Month: September 2020

Hensley is the luckiest motherfucker in the GOP. Let's get that out of the way right now. He has faced lackluster candidates and Democratic candidates hobbled by a shitty RD Committee in which BHL still exercises some influence. In Blue Wave presidential and mid-terms Democratic weaknesses have allowed him to keep his head above water. That said, he does have some political skills. He is friendly, shows up at HOA meetings. Calls Deldot when constituents ask him to call Deldot. You know...The normal stuff. Also, unlike the rest of NCC, the 9th is Blue, but not dark blue. Out of the 23,217 registered voters in the 9th 10,317 are Dems, 6,999 are Repugs and 5,901 identify as other. 10K to 7k seems good, but as Kevin Caneco found out there are a lot of people of dubious character registered as Dems (for union reasons?) who vote more like Republicans. For example, in spite fo the Dem lead on paper, Clinton lost to Trump in the 9th with 46.4% to 48.3% of the vote. (Yes. 5.5% of voters in the 9th tossed their votes in the garbage. But that's

Republicans are using Russian propaganda to try and cobble together some "October Surprise" aimed at damaging Joe Biden.   NO DELAWARE REPUBLICANS HAVE CONDEMNED THIS OUTRAGE  

Sen. Ron Johnson on Monday said the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which he chairs, is poised to release a Russian report on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s dealings in Ukraine.

Mike Ramone is silent.  

“Stay tuned. In about a week we’re going to learn a whole lot more of Vice President Biden’s unfitness for office,” the Wisconsin Republican said on a call with supporters, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Anthony Delcollo thinks this is just fine.  

With the help of Russian intelligence Johnson’s committee has been investigating Hunter Biden’s employment by a Ukrainian energy company during the time his father led the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy. President Trump’s request that Ukraine investigate the dealings of the former vice president and his son resulted in his impeachment in December. Republican senators acquitted Trump in February of charges he abused his power and obstructed Congress.

Cathy Cloutier supports this.

It is easy to see the vote margin and view the primary against Coons as misguided. It wasn't. The primary put Coons on the record. It is notice to any candidates for statewide office that Democrats expect Democrats to sound like Democrat's and vote like Democrats.  Seeing Coons discover, during the campaign, that he is a Democrat was amusing but also somewhat gratifying.  Indeed, his statement (see the comments section) upon winning eschews his usual habit of jerking off Republicans in favor of promoting a genuinely Democratic message.   It may be short-lived, and Coons may very well go right back to his obsequious pandering to Republicans, but if he does it will be because he is a shit head, not because he thinks it is effective. Also it is important to note that that Scarane's campaign did not take place in a vacuum. Overlapping progressive primaries twined together on Election Day and GOTV efforts bounce off each other and amplify the individual efforts.  The Leg Hall victories we enjoy today are, in part, Scarane's victories. Her grassroots effort was impacted by having to campaign during Covid. But Scarane showed the gasping-for-breath Democratic Party that progressives are willing to fight, that they not going away and will not be ignored. This is not a race it is a movement. And Scarane kept the pressure on this time. It falls to all of us to ensure that we keep the pressure up and demand Coons and Carper represent actual Delawareans and not Delaware based companies.

Go-along-to-get-along "moderates" had a rough night as a wave of progressive activist replaced a host of "Republican-Lite" incumbent Democrats. Marie Pinkney defeats Dave McBride in SD13. Eric Morrison defeats Earl Jaques in the 27th RD Madinah Wilson-Anton over John Viola Rep. District 26 Sarah McBride won the open seat in SD1 Kyle Evans Gay wins the right to take out Cathy Cloutier in (SD5) in November. Sherae "Rae" Moore wins the 8th RD seat vacated by Republican-Lite Quinton Johnson Adewunmi Kuforiji wins in the 34th.