Depends® To Sponsor Dave McBride Nostalgia Tour?
Rumor has it that McBride is getting the geriatric gang together to give himself something, other than seeking to become a normal human being and connecting with his family, to occupy his time.
Cue Dick Vitale: “He’s a Diaper Dandy, he’s a P-T-Pee-er!”
He’s allegedly made all the necessary contacts. Talked to Dave Swayze and Pete Schwartzkopf. Who else, in McBride’s mind, does he need to contact? I mean, now that’s Pete’s protegee may be headed for prison.
No, we’re not talking SD 15, the previous home-away-from-home for the Lewes-based former legislator. We’re talking SD 6, the new district in Sussex County. Previous pretexts that McBride lived in SD 15 in 2020 are no longer necessary.
Lest ye forget: McBride is 79 years old. He clearly is not gonna be able to traverse the district with any alacrity. Alas, and a lack of alacrity. (Memo to Self: Stop showing off. Nobody likes a genius.)
It is an understatement to point out that these candidacies don’t end well. Herman Holloway Sr. for County Council? Bob Marshall For Mayor? This one especially doesn’t figure to end well for someone with next-to-no roots in the new district.
Me? I hope this rumor is true. The pathology of politicians whose lives are empty save for the next run is of endless fascination to me.
Plus, we’re talking lotsa laffs. That’s what keeps me going.
I think you meant Herman Jr.
No, Sr. He ran while still a State Senator. Said he was getting tired of the commute. Didn’t win.
I FOUND it! Holloway Sr. ran for the 4th NCC Councilmanic District in 1986.
Lost to Ed Ianni in a six-way primary. The other candidates were Michelle Daniago, Lawrence Dobrzynski, Penrose Hollins, and Myriam Melgar.
McBride has spoken to many people about running. The usual statement is “Now that Mitch Crane isn’t running, do you think I should run?” That could explain why the same people who encouraged Crane to run are the same people who drew the draft map that went around his community, leaving him out of the 6th. It also explains why those same senate leaders did not correct their error. McBride wants to return to the Senate because he and his wife are bitter about losing to Marie Pinkney. If he runs he will have the same problem he had last year in SD 15- voters in the district don’t know him and never see him.
The LAST thing the Senate leaders want is for McBride to return to their Caucus.
The 2020 legislative results ushered in the most progressive Senate Caucus in Delaware history.
I don’t see McBride as a threat to return. I suspect the Senate D leadership feels the same way.
I suspect they feel the same way about self-anointed ‘victim’ Mitch Crane. A bullshit artist who, when exposed, revealed that there was no ‘there there’.
They’re ‘bitter’? They outspent Marie Pinkney about 10-1, with every lobbyist paying fealty to the President Pro-Tem. They plastered the district with signs, only to prove correct the adage that ‘signs don’t vote’.
Reasonable people would be embarrassed. My experience with McBride, and I had lots of it working for the Senate, is that he’ll never blame anybody when things don’t go his way.
He’s a strange guy, VERY strange, and any belief that voters want him back in Dover is delusional on his part.
Lately I’ve been pondering these older public figures who refuse to ‘get off the stage.’ Bill Roth was one. Larry Kane (still doing murky editorials on KYW). Larry King (at least the Reaper finally got him — I think). The ultimate narcissists who don’t believe they exist without their adoring audience.
Tom Carper. How could Delaware get along without his meandering, pointless stories about Viet Nam?
What’s fascinated me are those who feel constantly compelled to run for office despite scant/diminishing/no chances of success.
I’ve never understood what pathologies drive them to build their lives around hopeless candidacies.