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Posted in Markell on Sep 24th, 2011
It was nice of Governor Markell to wait 3 months to sign mortgage reform legislation that takes 4 months to take effect. People unjustly foreclosed upon have no advocate in the governor who wants the banks to get off bygones being bygones.
“Operation: Pressure Point” Coordinates Efforts to Crack Down on Violent Crime Statewide Reducing Crime in Wilmington is the First Focus of this Statewide Prevention Effort Markell: “When it comes to combating gun violence and violent crime anywhere in Delaware, we are fully aligned in both our efforts and outcomes – to save lives.” Wilmington, DE [...]
Balanced Budget Proposal Invests In Jobs And Stronger Schools Markell Budget Makes Painful Cuts But Requires No New Or Additional Taxes “To keep Delaware moving forward in the future, we need to make the hard choices now.” The budget documents are posted at: http://budget.delaware.gov/fy2012/budget2012.shtml DOVER – Governor Jack Markell introduced a balanced budget proposal today [...]
Posted in Colin Bonini, Election 2010, It's our money, Jack Markell, Liberal Hypocrisy, Markell, Stuff on Aug 26th, 2010
It appears that the measly salary that one gets as State Treasurer isn’t enough for a liberal Wilmington Democrat. Velda Jones-Potter is collecting significant bucks from a $150/hour consulting job from the City of Wilmington in addition to being State Treasurer. It seems that perenially cash strapped Wilmington is getting its usual liberal dose of “It’s [...]
Posted in Markell on Jan 22nd, 2010
The governor is reading the fall in his own poll numbers pretty well. His state of the state focused on a jobs agenda. If you did not live in the state, but heard the address (or read it below), you would think that we have a proactive government which has weathered the economic storm. If you [...]
City and State snow plows rolled down Governor’s and State with plows up while they disputed who was responsible for plowing the vital fire and hospital route. Markell, a Global Warming nut, neglected to budget money for more than 1 minor snow storm. A major blizzard just overwhelmed the system, but even days later the [...]
Posted in Election 2010, Jack Markell, Kauffman, Markell, Stuff, Tom Carper on Dec 4th, 2009
The details of the Public Policy polling in Delaware have been released and the news is not good for Democrats. The three top Democrat office holders have followed the nationwide trend of dissatisfaction with Democrat officials. The winner for the biggest decline is Governor Jack Markell. Polling in March gave Markell a 67% approval rating. [...]
Posted in Biden, Election 2010, Markell, Mike Castle, Polls on Dec 4th, 2009
Public Policy Polling’s Tom Jensen spoke with DP about the Polling done by PPP in the state of Delaware. Mike Castle seems to holding his own from earlier in the year. While his approval ratings are lower than he is used to seeing, he is better off than many officials in the state. He has [...]
Posted in Budget, Business, Education, Jack Markell, Markell on Aug 20th, 2009
August 19, 2009 Governor Markell and the General Assembly members for the Dover area held an under advertized town hall meeting for the local residents at the Kent County Administrative Offices in Dover. The 2 hour meeting began with the Governor laying out some of his vision and answering questions from the public. It [...]
Posted in Markell, Regional Politics on Aug 14th, 2009
Pennsylvania For all of the intrigue the budget battle holds, the latest numbers have to add a sense of panic to the legislature and governor. The deficit has grown another 700 million dollars since the end of June due to the lack of economic recovery in Pennsylvania. It now tops 3 Billion dollars. Senator Specter [...]
Posted in Environment, Markell, Stuff on Jul 20th, 2009
If you didn’t know, in Delaware we pay an extra 5 cents for every bottle of soda we buy. This pays for the 5 cent refund given to people who turn in their bottles to the grocery store for recycling. It is estimated that less than 14% of bottles are returned through this program. In [...]
Posted in Budget, Change, Delaware Democrats, Markell, Open Government, Schwartzkopf, economy on May 8th, 2009
This week Governor Markell pulled an astonishing, double-secret-pinky-swear fact out and smacked Delawareans in the face with it: “This isn’t over,” Markell said. “The bottom line is, we still need to find the funding to do all the things we need to do.” Markell said lawmakers who opposed his proposal were voting against something that [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats, Markell, Open Government, Spending, Taxes on Apr 30th, 2009
Governor Markell has been dealt a poor hand therefore I have made it point to give him a chance before being critical. The state has little money and huge short falls. His aggressive and expensive agenda has mostly taken a back seat to reality. How has the governor done so far? The Governor is trying [...]
Posted in Comment Rescue, Delaware Blogs, Jack Markell, Markell on Apr 1st, 2009
I am rescuing my own comment from Elbert’s “Elbert With an ‘E’” blog post. Linked above, pasted below: OK, it’s time to give up this outrage. The name given to this event was developed by bloggers (possibly DD, I believe), not Governor Markell or any of his staff. It was indeed a MISNOMER by calling [...]
Posted in Delaware Blogs, Markell on Mar 31st, 2009
…and I was late. Pictures from the event (after the jump, but please look them over):
Posted in Election 2008 - Delaware, Markell on Sep 27th, 2008
This week the state GOP chairman Tom Ross brought up an old lawsuit by Nextel shareholders in which they successfully sued the company for puffing up the stock price. As an example, the public was told that Nextel was on the verge of obtaining 400,000 digital subscribers and got all of 15,000 that year ( [...]
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