17. October 2010 by admin.

Chris Coons, Delaware Senate Race, Cap and Trade, Delaware Senate Debate, Christine O’Donnell

Chris Coons stated in the Delaware Senate Debate with Christine O’Donnell that he did NOT believe that his Father-in-law’s company Gore-Tex, would benefit from Cap and Trade.  Here is evidence to the contrary:

Chris Coons takes pride in knowing how lawyers think (from his own website)

A lawyer himself, Chris understands the importance of the legal community to Delaware’s citizens, non-profits, government, and businesses. Rooted in a legal perspective, Chris brings a logical, deliberate, and ethical approach to policy deliberations.

http://www.chriscoons.com/communities/lawyers/

If this is true, then explain this grant from the recovery act for “clean energy manufacturing” back in the beginning of 2010, well before the date of this debate where Chris Coons looked into the camera and told the voters an outright lie:

http://www.energy.gov/recovery/documents/Recovery_Act_Memo__DC.pdf

Award(s): 2 totaling $814,000 from DOE / Treasury, Clean Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit (48C)

Location: Elkton, MD

W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc., Elkton, MD ‐ $604,000

W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc., in Elkton received $604,000 to re‐equip two manufacturing facilities in New York and Maryland to produce the Gore Turbine Filter. The filter is used in natural gas turbines that deliver high fuel efficiency and low greenhouse gas emissions.

W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc., Elkton, MD ‐ $210,000

W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc., in Elkton received $210,000 to retool a manufacturing facility to produce a key component of fuel cell systems used to improve fuel efficiency in vehicles.

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9. October 2010 by admin.

http://meetchriscoons.wordpress.com/2010/09/

Chris Coons, as News Castle County Executive, wasted millions through overly generous sick leave policies for county bureaucrats.  Similar to the fact that federal bureaucrats make twice as much as the private sector, Coons ensured that the sick leave policy for county bureaucrats was completely out of line with the private sector. In 2009, a bipartisan group of legislators questioned Coons’ generous sick leave policies:

Councilmen Robert Weiner (R-Chatham) and Timothy Sheldon (D-Pike Creek), who voted against a tax hike in May, have called for a review of sick leave policies, which they say cost too much. ‘Our policy is out of line with what is done in the private sector,’ Weiner said. ‘It may have been done this way in government for a long time, but we can’t keep doing the same things.’” (Jesse Chadderdon, “Critics Take Aim At NCCo’s Sick Leave Policy,” CommunityPub.com, August 12, 2009)

Coons’ unsustainable sick leave policy allowed county bureaucrats to have year-to-year carryover of sick days.  It also gave a severance payout for retiring employees:

A flurry of recent e-mails between citizens, council members and County Executive Chris Coons’ office have raised questions about a policy that provides employees year-to-year sick day carryover and a capped severance payout for unused days upon ending employment on good terms. (Jesse Chadderdon, “Critics Take Aim At NCCo’s Sick Leave Policy,” CommunityPub.com, August 12, 2009)

According to CommunityPub.com, in 2009, $618,909 was paid out in unused sick leave to 40 retiring county bureaucrats.  In 2008, $1.2 million was paid out to 58 retirees.  In both cases, Coons made taxpayers pick up the tab for his extravagant pay out.

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9. October 2010 by admin.

http://freedomist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/coons-parkerstone.pdf

Parkstone v. Coons. Dennis Parkstone had worked as a union laborer for New Castle County for over 35 years when he filed a wrongful termination suit against Coons.17 He was elected president of his local AFSCME union 9 separate times between 1981 and 2004.

Unfortunately for Parkstone, he also failed to politically support Coons, instead choosing to support two of Coons’ chief political rivals. According to Parkstone, he “encountered no problems in his

employment and was subject to no disciplinary actions” prior to Coons’ election as county executive.

According to court filings, Coons and his political supporters regularly complained that

Parkstone, as a union official in his personal capacity, had not provided sufficient political support or exposure for Coons. Coons was also allegedly displeased that he was forced to share the stage with a Republican rival at a union political event organized by Parkstone.

Parkstone claimed in his legal filings that Coons and his supporters within the government cooked up a disciplinary action against Parkstone for the sole purpose of getting rid of him.

They claimed that Parkstone had sent inappropriate e-mails via his county e-mail; Parkstone admits to sending an inappropriate joke, but notes that it was sent from a union computer, not a county computer. County officials later seized the union computer as part of their “investigation.” County officials then forced Parkstone to sign what he claims was a materially false Memorandum of Understanding regarding the incident and waive a number of his rights as an employee or he would be fired immediately.

While the Court found in favor of the defendants, they did so on the basis that Chris Coons as County Executive had the right to replace Parker for whatever reason he so chose.  The point here is not that Chris Coons ultimately violated any laws, but that he used his power to punish anyone who dares oppose his cronyism machine.

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