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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Alert 670: Senator Tom Carper makes Delaware a “coal state.”
“I have spent the past six months working with a group of coal state Democrats in the Senate, led by West Virginia native Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), drafting provisions to assist the coal industry …. ”
–Â Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia
–Â Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia
It should be no secret that Delaware’s congressional delegation–Castle, Carper and Kaufman/Biden–generally doesn’t represent the interests of Delawareans. Why should they? Much of their campaign money doesn’t come from Delaware, and they don’t have to worry about reelection. But, I doubt many realize how hard and how often “our” representatives in Washington work directly against the interests of Delawareans. The worst is Senator Tom Carper.