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"He's out of touch — he's been in an office too long," Aniela Meinhaldt told me. "Maybe 20 years ago he was fine." She said her husband Kevin didn't get much help from Carper's office over his issues with the Veterans Affairs Department, and she cited his ties to Big Pharma and insurance companies. Others said they were now thinking negatively — sometimes with a friendly prod from the Harris campaign — about Carper's vote for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, his support for the Iraq War and other U.S. militarism, and his role in boosting prison spending when he was governor.
"He voted for the 'three strikes' law [on repeat felons], I don't like that — it disproportionately affected black people," JoAnn Means, a 41-year-old Wilmington woman told me at Peace in the Streets, an outdoor music event on the Christina River waterfront where Harris mingled among the crowd, hugging attendees who know her as a community organizer.
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"He voted for the Keystone pipeline," said Harris, an Air Force veteran and community advocate, amid boos at her opponent. "He voted to confirm Rick Perry who is bringing back coal plants that are polluting the air. He voted to allow Tyson chicken company to stop reporting their harmful emissions."
To Carper, she said: "All of your votes count. Not just the ones you can pat yourself on the back for."
"The problem is we need diversity in experience," said Harris, who criticized Carper for voting to confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to a federal appeals court in 2006.
"If everyone is viewing the world through the same lens, you get people like Kavanaugh because you spoke to people in your network and they told you he’s a good guy."
Carper said at the debate that Kavanaugh came recommended by members of the Delaware legal community back then, and he voted "on my hopes over my fears."
"I will not do that again," he said.
Democrats don't like hearing the truth, but if you cleaned your own backyard it would be easier to defeat conservative ideology
"He voted for the 'three strikes' law [on repeat felons], I don't like that — it disproportionately affected black people," JoAnn Means, a 41-year-old Wilmington woman told me at Peace in the Streets, an outdoor music event on the Christina River waterfront where Harris mingled among the crowd, hugging attendees who know her as a community organizer.
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"He voted for the Keystone pipeline," said Harris, an Air Force veteran and community advocate, amid boos at her opponent. "He voted to confirm Rick Perry who is bringing back coal plants that are polluting the air. He voted to allow Tyson chicken company to stop reporting their harmful emissions."
To Carper, she said: "All of your votes count. Not just the ones you can pat yourself on the back for."
"The problem is we need diversity in experience," said Harris, who criticized Carper for voting to confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to a federal appeals court in 2006.
"If everyone is viewing the world through the same lens, you get people like Kavanaugh because you spoke to people in your network and they told you he’s a good guy."
Carper said at the debate that Kavanaugh came recommended by members of the Delaware legal community back then, and he voted "on my hopes over my fears."
"I will not do that again," he said.
Democrats don't like hearing the truth, but if you cleaned your own backyard it would be easier to defeat conservative ideology
Ron DeSantis picking Jeanette Nunez as lt governor has me scared brehs. This dude DeSantis is going straight into Miami and picking a Cuban woman. Dude is about to pick up a big portion of Hispanic votes by choosing her as the running mate. Cubans gonna Cuban but other casual Hispanic voters will see that and be like 
I’ll vote for him. @hashmander @LeVraiPapi what are your thoughts brehs 
I’ll vote for him. @hashmander @LeVraiPapi what are your thoughts brehs 
cubans were never going to vote for him anyway. if other hispanic groups see her as one of them thenRon DeSantis picking Jeanette Nunez as lt governor has me scared brehs. This dude DeSantis is going straight into Miami and picking a Cuban woman. Dude is about to pick up a big portion of Hispanic votes by choosing her as the running mate. Cubans gonna Cuban but other casual Hispanic voters will see that and be like
i'm more worried about gillum being caught up in fbi investigations because of lobbyists he knew and traveled on vacations with. even though he says they told him he's not the target, you are the company you keep.
TOM CARPER AND THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DELAWARE WAY
Tom Carper and the Rise and Fall of the Delaware Way
The most damaging hit was his vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the federal bench in 2006. Kavanaugh is now before the Senate as Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court. The racial dynamic in the survey was apparent, the sources said. Roughly a third of the Democratic primary turnout is expected to be African-American, and they made up his strongest base of support. But once Black voters learned of his criminal justice record and his links with the banking industry, support flipped to Harris, a wider swing than among white voters. Harris, meanwhile, led among voters under 40, but was losing badly among those who are older, which tend to make up most of the primary electorate.
Drew Serres, Harris’s campaign manager, said that Carper is bothered by the charge that he is corporate-friendly “because he doesn’t even view it as being a bad thing. He’s like, this is the Delaware Way. This is how you help people.”
But the debate, and its lack of distribution, is also a window into how Carper has remained so popular. It was the first time his record was publicly challenged by a fellow Democrat in a serious way, and while it was a packed auditorium, it was not broadcast anywhere on television, instead relegated to streaming on the News Journal website. Delaware is not its own TV market, and Philadelphia stations have little interest in what happens down there. Carper’s legislative career has not been covered in any real way by the local media, which instead highlight only his major achievements or attendance at parades. The past several days featured headlines touting Carper, in the wake of the passing of John McCain, as the lone remaining Vietnam veteran in the Senate — a record of service he proudly noted in his opening statement.
Take, for example, Carper’s two terms as Delaware’s governor. His glide path to the governor’s mansion was smoothed by the Delaware Way, with a move that became known in local lore as “the Swap”: Outgoing Republican Gov. Mike Castle took Carper’s House seat, with neither facing serious opposition from the other party.
One of Carper’s crowning achievements as governor was to persuade AstraZeneca to locate its U.S. headquarters in Delaware. The uneven results give a hint as to why Delaware voters may be souring on the Delaware Way.
Carper put together a package of grants and tax credits of record size, forking over $41 million in incentives to AstraZeneca, plus another $70 million spent on roads and infrastructure upgrades for the campus.
In exchange, the pharmaceutical giant promised to boost its local workforce from 2,400 to 4,000 by 2004. It hit that target, hiring 5,000 people by 2005, but things have gone south since, with layoffs leaving just 1,500 workers — fewer than were employed before the eye-popping corporate giveaway. Last year, the company sold its campus, leasing back a portion of the space for its remaining crew. “Ultimately, that deal made a whole lot of sense,” Carper told the News Journal at the time. “Do I wish they still had 4,500 employees? You bet. But I’m glad they still have 1,500. Not a lot of employers in Delaware have that many.”
(While Carper didn’t vote for this round of tax cuts, he was one of a few Democrats to vote against partially repealing George W. Bush’s tax cuts.)
In 2000, Carper was elected senator for the first time. He quickly went to work for the credit card industry, which has a dominant presence in the state, becoming a leading advocate of bankruptcy reform, the battle that first brought Elizabeth Warren into national politics. “The Bankruptcy Reform Act injects a measure of fairness into the current law. It reduces credit abuse by ensuring those who can repay a portion of their debts, do,” Carper said at the time. By “credit abuse,” Carper was referring to bankruptcy laws that allowed “struggling families” to discharge their debts. The goal of the bill — which was successful — was to make it far more difficult for people in debt to file for bankruptcy.
Warren warned that it would be devastating for people facing hardship, and indeed it has been. It’s part of Carper’s 40-year love affair with home-state banking interests in Delaware.
Without compromise, a pluralistic political system can’t function. But Carper sometimes takes it to absurdity. In 2014, Carper hailed Obama’s agreement with China on tackling climate change. “Yesterday’s climate change agreement with China is yet another example that when the United States takes a leadership role in addressing our greatest global environmental challenges – other countries will follow,” he said.
Later that same day, he announced he’d be supporting the Keystone XL pipeline for a rather extraordinary reason. “Enough already,” he said. “Let’s clear the decks.”
The story continues under Trump. In 2018, Carper has voted for at least 12 Trump nominees to the federal bench or to his administration, including a crucial vote to make Big Pharma executive Alex Azar the secretary of health and human services. He was also one of a handful of Democrats to join with Republicans to roll back parts of Dodd-Frank’s Wall Street reform.
“I don’t know how it is in New York City or places like that,” he said. “Here in Delaware, people want us to do what’s right, but at the end of the day they want us to work toward principled compromises.
A Washington Post reporter followed up to ask if he regretted voting to confirm Trump administration officials now that he’s being criticized for it.
“I think the jury’s out,” he said. “Azar’s been there for several months. Perry’s been there for a little bit longer. One of the things people liked about Perry was the explosion of renewable energy in Texas when he was governor.”
After a divorce from his first wife, Carper remarried two years later, this time to Martha Ann Stacy Carper, an executive at the most powerful corporation in Delaware — DuPont. In 1986, real wealth begins to appear on Carper’s financial disclosures, in the form of his wife’s holdings in DuPont and other companies.
That same decade, Carper wrestled with the old-school bosses who ran the Delaware Democratic Party, successfully ousting a union leader who’d long been a party honcho in New Castle County, helping to replace him with a DuPont chemist. The transformation of the party paved the way for Carper’s rise.
Drew Serres, Harris’s campaign manager, said that Carper is bothered by the charge that he is corporate-friendly “because he doesn’t even view it as being a bad thing. He’s like, this is the Delaware Way. This is how you help people.”
But the debate, and its lack of distribution, is also a window into how Carper has remained so popular. It was the first time his record was publicly challenged by a fellow Democrat in a serious way, and while it was a packed auditorium, it was not broadcast anywhere on television, instead relegated to streaming on the News Journal website. Delaware is not its own TV market, and Philadelphia stations have little interest in what happens down there. Carper’s legislative career has not been covered in any real way by the local media, which instead highlight only his major achievements or attendance at parades. The past several days featured headlines touting Carper, in the wake of the passing of John McCain, as the lone remaining Vietnam veteran in the Senate — a record of service he proudly noted in his opening statement.
Take, for example, Carper’s two terms as Delaware’s governor. His glide path to the governor’s mansion was smoothed by the Delaware Way, with a move that became known in local lore as “the Swap”: Outgoing Republican Gov. Mike Castle took Carper’s House seat, with neither facing serious opposition from the other party.
One of Carper’s crowning achievements as governor was to persuade AstraZeneca to locate its U.S. headquarters in Delaware. The uneven results give a hint as to why Delaware voters may be souring on the Delaware Way.
Carper put together a package of grants and tax credits of record size, forking over $41 million in incentives to AstraZeneca, plus another $70 million spent on roads and infrastructure upgrades for the campus.
In exchange, the pharmaceutical giant promised to boost its local workforce from 2,400 to 4,000 by 2004. It hit that target, hiring 5,000 people by 2005, but things have gone south since, with layoffs leaving just 1,500 workers — fewer than were employed before the eye-popping corporate giveaway. Last year, the company sold its campus, leasing back a portion of the space for its remaining crew. “Ultimately, that deal made a whole lot of sense,” Carper told the News Journal at the time. “Do I wish they still had 4,500 employees? You bet. But I’m glad they still have 1,500. Not a lot of employers in Delaware have that many.”
(While Carper didn’t vote for this round of tax cuts, he was one of a few Democrats to vote against partially repealing George W. Bush’s tax cuts.)
In 2000, Carper was elected senator for the first time. He quickly went to work for the credit card industry, which has a dominant presence in the state, becoming a leading advocate of bankruptcy reform, the battle that first brought Elizabeth Warren into national politics. “The Bankruptcy Reform Act injects a measure of fairness into the current law. It reduces credit abuse by ensuring those who can repay a portion of their debts, do,” Carper said at the time. By “credit abuse,” Carper was referring to bankruptcy laws that allowed “struggling families” to discharge their debts. The goal of the bill — which was successful — was to make it far more difficult for people in debt to file for bankruptcy.
Warren warned that it would be devastating for people facing hardship, and indeed it has been. It’s part of Carper’s 40-year love affair with home-state banking interests in Delaware.
Without compromise, a pluralistic political system can’t function. But Carper sometimes takes it to absurdity. In 2014, Carper hailed Obama’s agreement with China on tackling climate change. “Yesterday’s climate change agreement with China is yet another example that when the United States takes a leadership role in addressing our greatest global environmental challenges – other countries will follow,” he said.
Later that same day, he announced he’d be supporting the Keystone XL pipeline for a rather extraordinary reason. “Enough already,” he said. “Let’s clear the decks.”
The story continues under Trump. In 2018, Carper has voted for at least 12 Trump nominees to the federal bench or to his administration, including a crucial vote to make Big Pharma executive Alex Azar the secretary of health and human services. He was also one of a handful of Democrats to join with Republicans to roll back parts of Dodd-Frank’s Wall Street reform.
“I don’t know how it is in New York City or places like that,” he said. “Here in Delaware, people want us to do what’s right, but at the end of the day they want us to work toward principled compromises.
A Washington Post reporter followed up to ask if he regretted voting to confirm Trump administration officials now that he’s being criticized for it.
“I think the jury’s out,” he said. “Azar’s been there for several months. Perry’s been there for a little bit longer. One of the things people liked about Perry was the explosion of renewable energy in Texas when he was governor.”
After a divorce from his first wife, Carper remarried two years later, this time to Martha Ann Stacy Carper, an executive at the most powerful corporation in Delaware — DuPont. In 1986, real wealth begins to appear on Carper’s financial disclosures, in the form of his wife’s holdings in DuPont and other companies.
That same decade, Carper wrestled with the old-school bosses who ran the Delaware Democratic Party, successfully ousting a union leader who’d long been a party honcho in New Castle County, helping to replace him with a DuPont chemist. The transformation of the party paved the way for Carper’s rise.
Tom Carper and the Rise and Fall of the Delaware Way
johnedwarduado
Banned
Matt stoller is a privilege white supremacist sympathizer who hates identity politics which is black people demanding civil rights and worships that moron bernie sanders, his opinions are bullshyt. I dont trust anything that b*stard says. His whole shtick is that the democrats are bad and they can not do anything right, and the dems should pander to demonic white supremacist trump voters. HIS OPINION SHOULD NOT BE BELIEVED BY ANYONE. HIS ONLY GOAL IS TO SHILL FOR BERNIE SANDERS IN 2020
and before anyone accuses me of being NAP because i dare criticize the far left and their cult following of bernie sanders who voted for the crime bill check my ip!
and before anyone accuses me of being NAP because i dare criticize the far left and their cult following of bernie sanders who voted for the crime bill check my ip!
No, he's not. Stoller is one of the best guys out there talking corporate concentration, monopolies, and anti-trust.
Of course he's critical of the Dems... they've been asleep at the wheel on those topics aside from people like Warren. He's critical of Bernie too.
johnedwarduado
Banned
This hack cares more about fukking 15 dollar minimum wage and corporations paying higher taxes than trump appointing white supremacist judges to control the supreme court and appointing a white supremacist attorney general. He does not give a fukk if black people lose their rights or are not able to vote all the piece of shyt cares about is money in politics! enough of this bullshyt! i dont give a fukk about amazon and jeff bezos, cops are abusing their power and trump is supporting them and giving them the authortiy and these demonic and vile man is worried about coroporations?
He wants black people to shut up and focus on CLASS! NOT RACE!! ITS ABOUT RACE! NOT CLASS! RACE! THIS VILE HACK WILL NEVER ADMIT IT AND THAT IS WHY I WILL NEVER SUPPORT SANDERS OR ANY FAR LEFT CANDIDATE.
STOP TELLING BLACK PEOPLE TO FORGET ABOUT IDENTITY POLITICS WHEN OUR RACE IS BEING USED TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST OUR PEOPLE
ALL THESE HACK CARES ABOUT IS CORPORATIONS, WHERE IS HE ON KAP PROTEST? CIVIL RIGHTS? RACISM? HE IS A HACK HE WANTS THE DEMOCRATS TO PANDER TO EVIL DEMONIC TRUMP SUPPORTERS TO WIN! AND DON'T U DENY IT! HOW MANY TWEETS HAS THIS DEMON TWEETED OUT SAYING DEMS SHOULD PANDER TO WHITE WORKING CLASS!
I WILL NEVER SUPPORT THESE PRIVILEGED WHITE GUYS WHO ARE RACISTS/ WANT TO PANDER TO RACISTS.
ENOUGH OF YOUR CORPORATION BS! CHILDREN ARE BEING SEPARATED, PEOPLE ARE GETTING DEPORTED AND THIS HACK AND VILE MAN IS WORRIED ABOUT fukkING JEFF BEZOS AND AMAZON? AND CORPORATIONS PAYING MORE TAXES? VILE HACK!
HE IS MORE CRITICAL OF THE DEMS THAN HE IS OF THE WHITE SUPREMACIST REPUBLICANS WHO CONTROL EVERY BRANCH OF THE GOV!! THIS IS HOW EVIL THIS MAN AND HIS fukkED UP IDEOLOGY IS!
IF THE DEMS DONT AGREE TO BE 100 PURE HE IS WILLING TO LET THE WORLD BURN AND LET PEOPLE LOSE THEIR RIGHTS.
AVOID ANY OF THESE PEOPLE/FORUMS!
1.TYT
2.INTERCEPT
3.SECULAR TALK
4.HUMANIST REPORT
5.JIMMY DORE
6.THE INTERCEPT
WARNING TO EVERYONE AVOID THIS PEOPLE/SHOWS/WEBSITES THAT I MENTIONED THEY SYMPATHIZE WITH WHITE RACISTS AND THEIR WHOLE SHTICK IS TO BLAME DEMOCRATS. THEIR PURITY BULLshyt AND RUSSIA DENIAL HAS DAMAGED THE UNITED STATES.
johnedwarduado
Banned
WHAT DOES THIS PROOF? HE IS STILL TALKING ABOUT CORPORATE POWER! IT IS NOT CORPORATIONS ! IT IS RACE! THAT IS MY POINT! GIVE ALL THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS TRUMP VOTERS MEDICARE FOR ALL AND FREE EVERYTHING AND THEY WILL NEVER SUPPORT YOU BECAUSE IN THEIR MIND YOU SUPPORT BLACK LIVES MATTER OR SUPPORT BLACK PEOPLE OR IMMIGRATION.
I DONT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT CORPORATE POWER. TALK ABOUT RACE!
Dude, the guy specializes in corporate concentration and anti-trust. He's at a place called Open Markets Institute.
And if you read his tweets, he has plenty of them on race. But there's an intersectionality with race. People in power use race to keep black people down.
johnedwarduado
Banned
okay i did not know the open markets institute and him working there, i dont trust the guy and i think he is a disingenuous hack but i respect your view point but i disagree.
I just dont want people to overlook race and try to minimize white supremacy and how it caused TRUMP TO WIN not economic anxiety.
Nuke Dukem
Da Bears
Dems won’t win running on immigration issues .. most people honestly don’t give a fukk
They want higher wages and med for all