Tag: Mike Castle

Delaware Conservatives Attack Mike Castle

Filed in National by on May 6, 2010 2 Comments

The News Journal‘s Dialogue Delaware blog finds this web ad that Delaware supporters of Christine O’Donnell’s campaign made to attack Mike Castle.

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Bumps In The Road For The Rollins Coronation?

Filed in National by on May 6, 2010 20 Comments

An internal poll from Urquhart’s campaign shows Urquhart leading among GOP primary voters 53%-47% with 60% still undecided.

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Rasmussen Puts Castle Up By 23%

Filed in National by on April 30, 2010 14 Comments

Rasmussen released a new poll for the Delaware U.S. Senate race. The U.S. Senate race in Delaware is virtually unchanged over the past two months, with Republican Mike Castle continuing to draw strong support from the state’s voters. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Delaware shows Castle picking up 55% support […]

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A Team Of Moderates

Filed in Delaware by on April 26, 2010 14 Comments

The NJ decides that Michelle Rollins is a moderate using their own magic formula.

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Is The News Journal In The Tank For Castle?

Filed in National by on April 21, 2010 19 Comments

Ron Williams gives a little throwaway item at the end of his column today: Taking care to take credit Did I miss something? I thought the governor’s office, not the county executive, was working to restart Valero since it was shut down. “The deal is a demonstration of what strong Democratic leadership can do for […]

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Tornoe’s Toon: Kaufman’s Baton

Filed in Delaware, National by on April 21, 2010 23 Comments
Tornoe’s Toon: Kaufman’s Baton

If you’d like to contact me, feel free to drop me a line at robtornoe@delawareliberal.net. You can also follow me on twitter @RobTornoe. And make sure you pick up The Community News, The Dover Post, The Middletown Transcript or any of the Dover Post papers throughout the state to check out my cartoons every week.

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Mike Castle Is A Hypocrite, Part Eleventy Billion

Filed in National by on April 12, 2010 10 Comments

Unlike nemski, I like this new guy with the Coons campaign. He came out swinging today against Castle’s complete hypocrisy. Castle, who’s voted against providing jobs through stimulus and against unemployment benefits, is hosting a jobs fair. “Congressman Castle voted against job creation many times before deciding to hold another jobs fair,” said Coons Communications […]

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Mike Castle Announces Support For Health Care Repeal Efforts

Filed in National by on April 6, 2010 9 Comments

Mike Castle tries to be all things to all people. His carefully worded statement about health care reform repeal fooled the News Journal editorial board into praising his sensible stance. “While this president is in office, repealing this full law is not realistic and not the best use of our efforts,” Castle said in a […]

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The Young Eagles & Mike Castle

Filed in National by on April 6, 2010 18 Comments

Commenter anonone points us to this link from Politico. The article explains what the Young Eagles program is supposed to do and how it works. The program is supposed to encourage younger rich Republicans to become high dollar donors to the RNC. What it actually does is function as a way for the RNC to […]

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Tornoe’s Toon: The Quiet Chris Coons

Filed in National by on April 5, 2010 29 Comments
Tornoe’s Toon: The Quiet Chris Coons

Hey everyone! The folks at Delaware Liberal were kind enough to offer me a spot in their sandbox to post my cartoons, so here’s my first offering. If you’d like to contact me, feel free to drop me a line at robtornoe@delawareliberal.net. You can also follow me on twitter @RobTornoe.

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Radio Ad — Call Mike Castle Hands Off Our Healthcare!

Filed in Delaware by on March 27, 2010 5 Comments

I heard this ad during Al Mascitti’s show this AM — it is a good reminder that Mike Castle is spending his days in DC voting for the interests of his party and for those of various lobbyists. Click through for the ad.

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Another Fracture in the GOP Wall

Filed in Delaware by on March 26, 2010 14 Comments

This time TalkingPointsMemo documents the infighting:

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Student Loan Reform

Filed in Delaware by on March 26, 2010 25 Comments

Somewhat overshadowed by all the attention on the health care reform bill was the student loan overhaul that was added into the reconciliation package: Ending one of the fiercest lobbying fights in Washington, Congress voted Thursday to force commercial banks out of the federal student loan market, cutting off billions of dollars in profits in […]

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