Why is the Delaware NAACP Bullying Councilwoman Lisa Diller?

Why is the Delaware NAACP Bullying Councilwoman Lisa Diller?

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This past Tuesday, the NCCo County Council met for usual business, but ended with an extraordinary bit of public commentary directing actual threats at Councilwoman Lisa Diller. We talked about the original incident here. But the NAACP President, Richard Smith, read a letter into the record that you can hear via the County's audio of the meeting. The full meeting is about 30 minutes long, but if you go to about the 26 minute mark you can hear from Mr. Smith and Mr. Roosevelt Nichols (not sure I heard the name correctly) who read the letter sent to Ms. Diller. The letter recommends that Ms. Diller take Diversity Training and Anger Management Training. It also says that "...we will monitor your future County Council behavior from now on." (my transcription of the audio). Mr. Smith then takes the mike to also recommend Diversity Training and ask for a meeting with Ms. Diller. And if that doesn't happen, "We'll do what we have to do -- you can take that any way you want to." 'Refuse to take the black community for granted" and he'd have 14-18 NAACP states here to protest or something. Got that? The Delaware NAACP suits up in County Council to defend the indefensible behavior of Bernard Pepukayi -- that behavior being an inept dodge of a valid request from a Council Member for a briefing on a the status of an appeal of a recent court decision in the Pike Creek Golf Course case.

Republican Shutdown and Default Apocalypse Open Thread, Day 12

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Here is the current state of negotiations as I understand it:
  • Obamacare is alive and no longer a hostage
  • The government is still shutdown and still a GOP hostage
  • The debt limit is still a GOP hostage
  • White House talks with the House are done or stalled -- it looks like the President is not negotiating  with the threat of shooting hostages on the table still
  • White House is talking with the GOP in the Senate who are trying to get a 6-month plan to open the government and and the borrowing limit extended through January.
Making Teajhadis Cry — Delaware Edition

Making Teajhadis Cry — Delaware Edition

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Chris Coons leads Christine O'Donnell in a new poll for the upcoming U.S. Senate race -- 50-27.  50-27! That is the result of a poll recently (before the government shutdown) from University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communication:
The Center for Political Communications acting director Paul Brewer says often times early polling simply reflects candidate name recognition, but he does not believe that’s the case here after the well-publicized race between Coons and O’Donnell in 2010. “I know from other poll results that Coons and O’Donnell were equally familiar to the public,” said Brewer. “Coons does not have a substantial name recognition lead over O’Donnell. It’s more reflecting that views of him are more favorable than they are of O’Donnell.” Brewer adds the 50-27 spread in this poll is similar to the result in the 2010 race, which Coons won by 57-40 margin.
Looks like O'Donnell is going to have to cast quite the spell to make up this ground. AND it looks to me like Coons has plenty of room here to sign on to Mark Begich's Fix Social Security Bill. Which I still don't know why he hasn't.