Mar
15
I have had a discussion with someone from the Insurance Commissioner’s Office and asked why KWS is not giving us reasons or talking about her decision to lower the reserve requirements. According to this person, she can not discuss anything until after the comment period is over, so I encourage any and all of you to send your comments and questions to the Mitch Crane, as mentioned in the article that was published. The current order will be in effect for 6 months or until other legislation takes its place. I suppose all we can do at this point is send our questions and comments in and see what happens from there. HOWEVER, the person I talked to made me feel a little more comfortable with the decision FOR NOW – I will need to do some more research and ask more questions.
I do want to mention that I did not talk to Elliot and, to a large part, don’t really care what he has to say. I’d rather talk to people that were with the Insurance Department before the elections and that have more know-how of the day-to-day workings and challenges facing the department. To me, the IC’s Chief of Staff just isn’t that person.
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Mar
12
I agree with a reply on Delaware Liberal – John Brady would make a great auditor – and I told him so, too.
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Feb
11
” Sussex County Councilman Samuel R. Wilson Jr., R-Georgetown, a social conservative, said Brady’s positions on key social issues were nevertheless at odds with much of the Republican Party. Wilson said he thought Brady was simply looking out for himself, trying to get a better political position with the Democrats, who now control both houses of the General Assembly.
“I can’t help John lost the election,” Wilson said. “But if he feels he’s going to be better, if he can become a winner by joining the Democrats, then that’s his choice, that’s what he’s got to do.”"
OK Mister PINK POSTCARD – you are HAPPY to see him go, just be honest about it. You have been waiting for this day for ages. And now you are probably busy trying to find whatever you can to spread your messages of hate and bigotry because you detest gays and lesbians.
You are the most unethical person anyway – after all, wasn’t it YOU who, on election day at the polling place, offered me 12 votes for John Brady in exchange for voting for you? You offered the same to my partner. Of course, you’d say that it was meant as a joke, but you were dead serious. I wouldn’t vote for you if your name was the only one on the ballot – I’d rather write in Mickey Mouse.
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Jan
21
..and both of them very VERY COLD! Can I please have a T-Shirt that says:
“I watched Jack Markell and Matt Denn get Inaugurated twice, and didn’t even get a free T-Shirt”
The ceremony at Leg Hall was nice. Matt Denn is a very funny guy and when his kids are with him, everybody gets to giggle.
Of course, neither Ruth Ann Minner, nor John Carney were there (as far as I could tell), even though other former Governors were there. What a shame. And the only comment that comes to mind is:
BITTER MUCH?
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Jan
15
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 29 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE MERIT SYSTEM OF PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION.
Synopsis: This Act amends the State Employee Merit Rules to prohibit an employee from being granted a leave of absence to serve a prison sentence or term of incarceration.
I think it is sad that we even need the piece of legislation. A leave of absence should be for important things, such as family illness, education, etc. I believe that IMPRISONMENT should definitly not be an excuse for taking a leave of absence. ESPECIALLY not if you are in prison for felonies that would often keep you from getting a state job in the first place — such as CHILD MOLESTATION or HOMICIDE of any kind!
Of course, nobody is probbaly surprised that the agency that caused this legislation is DNREC!
- Gene M. Pettingill, 79, of Bear, recently spent nearly three months in prison after pleading guilty in June to two counts of first-degree unlawful sexual contact, a felony. According to court records, a 7-year-old girl said the the Caravel Farms man forced her to touch his genitals about 20 times in 2007.
- Robert A. Dick , 55, of Dover, spent a year in prison in 2003 and 2004 after pleading no contest to a reduced charge of four counts of third-degree unlawful sexual conduct and other offenses — all misdemeanors — for his crimes against a 14-year-old girl. A grand jury had indicted Dick for first-degree rape and other felonies, charging he had intercourse and other forms of sex with the girl. In April 2003, police charged Dick with more felony charges, including five counts of rape and one count of continuous sexual abuse. Last year, Dick spent another 15 days in prison for violating his probation on the sex crime.
- Sandi R. Carney, an underground storage tank inspector, is serving one year in prison for second-degree vehicular homicide. After a night of drinking in October 2007, Carney rear-ended a truck, killing Jason Crump, a 29-year-old friend who was in her car’s back seat.
If you aren’t outraged that these guys got to keep their jobs, what makes me even more angry is the fact that the person charged with vehicular homicide received the same sentence as a repeated child rapist. And the three months for Pettingill are a joke at best and a slap in the face of every victim of child sexual abuse out there.
Or how about:
While Gov. Ruth Ann Minner’s budget office did not support Hughes, the governor said in a statement that she understood criticisms of his decisions but would not second-guess him. “Secretary Hughes struggled with these decisions and after an honest and thoughtful deliberation process, he made a tough call,’’ Minner said.
The News Journal later wrote:
In an interview, Markell said that when he read that Hughes held jobs for inmates, he was “shocked and determined that I would not allow my administration to do the same thing.”
Markell, who takes office Jan. 20, said he did not know whether he would seek to change the state’s merit system rules to forbid such leaves for violent offenses and sex crimes.
“All I can say is that it isn’t going to happen, however I have to get it done,” Markell said.
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