Hope They Washed Their Hands After This ‘Handshake Deal’. When Tim Sheldon and Shawn Tucker shake hands, you’re getting fleeced:
New Castle County Councilman Tim Sheldon says he recently brokered a handshake deal to pause a data center development project near Newark.
Sheldon, who represents the Newark area, said the deal followed private negotiations with the developer’s prominent Delaware attorney, Shawn Tucker, who told him the New York-based developer behind the project, Shelbourne, agreed to consider the Newark site for uses other than a data center.
“This is my art of the deal,” Sheldon said.
But the deal is dependent on the county finalizing an approval for an exploratory plan application from the developer, which would grandfather the land into zoning rules that existed prior to this year, Sheldon said.
That means the developer would not have to follow the county’s recently-passed data center regulations if the company ultimately decides to build a data center there. Since the property’s zoning already allows data center projects, the county likely does not have the legal authority to deny that exploratory plan application.
How bleeping stupid does Sheldon think we are? This is nothing more than a scheme to circumvent newly-implemented regulations designed to control data centers. If the County grants the grandfathering, there will be no consideration of alternatives to a data center.
Chris Coons: Will You Answer This Question?: The Supreme Court’s corruption can no longer be denied, even by bland centrists who bask in the artificial glow of bipartisanship. Do you, as a ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, support increasing the membership of the Court from 9 to 13 or 15?
To our readers–call Chris, ask him whether he supports expansion of the Court and/or term limits. If he (more likely, his office) declines to answer, says he hasn’t thought about it (that’d be a lie), ask him what the fuck he’s doing in the Senate. Oh, and report back to us on what kind of response you get. Feel free to ask the same question to Lisa Blunt Rochester.
While You Weren’t Looking, ICE Was Arresting. God damn it! Once again, I can’t cut-and-paste. Anyway, 10,000 arrests last week. New goal is 2,000 a day. Doesn’t matter who gets caught in the web.
In Venezuela, The Vultures Arrived Before The Rescue Teams. Even worse, troops were sent in, not to help, but to quell public protest.
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