Polling Report – Chip Flowers

Polling Report – Chip Flowers

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When we last asked this question in March, Flowers polled at 54% approval, 37% disapproval, and 9% no opinion. This month, he slipped a bit to 52% approval, 44% disapproval and 4% neutral/don't know. Maybe a couple of fence sitters made a choice in view of Patriots Game-Gate (...I mean the Patriots? C'Mon.). Or maybe this is the least scientific polling operation in the history of polling?
Tom Kovach launches a new social entrepreneurship project: Assist & Inspire Delaware

Tom Kovach launches a new social entrepreneurship project: Assist & Inspire Delaware

If you have a heart, it must be murder being a Republican politician. The casual meanness required to be a modern Republican has got to wear you down over time. You need to be a callous money grubbing stooge like "Doctor" John E. Stapleford, a cavalier jackass like Charles Lammot du Pont Copeland, or a hardened misanthrope like John Sigler to really make a go of it. Tom Kovach never struck me as the kind of soulless bastard that you would need to be in order to be a successful Republican. That's why I was gratified to see Kovach's new venture on Facebook, Assist & Inspire Delaware (AIDE). It appears to be a very worthy venture dedicated to... well I'll let them speak for themselves.
Coons votes for unwinable “humanitarian” war for dubious reasons

Coons votes for unwinable “humanitarian” war for dubious reasons

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As a menber of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Coons voted with a narrow majority to give President Barack Obama the authority to strike Syria. While the vote speaks for itself, the questions Coons posed to John Kerry and to General Dempsey reveal that fact that Coons believes that America is the world's police force. Coons believes that the question facing Congress is not, should we police the world? But, since we are the world's police, can we do that job well? This comes through very clearly in his first question to General Dempsey.
The Delaware Health Exchange Enrollment Campaign Begins

The Delaware Health Exchange Enrollment Campaign Begins

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DHSS kicked off the official enrollment campaign for the Delaware Health Exchange at the LACC on Monday. Delawareans should be able to view the available plans, enroll in plans and assess their eligibility for subsidies or Medicaid starting on October 1, via the Choose Health Delaware website. This should mean that starting soon, Delawareans should be bombarded with information about insurance coverage through a variety of media and venues. In addition, the ACA has provisions for hiring groups and individuals to help do outreach about the program and eligibility as well as other individuals (Navigators) who assist those who want or need help working with the website. Today's NJ has an article on the beginning of the outreach here:
Reminder: Treasurer Chip Flowers to speak tonight…

Reminder: Treasurer Chip Flowers to speak tonight…

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at the monthly Progressive Democrats Meeting at 7 pm. Treasurer Flowers will speak on his plans to invest state funds so as to achieve higher returns for the Treasury, plans which ran into some push back from the Governor and some in the General Assembly at the close of the legislative session at the end of June. This PDD meeting is open to all like minded individuals, whether or not they are already members of the PDD. The meeting will be held at the Delaware Democratic Party Headquarters, 19 E. Commons Blvd., in New Castle, at 7 pm. If you need directions, go here.
New Workmans Comp Ratepayer Advocate To Do the Job the IC Won’t

New Workmans Comp Ratepayer Advocate To Do the Job the IC Won’t

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This didn't get alot of press, except from WDDE -- but Delaware's workmans compensation rate-payers now have an advocate and watchdog. The Ratepayer Advocate position was one of the recommendations of the Workers Compensation Task Force that was charged with taking a hard look at excessive increases (26% over two years) in workers compensation rates -- made especially critical by the fact that the Insurance Commissioner seemed ready to approve another set of increases without regard for the ratepayers. Lt. Governor Matt Denn headed up this commission and he and this group were able to submit to the Governor a set of reform recommendations that built on the reforms that Denn implemented when he was IC. So basically, the Governor and the GA asked Matt Denn to take up the work of reducing the impact on ratepayers -- the job that the IC is *supposed* to do. Mr. Fred Thompson has been named to the position and he is a former Deputy Insurance Commissioner.