Posted in Budget, Change, Deficit, Economics, Election 2008-President, Entitlements, Ethics, Healthcare, Jack Markell, Obama, Reform, Spending, Taxes, Universal Healthcare on Feb 25th, 2008
From USA Today:
Democrats promise a lot, but who will pay the bill?
To listen to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaign in Ohio and Texas is to hear pledges on health care, middle-class tax cuts, mortgage assistance, tuition help, energy initiatives and more.
It’s all very appealing. It’s also almost certainly too good to be true.
In 2009, […]
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From DSN:
Dear Editor,
The State News recently ran an opinion column by State Rep. Pete Schwartzkopf on manufactured housing issues that, through errors and omissions, unfairly characterized the efforts of some of my colleagues.
In his column, Rep. Schwartzkopf stated that “a legislator, who owns a manufactured housing community, is allowed to be a member of the […]
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Listen for the following in this interview with attorney Bob Bennett:
* The New York Times was provided with approximately a dozen instances in which Senator McCain took positions adverse to Iseman’s clients. The Times didn’t even refer to those instances.
* There is no evidence that Senator McCain […]
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Posted in Ethics, Reform on Feb 18th, 2008
Rescuing my own comment from DL, a question for you:
Should it not be considered unconstitutional for an elected member of the legislative branch to be in the employ of the executive branch?
UPDATE: Since Jason still wants to play the game, a list of the Democratic legislators who derive their non-elected income either from their work […]
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Long story short: Rep. Pete Schwartzkopf has accused Rep. Bob Valihura and Rep. Donna Stone of screwing over thousands of Delawareans to directly benefit State GOP Chairman Terry Strine, because they wouldn’t speed up the negotiations over the manufactured home bills to suit Pete’s tastes. Also, Pete has a problem because the House wouldn’t suspend […]
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Posted in Ethics, Reform on Feb 12th, 2008
I have written many times about nepotism in Delaware and the deleterious effect of elected officials and their families working for the state. I will not single out Nancy Wagner just because the News-Journal did. The problem goes way beyond Nancy Wagner, on both sides of the aisle in every branch of the state government.
The […]
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