hike in Delaware, and he is on record saying he likes right to work, so how can any liberal or true progressive have a guy like that on their team?? I post this to educate people on the delicate razor union workers walk on, we would love to grow and grow our membership, we constantly face pushback from the republicans and establishment political machine here, and face threats from guys that pretend to be progressives but surround themselves with the ABC and guys like Alan Levine who would love to push republicans wants to keep wages and workers down, and end unions. We are between the rockiest of hard places. Not sure how such a blue state always faces the threat of right to work and an end of prevailing wage, please do your research and you will find this is a red state policy and all the states that enacted them are literally the poorest states!! If we could get someone to actually push union policies and help unions grow we could give so many more people and families the opportunity to get out of poverty. Our memberships are handcuffed and have been for decades, it’s almost impossible for us to grow in this state which astonishes me!
I’ll end this by asking people to look up the difference between a statesman and a politician, and also look at facts of what Markell and Meyer did, look who is funding them and what those funders actually stand for, if Markell or Meyer were statesmen and not politicians they would have pushed actual programs that would allow unions to thrive and worked with unions to help them grow even if they didn’t get the initial “endorsement” because trust me!! We have been dying for political help like that and they would get that unrelated support and endorsements after that, we constantly face threats from the machine and are looking for an out but Markell and Meyer haven’t been that. BHl was a union member and that’s part of why she got the endorsement, I do agree her time in politics doesn’t seem good, but also note lieutenant governors, vice presidents don’t have power unless they senate is evenly mixed and they become the tie breaker, they are figure heads. bhl a woman, and Harris is a black woman, that’s why they were picked by the machine as running mates, for looks and clout, and that’s the true sad reality,
Let’s see, a post offensive to Jews and to women. Impressive.
BTW, have you read this, or something like it?:
https://www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/more-perfect-union-trade-construction-racism-pennsylvania-20220830.html
The history of racism in construction trades unions goes back more than two centuries. We had a trade union guy who got a job as head of Labor Law Enforcement, first under Minner, then under Markell, who shredded virtually every civil rights complaint brought to his office. Oh, he was also the President Pro-Tem of the Delaware State Senate.
On the first read that very long comment seemed in line with the general consensus on Dem politics I have been reading for years at DL.
I had to read the post again to find the anti-semitism/misogynist part, because it was after the mid-point and I didn’t make it that far on the first read.
And that is why liberals find it so frustrating to support unions.
A line like ” trust me when I say unions and building trades are beyond frustrated with establishment politics and the machine” at first sounds like it should be cheered by liberals. Yay! Down with the Establishment!
But the establishment politics the trades are “frustrated” with are the rules on the environment or social/economic equity.
Delaware became a banking state under Pete du Pont, not Biden or Carper.
You are correct that he was the governor, but it takes a senate and House of Representatives to craft bills to send them to the governors desk? who was a state senator at that time? Joe Biden, he became a state senator in 1972, and the the Financial Center Development Act came about in 1979 and was made law 1981, with many other favorable corporate banking laws to follow, that era was the start of the good ol boys club, and also why I say slightly left leaning republicans running as democrats, mike castle, Pete DuPont, carper, Biden, they were a team and have shaped the political machine we have in Delaware today. Point of my post was to educate people that unions are not your enemy, an IBEW member senator jack Walsh is currently in the senate and was literally the one who fought to raise the minimum wage to 15$ receiving steep resistance and that’s why to get it passed it was incremented over a 5 year span I believe, he has also been the one who has fought to raise unemployment in Delaware which was tied with Alabama as the lowest in the nation at 330$, he was also one of the main ones fighting for legalization. we support universal health care, higher wages, shorter work weeks/more time with the family,
You have no idea the resistance we face, any bill we fight for gets watered down or pushed to the side, and remember anything we fight for is things that will better peoples lives, and fight for jobs!
I’m trying to explain why we endorsements happen, and the frustration we have, our endorsements for most have literally been out of fear of retaliation from the establishment.
Talk to union members, invite them to events and I’m sure you will find very common interest,
I’ve read comment on here “very white building trades”
“Lifted trucks with ar stickers”
These are attacks on people you have no idea about, and attacks on people that have common interest in fights for a better Delaware
You have to understand a “LABOR” organizations main goal is good paying jobs, great health care, and retirement plans for workers we are literally the real meaning of the working family party and we were integral in helping form the party in 1998
I’ll give you an example of the fights we face, it’s pretty much known carney is a shoe in for mayor (major reason is support strict term limits) he hasn’t done shit for us, even though running as a guy who supports unions, and he heard he wouldn’t be getting and endorsement, and immediately sent his team to the halls like WTF!! We have been and are fighting hard for the port expansion and he has power over that now, and will have power over it as mayor, these jobs will be great union employment opportunities for people in that area, one of the poorest crime ridden areas, that could change peoples lives, it will hire hundreds of people at wages way higher than minimal wage with great healthcare and retirement plans 🤷🏻♂️ who is against that!
Also there’s posts about Meyer supports 15, and legalization, he had nothing to do with any of that coming about, post about EV’s that’s happening state wide and nation wide, remember is campaign time, blow smoke yo your ass time, the real way to find out who people are, is look who’s behind the scenes and what those people want, Alan Levine fought 15$ minimal wage, Alan Levine wants right to work which kills unions and wages!
Meyer is telling his rich buddies and corporations if elected Delaware will get right to work zones that the republicans keep pushing and that popped up during Markel,
Please look into what right to work is, who fights for it, and what it’s done to every state that has it, they are the poorest red states,
Nikki Haley loves it, Mitch McConnell loves it and has it in his state (a state that gets subsidized the most of all states with federal tax dollars) Koch brothers love it, pushed for it in seaford where they own a plant, also fund the hell out of it in states that are willing to push it, rob arlett pushes it, Alan levin like it and is pushing it,
And Meyer is a progressive?!?! Lmfao!!! Levine is one of his biggest funders right now, that should tell you his true political colors
Joe Biden was never in the state senate. He was on the New Castle County Council.
IMO Right to Work will not pass in this state no matter who the next governor is. You’ll have to show me evidence of Democratic support for that before I take your concern about that at face value. Scaremongering about it is absurd, because it’s not about to happen. Same with BHL’s “protecting women’s health” gambit. Who’s threatening it? Nobody in Delaware.
For the record, this state’s environmental record owes much more to Republicans than to Democrats, so I take your point about Delaware’s Democrats being hard to distinguish from its Republicans, at least those of the now-broken Mike Castle mold. But as that example shows, it cuts both ways. Lots of Delaware Democrats talk a good game on labor, and even give unions what they want occasionally, but they give corporations what they want consistently.
I have too much experience with unions of various kinds to paint them all with the same brush, but one thing they all share is that they act first and foremost in the interests of their members, as they were designed to do. Sometimes this aligns with what I would consider the public good, and sometimes it doesn’t.
You have your reasons for opposing Meyer. I have mine for opposing Hall-Long. Which is why I’ll listen to what Collin O’Mara has to say.
So a comment that’s misogynous and anti semitic and a second dude that thinks Joe Biden was elected State Senator in ‘72. A true Brain trust of BHL supporters . As is known if you know me my first 10 years of my career was as an executive of the UFCW that was a leader then and now with a diverse membership well represented by minority and women in their ranks.
In 1972 when I was director of Labor For McGovern the building trades were strictly segregated. Two Unions in Delaware at that time were led by black men, the Laborers by Skinny Wilson who was a fierce advocate for his membership , the Southbridge community and the black community in general. The other local union that was a minority force was the Laborers led by Bill Parks who like Skinny was a powerful voice for his members and the black community.
To this day racism in the building trades is still rampant though the struggle for equal opportunity continues. The labor case for BHL is flawed and I am confident that either Matt or Colin will hear and credit the advocates of labor despite this short sighted move on BHL’s behalf by self interested Labor leaders
They’re both by the same guy, he just left his last name off the second one.
I don’t have to hide behind a fake name, and again twist it the way you want, I’m pointing out bhl wasn’t chosen for her merits, that’s on the system not me
and I’m not advocating for her, just saying I’m not sure she is part of the good ol boys club
I hope Collin gets a great shot, im for term limits and new blood new ideas
I’m just shocked at the anti union comments, because once you turn on the last little bit of organizations that fight for pay, health benefits, and retirement plans you have nothing and are sent back to pre Great Depression labor laws and standards of living for everyone and with trade deals and anti union laws we are heading that way, data proves that, look at income inequality, inflation cost of living, average retirement savings.
Right now building trades is looking at who’s funding Mayer and knows the county rules he changed soon as he got in that directly hurt rules we fought to enact, we had meeting with Collin, and aren’t against him but are also looking at the reality as of now unless people start getting behind him it’s Meyer and Bethany and they will have to go with Bethany, you can go to building trades website and hear the meeting with Meyer where he takes claim for things he didnt do and is called out on it, and asked to explain why he changed the rules and why minority participation went down after the rule change we’ve tried talking to Matt, but he isn’t changing his ways
Someone posted up above how he is for the developers and fought us, so how can you claim this guy is good? Or a progressive??? You bumped your head!
Remember as Matt comes and panders it’s election time and he is trying to get your votes, I really hope Collin can gain ground and get out there more
Alan Levin does indeed suck. But can you tell me what hall long is going to do differently than Meyer? Is there a specific issue on which she differs? Do you know the people around her are just as bad as Levin. They’re actually worse because they pretend to be democrats but fall on their knees at the first sight of money and power. The only difference between them is levin is actually rich and they’re upper middle class at best and only because they’ve sucked on the government tit their whole life.
and if you hate ABC… I’d invite you to look at her donor list. She’s taking it from all sides and telling people whatever they want to hear. That’s part of the reason why she’s in trouble and why she won’t win. She doesn’t have a relationship with the truth and she’s not trustworthy. She’s not serious person or a serious candidate and I feel bad for anyone spending their hard earned money on this sociopathic vanity tour.
Jim marvelis takes your money and wastes it – on petty personal gripes and to pretend like he’s some big man. Running his mouth in the paper and posting on Facebook while you work and give him money. And he dumps it on losers like the last person Matt Meyer beat and on the next person he’s going to beat.
A smart person who actually cares about their members would have seen that they picked a massive dud and moved on to either recruit someone else to beat Meyer or come to the table and make a deal. He didn’t do that because he doesn’t give a shit about you or working people. Full stop. Alan Levin didnt do shit to you. You did it to yourself by propping up these dopes with dreams of being big strong important men. Instead they’re just a bunch of back benching old men screaming into the void of social media while you break your back for them. Congrats.
Hey, I LIKE Alan Levin. No, I don’t want him driving policy in a Meyer Administration any more than I want James Maravelias driving policy in a BHL Administration.
The thing which separates BHL from either Matt or Collin is, IMO, the fact that her entire campaign is driven by some of the least ethical people in Delaware. Starting with her and her husband. Then heading to Our PAL Val and Nicole Poore. Val has said that she supports BHL b/c she can manipulate her. Anybody want that?
I second this.
The first hurdle for me is simple: Clean government. If I’m ranked-choice voting, a bunch of self-serving non-entities – I’d call them mediocrities but that would be flattering them – are last on the list.
As for the union nonsense, tell me, which candidate would rein in charter schools? As far as I can tell the answer is “none of them.”
I agree with, and always have been against charters, because many have taken tax dollar then failed and closed up, I’d rather support trade schools and schools based on science or computer science, actual good career paths. These are something that can be done without charter schools, we have trade schools, Conrad became a science based school, there’s talks of doing something similar with HB DuPont
And as it comes to Levine and the people supporting long and Meyer is my point about the corporate take over and pandering to people during election time then being full corporate in between and that’s been the afl-cio, and building trades issues with candidates for a long while, but again since we don’t have statesmen and have true politicians if you don’t give your endorsement to the right one they screw you
If I ran, and didn’t get an endorsement but believed in a lot of your causes, I wouldn’t turn my back on you if I won, I would work like hell with you for change, and you bet I would earn that endorsement the next go around
but that didn’t happen with Markel, with Meyer, they worked against us the whole time,
carney threw us crumbs here and there, but really didn’t do much of anything
so don’t attack unions for their endorsements because most aren’t really given because that’s absolutely what we want
Our local does a corn hole tournament every year and 100% of the proceeds goes to school/teacher supplies to a different school every year so we strongly support schools
So please don’t attack us,
and if everyone is saying Matt and Bethany both have similar corporate donors why is anyone pulling for them? Why not work together and help Omara?
I mention above why Bethany got the endorsement but also we sat with Omara and aren’t against him, and told him he has full support if he can gain ground, but if it’s really a 2 way race between Matt and Bethany, for the working man matt has proven to be negative on his limited capabilities of power on the county level, Bethany is more of an unknown because she hasn’t been in a position of power yet where she can screw us,
we can just go by her being a union member and her word
Her word and 8 bucks will buy you a cup of coffee at Starbucks 😎😎
I don’t know any!! Registered republican, or republican in general who would support and fund a real progressive, or a liberal, or a real democrat in that matter why don’t all these people stop hiding behind pseudonyms and post your real name so real liberals can look up your voter registration history and see if you are part of the republicans plan to get republicans to switch parties to elect a republican running as a democrat
https://voterrecords.com/voter/6511014/alan-levin
Who exactly are you talking about? Everybody except perhaps you knows who I am and who Alby is.
Really? Now you want to dox people?
Look, you got nothin’, pal. Take your grievances and find the door.