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Posted: Thu Oct 16th, 2008 07:33 pm |
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Jody...
Give 'em hell...glad to see that you are on the offensive. You've got a lot to go on, and I wish you well.
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Jody.Sweeney
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I fail to see where I have failed my Christian upbringing. You and your alter ego(s) are trying to turn this into a religious race, and I will stand by my beliefs. I have been a member of the Wyoming United Methodist Church since the late 70's. I returned to MY church (WG knows THAT inside joke) last year after a trip to Germany where my 19 year old was converted and wanted to learn about the Christian faith. He and I started attending together so that I could ensure a proper introduction to Christ. My 16 year old daughter saw the change in my son's personality because of his faith and started attending as well, and now participates in the Polytech Fellowship of Christian Athletes on a weekly basis. So don't attack my Christian beliefs. Am I defensive about it? Absolutely! It is just like the right-winged factions to think that they hold the values of the American People, by accusing everyone who does not believe the same thing of being anti-religious.
I have known Mr. Edmanson for nearly eight years. WG, do you REALLY want me to go into why you were hired at OIS or exactly what the Operating Room Shift Supervisors thought about your performance? As the Manager of that Division, I have that information for the years I was there, and have since discussed that very issue with those who worked for me, who you worked for. You choice....
As far as being a gentleman, let me tell you a true story, that I have related here before, but you obviously either missed or chose to ignore. I was walking in Hawkspointe with my 15 year old daughter. We walked up to a residence, knocked on the door, and literally before I could get my name out of my mouth, Mr. Clyde Bush made the statement that he knew who I was, that he was told that I believe in same sex marriages, and that I would never get his vote. He stated that he KNEW I would be running against Don Blakey in two years, and that he was here to stop me. He stated that WG Edmanson had called him THAT DAY and told him I would be there. At that time I was putting on my website where I would be walking, and have since stopped doing that. Mr. Bush stated that it was that very reason why he had a large WG sign in his backyard along Rt 10. Now, just how Christian was Mr. Edmanson in providing that type of information to Mr. Bush. I have never discussed my opinion of same sex marriages with anyone outside my family, so any information he provided was a fabrication. It is not an issue that will ever be legislated by the Levy Court. I have never discussed my future plans with ANYONE, and they DO NOT include a run against Mr. Blakey! The worst part is, IT WAS IN FRONT OF MY 15 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER that this bitter old man attacked me on the word provideed by WG. That is about as un-gentlemanly as any one person can get. I have NEVER attacked Mrs. Edmanson, but aI do believe that the irresponsibilty of your life's decisions are subject to scrutiny.
I will continue to attack Mr. Edmanson's voting record and his values. Both are in question for running for ANY elected office.
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Posted: Thu Oct 16th, 2008 12:52 am |
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| Sounds like WG and Sean have the same vitriolic friends with different names. The same fate will befall WG as it did Sean.
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Posted: Wed Oct 15th, 2008 11:29 pm |
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Mr. Sweeney,
Let me start by saying I was an undecided voter until I read all your comments about WG Edmanson and his family. How Christian is it of you to assume that he is irresponsible to have left his job without having another one in his pocket. How well do you know Mr. Edmanson and his family? I dare say not as much as you would have us believe. Maybe he is putting family first or has some other matters he is attending to. Who knows other then he and his family, I really find your comments are inappropriate. In addition, why would you brag about providing him with his first job, I would think you hired a highly qualified candidate, you clearly must have seen something great in him back then. As I stated before I was undecided until now, I will let you know on Election Day my vote will be cast for a man who has remained a gentlemen throughout this campaign.
Shame on you Mr. Sweeney!
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Jody.Sweeney
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Posted: Wed Oct 15th, 2008 04:11 am |
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Duplicitous fraud? My name is Jody Sweeney and my alias is jody.sweeney. I used other alias for a short while but have since stopped. Permanently. I don't see anyone else using their real name except David Anderson. I challenge you to use your real name.
And speaking of fraud. Mr. Edmanson has run a campaign on promises of OPEN SPACE yet voted against open space more than any other sitting commissioner. I believe that constitutes fraid on his constituents. He tells the residents what they want to hear, then votes in favor of those who funded his campaign.
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Posted: Wed Oct 15th, 2008 03:38 am |
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| Ok Truth & Justice (Sean Lynn) can't you just give up? You lost the primary so why the need to attack Mr. Sweeney? Talk about alias. He's the only canidate for the people of the 5th dist.. Edmanson is brainless. Such a sore loser you are.
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Posted: Wed Oct 15th, 2008 01:41 am |
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| Thanks for standing up and being counted, RW. As for Mr. Sweeney, he has admitted to using at least 2 other aliases (albeit one of them for only a short time). Once a duplicitous fraud, always a duplicitous fraud in my book.
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Posted: Fri Oct 10th, 2008 01:42 am |
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I will try to get you during the day on Friday, I have a long schedule, so I might not be able to get to you until the weekend......
Jody.Sweeney wrote:
PTG, Can you call (697-3778, home) (632-1237, cell) and bring me up to date on what is going on? I would like to be able to ask intelligent questions at the HOA meeting. Thanks.
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Hartlyboy
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Not to belabor the power issue, but I thought it was interesting about what happens when a town annexes a farm for development. The Co-Op is normally the supplier of power to the rural areas so they would have serviced the farm. Now that the town has it, they then have to turn over the equipment to the town for their invested cost. Now you have a single pole in the field needing to be upgraded to multiple underground lines fed by the towns supplier running to all the new houses.
That power , regardless of what supplier name is one the bill, has to come through someone's lines and that typically would be whoever is wired into the town through their distribution system. Those wires can carry just so much and how many new lines have you seen being added to the main trunk lines? I see a lot happening at the development level but not much in the way of new substations and heavier lines. Just my observation. Maybe I'm missing something , but it sounds like DelMarva is saying they don't have the capacity any longer in some areas.
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Posted: Thu Oct 9th, 2008 02:02 am |
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| PTG, Can you call (697-3778, home) (632-1237, cell) and bring me up to date on what is going on? I would like to be able to ask intelligent questions at the HOA meeting. Thanks.
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Posted: Thu Oct 9th, 2008 02:02 am |
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| PTG, Can you call (697-3778, home) (632-1237, cell) and bring me up to date on what is going on? I would like to be able to ask intelligent questions at the HOA meeting. Thanks.
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Posted: Thu Oct 9th, 2008 01:29 am |
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The infrastructure issue has hit home hard to the Senior Community of Planters Run in Dover. Delmarva Power doesn't give a crap and our Elected Representatives have provided volumes of lip service. We are losing appliances daily and all we hear are bright comments from Delmarva like, we didn't puchase enough power from the grid to supply you, turn down your AC.
Time to look seriously at the infrastructure while we have a chance in this downturn.
It is time for the developers and the utilities to "Pay the Piper.
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Posted: Wed Oct 8th, 2008 05:33 pm |
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Fred wrote: Infrastructure IS going to be the big issue of this century. Be it roads, electrical systems, sewage, water, or gas, the aging of them and the capacity are going to be big issues we have over the next 30 years.
I agree completely. We need to sit down and think about what type of infrastructure we will need before we reinvest. We have a great opportunity to encourage new fuels, environmentally friendly sewer systems, and upgrading our electric grid and communications systems. Naturally we need safe bridges and roadways. If we are going to spend the money, we should do it in a way that strengthens our economic future.
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Jody.Sweeney
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Posted: Tue Oct 7th, 2008 03:20 pm |
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Rightwinger, I am sure he was just reaching because I was getting close to who he was.
Regardless, This is about the election. My election is for Levy Court. In my race, I have have a standard greeting for almost everyone I can get to come to the door. Let me put it out here for everyone to debate. I am the only candidate for this office who has lieved here in Kent County for 48 years. I believe that my historical perspective is an asset in that it is good to know where we have been when making land use decisions about where we are going. I believe in "Infrastructure before Development", which is a nice catch phrase that everyone is using, but I also believe that you and I as taxpayers should never have our taxes increased to pay for new infrastructure. When these developers bring in all these homes, they should be paying for roads, schools, fire company, and police improvements, not you and I as taxpayers. For example, Camden residents just had their property taxes increased, a tax increase that will pay for infrastructure. I am the only candidate who stood up in opposition to the Camden Comprehensive Plan that annexed that land, while my opponent was in favor of it, stating that it was good that the town was annexing farmland. I suppose he does not understand that the town is not interested in farmland and he does not know what they intend to do with it. I also opposed the latest annexation of 170 acres into Camden, where they plan to put 1200 homes. My opponent was at that meeting and sat there and said nothing.
My opponent seems to forget that he represents more Camden residents than just those few who are are involved in special interests.
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Posted: Tue Oct 7th, 2008 02:55 am |
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Truth N Justice wrote: P.S. Having gone back and reviewed several posts on this and other threads in this forum, I now suspect that Mr. Sweeney is not only "URKidding", "Disbelief" and "Hot Flash", but also "Playing the Game", "Disgusted", "Rightwinger", "Helen here", and "nov_voice_de08". They all tend to say the same thing, over and over again, with some interesting ties to their identity. Am I correct? Perhaps I am incorrect in a couple of cases, but it would appear that Mr. Sweeney has been posing as several different people in order to fabricate a dialogue. Time for you to come totally clean, Mr. Sweeney...tell us how many different aliases have you been using, and please identify all of them by name. Otherwise, I'm afraid your credibility here is completely lost.
You are certainly incorrect with regard to Rightwinger! I am not Mr. Sweeney,
wouldn't know him if I fell over him. Your theory is far fetched to say the least.
He would have to spend all his waking hours on the computer to do that amount
of posting! Think about it! He probably only used URkidding. However, I do
suspect there are some individuals who do use more than one, as I have noticed
similarities in certain posts. Some people love to play games.
As for me, I am Rightwinger and no other.
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Posted: Tue Oct 7th, 2008 01:55 am |
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| And you want us drive electric cars? We can't keep the lights on................ Last edited on Tue Oct 7th, 2008 01:56 am by Playing the Game
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Posted: Tue Oct 7th, 2008 01:16 am |
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| Infrastructure IS going to be the big issue of this century. Be it roads, electrical systems, sewage, water, or gas, the aging of them and the capacity are going to be big issues we have over the next 30 years.
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Hartlyboy
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| The power issue is one of the 'silent' infrastructure problems I see with all the overdevelopment we have. For example, Delaware Electric Co-Op has a long term contract to buy it's power from Dominion. When all the excessive building hit our rural areas, that power was used up pretty quickly this summer and there were a number of days when the Co-Op had to ask us to curtail energy use so they wouldn't have to buy very much more expensive power because they exceeded the quota they contracted for. That expensive power of course, shows up on our monthly bills. Last edited on Mon Oct 6th, 2008 05:57 am by Hartlyboy
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Posted: Sun Oct 5th, 2008 01:20 pm |
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Jody.Sweeney
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Posted: Sun Oct 5th, 2008 03:35 am |
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| PTG, What time is the meeting? I would like to attend. It is going to be just the beginning and will probably extend past the election and become my issue to help resolve.
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Jody.Sweeney
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Posted: Sun Oct 5th, 2008 03:28 am |
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| WG has been acting like a commissioner, at least in attending meetings, but where has he he been for the last 19 months? It is too little too late for this district. The 5th District deserves better representation on Levy Court.
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Posted: Sun Oct 5th, 2008 12:59 am |
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| There is an association meeting on Oct 23rd at Levy Court to address the Delmarva power issue in the area. W.G. is going to attend. A first for him, I guess he is up for re-election. WBOC, Delmarva Power, State Public Services Commission and Donna Stone are going to be in attendance.
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Posted: Wed Sep 24th, 2008 10:27 pm |
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| If he sticks to the plan he presented to us 2 years ago, I like it. We were the stumbling block to his getting approval for the project and he promised us a lot. If he doesn't stick to his plans, he can deal with our wrath, and Old folks can be nasty.
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Posted: Wed Sep 24th, 2008 12:56 pm |
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Thanks for your support and I will do my very best.
Now that I know where you live, how do you feel about the Fieldstone Project that Mr. Petrosky is building up on the hill?
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Posted: Wed Sep 24th, 2008 12:54 am |
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| My point is, that I hope you decide to enforce the laws if you are elected, and I am voting for you, so is my wife and probably most of my community and we are Republicans at heart.
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LOL. Sorry, I had to laugh. If WG put a sign in my yard, in the right of way, someone, not me, would deliver it to his house in small, manageable pieces. But I have had so many of my signs disappear, I am sure that someone thinks they are doing Mr. Edmanson a service. I have been adamant with my family to leave the signs alone.
Is there a market for plastic? Or is there a new type of siding that I am not aware of that is 23" deep and 30" wide?
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Posted: Tue Sep 23rd, 2008 12:17 pm |
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| Signs can be placed in the additional right of way providing the property is not owned or maintained privately. I don't think you would like a WG sign in 10 feet from the street in your yard.
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Its not that I feel bad. I know the laws about sign placement. DelDOT claims about 300 feet across RT 10, including 10 feet from the shoulder called the"Clear Zone" and another 10 feet beyond that called "Additional State Right Of Way". It is in these areas that I placed the signs along Wawa's road. I admit that the sign was a little farther off of Rt 10.
Regardless, no more of my signs will go there.
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Posted: Tue Sep 23rd, 2008 12:11 am |
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Don't feel bad, Sentor Bonini tried to muck up our open space on Rte 10 today with 2 huge signs. He lost also.
Planters Run Homeowners Association pays for the mowing and taxes on the strips of property you politicians seem to enjoy destroying with your election pap.
We have to pay extra to have it mowed and then we have our retirement community looking like a carnival barkers orgasm.
There are state and county laws governing signs and not one of you useless pols will do anything about it.
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PTG, I don't feel I have a right to place signs on private property. i would NEVER have considered placing the signs on the lake in Planters Run or in the common area around the lake. I did not consider the roadway through Wawa to be your common area, nor did I consider the berm along Rt 10 to be your common area.
I appreciate your vote. I am sure I can do a better job than WG, and I am pretty sure I can live up to your expectations. I received pretty good response from those who answered their door in your development. If there is anything I can do to help now, please let me know. I may not be able to get to it right away, but definitely after the election, regardless of the outcome.
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Posted: Sat Sep 20th, 2008 12:49 pm |
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Catbird wrote: YOUR CURIOUS YOU STATE GEORGE, WELL I'AM ALSO CURIOUS TO SEE IF THERE WAS A RESPONCE TO THE QUESTION THAT TWO CENTS WAS ASKING ONLY ANGEL AND NOT LYNN. I KNOW IT IS AND OLD POST BUT IT CAUGHT MY EYE AND WAS LOOKING FOR AN ANSWER OF SOME SORT.
Catbird -- I asked that question of both candidates in here a few days prior to the primary election -- and have not seen a response from either. There was othing one-sided about the question, as you suggest in an earlier post. Now that the primary is over, Mr. Lynn's response would be of no value, but I would still like to see Mr. Angel's response.Last edited on Sat Sep 20th, 2008 12:51 pm by Two Cents
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Hartlyboy wrote: Uh, just curious, but why does Lynn's response matter now? The primary is over.
YOUR CURIOUS YOU STATE GEORGE, WELL I'AM ALSO CURIOUS TO SEE IF THERE WAS A RESPONCE TO THE QUESTION THAT TWO CENTS WAS ASKING ONLY ANGEL AND NOT LYNN. I KNOW IT IS AND OLD POST BUT IT CAUGHT MY EYE AND WAS LOOKING FOR AN ANSWER OF SOME SORT.
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| Uh, just curious, but why does Lynn's response matter now? The primary is over.
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Two Cents wrote: Two Cents wrote: Because I live in the 3rd Levy Court District, I would be interested in reading in this forum the positions of Mr. Angel and Mr. Lynn as to whether they would actively sponsor and support a general property reassessment for the county within the next 2 years. I would be very interested in hearing their reasons as to why or why not.
Maybe now that the primary election day is history, Mr. Angel would be kind enough to provide a response to my qustion. I would have asked him in person if he had knocked on my door seeking support in his quest for a win.
YOU WANT ANGELS RESPONCE TO YOUR QUESTION, DO YOU HAVE LYNNS ANSWER ?? IF YOU DO, WHAT IS HIS RESPONCE TO YOUR ONE SIDED QUESTION ACE!!!
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| If you have developers respecting property rights as far as where they place signs, you sure have one step up on the State. Every Friday the sticks come out and thousands of those d**n things litter the roadways. I keep hoping DelDOT will do their job on enforcing the no signs in right of way , but that happens only about once a year. They could afford the Indian River bridge if they fined all those developers for those violations.
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Posted: Fri Sep 19th, 2008 10:06 pm |
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I was working when you came through during the daytime or I would have told you. What makes you or any other politician think you have the right to post your signs on private property without the landowners permission?
Read the state and County code, you were in total violation as was Edmanson and Hartly-Nagle. Even the developers have finally realized that our grounds are off limits.
I am voting for you because I know you will do a better job than the buffoon I voted for the last time. He doesn't respond to his constituents even when we email him through the Levy Court Web site.
You can claim your signs at the Sandtown landfill.
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I would like to have my signs returned. In the three weeks since I have been placing signs, nearly 19 have "disappeared". I walked through Planters Run a few days ago. If you had simply idenitified yourself and asked that I remove them, I would have gladly done so. In 2007, during the run for the Special Election, I placed signs on both the road into Planters Run across from Wawa and along Rt 10 on the berm next to Rt 10 without complaint.
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Posted: Fri Sep 19th, 2008 12:56 am |
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Not for nothing Jody, but please stop putting your signs up in Planters Run on Rte 10. You put them on the front property a few weeks ago and we took them down twice, we also took down W.G.'s sign.
You put another one up today on the side leaving Wawa.
We do not allow political signage for any candidate on the common grounds. We pay to maintain them and would appreciate you leaving them "green".
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| Could not have said it better, HB.
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T&J, you attribute many good things to our 'explosion of growth". You claim cultural benefits, retail benefits, job opportunities and on and on. Just to share another view with you, how many new stores did we need? You say we get better prices as a result of all this. I'm shopping in the wrong places then because I haven't seen any drop in my cost of living index.
As far as all the new job opportunities, I wish you'd tell that to the people who are losing all those jobs at Reichold, the call centers, etc. Basically all we've gotten out of the development that has occured is more people who need more services, most of which will be paid for by the people who are already here. We've had residential development by the ton and zilch as far as commercial or industrial development. Strip malls don't count.
In short we've had unbalanced growth , skewed toward bedroom communities catering to people who work elsewhere. Sorry, but that isn't my idea of progress and growth for this County.
We did increase our fine dining opportunities, though. We have more pizza palors now than we ever had.
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Amen!!!
I couldn't have said it better Mr. Sweeney!!!
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TNJ, I rarely take a position without justifying my position. I have NEVER taken a position of reversing or even stopping growth. So let me make this perfectly clear:
I am not opposed to growth. Growth is vital to a thriving community, and lack of growth is a precursor to the community failing. I AM opposed to out of control growth, ie, the "explosion of growth", that has occurred in the last 10-15 years. It is out of control because it was allowed to happen without the consideration of how the overall development of land would affect our overall well-being. Each new development, starting 15 years ago, was reviewed, dissected, and approved, based on its singular impact on the community. The Comprehensive Plans of Kent County and each municipality were reviewed individually for their impact on the community. If someone had thrown all of that together and looked at what the overall effect was going to be, we would have started to slow things down 14 years ago. Who do I blame for that? The sitting commissioners and planners from that era.
Now, why do I feel that way? Because I am tired of stopping at stop signs on a rural roads 15 from the front of the pack; I don't want kids in public schools retrieving their textbooks when they enter the classrooms and then returning them at the end of the class period; I am tired of sitting at traffic signals waiting to get through after 2 cycles of the light; I am tired of hearing that the DE State Police sometimes take 30 minutes to respond to a prowler call or that a family friend cannot be protected from an abusive husband; I am tired of wondering when my fresh water well is going to run dry, costing me thousands to replace; I am tired of trying to figure out the year in my kids or grandkids future where all of Kent County will be houses, based on our current rate of growth, I don't want to wonder if Camden-Wyoming Fire Company is fighting a housefire in Pennwood when I make the call that my house is on fire and they have to depend on Magnolia or Felton to get there to save my house.
What can we do? Slow it down and make the new development pay for their effect on infrastructure. I think the majority of the burden for paying for that infrastrucutre falls on the backs of developers. The developers need to address how they affect schools, roads, police service, fire service, and fresh water availability. If the cost of a lot increases to much, they need to look at building more affordable housing on larger lots (larger than 1/8 of an acre, for goodness sake), and to design developments that have more open space and remove fewer trees. We look at new construction impact fees that are relative to the number of housing units you are building in a community to avoid putting an inordinate share of the infrastructure resolution on the custom home builder who builds 2-3 homes per year, and more of the share on the developer-buy-in communities. When the economy comes back, and it always does, we need to be ready.
Thanks for you concern about the signs. Signs are not going to win this election, position on issues will. My opponent has shown he is in favor of development and letting the developers who footed his campaign bill get away with not addressing infrastructure. Maybe he didn't realize that his voting record would be monitored or that it became a part of public record, because his voting record does not coincide with his campaign promises.
I wasn't going for attractive signs...I was going for the eye catcher. Bright yellow and blue draws the eye, and the gold and blue are the colors of my alma mater, CR.
It is lunchtime and I have to get back to work.
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Posted: Wed Sep 17th, 2008 08:51 am |
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Mr. Sweeney:
Why do you keep castigating the "explosion of growth" we have experienced as some horrible plague? Without growth and development, we would not have more/better retail options (and lower prices), better healthcare, better cultural and recreational opportunities, better restaurants, and positive job growth. Do you really believe that all of these things are bad? It sure sounds that way. I thought the issue was not stopping or reversing growth and development, but rather, doing a better job of managing it (i.e., making sure that we have properly planned for the future and provided adequate infrastructure to accommodate growth which is both inevitable and desired). You sound like a nimby hermit who wants to stop or reverse progress so we can continue to live in the past. That's neither healthy nor realistic. And, by the way, the "problems" we have experienced with growth and development (to the extent that real problems exist) have only surfaced in the last 4-8 years, as a result of growth and development occurring at a much faster rate than previously experienced or anticipated.
Sorry to hear about your signs. That's intolerable child's play. If someone is stealing your signs, they should be hung from the highest tree. I hope you catch them and make an example of them, as that kind of crap really irks me, regardless who the victim might be.
On a lighter note, do you really think your signs are all that much more attractive than your opponent's? To be honest, I think they are both rather ugly (sorry).
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| During the years of Don Blakey and his choice to replace him, WG Edmanson, the 5th District has shrunk in size, but has increase in population. It is obvious that the commissioner in this district over the last 25 years has done nothing to prevent the explosion of growth here. It is time we put a Commissioner on Levy Court that will represent what the residents want. George Sweeney!
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| You know, Jody, the election is probably not as hot an issue in the other races as with the Levy Court. As far as who is a Senator and who is a Rep or an Insurance Commissioner , etc., it probably makes less difference to the average voter/resident than who is on the Planning Commission [which Levy Court Commissioners appoint , as you know] and who will stand up on the overdevelopment issues. What is happening next door is the elephant in the room for most people this year , I think. Insurance Commissioners are going to let State Farm raise their rates and Comptrollers are going to sign checks and the legislators are going to help their cronies and raise taxes and call them fees. Depending on which side of the political fence you are on, you believe the other side will do you worse than 'your' party. I'm too old and have seen too much to believe that there is really all that much difference, especially in a state where the largest employer is the government and it's well entrenched to keep feeding itself at the public trough. Levy Court is about as close as it gets to a place where people can actually have a say and occassionally influence the outcome of something.
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THE ELECTION IS NOT OVER!
You have all gone deathly quiet since the primary. Are you taking a break? Only a few elections are now uncontested, and none in the Camden area:
5th District Levy Court, George "Jody" Sweeney vs Edmanson
34th Representative, Gordon "Bruce" Hamilton vs Blakey
Kent County Comptroller, Georgette Williams vs Steven Artz
Kent County Register of Wills, Tom Weyant vs some unknown
16 Senate District, Harold Stafford vs Bonini
17 Senate District, Brian Bushweller vs Hutchison
Others?
1st Levy Court District, Brooks Banta, uncontested
The election I am involved in is starting to heat up. My opponent is starting to crack, reverting to exaggerations and misleading statements in the press and directly to residents. Yard signs are not going to win this election, but I am now missing up to eight signs, one of them is a large sign. He is running hard on his 5 years of military service and his stance on the gymnasium at Breaknock Park.
The first two are not worth my time to defend or discuss. When they are falsehoods or misleading, there is no response other than quiet. When a SWEENEY FOR LEVY COURT sign is the only sign missing in a group of signs from both parties, it is very obvious who is taking them, and not because they are so much better looking.
As for his military service, I have nothing but extreme gratitude and respect for anyone who is willing to enter the military service for our country. My son-in-law, Chad Jensen, has been in the United States Air Force for 10 years, serving in a tour of duty in Iraq and currently stationed overseas at Ramstein Air Force Base. My brother, Ken Sweeney, is a United States Army Veteran, having served in Berlin, Germany, before the wall came down, with the elite force that guarded Rudolph Hess, the infamous Nazi War Criminal. My Father, George Sweeney, served in the United States Navy in the Pacific Fleet after the Korean War, and my Brother-in-law, Tim Rincon, is a retired Lt. Colonel from the United States Air Force, having served our country in Iraq and well and good in the Air Force's AWAC and Joint Stars programs.
As far as Breaknock Park, Mr. Edmanson claimed he voted against the gym at Breaknock, when it never even came to Levy Court as a vote. The Parks and Rec Committee pulled it from the table before it came to a vote. I was in favor of a gymnasium, with more concern for a place where our kids could go. As a coach in the area for the last 16 plus years, I saw the good that would come from a place where our kids could play indoor soccer, indoor field hockey, basketball, and where parents could drop their kids for the summer programs offered. If not at Breaknock, then someplace close. I understand the opposition by residents of Chapelcroft, but not the Camden Historical Society. This group, so vocal about Breaknock, turned the other cheek when it came to the eyesore white office building that resembles NOTHING historical built right on Main St.
So, Camdenites, lets hear it. Do you want to vote on just one issue? Or do you want a representative who will represent you on ALL issues? I am the only candidate who stood up to Camden Town Council and voiced my opposition to the Camden Comprehensive Plan and the annexation of farmland for high density development. Mr. Edmanson voiced his agreement to the same plan, saying it was good that they were annexing farmland and was very silent during the recent annexation meeting for 170 acres west of town, planned for Savannah Station, more than 1,200 homes. That is completely contrary to his campaign platform of responsible growth.
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Posted: Thu Sep 11th, 2008 07:26 pm |
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Two Cents wrote: Because I live in the 3rd Levy Court District, I would be interested in reading in this forum the positions of Mr. Angel and Mr. Lynn as to whether they would actively sponsor and support a general property reassessment for the county within the next 2 years. I would be very interested in hearing their reasons as to why or why not.
Maybe now that the primary election day is history, Mr. Angel would be kind enough to provide a response to my qustion. I would have asked him in person if he had knocked on my door seeking support in his quest for a win.
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Posted: Thu Sep 11th, 2008 04:28 am |
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| I guess none of you have seen the movie, check it out sometime.
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| Thanks DD, it shows that idiocracy has nothing to do with the comment about the residents of Kent County. I love it when the grammar and spelling police have no clue as to what they they speak of.
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