WDEL Breaks Story Of Corruption And Cronyism

smoke filled room  They call it the Delaware “WAY”.   amy cherry  The following is a link to a story by, WDEL’s  Amy Cherry, who was also interviewed, on the Rick Jenson Show today, broadcast on  WDEL 101.7, and Delaware 105.9, state-wide.  EXCLUSIVE

If there is an award, for being in the right place at the right time, and for having  the instinct to see a good story, and the courage to tell it,  that award should go to Amy Cherry this year.

Ms. Cherry, may just have busted the biggest story in Delaware wide-open, with the help of an undisclosed source.

Read the story, and listen to the audio, and make up your own minds.

As for me, I believe the FBI, the Delaware Attorney General, HUD, and any other agencies, whose authority this would fall under, should be serving a warrant on Tom Gordon right now, along with one on Dana Long as well, and while their at it, write one for the right-honorable Senator, Bethany Hall-Long.

There should be trucks outside all of their  offices, right now, seizing paperwork and computers, and emails, and phone records.

Tom Gordon just plead guilty to buying the votes of a state Senator, by giving her husband a county contract, “We got her because of her husband”, a contract, Dana Long allegedly used to gain confidential information, and used the information to benefit his wife’s campaign.

As the article stated, this is not Dana Long’s first extreme measure to guarantee his wife’s election. Also during the 2014 campaign, Long was caught on video pulling up Republican Party signs.

 

How deep does this go, or how high? Sen. Hall-Long denied knowing anything about her husband stealing signs, will she now claim to know nothing about this as well? “I thought Dana was on the phone a lot, but I just thought he was having an affair”.

Sen. Hall-Long is also running for Lt. Governor this year. This is someone who thinks she is on her way to being governor. Can the people of Delaware afford to have Mrs. Long  in any position of authority?

Even if we want to kid ourselves, and believe she knew nothing about either sign-gate, or these latest allegations, it would show, she has no idea, what is going on, right in her own marriage, yet she expects Delaware voters to elect her to higher office?
And if she doesn’t resign, she should be investigated immediately by the Ethics Committee to determine whether she has been guilty of selling her votes, whether she knew about any of the things her husband has done on behalf of her campaign.

The call for an investigation should come ASAP, and it should come from the Democrat Leadership. If they stand silent, they are complicit in their silence. All possible criminal acts should be investigated and prosecuted.

Dana Long seems like nothing more than a functional idiot, but he may be a criminal idiot as well.

Tom Gordon’s past speaks for itself, some believe him to be Teflon, but audio evidence might just stick.

It’s going to be a long hot summer for a lot of people, only time will tell, how many of them are still around in the fall.

 

18 Comments on "WDEL Breaks Story Of Corruption And Cronyism"

  1. Mike Protack says:

    A caution. What looks unethical may not be against the law. Giving jobs to legislator’s family members is system wide, nothing to see there. What does the law say?

    Hall-Long is done but I sincerely doubt if any falls besides her.

  2. Creeper says:

    ^^^^ Habitual loser. That should be a crime.

  3. Meyer says:

    Tom Gordon – once a felon, always a felon.

  4. social worker says:

    “The call for an investigation should come ASAP, and it should come from the Democrat Leadership.”

    Bethany Hall-Long should be forced to resign from the state senate and to end her campaign for Lt. Governor.

    What BHL’s husband did was the worst kind of intimidation. He has the power to kick low income families living in federally subsidized housing on to the street and he used that power to coerce those people into voting for his wife. As Bethany Long is in office, those families will feel marginalized and live in fear.

  5. Pat Fish says:

    Here’s my question…WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS????

    I want to see Pettyjohn, SMyk, Richardson, Collins (especially Collins as it was HIS sign the guy got caught stealing), Cragg, Parish, Short, ……well you get the pic.

    Why aren’t they holding press conferences everywhere DEMANDING that the creep Long GET ARRESTED?

    Half the reason Dems get away with stuff is because the Republicans don’t fight back.

    Good article Frank.

  6. fightingbluehen says:

    The absolute dominance of the Democratic party in Delaware has lead to this type of fox watching the hen house arrogance where campaign sign stealing and constituent bullying are met with a wink and a nod, and even if they do get caught, there is nothing the opposition political party can do here in Delaware, but to complain to def ears.

  7. Frank Knotts says:

    Pat, to have Republicans out in front on this would give the appearance of partisan politics, and allow the Democrats to minimize it. It has to be the Dems calling for the investigation, the same as the Republicans did with John Atkins. It’s up to the press and the people to apply the pressure for them to do so.

  8. Frank Knotts says:

    Speaking of the press, I have heard that the News Journal had the story first and sat on it. I also noticed the WBOC did not mention it in their morning news today.

  9. fightingbluehen says:

    “What BHL’s husband did was the worst kind of intimidation. He has the power to kick low income families living in federally subsidized housing on to the street and he used that power to coerce those people into voting for his wife. As Bethany Long is in office, those families will feel marginalized and live in fear.”

    Yeah, there is probably some sort of misconduct on a federal level there, but do you really think the Feds are going to look into Democrats committing some “minor” violations in the home state of the Vice President….during an election year?

  10. Henry says:

    News Journal is a far left progressive liberal newspaper. They are not going submit any information regarding backroom dirty Democrat political moves to the public unless forced. That would hurt the chances of any news reporter of getting a cushy state government position such as John Starkey received last month from Gov. Jack Markell.
    WBOC is nothing but a coward news source that copies other major news releases.
    This is just the tip of the New Castle political iceberg that just substantiates over twenty years of Democratic control why Delaware is in such bad shape. 400 million in hidden debt is no laughing matter.

  11. Creeper says:

    Does Pat Fish really believe Rich Collins had signs stolen by Dana Long in New Castle County? Wow!

  12. tony stark says:

    Yeah, Rich Collins was really aggressively courting the South Middletown vote.

    Pat Fish needs to follow the advice of St. Augustine.

    “Better to remain silent and thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt.

  13. Geezer says:

    “News Journal is a far left progressive liberal newspaper.”

    Make up your mind, moron. Those are three different things, none of which have any bearing on this story. Do you know how to dress yourself? How about tie your own shoes?

  14. Conserned citizen says:

    This is only the tip of the iceberg. If someone would take the time checking the corruption it goes all the way to Delaware’s US reps, the Governor all the way down, Just follow the trail…………. over 1000’s of pages of documents and several billions in fraud & corruption, includes Carney, Coons, Markell, Denn, Biden, Levin, O’mara, Bhatt, B. Townsend, Schwartzkopf plus many others……

  15. Rick says:

    Do you know how to dress yourself? How about tie your own shoes?

    Can you even see your own shoes?

  16. Henry says:

    Geezer go back to your talk radio job. Oh forgot you got fired

  17. kavips says:

    It seems like all were too quick to make assumptions. It appears there is nothing wrong except that someone doctored a tape and gave it to WDEL who ran with it…

    WDEL is in the process of walking back their story…

    Everyone needs to calm down, sort through the evidence, look for facts, and if there are some, then pursue action… Everyone of us has been wrongly accused of something … and it was always by someone who didn’t have a grasp on the facts…

    The fact that no story appears to be there, makes most of the above comments superfluous, if not idiotic. Amy Cherry got duped by the oldest Delaware trick in the books…. She is not the first to be used….

  18. anon says:

    I have seen no indication that WDEL is “walking back” this story. I have also seen nothing that indicated the tape was “doctored.” Please link to your facts.

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