If I were to post this photo under the caption, “Are The Irish Catholics Responsible?”, what do you think the response would be? What if I then took to the air waves to defend such a “QUESTION”, and said things like, “these people”, and accused them of doing it because of their drunken culture, and called them, “Papist  O’Shea McMic”.

Don’t you think that there would be some outrage? I believe that there would be, and rightly so.

Well that is not exactly what happened, what did happen, is that local, small time radio personality, Bill Colley of WGMD, the angry Rush Limbaugh wannabe, posted the above photo under the title of, “Are Latinos Responsible?”.

Then when the Hispanic community expressed their displeasure with such an act of overt racism, did Mr. Colley realize that he had gone too far? No. Instead he went on his show and stated that, “IF”, Latinos were responsible, it was because in their culture they were taught to “go outside their village and dump their garbage”.

He said, “if these people are going to come here, then someone has to tell them to take their trash to the transfer station”.

In defense of the photo and the accompanying title, he said, “all I am saying is, are we seeing more of this because of the influx of Latinos?”. He went on to say to the Latinos in the area, “you have to start living cleanly”, inferring that all Hispanics are dirty.

On a side note, if Mr. Colley had actually lived here, or took a walk in some of the woods in the area, he would know that road side dumping has been an ongoing issue long before the “influx” of Hispanics. Also it was accepted practice for farmers to dump their garbage in their woods, granted it was on their own property, but in Mr. Colley’s world, are they not just acting upon their cultural background?

He then challenged the Hispanic organization that expressed their displeasure to come down to his station by saying, that if, “La Cocka Rasa Poo Poo”, came there, he would hang a microphone out the window to do an interview. I guess he wouldn’t want to invite them into the studio, since in his view they are all dirty trashy people.

In case anyone thinks I am exaggerating, here is the audio, please forgive the quality, the person who recorded this just happened to be listening, and since Mr. Colley doesn’t seem to post pod cast anymore, why would he, it would only be evidence of his hate speech.

http://www.delawareright.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Colleys-views-on-Hispanics.mp3

I hope that everyone noticed the fact that he came back from the break playing the Tijuana Brass and making a joke about it being appropriate.

Here is a link to the photo.  http://www.wgmd.com/common/more.php?m=49&post_id=71261

But Mr. Colley doesn’t stop there. Later in his show, on the same day, only about thirty minutes later or so, he demonstrates not only his racism, but his hypocrisy. In this next segment he goes out of his way to defend Nelly Jordan, who is the current Vice-Chair of the Delaware GOP.

Mrs. Jordan’s heritage is Chilean, so one would have to ask Mr. Colley, does he believe that she is inherently dirty, and does he believe that she too dumps her garbage beside the road? Since in his opinion, “those people” can’t help themselves, it is in their culture.

But it would seem that Mr. Colley will overlook such shortfalls if the Hispanic shows the correct political leaning, and as in this case, if they are in line with his religious beliefs.

The issue was that Mrs. Jordan was temporarily the acting Chair of the state GOP, and in her first meeting she called for a prayer to open the meeting. Since this had not been the practice in the past, I guess some at the meeting were caught off guard.

Or as Mr. Colley chose to characterize, “Prayer? What’s that?”, “These are Republicans”.

In her capacity as acting Chair Mrs. Jordan appointed Kim Warfield as the Chaplin for the committee, or as Mr. Colley stated, “a very well-educated woman, Kim Warfield”. Later he felt the need to point out that she was a, “woman of color”. Now why would he feel the need to make such a distinction? Was this his Joe Biden moment? Did he mean to say she was ” articulate and bright and clean”?

He also went into great detail about Mrs. Jordan’s Chilean background, but I’ll get to that later.

Mr. Colley went on to further ridicule members of the GOP state committee in saying that only the members from the Greenville and Hockessin areas were uncomfortable with the prayer and the appointment of Ms. Warfield, “OBVIOUSLY”. Saying that they had to maintain a front for their liberal friends and have to be God hating people as well.

So you see, if you don’t express your faith in the proper manner, then you are God hating people, or Nazis, just ask another of Mr. Colley’s good friends, Glen Urquhart.

Mr. Colley went on to state that people, with no distinction, just people in New Castle County don’t pray, and are Godless. WOW! I know that a lot of people in NCC are different from people in the rest of the state, but how did only Godless people end up there?

He then went back to using the term, “these people” to describe anyone he doesn’t like, or who dares to disagree with him.

He also believes that we are right back where we were in 2010, proving what I have said in the past, that some people cannot move beyond 2010, and will doom the conservative movement to failure.

Here is a blog post by Mr. Colley that inspired his on air rants. and also the audio, and again, apologies for the quality, but thankful we have it as proof so that he can’t spin what was actually said.

http://www.wgmd.com/common/more.php?m=49&post_id=72871

http://www.delawareright.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Colley-on-Nelly-Jordon.mp3

Mr. Colley manages to show both his hypocrisy and racism in the same sentence, when he says, ” Nellie is the name of our Chilean born Vice-Chairwoman of the Delaware Republican Party.  She’s fluent in Spanish for obvious reasons and as a woman is also even in 2013 in a rare position of influence.”

So which is it Mr. Colley? Is she an accomplished, bi-lingual  woman of influence? Or a road side garbage tosser? Driven to throw garbage by her Chilean ancestors.

The rub seems to be that the Delaware GOP party plans to hire a Spanish-speaking director of Latino Outreach.  Nellie wasn’t considered. Maybe someone saw her throwing her old mattress out along side the road.

He then dares to say, “Here’s a little Spanish invention on my part:  El Creepo!  It very well describes the out-of-touch and narrow-minded chaff now in control of the party’s destiny.”

Which brings me to why I have such a large problem with this so-called radio personality. Not because of his overt racism, we all know that people like this still exist. We usually just avoid them and ignore them and teach our children to recognize them for what they are, hateful people.

The fact that he has a microphone from which to spew this hate speech every week day for three hours does add another layer to the bitter cake of hatred.

Another concern for myself and other true conservative, forward thinking people, is the fact that this “MAN”, is seen as the voice of conservatism in Sussex County, and that he is representative of all conservatives. This is far, far from the truth.

Oh yes he is somewhat of a glorified personality to the TEA Patriots, spewing his hate from the rusty towers of WGMD. But he seems to have fallen prey to the failings of all tyrants, he has surrounded himself in his little echo chamber of regular callers, who call in to tell him how great he is and how right he is. However, outside that ever shrinking circle he is seen for the racist hate monger that he has demonstrated himself to be.

The people who support this bête noire have moved beyond conservatism, though they continue to tout theirs and Mr. Colley’s conservative roots. When in reality they have moved beyond conservatism into the realm of socialism.

Look at some of the things they have pushed for in the recent past. They want to force their religious beliefs and practices upon all citizens of the state, they would force your children to pray as they do in the public school system, and would force involved citizens who show up at county meetings to also be forced to either wait outside the chamber, or to be forced to observe their Christian practices.

So called “small government” conservatives would gladly expand the size of county government, and the cost to tax payers simply for the sake of one man’s crusade of creating a new police force out of the county sheriff’s office.

And when people dare to disagree with either Colley or his minion, you are labeled a liberal, oh and you need only disagree on one issue to be a liberal, with this group it is 100% or nothing.

I would suggest that Mr. Colley travel outside his closed circle of sycophants, and go somewhere other than 912 Delaware Patriot meetings, and maybe instead of hanging up on callers who disagree with him, maybe he should try having a conversation with them.

I am going to make some challenges here. One is that the ownership of WGMD demand a public apology from Mr. Colley to the Hispanic community. Two, would be that Nelly Jordan denounce the statements   made by Mr. Colley, as a member of the Hispanic community, as the Vice Chair of the Delaware GOP, and as someone who has enjoyed the support and promotion of Mr. Colley in the past. I would call on the 912 Patriots to also distance themselves from this behavior, or be guilty by association. I would also call on sponsors to seriously reconsider their financial support of such a show.

I want to make it clear, that the real conservatives, be they Republican, or Democrat, or independent voters, have no place in their ideology for such behavior, and it is not representative of conservatism as a whole, but simply the outgrowth of a faction within the conservative movement that would see the world as only white and Christian, and they wonder why their numbers are decreasing. Let me also make it clear, I do not believe that Mr. Colley or those who support him, are representative of the TEA movement as a whole, but if they fail to condemn this behavior then they have condoned it in their silence.

P.S. This is a correction of something above. it would seem that in Mr. Colley’s defense of Nellie Jordan, he has credited her with appointing Ms. Warfield as state Chaplin for the GOP, in her short stint as acting Chair of the state committee. It has come to my attention that Ms. Warfield was appointed by former state GOP Chairman John Sigler, and that she was voted  into that position with a unanimous vote of the committee. So Mr. Colley’s characterization of the Delaware State GOP Executive Committee as “Godless”, seems to be not only offensive, but also a complete fabrication. I received this information from a reliable source, and someone who was at the meeting in which the vote was taken, and who actually cast a vote.

I believe that this Flowers has been planted in a hole that is way too deep. Now Delaware State Treasurer Chip Flowers is, “ADMITTING”, that records concerning the growing controversy over misuses of state issued credit cards in his office, are missing.

These records were requested under FOIA applications. They would show, if they existed, how the cards were used and how the money was reimbursed. But unfortunately, the office that is in charge of how the state’s money is invested and spent, can’t seem to keep track of the simplest thing like a credit card statement.

Should we be trusting Mr. Flowers with millions, maybe billions of tax payer’s money, when he is now demonstrated the inability to run his office, an inability to get the story straight, and an inability to oversee the people he is in charge of.

The silence from the Governor’s office and the legislature is deafening.

Here is a video from Delaware Online in which Mr. Flowers attempts to spin his admission that the records are lacking or missing into him being an honest and forthright person. All well and good Mr. Flowers, but even an honest and forthright person must answer for their mistakes, especially when they are elected to office, and entrusted with such a great responsibility as the Treasurer’s Office.

So, I write about my girlfriend Day who was abused by her father and committed suicide, and I often make the point when I post the link to this that most child sex offenders are KNOWN to the victims. In the past week we have had 2 educators and a coach/arena owner arrested for child abuse, and I keep noticing these comments from people how they are surprised that this child abuse happens with “respected people and in respected institutions.”
Do not be surprised. This is where almost ALL of it happens, with 50% of it being by FAMILY members. Here are the stats:
Megan’s Law – Facts about Sex Offenders
Let us see how much we know-and see how much of what we think has been based on the myths we have all heard about sexual assault and sex offenders. Take 5 minutes to complete the True or False Quiz:
Most men who commit sexual offenses do not know their victim.
False. 90% of child victims know their offender, with almost half of the offenders being a family member. Of sexual assaults against people age 12 and up, approximately 80% of the victims know the offender.  ————————————
It’s NOT strangers in vans — it’s people you know and trust.

Okay, I have to admit that I have lost track of how many times the story about the use of the state issued credit cards in Delaware’s Treasurer’s office has changed.

First the expenses were not legitimate, and had to be paid back. Then they were legitimate and the Deputy Treasurer Erika Benner was owed money back that she had paid back to the state because the expenses were not legitimate. See what I mean?

First it was only Ms. Benner who had misused the state issued credit cards, then possibly also Delaware Treasurer Chip Flowers. It seems that the story changes every time  Mr. Flowers releases a new statement.

The latest revelation comes as we find out in articles in the Wilmington News Journal, that both Mr. Flowers and Ms. Benner used their state issued credit cards to pay for lodging and food, and other services on a trip to Alaska for  a conference. The problems arise because both Ms. Benner and Mr. Flowers stayed on after the conference ended, and continued to use their state issued credit cards to pay for their lodging and food.

Mr. Flowers first said that he stayed on to hold meeting with bankers and others in regards to drumming up investors for Delaware, and so the expenses were legitimate. He has denied and then admitted to having traveled to a national park, the same park that Ms. Benner traveled to.

Ms. Benner registered at a lodge near the national park, along with a second adult. Mr. Flowers has denied that he was that second adult, we will have to wait and see if this story also changes.

I have to tell you that my opinion is that this story has changed too many times for it to be even close to the truth. Mr. Flowers has stone-walled the investigators at all turns. His story changes every time he is cornered by a new revelation.

Let us consider this one such revelation. Ms. Benner used her state issued credit card to rent a car to go to the lodge she stayed at while visiting the national park. The lodge that Mr. Flowers says he was not at, and the park he first denied going to and then admitted to visiting. The odd thing is, Mr. Flowers used his state issued credit card to pay for valet parking on the day that Ms. Benner rented a car to go to the lodge, however, Mr. Flowers did not rent a car. So why did he pay for valet parking?

My question is, where is the outrage over this? Where is the complete audit of the Treasurer’s office use of state issued credit cards, for that matter a complete audit of all state issued credit cards? Where is the governor calling for such an audit? Will the Legislature call for such an audit?

If it is a matter of funding such an audit, then the Legislature should immediately provide the emergency funding. Or will the Democratically controlled Legislature protect one of their own? Is the governor silent because Mr. Flowers is a Democrat?

Every citizen of Delaware  who have to get up and go to work and pay taxes, who have to live within their means, should be outraged about this blatant misuse of state issued credit cards, but more, they should be screaming for a complete reckoning for all involved.

Instead of running what amounts to re-election ads, Mr. Flowers should be writing a letter of resignation.

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