Carney Jumps in the Gov. Race, Expect the Musical Chair Race to Accellerate

Carney Jumps in the Gov. Race, Expect the Musical Chair Race to Accellerate

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Congressman John Carney (D) filed paperwork today to launch his campaign for governor next year.
"This is an opportunity to serve and meet the challenges that we face here in Delaware," Carney said during an exclusive interview with The News Journal on Wednesday. "They are frankly challenges that every community and every state in the country faces right now." Carney, 59, who will bring deep government experience to next year's race, said his campaign will focus on restoring Delaware's middle class, improving public education and addressing Delaware's budget issues. [...]
The Paper of Record notes Carney's long experience in government, with his connections to both Senator Carper and Senator Biden, and that it really was supposed to be Beau Biden running next year.
Carney spoke with the vice president by phone a little more than two weeks ago. Carney said he wanted to consult with the vice president about his plans to seek the governor's office. "This opportunity to serve comes because of the vice president and his family's worst nightmare, which is Beau'spassing," Carney said. "It's a very personal thing. I just needed to know that he was comfortable with it. He could not have been better, he encouraged me to run. I can tell you it's lifted a huge burden off my shoulders in terms of making that decision." Biden called Carney again Wednesday morning to wish him well, the congressman said.
Comment Rescue: Dorian Gray, Education And The Uncomfortable Truth

Comment Rescue: Dorian Gray, Education And The Uncomfortable Truth

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I keep going back to Dorian's comment on my Education post. Here is what he said:
I have a solution that nobody will like. It’s warranted and would address the very neediest, but good luck convincing anybody… Start paying reparations in the form of schools. The idea that how good a public school is is based on where your parents/guardians live is one of the biggest examples of institutional racism I can think of (beside mass incarceration, maybe). What other public services work this way? Can you imagine if people moved to ensure their post office was the very best rated post office in the area!
Wednesday Open Thread [9.16.2015]

Wednesday Open Thread [9.16.2015]

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Vice President Biden took aim at Donald Trump’s hard line on undocumented immigrants, CBS News reports.
Said Biden: “I don’t want anybody to be down right now about what’s going on in the Republican Party. I’m being deadly earnest about this. I want you to remember, notwithstanding the fact that there’s one guy absolutely denigrating an entire group of people. Appealing to the baser side of human nature. Working on this notion of xenophobia in a way that hasn’t occurred in a long time. Since the Know-Nothing party back at the end of the nineteenth century.”
Politico: “The vice president offered no updates on his own 2016 deliberations. But he criticized the real estate mogul in unusually stark terms, while urging the crowd not to take ‘Trump and the stuff you’re hearing on the other team’ to heart.” He is definitely running a shadow campaign in all but name. Which I like because I like Biden and we need people out there criticizing Trump. But I also don't like it. Either announce or don't.