BREAKING: Marie Pinkney To Challenge Dave McBride In SD 13!!
In a Democratic primary. I think she will defeat the Lewes-based senator who claims to ‘represent’ his New Castle/Bear area district. Maybe even handily.
First, a note. Many of you probably saw allusions to this race yesterday. However, because there had been no official announcement from the campaign, we removed them out of respect to the possible announcement timetable for the campaign. It was the right thing to do.
However, Matt Bittle of the Delaware State News has broken the story on his Twitter feed, so there is no longer an embargo, if there ever had been an embargo. Here’s Matt’s tweet:
In declaring her candidacy for the Senate’s 13th District today, Marie Pinkney wrote, “We deserve a senator who is a member of the community in which we reside, work, and send our children to school so that we know that they are as equally invested in the area as we are.”
Ouch, that’ll hurt. Even though the McBride Manse is now in Lewes, one reason for the far-flung nature of McBride’s district is b/c he insisted that everywhere he had lived during his tenure (and he moved, by my account, at least six times, not including Lewes) remain in his district.
Here is Marie Pinkney’s announcement in its entirety. It is a powerful announcement, and accurately portrays Dave McBride as someone who no longer gives two shits about his district.
So, who is Marie Pinkney? She’s a Master Level Social Worker and is currently a Trauma Social Worker/Case Manager. Hey, why not just check out her bio for yourself? Then ask yourself, who is closer in tune with the needs of the district? Dave McBride, who occasionally goes ‘slumming’ in his district when he can tear himself away from his Lewes estate, or Marie Pinkney, who is on the ground fighting on behalf of some of Delaware’s most-endangered?
But, El Som, can she win? I’m gonna post a response that I posted yesterday before I decided to scrub the website. I’ll also post the idiotic and unintelligible assertion that preceded the response. :
Deldude: “Just looked up this Pinkney social media. A pic of the squad is her backround pic and born in the 90s. She’s not winning with the squad in that district. When will you all learn candidates need to fit the district.
El Somnambulo: “You’re kidding, right? This district fits Pinkney better than it fits Dave McBride.
To be specific, about 1/2 of the voters in this district reside in RD 5, represented by Kendra Johnson. Over 15,000 in all. 2500 voters reside in RD 15, represented by Val Longhurst. 1100 reside in RD 16, represented by Franklin Cooke. Over 5,000 registered voters reside in RD 17, represented by Melissa Minor-Brown. And over 7,000 reside in RD 18, represented by David Bentz, one of the leading progressives in the General Assembly.
A lot has changed since McBride’s heyday here in the 1980’s. Including where McBride lives.
I know that Deldude meant to put a question mark at the end of his, um, rhetorical question. Here’s the point: He was asking the wrong question.
The real question is: Is there any point in Dave McBride seeking reelection in this district? He is far more out of touch with his district than even Tiny Tony was when he lost to Bryan Townsend. His kissing of the gun lobby’s ass is anathema to the people in this district. His deep-sixing minimum wage legislation is poison to the people of this district. All the lobbyists’ money in the world can’t change that. I mean, Tiny Tony was rolling in cash. Didn’t do him any good.
Get on board now, folks. This is the one we’ve been waiting for.
Yesterday I asked deldude if he had demographics for the district. I found them myself here. The district is 41% white, 39 percent black, 11 percent Hispanic. Given that most of the Republicans are white, that means a clear majority of the district’s primary voters are minorities, mostly African American.
So maybe deldude will come back and explain why a geriatric white man is a better fit in a Democratic primary in which a majority of the voters will be minorities.
Especially since roughly 21,000 of the 30K or so registered voters reside in House districts represented by black legislators.
This Deldude guy–what was the name of that ‘reporter’ who went to work for the Senate Majority Caucus?
Why such a racist intuition? My comment never mentioned race it mentioned her politics associating herself with the squad. Older black folks and white union guys aren’t fans of that part of the party. She will lose. That’s not her district.
You guys just can’t not think Identity politics can you? Yikes
You guys are all so woke you are supporting a 78 year old white guy. God I hate bernie bro’s
Are you in fact Harold Gray? Just be honest and we can move on.
Bernie Bros are in no way huge fans of AOC, Ilhan Omar, A Pressley, R Talib, P Jayapal & Katie Porter. We are misogynistic beasts who will only support white men like Jess Scarane, Madinah Wilson-Anton, Marie Pickney, Kyra Hoffner and Shané Darby!
You, whoever you are, have found us out!
Just to show we don’t always care about identity we support Coby over your miss… I mean Linda Gray.
I don’t care what your comment mentioned — though let’s be serious, scaring people with “the squad” is more racist than pointing out the district is half African American.
I don’t care whether you think other people are woke — if you really cared about that you wouldn’t be defending a limp-dick piece of shit like Dave McBride, you’d be working to defeat him.
Facts are facts, sonny, and the fact is that Dave McBride doesn’t live in his district. Lots of people are going to get a knock at the door telling them so.
You old union fucks are done. Move to Sussex. Maybe your buddy Dave will let your vote for him there.
You crack me up. In what way do you think talking tough here is going to help Dave McBride’s sorry, withered old ass?
BTW, memo to, well you know who you are.
When you inevitably rewrite this story for your moribund site, could you please for once give attribution to where you got the story?
Thanks. It’s been about an hour since I posted this, so you’re probably just digging up a file photo or two…
Dave McBride to step down. You read it here first.
I’m so glad I took next week off to coincide with the first week of Session. This story has all sorts of repercussions there. I’ll just tease you with this one: Do you think McBride needs to watch his back with self-dealer Nicole Poore waiting in the wings? I do.
Awesome. BTW, when was the last time McBride had to actually campaign?
He is toast.
McBride OUT!
This is what fighting everywhere on the same program is going to look like going forward. It will never stop. Consistent message. Diverse candidates. Every door in the state.
If I were McBride I’d just retire. Do you really want to move back? I mean you could rent a small place in your district. But that would be an even worse look!
He has a place in the district in order to officially be able to run in the district. Even though his main manse is in Lewes.
But he’s 77 years old, and he is far from sharp any more. If she puts together an effective grassroots organization, how will he counter that? How many doors do you think John Carney or BHL will knock on his behalf? I say ‘none’. It’s not two white guys running against each other this time.
BTW, there are stories that will come out during the cycle that demonstrate that, while he has a high IQ, he does not have a high political IQ. At least one of those stories will raise serious ethical questions. In fact, I have no idea how he will be able to answer it.
What’s McBride’s address in Lewes?
So glad you asked. Since it’s readily available in the public record, I will cut-and-paste it. And yes, his wife is listed with the same address:
David B McBride
Unlisted Phone Available
35759 Tarpon DR
Lewes, DE 19958
Real nice house, too. I’ll post a pic of it at the right time.
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Probably a super retirement home!
BTW, I don’t WANT Dave to retire. If he runs, this campaign will smoke out the good from the ee-vil. Wonder how many doors Nancy Cook can knock on…maybe Jack Markell will bike the neighborhoods…is that hack still with the DSEA?
heh
Let him run against LOPEZ !!!
Does Deldude think this is good posting?
Talk about Yikes! It’s cringe, yo.
Barbara Lee is also very bad we think. Cause we Boyz see. 🤣