Highlands Bunker – E49 – Squeezed for Every Nickel

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Highlands Bunker - E49 - Squeezed for Every Nickel
Wilmington Firefighters Association union president Joseph Leonetti Jr. joins RE Vanella in the bunker to talk about the firefighters' negotiations with the city of Wilmington and friend of the podcast Mike Purzycki, and their efforts to fight back against local austerity. Show Notes:

A SuxCo Republican Tells the Truth

The New Journal story about the Sussex County GOP meeting at which Nelly Jordan was ousted from her post included this inadvertent bit of truth-telling from a rank-and-file member of…

The utterly pitiful state of the DEGOP should be a big story, why isn’t it?

One party in Delaware is just about fucking done, and it never gets mentioned in the media. The DEGOP has ZERO legitimate candidates for any statewide office and one illegitimate candidate running for the US Senate (if you think the complete fucking lunatic mentioned here even rises to the level of being an illegitimate candidate.) It isn't at all surprising that the DEGOP can't find anyone to run. Only a complete fucking lunatic would run as a greenhorn in a state that hasn’t elected a Republican non-incumbent statewide during a Presidential election year SINCE 1976.SINCE 1976. So this pitiful state is not a mystery. There is no Watergate like trail of evidence that needs to be painstakingly pieced together. No News Journal or DSN reporter would have to uncover some heretofore unknown facts to write up this story. Hell, they could even speak directly to DelCollo and Cloutier to see if those two want to be seen representing the Party of Donald Trump. It would be a longshot, but they could try. And NOT being able to get them on the record supporting their own political party would support the premise of the story, wouldn't it? Yes, it would. That this pitiful shambles isn't a story is no doubt due to the fact that we have "Democrats" like Carney and Coons trying desperately to keep the fiction alive that the DEGOP is an actual going concern. Where would Carney be without pretending to have his hands tied? But the local media doesn't work for Carney or Coons, does it? Why are they taking part in pretending that this Potemkin village of a party is still legit? It's a mystery.

COMMENT RESCUE: Legislative Staff Seeks To Organize

This is big, and will also be a fascinating dynamic into the relationship between staff and legislators. Particularly Democratic legislators.  The Reverend RE Vanella tipped us off to this: https://prospect.org/labor/historic-union-drive-makes-delaware-first-state-again/…

DL Open Thread: Tues., Jan. 14, 2020

Wisconsin Judge Demands That Election Board Disenfranchise Voters. Over 200K voters.  Trump's reelection strategy is right there: (1) Fire up the base; and (2) disenfranchise voters in swing states. That's…

Trouble In BOTH Of Dave McBride’s Houses

By both, I mean this House...:   and this house: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/35759-Tarpon-Dr_Lewes_DE_19958_M62424-40232 Estimated value: $838,000.  Not bad. I wonder if there's a single residence in SD 13 that is worth that…