Yes! Yes! Yes! Marie Pinkney Files To Challenge Dave McBride!

She will run in the Democratic Primary against the absentee incumbent.  She is so deeply involved in the community that the tragic events of the last week make her election both more likely and more necessary.

I was flat-out blown away by her presentation before the Working Families Party/Leftward Delaware group back in February.  Here’s what I wrote back then:

What an incredible candidate, and what an incredible upgrade she would be from Dave McBride! A Master Social Worker, Marie has worked in the ER, has seen the victims of gun violence who get patched up and shuttled back out onto the street. She has seen, and battled against, the school-to-prison pipeline and the opioid crisis. She works every day on the ground floor where people really need help.  She was powerful in her presentation last night.  She is running for all the right reasons and has the skill set to immediately become a force for positive  change in the Senate Caucus. And yes, a leader. I don’t know what I was expecting, but, since I’ve rarely seen a candidate emerge as fully-formed as she has, I certainly wasn’t expecting this. Her election would cause a sea change in the Senate Democratic Caucus on behalf of progressive causes, and she is much more in tune with her district than the incumbent.  Help her out, she deserves it. 

I was waiting for her to file before I put on the full-court press, and I confess I was concerned that the limitations caused by the pandemic might cause her to reconsider.

But she has filed, and we need her now even more than we needed her last week.

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