Posted by
DecoNservAtiVE on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:32:46 PM
I'll start with the simple "coincidence". In recent weeks (see this blogs stories below)..In comments on other blogs and in a recent op-ed offered to the News Journal I cited the fact that the Markell administration was doing nothing to bring the auto industry back to Delaware. No sooner do I comment on that than we see this article Show up "
GM auto plant may get new tenant"
The story "
Riverside shows promise to rise, be revitalized" appears to be spun directly out of recent posts by yours truly. Over on
Delaware Politics I wrote:
"We’ve got to clean up the neighborhoods, restore some sense of morality and order to the home situation and ensure these kids have a chance. The truth noman, is that too many minorities live in disaffected communities that are neglected by the residents, the elected officials and the neighbors. I’m not just talking about places like “Eastside” in Wilmington (where 6-8 shootings have taken place since July) either. Places in Bear like Sparrow Run, Glasgow Pines, etc are rough neighborhoods where our little kids (6,7,8 yrs old) are exposed to fighting, weapons, drugs, hardcore violence, (even sex though maybe not directly)."
I would like to take issue with one of the opening statements of the Journal..."Thanks to a change in leadership in Washington that has put more money into public housing the HOPE VI program has been re-funded."
The truth is that the Bush Administration and Congress in 2007 authorized the $800 Million for HOPE VI. It had nothing to do with the "change in leadership in Washington". In fact it was the EVIL Bush Administration that did it.
Here is the text from H.R. 3524 which became HOPE VI Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2008 and later became part of the Bush Stimulus Package.
All of this leads me to a pair of conclusions. On the one hand I am glad that attention is being paid to the areas of our state that need it most. On the other I am a little miffed that the News Journal reporters are acting like thee ideas are either theirs, new or worse, the Markell administration. The truth is that the Markell administration can't even fix its own leaky pipes.
This is what little Adam Taylor from The NEWS JOURNAL would have seen if he'd done 10 minutes of research ON THE INTERNET...
SEC. 13. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Subsection (v)(1) of section 24, as so redesignated by section 8(1) of this Act, is amended by striking all that follows `section' and inserting `$800,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2015.