Anyone running against Ken Simpler?

Filed in National by on January 17, 2018

He seems very beatable. While he is the DEGOP’s golden child, he is a Republican and as I mentioned below, I don’t think Republicans are going to do very well in November.

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  1. jason330 says:
    January 17, 2018 at 10:42 am

    FYI – this is what the DL community was saying about Simpler back in September of 2016.

  2. mediawatch says:
    January 17, 2018 at 11:08 am

    After 6 months as secretary of labor, Cerron Cade ought to be ready to run.

  3. jason330 says:
    January 17, 2018 at 11:37 am

    lol. He is a fast mover.

  4. TonyDem says:
    January 17, 2018 at 2:13 pm

    If there were only someone on the bench that had some personality to excite voters, actual financial experience to match Simpler and who wasn’t elected already and in the back pocket of the speaker and Carney. That would be nirvana!!!

  5. jason330 says:
    January 17, 2018 at 2:36 pm

    Growing up rich now counts for financial experience?

  6. mediawatch says:
    January 17, 2018 at 3:00 pm

    Talked to an entrepreneurial D business leader today. He lamented Carney’s lack of vision and enthusiasm, but said he finds Simpler similarly lacking. He suggests the GOP call There du Pont and ask him about running. An interesting thought but I don’t know why anyone would give up running a major league foundation for the opportunity to lead a minor league state government.

  7. chris says:
    January 17, 2018 at 7:27 pm

    Folks have been dropping Ben and There DuPont’s names for 20 years…not happening…….no one is voting for a guy on a ballot named Eleuthere DuPont…
    easier to sit on the sidelines and have all the answers.

  8. TonyDem says:
    January 17, 2018 at 8:29 pm

    Jason330 – valid point 🙂 – how about actual experience that rivals the perceived experience of Simpler?

  9. Unstable Isotope says:
    January 17, 2018 at 10:09 pm

    Why not Sean Barney again?

  10. Unstable Isotope says:
    January 17, 2018 at 10:10 pm

    Perfect opening for Karen Weldin Stewart

  11. Jason330 says:
    January 18, 2018 at 12:53 am

    What’s Brenda Mayrack up to ?

  12. Rufus Y. Kneedog says:
    January 18, 2018 at 8:39 am

    Brenda just took a position in the DE State Escheat Office. There was a blurb in the News Journal last week.

  13. chris says:
    January 18, 2018 at 8:50 am

    Early buzz was Sherry Dorsey Walker for this race, but I think she reconsidered.

  14. jason330 says:
    January 18, 2018 at 10:10 am

    Time for the later early buzz to get going for someone.

    The more I think about Ken Simpler, the more he looks like the creepy white guy Republican everyone is now champing at the bit to vote against. He is so beatable, this race will be a great start to someone’s statewide political career.

  15. mediawatch says:
    January 18, 2018 at 10:49 am

    How about Matt Denn?
    Insurance commissioner. Check.
    Lieutenant governor. Check.
    Attorney general. Check.
    Treasurer/auditor. Why not?

  16. SussexWatcher says:
    January 18, 2018 at 11:22 am

    I want Tom Carper or Jack Markell to run. They’ve done it before.

    In all seriousness, there’s no D member of the General Assembly looking to move up to statewide office? This is likely to be a wave year, and there are multiple Senate Dems in mid term who would still have a job – McDowell, Sokola, Walsh, Poore, Ennis and McBride. Yeah, not the most inspiring or progressive bunch as a group, but can’t one of them make a bet and go for broke? It’s a do-nothing job, anyway.

  17. jason330 says:
    January 18, 2018 at 11:29 am

    Stephanie L. Hansen.

  18. mediawatch says:
    January 18, 2018 at 11:30 am

    @SW: great suggestions there — an opportunity to put McDowell or McBride out to pasture in a do-nothing job, to hide Poore or Sokola in a position where they could do little harm, (don’t know what to say about Walsh or Ennis) with the potential for electing a real progressive in their place.
    However, the reasons I’ve given are why it’s all the more likely that they stay right where they are.

  19. jason330 says:
    January 18, 2018 at 11:31 am

    Kim Williams,
    Paul Baumbach

  20. El Somnambulo says:
    January 18, 2018 at 11:37 am

    Somehow, Nicole Poore alone with a pile of money doesn’t scream ‘do little harm’ to me.

  21. mediawatch says:
    January 18, 2018 at 11:53 am

    El Som,
    I hear ya, but my point with all these folks is that, as members of the GA, they have the potential to inflict great harm on every aspect of life in Delaware. In a position like treasurer or auditor, they are somewhat quarantined.
    Also, don’t forget, there’s that cash management review board in place to make sure that the money stays in their favored banks and that no treasurer would dare try to earn an extra quarter of a percent for the state by putting it anywhere else.
    And, the last I checked, there were only two appointed positions in the office, so the opportunities to fill jobs with political grifters are quite limited.

  22. El Somnambulo says:
    January 18, 2018 at 12:05 pm

    Gotcha. But what you pose is not a realistic scenario. For the most part, long-time legislators are creatures of the legislature. Were it up to them, they’d leave Leg Hall feet first on a gurney. Hey, Nancy Cook still hangs around there all the time.

  23. mediawatch says:
    January 18, 2018 at 12:13 pm

    I agree with you — no way they’re likely to leave on their own, even for a position that pays more and stresses less. SW brought up the names and I was hoping to come up with some potential benefits to such an unlikely scenario.

  24. El Somnambulo says:
    January 18, 2018 at 12:16 pm

    I’m not joking about the gurney thing. We can cite Herman Holloway, Sr., Uncle Thurman Adams and Jim Vaughn as recent examples.

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