Because politics abhors a vacuum. Who do you like? Who do you think will run on both sides? Who do you want to tout? This is the place for it.
I’ll start. I don’t know who will run, but I do believe that there is one prospective candidate who is clearly the most qualified. And, not for the first time, I’m in total agreement with Rufus Y. Kneedog. That person is Kathy Jennings. What people tend to forget is that being an effective AG requires being an effective administrator. Nobody in Delaware has more experience in ensuring the smooth operation of a Department of Justice than Jennings. While working for Matt Denn, she was responsible for all state prosecutions and, according to the News-Journal, ‘supervise(d) a staff of more than 250 people’.
County Executive Matt Meyer recently appointed Jennings as his Chief Administrative Officer. So, perhaps the timing would not be optimal for her to run. However, the time really wasn’t optimal for Denn to leave the Lieutenant Governor post to run for AG. My one question regarding Jennings is whether she is a candidate at heart. Maybe she prefers to be an administrator. However, should she choose to run, she would be a formidable candidate. And she may already be fed up with having to deal with Karen Hartley Nagle, so maybe the door’s open.
That’s my take. What’s yours?
