Day: November 9, 2011

So today, a new Facebook page was put up by a grassroots movement to convince Wilmington's Paul F. Calistro, Jr., the current Executive Director of West End Neighborhood House, to run for the Mayor of Wilmington in 2012 as a progressive alternative to the prospective candidates currently assembled. I am told that Calistro has a lot of support among he same progressive activists that supported Governor Markell in his primary race against John Carney in 2008.

Apocalypse imminent. George Will asks a reasonable question. And Donviti supports Obama? I'm heading for the bomb shelter.

Common Cause of Delaware is holding a for a special forum on the future of Delaware politics tonight at 6 pm in the post-Citizens United age of secret, unlimited political spending. Will Delaware's tradition of civility in its politics endure now that special interests can spend unlimited amounts on our elections? Is last year's U.S. Senate race in Delaware, which set a record for money coming from out of state and for total money spent, a harbinger of things to come?

Senator Tom Carper supports the EPA’s Clean Air Good Neighbor Rule which would demand that the EPA better regulate air pollution. Senator Rand Paul hates clean air and wants to end the EPA. Senator Rand Paul has introduced Senate Joint Resolution, which disapproves of the rule and would prevent it from being enacted. Carper says he will fight for the rule...... in a debate on the Senate floor. Pardon my French, Senator Carper, but f*ck that.

Workers protected in Ohio. Voting protected in Maine. Birth Control and women's rights protected in Mississippi. Teabagger Rethugs recalled in Arizona and Michigan. Special Election won by Dems in Iowa. And great polling news from Ohio.