A Little Bit of Balance Regarding Ruth Briggs King
Aug 14th, 2009 by David Anderson
I don’t know candidate Ruth Briggs King. I am setting up an interview. What I do know is that this manufactured housing issue is lacking balance. She was indeed an employee of Delaware Manufactured Housing Association in September 2004 and completed relationship with them February 2006 which happens to be less than 18 months.
She helped start the Diamond State Community Land Trust in 2005 and is an advisory board member.
The organization launched in 2006 as an off shoot of housing for all. It is dedicated to helping people have dignified, quality housing they can afford.
DSCLT homeowners own their homes while DSCLT continues to own the land. Each owner has a 99-year ground lease for the land at a nominal fee of $40 a month. This shared equity arrangement is the key to keeping the home affordable from the first owner to the next and so on….
I have no problem with Ms. Briggs King’s critics bringing up her association from a few years ago with the Manufactured Housing Association. I do have a problem with them trying to define her by her 17 month stint. She has done more to keep people in their homes than ten of her critics put together.
Thanks for being considerate. Not trying to define her, but why try to hide? First no mention of it, now you are doing the spin, “she was an employee”. Secretary? Graphic Artist? Accountant? No.
She was the Executive Director. She ran the operation. She was the chief lobbyist. Not a thing wrong there, no problem as yet. Problem: being less than forthright. We don’t know these candidates. All we can do is a smell test. Stop evading. She’s the former executive director chief lobbyist spokesperson for the manufactured housing land owners. The more you weasel that she was “an employee” the more you omit that job from her resume, the more you gotta wonder what’s up. Be honest. Be direct. Be truthful. Mr. King is off to a rocky start. I would love to know who told her to hide that job from the campaign resume. Sounds like the old “beau don’t know” crowd is back. C’mon GOP shape man up. Cut the clever stuff.
If you were applying for a job, presented a resume that omitted the fact you had worked for a competitor, you would be dismissed as a fraud. Resumes are a serious introductory item that needs to be trusted.
The Land Trust job is a hopeful sign, interesting coming after being lobbyist for the manufactured housing landlords. She probably has some interesting insight into the issue of park landlords gouging people with rent increases. Maybe she left that job disillusioned. Who knows. But don’t try to hide you past from the voters. Voters don’t like to be conned by a fake resume or a resume with crucial information omitted.
A call for Honesty from a total fake and phony. don and think 123 the guys who post from the same exact computer. This individual gets his information totally from the left wing News Journal when he could call a member of his own region Bob Valihura to get a total picture of the Manufactured Housing issue. He admits that he is unaware of the law that gives assistance to low income individuals for lot rent but then he continues to trash Republicans. He floated the idea of becoming Executive Director of the Republican Party when there was a vacancy (Quite a few of those under Terry Strine) He was blown off and is now terminally P’O'd at the party for the disrespect to his overblown ego.
Tell you what think 123 why not send some more letters to liberal TV shows like 60 minutes and pray that their apporval of you will get it read on the air. That as you know is your only claim to fame.
Tennessee, you just have to keep this going huh? Now it’s left wing to wonder why the lobbying job was left off the resume? Communist even maybe. Damn newspapers. Bastards all those questions. Hate questions do you? I was done but you want to help Ruth by keeping this going . .
What’s with tracking computer IP’s? Are you doing the bad ass bully thug deal again. Not good for Party image there bad boy.
Her is the resume part of the press release she sent out:
For Immediate Release: Thursday, August 13, 2009
For More Information, Contact:
Ms. Briggs King is a former Delaware public school teacher and was nominated for Teacher of the Year in 1991. She has also held several positions in the business world. Currently, Ms. Briggs King is the executive vice-president of the Sussex County Association of Realtors, although she is not a realtor herself. She holds a master’s degree in Human Resources and a bachelor’s degree in Business Professions, both of which were earned at Wilmington University.
“I bring a lot of professional and educational experience to this race,” Ms. Briggs King said. “I’ve worked in the public and private sectors, giving me a solid underpinning to discuss the diverse issues impacting our community.”
Ms. Briggs King is on the advisory board of the Diamond State Community Land Trust, which works to provide affordable housing for working families in Sussex County. Additionally, she is a member of the Georgetown-Millsboro Rotary, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce, and Bayshore Community Church. “I’m also involved with some fundraising efforts on behalf of DelTech,” she said.
She goes all the way back to 1991, but 4 years ago she was executive director chief lobbyist for manufactured housing in Delaware. Why no mention of that most controversial of jobs in a state just brimming with manufactured housing and legislation to regulate it?
Once last time: I wonder if the job as Executive Director for First State Manufactures Housing means she sides with the land owners on the important core issues dividing homeowners from land owners. I have a feeling Mrs. King will be much better at explaining her position than you are.
Over blown ego. What’s wrong with that? This is American politics. I am totally committed to helping the GOP come around.
First, let’s get Ms. King to be real straightforward about where she stands on manufactured housing, and how her experience working on behalf of the land owners has shaped her opinions. I think she will do just fine.
Ms. Briggs-King is not hiding it. The campaign had no problem giving the information when I called them down to the exact months she worked and what position she had. How you can make that a cover up is beyond me.
don, You really do have a reading comprehension problem. You were outed 2 days ago by anon on another thread. I don’t need to track Ip addresses to know about you and your dishonest underhanded tactics. Even though you were caught redhanded by anon, You still try to boost your position by using 2 different aliases to make the same argument. Ruth King doesn’t need my help to defend her positions.
You need help in getting an education on what you claim you care about. I don’t believe ensconced in Brandywine Hundred that you care a lick about manufactured housing. Instead I believe you are using this issue to carry on your longstanding vendetta against Terry Strine. Terry of course did not give you the time of day when you let it be known that you had an interest in the Executive Director position of the republican Party. I wonder why it was a bad thing for Ruth King to have worked for Terry Strine when you wanted to work for the very same Terry Strine.
If you want to keep this up, I’ll be your huckleberry. Everyone should know the true motivation behind your bash the GOP posts.
By the way in the Joe Booth race I said that manufactured housing would not be an issue in that Senate district due to the fact that the Senate district had no real beach areas. You then proceeded to go on a tirade with facts and figures from a retired Democrat flack from Maryland. My analysis was based on objective factors. Your ranting and railing against Joe Booth demonstrated 2 things to me.
1. You were clueless about the District and Sussex County.
2. You were flailing about looking for any issue no matter how tangential to the 19th Senate Race to attack the GOP.
You don’t care about the GOP. No one remebers any contribution you made in any of the 7 special elections of the last 2 and a half years.
Actually I like her better because she was head of Manufactured Housing.
In the interest of fair and balanced, I am involved with the owner of two major MHA parks here in Sussex, a former employer and for whom I occasionally freelance.
This company has NEVER gouged land renters but this is neither here no there.
I’ll not get into the pros and cons of having the gubmint getting all involved in private contracts then having boo hooers trying to change the law of commerce. They didn’t win either.
I predict in the thirty seventh district she’ll have no problem with that MHA connection. Heh.
No matter how much the libs on this board get angry about it.
Wow, she sure is hiding it. Took me forever to find…
“In 2004, Ruth became the Executive Vice President for First State Manufactured Housing Association where she quickly adjusted to the not for profit sector and became an advocate for property rights. She volunteered to assist at meetings for the Advisory Council on Manufactured Housing, the Relocation Trust Authority, and spearheaded the legislation for installation standards as well as safe demolition of manufactured units. Ruth embraced advocacy as a vital part of her career. She quickly earned respect for being honest and providing information to legislators so they could make informed decisions.”
http://meetruth.com/about.php
Tennessee, let it all hang out there buddy. Hope you’re feeling better.
So you are a big fan of Terry Strine, eh? That explains a lot.
And you say folks like me were wrong to get him booted out? We should go with the flow? Don’t rock the boat? Shut up? That’s what’s good for our GOP?
I think he was bad for the Party from day one. The majority of the Party eventually agreed. What a happy day when Stabler and Ross gave him that gentlemanly heave ho. I admit I did work hard to grease the wheels. I thought there was a blatant conflict of interest, running the Delaware GOP while at the same time lobbying hard for a his business with important legislation in play. Legislation affecting the lives of tens of thousands of families living in those controlled communities. The straw that broke it for me was campaign contributions going from his business to a Democrat in Sussex. Then denial that he did not know a thing about it. How insulting to all of us. How unscrupulous.
You can call working to oust him a vendetta. I call it “now is the time for all good men to come to aid of the Party”. You should thank me instead of giving me a hard time. What were you doing while all this was going down? Telling people to shut up?
No more weaseling about a candidate connection to the Manufactured Housing group. What’s the scoop with Candidate King being Executive Director for that group with Strine and Tunnel as directors of that same group? Cut the crap and get some answers. Stop worrying about me.
Anon, thanks for the link to her page.. I don’t care what your politics are but what I read is not cool. What are we in the freaking Soviet Orwell Matrix?
“In 2004, Ruth became the Executive Vice President for First State Manufactured Housing Association where she quickly adjusted to the not for profit sector and became an advocate for property rights.”
Too clever by half. Ha Ha we’ll mix in not for profit and property rights next thing you know it was an orphanage. The word dissembler comes to mind.
She was lobbying for the land owners group headed up by Strine and Tunnell. But tells voters it was something to do with not for profit or something? Can we have some plain english from these candidates.
“Tennessee, let it all hang out there buddy. Hope you’re feeling better.
So you are a big fan of Terry Strine, eh? That explains a lot.
And you say folks like me were wrong to get him booted out? We should go with the flow? Don’t rock the boat? Shut up? That’s what’s good for our GOP?”
Another nice try at obfuscation loser and liar. Yes Liar. You had no vote at Dewey Beach in May of 2008. Just as you weren’t at any of the 7 speicial elections between 2007 and 2009. I have said nothing to praise Terry Strine in any of my posts. I think it was a disgrace that we had 4 executive Directors from 2006 to 2008. (A job you wanted but Terry kept giving it to others so this is the source of your anger. Of course blowing you off looks like one of the rare good decisions by Terry)
You had zero influence in getting Terry booted. Keep up your prevaircating I will continue to paddle your fanny with your own words as I have the facts. Once again you were dead wrong about the Joe Booth race and manufactured housing. I was right. Once again proving you have no sources, no facts, just an overblown view of your own self importance.
“Actually I like her better because she was head of Manufactured Housing.”
Pat you have the typical down home reasoned Sussex approach based on personal experience and knowledge. Keep in mind that the supposed “opposition” on the manufactured housing issue on this site is coming from one person. He posts under the aliases of think 123 or don and at least 2 other names. (I think he has just created a 5th alias) He is a frustrated office seeker from New Castle County who wanted to become Executive Director of the Republican Party. He was blown off and has trashed the party ever since under the ludicrous guise of helping to improve the party. None of the folks from his own region can remember anything positive he has done to help the party over the course of 7 special elections and a primary and general election in the last 2 and a half years.
Ruth King’s position is being criticized by a non Sussex Countian (Northern New Castle County). He has his own personal agenda of hate aimed at a former chairman who was booted by the party in May of 2008. He really doesn’t care about folks in manufactured housing. He never even sees manufactured housing in his daily commute. He just can’t stand the fact that 2 women were hired for the position he longed for.
Tennesee Walker, why are you so totally blowing your top? Most of what you say is wrong. Get a book on civil discourse.
I am not saying she should lose or will lose. Maybe she is great. She has a very compelling campaign issue; preventing the Democrats from gaining super control.
As a Republican, I wish she was not being so cute about her role in “not for profit” “property rights”. She was lobbying for MH land owners. Not a crime. Why can’t you talk about this stuff without going nuts? Tens of thousands of families are very interested in the legislation concerning manufactured housing. Year after year important legislation comes up in Dover on this. So if a candidate has been an advocate for one side or the other, that is a fair topic for discussion.
Don’t go all Tea Party red alert on me bully guy. In some respect all people are liars and losers. I am sure you are too.
I am suspicious about special interests fronting candidates. That’s right. suspicious. I want to make sure we know all we need to know about all the candidates D and R. You keep saying you know things about me, but you never say if you know anything about the candidates that are running for office.
By the way, have you noticed Delaware is almost a totally Blue State. Used to be totally Republican. That really bugs me. I still think I know what the problems are. Too much big business special interests, not enough working people. My message is always the same. Let’s change that. When important legislation comes up that the average person wants, like some of this manufactured housing stuff, the Delaware GOP should by on the side of the little guy. Notice Markell, Denn talking about how to help people with health insurance. But we are against all that stuff? That really is a throwback to a time long past. We need to get with it.
You sure are not helping with your Jerry Springer show routine. If you are trying to chase folks like me away, or intimidate us, it’s not going to work.
don,
Have you ever met Ruth Briggs King? Sitting at your computer and handing down edicts on somone you have only read about in the newspaper is not the traits of a rational informed person. Go meet her in person. Get to know her issues. Then tell me what you think.
Make this race an effort to thwart the Markell Steamroller.
Treat it as a referendum against ObamaSoc as well as Jack.