SD 1 Candidate Forum Open Thread
Figured I’d wait until tonight’s forum concluded. We heard from four of the nine candidates tonight: Adriana Leela Bohm, Dan Cruce, George Frankel and Chris Otto.
The Zoom meeting was once again exceedingly well-done.
A lot more questions tonight focused on education than was the case with the SD 5 forum earlier this week.
Yes, I have some opinions, but I first want to hear from you.
I would comment but I am not allowed to. Don’t want anyone to call bull shit on me
Poor guy.
What did you think of your pal’s idea that retired Green Berets from Claymont should go into the ‘rough’ schools?
Just curious.
I hereby grant you the right to respond–and to comment ad infinitum.
A right you already had.
The Green Beret project offers at risk youth dynamic programs after school and on weekends to help youth for future success.
Whatever you say, ‘Wayne’.
Your pal, who I suspect you know more intimately than you have let on, claimed that their goal would be ‘conflict resolution’. (We’re not idiots here.)
We have a history as to how Green Berets resolve ‘conflict’. Don’t think it jibes with, um, public education.
Cruce is a nightmare for public education. He proudly supports some of the worst “reforms” of the Markell years that we are still trying to get out from under today.
As a candidate, he sounded like a great bureaucrat. Often started his answers stating that he only had two minutes, then rattled off survey results and stats.
Can’t see him interacting well with fellow legislators with that approach.
If I heard him correctly, didn’t he say he had support from ‘the trades’? Hmmm, sounds like he might be–Carney’s choice.
OK, Wayne’s Whirld pissed me off (not difficult to do, I admit).
So, I decided to take a dive into the election results to investigate Frankel’s assertion that he won SD 1 during the primary for County Council President.
The result?: Technically true, but very misleading. Both Jason Hoover and Val Gould were also city residents, both ran as progressive candidates, and they basically swamped Wayne’s boy, George Frankel. While I COULD break it down by individual ED’s or wards, this should suffice:
There are 9 ED’s in RD 1 that are also in SD 1. Val Gould actually defeated Frankel in RD 1–682 to 661. Jason Hoover got 489 votes. There are 3 ED’s in RD 2 that are in SD 1. Frankel: 409, Gould: 340, Hoover: 270. There are 4 ED’s in RD 3 in SD 1: Frankel: 504, Gould: 405, Hoover: 312. Monique Johns won all three of these RD’s in overwhelming fashion.
Let’s move to the more suburban districts. As it turns out, RD 6 appears to be the RD with the most voters among all the SD 1 RD’s. The results in RD 6 (12 ED’s): Hoover: 939 , Frankel: 687, Gould : 655. Hoover won the district overall. RD 7 (4 ED’s): Frankel: 567, Gould: 417, Hoover: 322. RD 12 (5 ED’s): Frankel: 1192, Hoover: 987, Gould: 907.
So. The lesson here is that together, Gould and Hoover swamped Frankel in SD 1. Also, the only reason he finished second is because Gould and Hoover split the vote of what we can call the progressive constituency. Otherwise, one of them likely would be Council President right now. Not Monique Johns. Not George Frankel.
Like I said, his claim was technically true, but completely misleading.
If there was a drinking game and the word was Coons spoken by Frankel, there would have been ambulance calls for alcohol poisoning. What an entitled clown!
Cruce struck me as a bureaucrat running for office. Frankel struck me as a marketing guy running for office.
Nailed it. Cruce did a lot of roll your eyes riffs and Frankel made me feel like I was at a Zig Zigler event at the old Latin Casino, IYKYK