Tag: Velda Jones-Potter

I Get Email

Filed in Delaware by cassandra_m on August 11, 2016 • 22 Comments

Specifically, email from a Delaware State Representative campaigning to an email list for his wife, running for Wilmington City Treasurer. This is supposed to be a Big No No, right? And I would expect that if he is emailing this Wilmington-based list, there are probably others he is emailing as well. As I understand it, public officials are not supposed to campaign or conduct campaigns via their state-provided emails. And yet, here we find Representative Charles Potter campaigning via his taxpayer-provided email for the election of his wife. Velda Potter was running for Wilmington City Treasurer and was fired from the Williams Administration for apparent misuse of city resources for her son’s Foxtail concert. Certainly, there were no formal charges over this, but even Dennis Williams was embarrassed enough over it to let her go.

Velda Jones-Potter Defends Her Record

Filed in Delaware by Unstable Isotope on September 8, 2010 • 12 Comments

Yesterday’s News Journal published an op-ed by Velda Jones-Potter defending her record.

Tornoe’s Toon: The Treasure Of The Sierra Velda

Filed in National by Rob Tornoe on September 1, 2010 • 24 Comments

To a gold miner, enough is never enough. In the same way, the $100,000+ salary Velda Jones-Potter brings in as the state’s Treasurer must not be enough.

The News Journal Exposes Local Politicians

Filed in National by Unstable Isotope on August 26, 2010 • 207 Comments

Today’s News Journal reveals that Velda Jones-Potter has a city contract as well as her State Treasurer job. An editorial also comes out in favor of abolishing the New Castle County Sheriff position.

Shadow Campaign for Treasurer

Filed in National by liberalgeek on July 15, 2010 • 128 Comments

There has been a rotten thread running through the Treasurer’s race this year. The thread is that one campaign is trying to destroy their opponent on the way to the Democratic nomination. This is unbecoming of the two fine candidates that are competing to battle Colin Bonini in the fall. Sadly, the force behind this shadow campaign of destruction is so close to one of the candidates that the solution isn’t as simple as firing a staffer.

Dirty Tricks In The Treasurer Race?

Filed in National by Unstable Isotope on April 20, 2010 • 57 Comments

I received an email from the Flowers for Treasurer campaign about some possible dirty tricks. The Flowers campaign was getting word from voters that they were receiving late night, early morning and generally annoying phone calls purported to be from his campaign. Hopefully, each of you saw the Dialogue Delaware story in Sunday’s News Journal […]