Tuesday Open Thread [10.16.12]

Filed in Delaware, Open Thread by on October 16, 2012

The candidates for governor of Delaware squared off in a debate Tuesday morning on WDEL. Unfortunately I was at work and missed it. Was anyone at Widener to see the debate or did you listen on WDEL?

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  1. Pooker Jones says:
    October 16, 2012 at 11:15 am

    I was there.

    Cragg is against Gay Marriage, Markell will support, Perri wonders why it isn’t legal already.

    Cragg, Delaware is not better off. 152,000 Delawareans on food stamps up from 87,000 in 2008, 30,200 unemployed.

    Markell big employers closed and administration has been and continues working with businesses to put Delawareans back to work.

    Cragg – ineffective Department of Economic Development.
    Markell – sites record of creating jobs, defends Fisker,Bloom deals.

    When asked if state needs to help more with Wilmington crime?

    Markell – ticks off aid state has been giving over past year or so emphasizing focus on violent offenders, working with probation and parole, state police and courts.

    Cragg somehow brings it around to the home invasion law and penalties for that crime. Not sure what that has to do with shootings, drug deals and burglary in Wilmington.

    Peri says addiction and joblessness are issues driving crime. Get to the root of those problems not more incarceration. Build neighborhoods to reduce crime.

    Peri is only one who seemed to understand the Wilmington crime problem and he said the least.

    When asked if as governor they would support Annexation rights for Wilmington?

    Pretty much no answer. On follow up Markell said he does not have a problem with that.

    On Education:
    Cragg suggested a 13th year of HS option which leads to an Associates degree.
    Markell says we are making progress in Education goals. Markell and Peri both products of DE public schools defend our schools.

    On Medicaide

    Cragg should not expand government doesn’t manage things well. Peri pointedly asks him what specifically government doesn’t do well

    Markell wants to leverage states buying power for health care to get a better deal and expand Medicaide to get more federal dollars.

    Peri said we should have National Health Care. Asked Cragg why should your health care be tied to if you have a job. Cragg had no answer and only shrugged his shoulders.

    My analysis of the debate. Peri not ready for governors seat, Cragg toes the R line and Markell will be reelected.

  2. liberalgeek says:
    October 16, 2012 at 11:45 am

    Finally, Romney’s plan is fleshed out.

    http://www.romneytaxplan.com/

  3. pandora says:
    October 16, 2012 at 11:47 am

    Amazing, LG! It all makes sense now.

  4. cassandra_m says:
    October 16, 2012 at 1:23 pm

    The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Ohio’s request to curtail early voting in the state leading up to the November 6 presidential election.

    So that means that Ohio cannot stop early voting on 2 November as they wanted.

  5. Rusty Dils says:
    October 16, 2012 at 3:39 pm

    Ohio coal miner’s fight back against Obama’s Ad

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZPw_7d0nWg

  6. geezer says:
    October 16, 2012 at 4:09 pm

    You should retitle that, “Ohio coal miners illustrate why they can’t get jobs that require critical thinking skills.” Just like Rusty.

  7. Mark Perri says:
    October 17, 2012 at 9:38 am

    Who the fck would want to be governor of this state? Really. Maybe next round. I’m standing up because no one else is. We’re just shifting deck chairs here. And, not to be too modest about it, my courage is proven by all the active ignoring of most of what I was talking about. In addition to “Shut down the refinery, now,”

    Here are Mark Perri’s the intro and outro statements ignored by the corporate media in yesterday’s Delaware gubernatorial debates.

    INTRO

    Summer ice in the Arctic may be gone by 2020. Climate change is already killing 400,000 people a year, and costing us 1.2 trillion dollars a year.

    We know our climate is broken.

    Our economy is based on burning fossil fuels. The problem is, that’s killing the planet.

    Climate change is the most urgent and important issue confronting us.

    We need to stop burning fossil fuels. We need to change our economy.

    Economic change driven by climate change is happening whether we manage it or not. But our government is not limiting carbon with any urgency. We’re drilling for oil in the Arctic, and cooking oil from sand in Canada—shipping it to Delaware City for refining.

    Our government is accelerating the catastrophe.

    This shows a terrifying willingness to sacrifice our children for short-term gain. And to shut our eyes to the danger.

    But, solutions to the climate crisis will also fix our economy;

    putting people to important work, strengthening the public sphere, and reining in corporations.

    Real, Green solutions give power to the community; through transit systems accountable to their users, local organic agriculture, and local renewable energy.

    We need a New Deal.

    We need a GREEN New Deal.

    OUTRO

    Don’t wait for the corporatocracy for clean-tech jobs—they’re busy making money for themselves where labor’s cheaper overseas.

    No matter who wins the elections in November, the price of oil will still be mostly set by other countries.

    If we really want to protect ourselves from high gas prices, we have only one effective policy: extreme energy efficiency.

    The Republicans are in the pockets of the dying fossil fuel industry and the Democrats are afraid of them.

    So we can’t expect their leadership.

    This is something only one political party is really facing—the Green Party…

    Every crisis presents opportunity.

    The opportunity cost of not changing to a sustainable economy is immense.

    Our government, sponsored by the dinosaur fossil fuels industry, is standing in the way of work we need to do.

    John F. Kennedy said, We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts…a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth…is a nation that is afraid of its people.

    So who’s afraid?

    Think for yourself. Vote your conscience.

    You have the power.

  8. John Young says:
    October 17, 2012 at 9:46 am

    @LG, fleshed or flashed out?

  9. John Young says:
    October 17, 2012 at 9:48 am

    geezer, are you saying that coal miners are stupid people?

  10. Geezer says:
    October 17, 2012 at 9:53 am

    No, JOhn, I would never say that. I”m sure the mines are full of guys who would be off at college earning that PhD in physics if it weren’t for the irresistible lure of black lung.

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