Will Someone Please Tell The Governor To Stay Out Of Newark's Electoral Politics?

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People in my town are boiling mad at the Governor's attack on John Kowalko. REALLY PISSED. And I am hearing that many of his Assembly colleagues are just as furious. Newarkers will fight as hard to protect John Kowalko as he fights to protect us! 
Markell writes ~

 " This is not a partisan issue. It is a Delaware issue when any elected official, including one in my own party, seems to forget that creating good jobs is Job One. That’s why it matters when Rep. John Kowalko suggests that some of his constituents opposed to the data center want jobs, just not these jobs near their neighborhood."

Plus, some jobs comments on facebook generated by the Markell op-ed yesterday ~  

How many data centers do you know with a for profit power station?

The beauty of data centers today is that you really don't need many people actually in the data center. The data center that I work in was supposed to provide 50 jobs to Delaware to get a tax break. They never cashed in on it.
But we have several dozen people that manage the data center from India, The Czech Republic and several other states. 

Most of the jobs won't be IT jobs. Data centers hire a few dozen people. Probably half of them will probably be H1B workers, too.
Most of the jobs will be power plant employees, which is why it is important to call this a power plant not a data center.

Also, any idea how many data centers we already have? I know of at least 5 in New Castle County without thinking too hard. Have they turned the county into some sort of technology hub? Nope.

I also support Amy Roe for Mayor of Newark. Go Amy!

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