DL Open Thread Wednesday August 24 2022
Only 20 days to go. Be sure to support your candidates with money and time. This is a very significant primary. But the movement is bigger than any single Election Day.
Elections are an important part of a program of sustained activism, not an end in themselves.
Lydia York campaigning at the Middletown Peach Festival.
Also…This Thursday
Join us on Thursday, August 25th from 3pm to 8pm for a Canvass Cookout in support of DeShanna Neal’s state house candidacy is District 13.
Food from the grill and drinks sponsored by the Highlands Bunker podcast! The cookout location will serve as a rally point for teams of canvassers. Experienced activists and campaigners will lead groups into the neighborhoods to speak with folks about positive political change for regular people. And how DeShanna and the Working Families Party slate can delivery it!
Apparently a signage vandalism spree has hit Suxco.
The race for the Sussex County Council District 5 seat is of particular interest and has resulted in one of the most negative campaigns witnessed in years. We urge the candidates and their supporters to keep the debate centered around the issues.
The phrase of the day is “taint team”
(CNN)A federal judge in Florida has given former President Donald Trump until Friday to refine the legal arguments in his request for a special master (a third party attorney) to oversee the review of evidence gathered in the Mar-a-Lago search.
District Court Judge Aileen Cannon in the Southern District of Florida ordered Trump’s lawyers to elaborate on their arguments for why the court has the ability to step in at this time, explain what exactly Trump is asking for and whether the Justice Department has been served with Trump’s special master motion.“What’s she saying is, ‘What are you doing in front of me?'” Mark Schnapp, a criminal defense lawyer in Florida who spent seven years working for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, told CNN.
…Trump waited two weeks to make such a request, raising eyebrows because of how far along in the process the Justice Department likely is in reviewing what it seized at Mar-a-Lago. (For the review, the Justice Department is using what’s known as “taint team,” which is a group of prosecutors not working on the probe in question who filter out materials that should not be handed over to investigators.)And when Trump did file his request with the court, the complaint leaned heavily into political accusations, while being light on the sort of legal discussion that would explain to a court why it should intervene and what authority it had to do so. When Trump’s lawyers did cite the court rules they said gave the judge the authority to grant the request, they cited the rules of civil procedure, without any explanation for why those rules should be applied in a context concerning a criminal search warrant.
I encourage everybody to come out for Deshanna tomorrow. I am running out of liquid cash but I’m gonna scape up a few more $$.
If you need incentive check out her opponent’s Amended report where at least 7 and likely 8 maximum contributions from a single address in Chateau country were magically previously omitted!
file:///C:/Users/jpcon/Downloads/CampaignFinance_840268b9-7860-44ce-8337-617c08b78e22 (2).pdf
Can’t access from here. What’s the address?
Go to this link and type Friends of Larry Mitchell
https://cfrs.elections.delaware.gov/Public/ViewFiledReports?theme=vista
That report is unbelievable. There are almost no, you know, PEOPLE, who contributed. PAC’s and mysterious LLC’s, several of those LLC’s from the same address.
The address is 100 S. Rockland Falls Rd., DE., 19732. Check out the contributors, all from the same address:
DESTORAGE
Felton Development LLC
Investors Really (that’s how it’s spelled) LLC
LWV Investments LLC
Oh, wait, we have a TELL: Ms. Teresa B. Strine, same address
Rehoboth Bay Conservancy LLC
Teresa B Lakeland Park Inc
Walker Mill LLC.
All from the same address. Holy bleeping shit!
Guess what? She’s a RETHUGLICAN:
“Teresa B. Strine (born 1967) is listed at 1207 Delaware Ave Wilmington, De 19806 and is affiliated with the Republican Party. Teresa is registered to vote in New Castle County, Delaware.”
Larry Mitchell is getting a shit-ton of money from a Republican who hides behind a host of LLC’s.
OK, guess I’ll have to write a story on this.
This is interesting. Google shows the address as a three-story stone office building.
There are two Strine families in DE politics. The DEM Strines whose son led Chancery (Leo) and mom (Peggy) still chairs the Riverfront Development board and the GOP Strines (Terry and Sandy) who founded Leadership Delaware. This is very likely their daughter.
hmmm A quick scan of the RDC website doesn’t seem to disclose their governing board members. This is highly unusual. https://riverfrontwilm.com/about-us/
I found it here https://nonprofitlight.com/de/wilmington/riverfront-development-corporation-of-delaware
I can’t open that report, but just looking at the fact that they are all the same address – WTF?!?
How is that even legal? They aren’t even trying to be sneaky about circumventing the law.
Terry Strine “Address unknown” seriously!
If you’re looking for something to hang around his neck, Rehoboth Bay Conservancy is the innocent-sounding name of an LLC that rents out mobile homes.
Here’s how everyone can access this report, and all the other reports.
Click on this:
https://cfrs.elections.delaware.gov/
Then click on ‘View Filed Reports’.
Click on ‘Continue’
Then, type the candidate’s name under ‘Committee Name’ and the committees will pop up. Click on the ‘Active Committee’, and you’ll have hours of fun. Most recent reports are at the top of the list.
FWIW, I sent the following to the Department Of Elections yesterday:
” Commissioner Albence:
According to the latest updates at the DOE Financial Reports site, LaVaughn McCutchen, a candidate in the Democratic Primary for the 32nd RD, has yet to file the required 30-day campaign finance report.
His presence on the ballot could impact the race. Which would be fine if he were in compliance with the filing requirements.
Would you please be so kind as to respond as to the status of that report, and as to what sanction could be imposed on McCutchen should he not file? To me, filing the report should be a minimal requirement for remaining on the ballot. But I admit I’m not conversant in the prospective sanctions that would befall a candidacy that does not adhere to the law.
I thank you in advance for your consideration and your response.
Steve Tanzer
Curious to hear a follow-up on this. You’re right to point out that just his presence on the ballot could shift the outcome of what I predict to be a tight race.
Will attempt to smite the well named “Taint Team” with my usual paltry contribution, as well as my usual contempt and ridicule.