Season of Reckoning, Prologue
By RE Vanella
I’ll be brief.
I’ve been poking around these blog parts for probably ten years. Maybe more. There’s been plenty of commentary written about The Delaware Way. It seems like we get the same retread mediocre middle management types regardless of what we do. Oligarchy light. There are enough bankers and attorneys and pharmaceutical sales people and insurance company lackeys kept satiated to make for an indifferent polity. Corporate work numbs the mind. I know first-hand.
Everyone settles in middle-class and upper middle-class enclaves and the police keep the undesirables under the boot and sequestered in the “rough neighborhoods.” (That’s why “smart police” are absorbed into the same political machine, in case you’ve ever wondered.) We send our kids to private schools or move to Chadds Ford or just create an exburb in Middletown.
This arrangement is untenable.
I’ve never made a meme, but the Tom Carper in the NASCAR fire suit with adverts slapped all over is funny. Funny because it’s true. We can end that. And with your help we will.
A candidate for and of the people will be our representative and we will send her to the United States Senate.
Over the next few weeks platform and policy will be shared. Goals that will bring us together in satisfaction and security. Then, on Saturday, February 10th, our candidate will be introduced to the public at the Chris White Gallery on 7th and Shipley Streets.
I’m asking for one thing. Turn up to the event. We’ve argued for this and hoped for this. Look at the platform. Think on it. Disseminate and discuss it. Then come, rally with comrades, and meet our courageous fighter. This needs to be that kind of effort. Physical attendance will be crucial in this process. The Revolution isn’t televised or periscoped. It simply can’t be. Those tools were created for an ulterior purpose.
I’ll introduced you to her personally. Then together we do what needs doing. Deal?
Audere est facere.
https://www.facebook.com/events/404351483355159/
RE Vanella is right. Everyone who has been here excoriating Carper needs to turn up at this.
Trying to put two and two together here. Is this campaign announcement going to provide the answer to the thread from two days ago: http://delawareliberal.net//2018/01/22/what-campaign-is-mitch-crane-quitting-the-ics-office-to-run/#comment-615411 ?
Man, that might be the best tease in DL history.
I’m interested.
MW, not likely? All they are saying is that this candidate is a woman. It’s a bit mysterious ATM, but I’d happily vote for Cassandra over at DL over Carper (or Coons). (omg, is it her?)
Single-payer health care.
Universal pre-K.
$15 minimum wage.
Opposition to all expanded drilling & fracking.
The people’s candidate. For the many rather than the few.
Left is best.
mediawatch – unrelated, other than… I supposed in spirit.
RE…
do you know if…. they have filed to run, or will this also be a fundraiser (i realize either way it is always a fundraiser)? I’m going either way, I just kinda want to know where to set the expectations? basically… 1-10 how real is this right now?
This announcement made my day (o.k., I’ll admit I read it first at Blue Delaware). Will try to make it to the announcement, did not see the time however.
They have not filed to run. At least, not according to the Department of Elections.
This won’t remain a secret until the date of the announcement.
Sounds like another do nothing Liberal.
Thread was missing something. Turns out it was a soporific comment from an idiot. Thread’s now complete.
Not yet, El Som. Where’s Rusty?
Not sure what correspondence hours are down in the New Mexico corrections system.
How in this small of a state do we not know who is running? Brilliant PR on their part but speaks volumes about how poorly we monitor politics in DE.
I just hope this is a good candidate and not a political retread or failed City Council candidate mouthing progressive positions because she’s in search of a job.
It is going to be impossible for any candidate willing to primary Carper to be my ideal candidate. But anyone willing to primary Carper gets a lot of leeway points from me.
We know she’s a military veteran, a mother, and a civic activist. And she presumably holds the positions that RE listed.
I’m drawing a blank.
A veteran, mother, and community activist of color. It’s not necessarily someone we’ve heard of.
I’m out of state for family things. Next time for sure. Time for ole number 01 to retire before he crashes and embarrasses himself!
Oh, my. I think I know who it might be. Talk about a triple whammy of diversity.
Cassandra says on BlueDE that she’s out of the running. Like ElSom and Alby, I’m drawing a blank. Clearly not someone from our generation, thank God.
OTOH, if she’s so anonymous that we can’t even ID a prospect, this is a campaign that’s truly starting at Ground Zero.
Think below the canal. Not a nobody, but not a political name, either. Of course I may be wrong.
‘…not a political name’ is not a bad thing.
You people might finally be getting it right. Just because we have the Orange Monster in the White House does not necessarily guarantee Dems success in November. Vanilla has come up with a succinct prioritized platform. That is how you win elections!
Not sure if folks noticed, but Bill Dunn made what seems like an excellent guess over at Blue Delaware.
Very strong resume.
What is the filing fee in this race, and does this person have it? It’s all academic until then. meh
Wow, she’d be a fascinating candidate. I wonder what Carper acolyte Lisa Blunt Rochester would do…
I don’t think that’s the person.
The filing fee is $10,440. In fact, here are all the filing fees:
https://elections.delaware.gov/services/candidate/filingfees.shtml
@SW: Why not? Based on the reaction from readers here who’ve checked out her bio, if Debbie Harrington isn’t running for something, she ought to think about doing so.
Because other items don’t click for me, and I think it’s someone else. I can’t explain in more detail without putting another name out there, and I don’t think it’s right to do that and intrude into someone’s personal life without further confirmation. Smells of doxxing if I’m wrong.
Debbie Harrington *has* run for office – twice for the Appoquinimink school board and lost both times. Her background and public social media history do not fill me with enthusiasm.
Fair enough, and I’m not asking you to speculate out loud. I just saw her as checking all the boxes we had as hints, plus she shows a willingness to put herself out there.
A black woman running for the school board in the white-flight area around Middletown doesn’t count as a “loss” in my book. More like a suicide mission, which to me is evidence that a suicide mission wouldn’t scare her.
If the person you’re thinking of is even better qualified, that’s all to the good.
http://tiny-movies.ir/
While Bill Dunn’s guess is incorrect, the person he referenced may well run for something this year. And it will be…good.
Sorry, can’t resist a good tease. Just some info I picked up today.
I’ll put this marker down for reference: The web domains for the Senate candidate’s name were registered on Jan. 11. There is a dot-com and a dot-org, and the URL has 11 characters.