Sooo… Who is running for AG?

The field is frozen until Lt. Governor Matt Denn decides what he wants to do, much like Hillary Clinton has frozen the 2016 Democratic Presidential Primary. If he runs, he is the nominee, and I doubt he will garner any challengers. From the News Journal:

In an interview Thursday, Denn said he will consider running for attorney general this year, which, if he won, would mean leaving his post as lieutenant governor. The election is in November.

“Until this morning, I didn’t have any reason to think that there was not going to be an incumbent running for that,” Denn said.

Denn also did not rule out a Democratic primary against Biden in 2016.

“He’s obviously a very formidable candidate,” said Denn, who has planned to make a decision on the governor’s race by the end of this year. “That’s one of the things you look at when you’re deciding whether to run is who else is running.”

But if Matt Denn doesn’t run, then the floodgates are wide open. Celia Cohen has her uses. She is plugged into to the mover and shakers, the behind the scenes people in the know, on both sides of the aisle, though her bias and writing style leaves much to be desired. Still, she offers a wide range of potential candidates, so of which will garner a declaration of “WHAT????!!!” and some of which will leave you saying “Hmmmm, that’s interesting.”

Other Democrats believed to have ambitions are Chip Flowers, who has had his troubles as treasurer…..

Hahahaha… this will happen only if Flowers is convinced that he will lose to Barney. And I am sure he is not convinced of that. And he is not going to listen to establishment party figure telling him to run for AG instead.

Bryan Townsend, a first-term state senator who is a lawyer….

This is interesting. Townsend is someone I envision a pretty bright future in Delaware politics. I even foresaw a possible Denn-Townsend ticket in 2016 last year. But it is too early for Townsend to make the jump to statewide office. He is a first termer running for reelection and he has a primary of the Entitled Deluca Union wing of the party. I think he needs to defeat Tackett in his primary first and then win reelection. Then we can think about statewide office.

Alan Davis, the chief magistrate…

Who?

Ciro Poppiti, the New Castle County register of wills…

I dunno.

Drew Fennell, a gubernatorial staffer who used to run the state ACLU….

Possibly. But Markell already has one staffer running this year. Two would be unseemly. I think the more interesting option of Fennell’s wife, Lisa Goodman, who Celia neglects to mention.

Celia also recycles the perennial rumor that the GOP will get former Capano prosecutor Colm Connolly as their candidate. I heard that rumor in 2006 and 2010. I heard his name rumored for Governor and Congress and Senator. So I will believe it when I see it.

But I will say this, if the Republicans do get Connolly, then unless the Dems have Denn, then I predict Beau Biden has done something truly miraculous. He will have, in one fell swoop, rejuvenated the Delaware Republican Party. For it is quite possible that the GOP will have both the Treasurer’s office and the Attorney General’s office in their possession later this year.