Then you write this in your double standard ways..QUOTE: Until recent days I was neutral about the race for the seat in District 41. This despite a steady stream reaching my ears of vile allegations against Mr. Hastings, a man I believe to be good to his wife, his family and his community. this is all on the same day, did you for get your mood swing medication? Or do you just like keeping the CRAP stirred. I feel you are determined to undermind anything MR. Atkins does that is good.

let me say i’m oh so glad i don’t go to “christian” church with YOU or GREG or whom ever it is…If I were MR. Hastings I would consider having you and your comments not made at all as it could cause harm to his running with all of your flip flop, mush mouth double standard ways. Maybe you should have tried sales as a liar seems to fit your profile. By the way Christianity is a mask all hide behind, God and only God knows your heart
I’ll be sure to pray for you bill so you can become the man you have longed to be for 30 years (it’s a shame it’s taken you 30 years to figure out what you want to be, if you truely seek god he will set a path for you)
and with hopes that YOU too can learn to FORGIVE.

Dan used the old “guilt by association” trick, based on information on the Delawonk blog, claiming that Markell should denounce his “surrogates” for inappropriate posts. http://www.delawonk.com/?p=87

I agree, the referenced posts are inappropriate and in very poor taste, but do we blame Markell for this, as Dan tried to do? Of course not! Markell has no control over the behavior of the bloggers; in fact, there is no evidence that Markell even knows about this.

Anyone who knows Jack Markell knows what a fine gentleman he is.

So shame on you for that, Dan!

Ah, but tlook at what we DO know about Mr. Atkins. He was arrested for a domestic assault. Every realtionship has good times and bad, but at least in the world I was raised in… You don’t hit women.. period. There should be no tolerance in public service for a man who cannot control himself any better than to not strike a woman in anger. Oh, and then there is the abuse of power that night in Ocean City. I could care less about what so-and-so did when they were in office. Prior bad behavior doesn’t make it okay at a later time. Mr. Atkins may have learned his lesson. He may have changed, but sometimes the consequences of your actions last for a long time. Take the martial artist in the recent Olympics. If a moment of anger his career changed instantly. Why? Because he struck a referee. Now he is banned from competition for life. A state Representative is a powerful position full of responsibility. To even entertain the notion that sending a man to Dover with a history like Mr. Atkins’ has when there is a candidate with such an unblemished record like Mr. Hastings is irresponsible.

Maybe you are right. Maybe Mr. Hastings has dirty laundry that hasn’t been aired. However, from what I have seen and heard of him I think that is unlikely. But from what I have seen and heard about Mr. Atkins. I think he is lucky the public only knows about that one night.

“..not because I choose not to but because he doesnt seem very approachable, or always accessible.”

If Mr. Hastings seems unapproachable or inaccessible to you..you aren’t even trying.

I have nothing against Mr Hastings, I really dont know that much about him, not because I choose not to but because he doesnt seem very approachable, or always accessible.

We can never know what goes on behind closed doors, so Mr Colley, I suspect that you should probably refrain from convincing us he is a step closer to God because he hasnt had any dirty laundry aired, perhaps he has just been smart enough not to get caught.