Tuesday Open Thread [5.14.13]
SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS TODAY! Polls are open 10 – 8. Please try to get to your polling place and vote today. Feel free to advocate for candidates in the comments of this thread. For more info:
Red Clay
Christina
Brandywine
Appoquinimink
Are you kidding me? The NYPost reports this crazy bit of business:
Some wealthy Manhattan moms have figured out a way to cut the long lines at Disney World — by hiring disabled people to pose as family members so they and their kids can jump to the front, The Post has learned.
Seriously, people, the lines are what you pay for. It is one of the biggest reasons why I don’t go to amusement parks.
Will Harry Reid invoke the “nuclear option” to rein in the obstructionist GOP? The Hill reports that it is back on the table and may have more Democratic support this time.
“Leader Reid over the last two weeks has talked about this and many other Democrats like Sen. Sanders who have been advocates for reforming the Senate rules,” said Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America, which strongly supports reform.
Cohen said he does not expect Reid to act before the beginning of July, when the Senate is likely to be finished debating comprehensive immigration reform legislation.
“I think the frustration is mounting among members [of the Senate],” said Jamal Raad, a spokesman for Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.). “If we continue to see the obstruction we’re seeing on nominees, we may have to address the rules of the Senate again.”I’m not getting my hopes up, but it is plenty stupid to let the GOP continue to obstruct because you want the opportunity to obstruct yourself. Figure out a better way to work, Senate, that makes the business of governing a priority and not feeding Fox News.
Minnehan is the real candidate for Christina. Her opponent created a flap yesterday by emailing all Christina staff using the directory list and slapping on the district’s email address, but for a while, many thought he illegally was emailing from inside the district office….
Although no one yet knows of or has pinpointed the same corporate ties along the lines of what hit school boards last year to Mullin, we do know that with Minnehan, corporate ties and the lining of corporate’s pockets over the dispensation of education, will not be an issue…
Sorry to report that I was a source of frustration in this:
http://www.delawaregrapevine.com/5-13demconvention.asp
Polls are open until 8pm. Cassandra has it right in her post, but the blurb says 5pm. Polls are open until 8pm! Yeah, if I was tech savvy I would correct it, but I’m not, so… I guess I’m a loser.
Fixed! Polls open until *8*! Thanks, P.
This oughtta be a source of amusement for the foreseeable future. John Boehner’s daughter marries a Rastafarian w/ three-and a half-foot dreads:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/Boehners_daughter_marries_Rastafarian.html
Would have loved to have breathed in the…atmosphere at the reception.
So it looks like the WH emails that ABC leaked earlier were something of a fabrication. Jake Tapper at CNN has the email from Ben Rhodes to prove that. Interestingly, it is usually CNN that is on the embarrassment end of the journalistic sweepstakes.
WH emails that ABC leaked earlier were something of a fabrication
Proceed, Representative Issa.
Celia’s article linked by LG above ends as follows “If the Swedes had known the settlement they founded in the New World would come down to this, they might not have bothered.”
Ah, lazy journalism at its finest. Goodness, would those Swedes object to a political convention involving arguing over the platform and having to adjourn after three whole hours. Oh my, how shameful! A political disagreement in Delaware? I have the vapours!
Nancy Pelosi points out the double standard in evaluating the Speaker’s performance (sorry, link is Politico):
(I’ll note the weasley way the reporter wrote this — evaluating both Speakers by how many times the Hastert Rule got broken is the *author’s* measure, not Pelosi’s.)
You have to remember, X, Celia is writing for about five people who still follow her. They probably got a polite chuckle out of it.
Someone slid Cohen just enough information to try to make a fool of, er, someone (cough John Kowalko, his wife Connie and Sam Guy), but instead just made a fool of herself. That inspires me to report on the Convention as someone who was actually there.
Am I wrong or were the only schools listed as having elections northern Delaware schools Districts…
We’re there elections in Sussex at all, like at Cape , Indian River etc?.
Sad, if true….
What is this, national journalistic integrity day or something? The White House press corps is actually practicing investigative journalism. Very impressive.
Kelly Wright wins in Appoquinimink.
The developers of the Woodlawn Trustees property in PA have withdrawn their rezoning plans at tonight’s zoning meeting. The NJ article says they’ll be refiling new plans in the future.
Bohm and Woods win in Red Clay.