Friday evening I was surfing the channels on my FIOS and I came across WHYY’s 5:30 program called:

“First”

WHYY’s newsmagazine on the people, places and issues of the First State. “First” can be seen at 5:30 p.m. & 10 p.m. each Friday on WHYY-TV, with episodes repeated Saturday at 11 a.m. and Sunday at 6 p.m. on the Y-Info Channel, and Monday at 5:30 p.m. on WHYY’s main channel. Check with your cable provider for channel information.

I decided to tune in and see what WHYY was going to discuss.  Ocassionaly I’m bored enough to try and learn what is going on in Delaware.  Lucky for me Friday had a guest on that piqued my curiosity.  It was the first time I had the chance to watch the show. Unfortunately for us Northern Delawareans we don’t have the luxury of WBOC-TV. My in laws do and they live on Md’s Eastern Shore. Even though they are a FOX affiliate they do give Southern Delaware a good covering as far as I can tell. I wish they would make a push to cover the entire state. WHYY just isn’t going to cut it.

While I was watching Feb 5ths edition of “First” I saw a guy doing some talking that caught my attention right away.

It caught my attention for a few reasons. One because they had none other than Garrett Wozniak on their “State of Play” portion of the program.  Two, because Garrett was introduced as a “Govt Affairs Consultant”.

Just some casual fella giving his wisdom as a consultant I noted. 

But that name stood out to me and it danced in my head for a while longer. Garrett looked pretty young to me and I guess that threw me off a little. I expected a little older, maybe a bow tie and some glasses. After a second though I knew why that name hit me when I heard it and read it.  Back in 2009 my friends at DL unleashed the hounds on a bullshit local “non partisan” think tank known as CRI. It turns out there is a lot more to CRI than them being a “non-partisan” think tank. They have tons of former Copeland people and they hardly seem to be non partisan. Feel free to do your own research at your own peril. Just don’t post anything negative about these guys or you will be smeared and attacked.

It was all very odd the heat generated that month that DL and some others did their research and puzzle solving. Too many things came into play that month that made CRI seem more than a good natured group of concerned citizens. I’m sure they have the interests of the citizens of Delaware as a top priority. Those citizens of course could be the business owners and former Republican office holders though not the lower income tax payers and people that really need someone looking after them.

October 2009 saw A few other folks trying to learn a teency weency bit more about this new local think tank. Most notably was Kavip’s.  There is plenty of back story to this one including the temper tantrum thrown by De’s GOP own Dave Burris after he read Kavip’s version of Garrett’s resume. Personally, I still believe Dave did the dirty work that Garrett couldn’t and wouldn’t do. He also took orders from others at CRI I full believe. This is all my opinion and alleged by me of course. Good times, good times that was.

Here is a little snippet of Kavips outing of Garrett Wozniak.

WTF is Garrett Wozniak?

Hmmmmmmm… let’s take a look together… shall we?

If we pull up Linkaden’s page, we see his prime qualification is:

Campaign Manager at Citizens for Copeland

Oh.. so that’s what makes him an expert in all things political… But wait… who is that guy Copeland? Isn’t he that guy that just disappeared after last November 4th?.. Vanished into thin air? …

Sounds familiar… Hmmmm… Copeland…..Copeland…. Copeland…. Where have we heard that name before… hmmph..

Wasn’t he that silly politician who insisted we should put oil rigs off of Rehoboth Beach? No couldn’t be, for no one here in this state is that stupid… Oil Rigs off Delaware’s number one tourist site… Oil rigs off Delaware’s premier money making site? Never? There’s a no brainer…

Wasn’t he that silly politician who stalled the wind deal so Delmarva Power could charge us 60% more for our electricity? Wasn’t he that person whose approval was required before our state paid out $35,000 so Richard Speck could lynch Arnette McRae on the public stand; she of course being the one in charge of Delaware’s Public Service Commission, and therefore the one responsible for running the best open aired RPS this state has ever seen? So open, in fact, that Delmarva Power’s lies were exposed for all to see for what they truly were? lies?

Now, if you know the back story to Garrett then watching this young man wax poetic on WHYY would raise your eyebrow an inch or so.  What stood out the most to me was the title of a “consultant” WHYY posted under his name.  There was no mention of him being with CRI at all. He tried to go on a little rant about taxpayers and making the environment “better for all”. I don’t know what WHYY knows about Mr. Wozniak. I will assume they know his influence and who he does and has worked for.

The only other thing Wozniak tried to talk about was a $50,000 French Fry machine or something to that effect. I don’t know exactly what he was talking about to be honest.  either WHYY edited it or he was trying to find a way to get in a talking point.  It seemed out of context to what the discussion was.  But, when I go to the CRI blog I found this:

“French Fries Anyone?” by Shaun Fink

His remark doesn’t seem so odd now I guess.  CRI doing what any decent think tank or Republican noise machine does.  Which is disseminate information that multiple people will bring up across different outlets for media. I don’t know if Garrett is still with CRI but it sure seems like he is on their blog or getting updates from someone.