Day: March 31, 2017

...they start with a tip to the DL tipline.

A person close to Simpler says that he is NOT running for treasurer in 2018. And that he does plan on running against Carney for governor in 2020.

Also - I've heard that if Simpler doesn't run for Tres. look for Kathy McGuiness to run for that office. Could Ken be so generous as to give Park City a running start? Simpler is rumored to be a big supporter of KMcG and in looking at her facebook page, she's planning on running for something.

After taking in Carney's "shared sacrifice" budget proposal a couple of things have become clear to me. 1) Carney has no imagination. He isn't a leader. He is just following along what Jack Markell did, right down to adopting Markell's January swansong budget proposal wholesale. This budget shows no guts and fewer brains. 2) He doesn't care about courting Democratic constituencies. The gutting of the Coastal Zone Act in order to preserve "offshore tax shelter" tax rates for wealthy corporations and individuals speaks volumes. 3) Carney is trapped in 1990's. This budget does court two constituencies - the state chamber of commerce, and "moderates." Does he really think that he is going to run a race that ignores Democrats (because he thinks he has those votes tied down) while trying to appeal to the state's persuadable Republicans? My sense is that he is thinking precisely that because it is what would have worked in the 1990's. This budget demonstrates...

I'm seriously asking. Some friends who follow marijuana policy more closely than they follow politics at large are rather excited by this development: Delaware took a major step Thursday toward…