Late Night Video — Gov. Markell on TV!
Governor Markell will be on CNN co-anchoring with Soledad O’Brien tomorrow from 7 til 9 AM. Bad omen? Please Governor, DO NOT TAKE PART IN ANY BREAKING NEWS STORIES WITH THESE PEOPLE!
He was also on CNBC last week with one of the dumbest people on TV — Maria Bartiromo — talking about how business friendly the state is:
Click here to see. Don’t think this is embeddable.
Feel free to roll your eyes at the repeat of the wingnut mantra “government does not create jobs”. Tell that to the folks at Tutor Perini who are building the new I95/SR1 interchange.
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Im outta the news loop, so when I got the first CNN email I spent the rest of the morning stewing. goddam stupid dumbasses.
You sailing those Seychelles again? How’s the healthcare down there?
I had CNN on but was not giving it undivided attention. Proud of Markell for what I observed.
Here’s what WDEL writes (and what I missed): Markell, Bachmann duke it out on CNN
By Peter MacArthur
http://www.wdel.com/story.php?id=43900
The DEM party sent it out highlighted in their weekly –
“Governor Markell was on CNBC to talk about keeping businesses in Delaware and creating jobs.
“My job, very simply, is to put myself in the shoes of the people who create the jobs, focus in on the things they care most about, and then execute,” said the Governor.”
Caution to Markell: it is all well and good to want to give businesses ‘what they care most about’ up and until it crosses a line untenable to existing citizens and what THEY may want.
The biggest objections I have seen to the Markell adminstration’s job strategy are from area environmentalists vocalizing concern for rules’ bending (DE City Refinery etc.) and ignoring of laws (Coastal Zone Act – dredging etc.).
Other major citizen’s positions contrary to OPEN SEASON FOR JOB CREATORS are on observing the top-down pressure to not to get ‘in the way’ of land development (Stolz) or road development (Rte. 301) (Bayberry and Whitehall).
Part of quality of life (codified in Del. Code by the way) is that, for NCC and Kent Cos. at least, development must pay for itself for any facilities not already in place or under contract.
The state debt has more than doubled in ten years to 1.7 billion (school construction for new residential construction being the top ticket items) and we’ve gutted the DelDOT transportation trust fund because of the willy nilly way the counties can approve development and leave road obligations up to the state.
State law put in place in 1997 PROHIBIT counties from considering school capacity when determining adequate facility for new development thanks to Dick Cathcart.
And 2008-9 NCC law circumvented 1988 adequate facility obligations for traffic congestion etc. (workforce housing subdivisions and redevelopment parcels etc.).
Now, traffic impact studies are largely off the table under the new development rules a la Coonsie and Clarky (sorry Geeze).
Markell is under scrutiny to keep things balanced – everyone gets what they want – which everyone is that?