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They support Donald Trump…
Which either means they don’t believe anything Donald Trumps says, or they don’t care about anything Donald Trump says, or they don’t understand anything Donald Trump says, or they are misleading the Delawarean public for unknown reasons….
This should raise giant flags… as if someone were supportive of Hitler… When you are a Republican and you don’t call out the leader of your party for what he is, you are a supporter of all he stands for…
It is not different from wearing a red arm band with a swastika in a white circle in Germany in 1932… No one has to ask you if you support Hitler back then, it was rightly assumed.
If you do not come out public and declare Trump unfit for office, as a Republican it means you support him… Flat out, unequivocally…
Even though you know the person privately does not support Trump because you’ve known and liked them for years, the very fact that they did not publicly come out and say “Vote for me; I do not support Trump” means they are not fit for office… :
Look at who they are silent about….
How do you stay silent? How do you vote for this person? How do you not create distance between yourself and this “thing” at the top of your ticket?
Do you think it will go away, if you ignore it? If you say nothing? If you keep your head down and focus just on yourself?
No, you ARE Republican. You are wearing that red armband with a big red R in a white circle. This is who you are, unless you step out and say with a loud voice you do not support this “thing” and you are totally against anything he does. Silence is complicitness.
As voters we can do something about this…. we can compare the Republicans on our ballot (go to this Department of Elections website, put in your address to see the actual ballot at your polling place, it’s cool) to this list below and vote for their opponent… No matter who it is…
Yes, of course there are Confederate flag waving Trump extremists out there; but they are a very tiny minority. We know he won’t win but that does not mean we too should accept these things as “part of life” and continue to put in those who silently supported that “thing” by remaining silent… Humanity across the globe is counting on all of you to vote against these listed below…. who by being cowards and not withdrawing their support, imply they silently stand solid on all that Donald Trump stands for….
Charlie Copeland
Colin Bonini
Hans Reigle
La Mar T. Gunn
State Senate Candidates
- Cathy Cloutier: District 5
- Anthony Delcollo: District 7
- Carl Pace: District 14
- David Lawson: District 15
- Brian Pettyjohn: District 19
- Gerald Hocker: District 20
State House Candidates
Kevin Hensley: District 9
Judith Travis: District 10
Jeff Spiegleman: District 11
Debbie Hudson: District 12
James Louis DeMartino: District 14
James R. Startzman, Jr: District 19
Stephan Smyk: District 20
Mike Ramone: District 21
Joesph E. Miro: District 22
Timothy Conrad: District 24
Michael Nagorski: District 25
Janice Gallagher: District 29
William Outten: District 30
Jean Dowding: District 31
Patricia Foltz: District 32
Charles Postles: District 33
Lyndon Yearick: District 34
David Wilson: District 35
Harvey Kenton, Jr: District 36
Ruth Briggs King: District 37
Ronald Gray: District 38
Daniel Short: District 39
Timothy Dale Dukes: District 40
Richard Collins: District 41
None of these should get into office. None.
Lip service is one thing. Actions are something else. All of the above at this late date are still supportive of Donald Trump and what he stands for….
Sadly these are all the Republicans running for state office, but two… I must isolate and mention both of those two and encourage you to vote them in over their Democrat opponents (no loss there in both seats) to show the world that Delaware is not a satellite of Donald Trump….
These two very special people, the only two Delawarean Republicans who have repudiated history’s worst candidate, Donald Trump, are:
Meredith Chapman Senate District 8
James Spadola Senate District 1
Yes.
She is in tune with her constituents. It is her party who isn’t.
I was saddened to hear her Good Samaritan Bill was caught up in the maelstrom of Republican bills that must be shut out due to there just not being enough time to consider it. Had she been of the Democratic caucus, her bill could have been heard with majority of social legislation pieces that were vetted last month.
Her constituents deserve having a Democrat in power, and they deserve Cathy Clouthier. If she switches parties, they can indeed have both.
Switching parties is no big deal. Ronald Reagan did it.
To be brief: it is one of the founding principle of this nation that one has the right to be happy. (That comes of course with the price of not making others unhappy.) In making single sex marriage legal, one has to look at all options and answer these questions…
Is is unfair to allow heterosexual couples rights not allowed to single sex couples?
Yes, it is unfair. Anytime there is a double standard, … it is unfair. (That is actually the proper definition of the word unfair: ie. employ a double standard.)
Will single sex marriages cause any harm to anyone?
No, it will cause no harm. Whether someone two counties away lives in a civil union or a legally sanctioned marriage will not affect me (or you) one way or another.
There you have it.
Allowing Single Sex Marriages will repair an injustice and will not cause any harm when it is done.
Meaning the only two reasons to vote against it, are because you purposefully want to be unfair, … or you purposefully want to harm someone.
Passing this is a no-brainer. If we are going to start listening to Christian fundamentalists, then we had better be prepared to listen to Islamic mullahs, Jewish prophets, as well as every Wikkim candidate for office… Sure they have a right to speak, but we have a bigger right to ignore them.
Passage of this is a no-brainer because it corrects a longterm unfairness without hurting anyone in the process….
DCAS is rotten to the (Common) Core.
“I called over another adult in the room. That adult who specializes in math thought the question was just as inappropriate. Sharing the question details would be a violation of the rules, so you won’t be seeing the question here. All I will say is this test is bad. Very bad. And our students and teachers are being judged on it.”
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This folks is too close to home… these our our kids. Delawareans….
We have see reports across our country of how bad this test is. Now we have our first example on the home front. Here I believe is what is now required.
The test needs to be vetted by General Assembly. We are being asked to spend one third of our state budget on education. If we are getting bunk for our $1.3 billion of money given to the state by residents and businesses, we all have a stake in this too. A very big stake…
Dave Sokola and Catherine Cloutier, Bethany A. Hall-Long, Margaret Rose Henry, Ernesto B. Lopez, Nicole Poore and Bryan Townsend, members of Delaware’s senate education committee, need to vet the test.
Of course, tests need to be kept secret to cut out cheating. We know that. However this secrecy appears to be such that no one, except I believe Pearson, the educational company that is in charge of producing, distributing and grading these tests, knows both the questions and the answers…..
What if Pearson is wrong? Someone has to vet the test.
It would be a good piece of publicity as well as serve parent’s peace of mind, if the entire Senate Educational Committee in a public session, were given the 5th grade test as if they too were in elementary school, and then, and only then, would we be able to discuss whether or not it is more appropriate for a New York firm trying to manage its bottom line, or a teacher who knows every student personally, to make up the questions and grade the test…..
Perhaps we could raise the stakes at little by putting some accountability into this exercise and say… oh btw,… if the legislators didn’t pass the 5th Grade test, and weren’t deemed “smarter than a 5th Grader”, they’d be tossed off the committee…… and publicly embarrassed….
If the House wishes to compete with the Senate on this issue, here are their names as well ….
Chairman: Darryl M. Scott
Vice-Chairman: Kimberly Williams
Members: Michael A. Barbieri
Donald A. Blakey
Stephanie T. Bolden
Timothy D. Dukes
Debra J. Heffernan
Earl G. Jaques Jr
Harvey R. Kenton
John A. Kowalko Jr.
Joseph E. Miro
Edward S. Osienski
Charles Potter Jr.
Jeffrey N. Spiegelman
Hi, I’m Cathy Cloutier and I approve this message.
Hi, I’m Chris Counihan, and I approve this message.
One nice thing about the 5th District: no matter who wins or who loses, the initials on the 5th district desk in the Senate will not have to change.
The most interesting aspect of the race is the position being taken on abortion and gay rights by the incumbent, Cathy Cloutier…. Cathy Cloutier plays both sides, being endorsed by Planned Parenthood as being pro-abortion, and by Rose and A Prayer, as being anti-abortion…. How can that be? I am for life, before I was against it? I am for a woman’s right to choose, before I was against it? Does it sound like someone filled out questionnaires two different ways to get two opposite endorsements, hoping one side would never see the other?
If so, is that the kind of tough leadership, the 5th district needs? “Hi, Cathy, I’m voting for you because you are for planned parenthood”… 6 months later… “What are you doing… I voted for you because you “were” pro choice!….. or…
“Hi, Cathy, I’m voting for you because you are against abortion. I’m Catholic you know. …. 6 months later…”What are you doing!… I voted for you because you “were” pro life….
Is that fair? I mean… would it be fair if you went to SuperFresh, and bought a box of Ritz Crackers, and opened them to find orange cream filled Oreos? How would you deal with a manager when you took it back who said…. sorry, we couldn’t sell those the way they were, so we repackaged them in Ritz Cracker boxes… Buyer (voter) beware! You bought them, you own them! They’re really not bad if you dip them in chocolate first…” And when you get irate with him, he wags his finger in your face and goes… “ah, ah, ah, I know Tom Carper.”…
And then there was the story on trying to make all marriage equal…. Cathy Cloutier was courted for her vote… “Oh, yes, I’m for gay marriage, all the way, count me in…. I like gays and I think gays are just as normal as people who aren’t gay… I will be glad to support gay marriage”….
When the vote came… “Has anyone seen Cathy? Let’s check the hall… Cathy, you out here? Someone go in the rest room… Cathy… Cathy… are you in here? Quick. Go check her parking spot… That’s her car, it’s backing out… Call her… she’s making the turn onto King…. Call her… Did you get her?… No! …voice mail!…..”
Question is… does the 5th District deserve this type of leadership? Or, does it deserve better? Seriously there are two types of people serving their districts. One is everything to everybody, and no one to nobody… Like social gadflies they touch on every subject, but never let on who they are or what they feel… Basically you elect them because of other reasons, besides their convictions… You could have had a drink with them. You could have spoken with them on the phone. You could have once been friends with her husband… Whatever the reason, you couldn’t care one iota what she thinks or what she believes… We all know someone like that…..
The other side, of course, is the competent one. He learns, creates, moves forward, and causes his district to prosper, instead of just wither on the vine… This person has convictions and is not afraid to tell you about them. In this case, Chris is pro women ( actually more than the woman running), and is pro equality to marriage, not letting arbitrary items like gender stand in the way of two human beings who love each other and want to spend life together as a couple…. Seriously, what kind of ogre could be against marriage.
It appears the Cathy Cloutier kind.
Cathy has been a Senator since “Gore got more”, and “we got Bushed whacked”… 2000. She has been a Senator for twelve years… What’s happened over those twelve years? 9/11 for one, two wars for two, a giant recession for three, the acceptance of gay marriage, now even by Chik Fil A, … quite a few things… How many of your cars were built before 2000? My guess 1%… How many of you still work off laptops from the year 2000… probably less than 1%… How many of you still use the same phone as you did in 2000, you know the one where you pull the antennae out to talk or receive calls? How many of you have the same computer you did in 2000?
Point is, keeping the old around hurts us sometimes. There comes a time to upgrade. To put new blood in. To give the energy levels a boost… The longer you keep someone in the same office, the less and less they become effective….
How will someone who runs from accountability be able to handle the challenges we face the next four years? If Romney gets elected, Federal funds to Delaware will stop instantly in order to cut back on the Federal Deficit. If Romney gets elected, the stock market takes a nose dive, as confidence in a campaign run only on lies, dissipates. If Romney gets elected, Obamacare is instantly gone, and we have to rework the entire medical process all over again.. If Romney gets elected, Federal taxes get sliced, which means our taxes now appear higher by percentage in comparison. We will have to have backbone to raise taxes, since Romney is sending us most of what used to be run by the Federal Government, down to the states, with more responsibility, we will have no choice but to raise state taxes sky high to cover the new services thrust upon us…
Is Cathy Cloutier up to the challenge? Chris Counihan certainly is… With insurance, government, political science, entrepreneurship, experience, Chris Counihan has the ability to accept very challenging situations. Indeed, we know they will be very challenging during the next four years. As we try to wrap our state around Obamacare if Obama wins, someone well versed in the insurance trade inside the legislature, can balance the weakness existing in our state insurance department. As we try to insource new funding, having someone who has direct experience in trying to woo jobs to Delaware, is exactly what we need as we banter over how to make that happen.
Is Cathy Cloutier still up for the challenge? The voters of the 5th, can choose between two types. One, is the person who waits for others to do the leg work, asks their opinion, and then votes without knowing any of the details, and the other type, is one who does the leg work…
There are two completely different styles… One old, set, and hard to change. The other, new, full of ideas and energy, competent, aggressive in tackling problems, and just happens to be in the same party that controls the state….
Cathy Cloutier states that she gets along with both parties. (Obviously now we know why…) But she has to. There are only 7 Republicans in the state Senate. There are 14 Democrats as well as a Democratic governor. Doesn’t it make more sense to elect someone who doesn’t have to fight every minute just to bring some crumbs back to her district? Doesn’t it make more sense, if the Democrat is far more qualified, to put him in so the 5th District can once again thrive, and be proud of its own when it picks up the News Journal in the morning?
You will have to decide… but a wise man once said… “never do business with your friends… they won’t take you seriously, and you won’t take them seriously”… Many people are friends with Cathy… They will have to choose between friendship and everyone-else-in- their-district’s, … well being…. It will be a tough four years for this state’s government…. so choose wisely….
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