Day: August 12, 2015

Via Celia's blog: The two latest people to announce their intention to announce that they are running for something are Ciro Poppiti and Jeff Cragg.

Poppiti, a lawyer who is the New Castle County register of wills, has designs on joining the Democratic field for lieutenant governor... Poppiti was not ready to make it official on Tuesday, but he acknowledged he could have an announcement shortly. "I feel like the baton is coming to me," Poppiti said.

Is the Dem baton invested with greater magic than the Republican watermelon of doom? I guess we'll see.

Cragg, the Republican candidate for governor in 2012, is said to be looking at insurance commissioner, although it would mean a primary. George Parish, a Republican who used to be the Sussex County clerk of the peace, is already running.

“When you’re dealing, and that’s what I am, I’m a dealer, you don’t go in with plans. You go in with a certain flexibility. And you sort of wheel and deal.”

— Donald Trump, quoted by the New York Times, on his presidential campaign not releasing any policy proposals. That's not going to fly for long among Republican base voters. Trump will have to be stridently anti-choice, anti-Obamacare, pro-war, pro-theocracy in order to win the nomination. So far, he's got the anti-black, anti-brown people and anti-woman thing down. But that's not enough. And I still want to know how he is going to make Mexico pay for the Huge Wall in such a way that they will enjoy it.

Bad news for Prop Joe.

Rick Perry Has Stopped Paying All of His Staffers Here's some information that will interest you if you're placing (extremely nerdy) bets on who will be the first candidate to drop out of the 2016 campaign: Rick Perry has stopped paying all of his campaign staffers.