Carney to Run for Carper’s Senate Seat – Rumor Watch
I’ve heard it now from two unaffiliated sources, so I take it to be good news. Carney has a resume that reads like an unimproved 1998 micro-soft word resume template. He has all the charisma of an abandoned dishwasher, and would certainly lose a contested primary.
You have struck absolute gold with that slogan. In fact, there is already a campaign piece out! https://www.pinterest.com/pin/54817320443467177/
Where’s my big campaign consultancy check??
But seriously folks. Carney will freeze out other corporatists and Delaware will finally be represented by a Democrat in the Senate.
Gonna write a piece on the Senate seat–when I get around to it.
However, the era of Carper and Carney is coming to an end. That era of Delaware Democratic politics was founded on making the Democratic Party a safe place for the banking community and the other corporatists to donate their cash. The equivalent of the Clinton Years.
That era needs to be gone as those DINO’s have made the country less safe for democracy. Climate’s a disaster, guns are everywhere, poor have gotten poorer, Blacks and the LGBTQ communities are under attack. Yet none of that has been reflected in the Carper/Carney/Clinton priorities.
It’s a new, more dangerous era. We can’t afford any more passivity from our leaders. And, guess what? The voters agree. Step up, folks, it’s time.
Virtue signal much?
Either Carper or Carney would prevail in a primary against another opponent. Sorry to burst your bubble. But before it came to a primary against a credible opponent, the Delaware Way would make sure to clear the field.
Delaware Way ain’t as strong as it (they) used to be.
They (it) like their (its) champions are (is) on the decline.
All you have to do is to pay attention to the last three election cycles.
For example, and just to pull a name completely at random, does anyone doubt that, say, Sarah McBride would whip Carper’s ass 10 ways to Tuesday?
Puck, stop being such a defeatist. Times have changed.
If Sarah becomes junior senator from Delaware, who will be in reserve to challenge coons? I think he is the harder of the two to unseat. I would run your second or third choice progressive candidate against carney.
Playing nice is over. That’s the old Delaware way. REV got it right on one his shows a while back, we need a “killer”, someone who isn’t afraid to twist that knife. If that means running an ad using a dead kids parents, so be it.
No. Now is now, and then is then.
No time for strategery. Were Sarah to run and win, there would be a lot of so-called second- or third-choice progressives who would emerge as first-choice progressives.
Any unproven allegations about people and/or their kids will be trashed.
Capiche?
Keep it clean–except for the unfettered profanity. That’s our calling card.
But what if he wins? It’s not inconceivable and then America is f*cked. Don’t forget his first budget for Delaware in 2017 replicated what DC GOPers were pushing for years, (elimination of itemization) and thats what Trump did as soon as he got to DC.
Can’t Carney just do what he tried to do when he lost to Jack Markell? You know, ask for hundreds of thousands in taxpayer money to create a CEO job for himself?
Carney couldn’t beat Markell even with the Party’s (aka Carper’s) backing.
He basically ran unopposed for Governor the second time, dragging out the process while he waited for his ‘dear friend Beau’ to make a decision when everybody knew that Beau would not be able to run. Ran a fact-free ‘listening tour’ campaign.
His support isn’t even an inch deep, and it’s not a mile wide. I think that maybe only one or two people on my D committee would support him, and he grew up here. I think that rank-and-file D’s want him gone. Now, if not sooner. What we DO need is a strong viable alternative. Gee, did I mention anyone earlier in this thread…? I’ll have to check.
Speaking of which, I was working for the House D’s when Markell ran against Carney. I was down at the Basin Road HQ, I think prepping a mail piece for one of our incumbents. I said to Ed Freel something along the lines of, “I don’t understand why you guys are going all out for Carney.”
His response?: “Because we HAVE to.”
Mini-Me indeed.
Do you all think LBR would just step aside if Carney runs for Senate? She definitely has Senate aspirations and she might be waiting a long time if she doesn’t run when Carper retires. I’m sure TC will try to broker a deal to avoid a primary but I’m not sure LBR will be content to sit back and wait. I wouldn’t if I were her.
I don’t think Carper would leave the seat open. He’d be more likely to resign after making a deal to appoint a successor.
An open Senate election during a presidential year is the most favorable scenario for progressives. Which is why Carper will try to avoid that scenario, and name a successor who will then run as an incumbent in a special election.
So the question for Carper is, which governor would he like to make a deal with to choose a successor? If he can’t make the deal he wants with Gov. Carney, Carper may well run and win in 2024 before handing off the job.
If Carper were to resign, there would be no Special Election. Whoever the Governor appoints will hold the seat until January 2025, when the winner of the 2024 election is sworn in.
Correct. When Joe Biden was elected Vice President, Ruth Ann Minner appointed Ted Kaufman, likely at Biden’s behest, to serve until the next election.
I maintain that Kaufman was the best Senator Delaware’s ever had. I only wish he had chosen to run rather than simply serving until the next election.
LBR has had the chance, and has declined, to challenge Carper. You know, because she used to work for him. Just like Carney.
The best chance is for a strong progressive to get in and let nature take its course.
Carper is not gonna step aside before his term is done, barring, you know, death.
We’ve had 40 years of centrist D leadership and policies in Delaware. It’s fair to say that’s been a successful run and likely reflected the best the D’s could have done during the ’80’s and ’90’s.
But times have changed drastically, and fiscal straitjacketing is neither what the public wants or needs.
“Carper is not gonna step aside…”
The thing that gives this rumor some believability for me is the thought that Carper would step aside for Carney. I think Carper loves chess moves, like the famous “swap” with Castle.
insert GIF of Michael Scott screaming “NOO NOOOO NOOOO”
His imminent second veto of legal weed will do him in.
Carney isn’t gonna run for the Senate. He would not be happy there.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
he doesnt look like the type who is happy anywhere
btw, my last comment aged like cotton candy in a river. lol spark it!
Carney announces by fall. It’s not rocket science.
WEED law! unsigned!
While I appreciate your suggestion of Senator McBride (she is amazing) I do not believe she would primary any of them. She is a very brilliant, effective, and strategic politician. My guess (hope) is Carper retires and taps Lisa who would be the first Black & Female from Delaware that goes to the Senate. The US Senate is ultra-white and predominately male (even the dem side) and I truly believe without Carper, Lisa would swing even more to the left. Then I hope Sarah pops into Lisa’s seat.
“the first Black & Female from Delaware that goes to the Senate.”
That is not a qualification. There are several ” Black & Female” candidates whose politics I prefer over LBR’s and would support in a primary.
That said, LBR has been a reliable Democratic vote, and doesn’t show up on TV spouting Republican talking points, so I’ll give her that.
“[McBride] is a very brilliant, effective, and strategic politician”
Smart enough to know she doesn’t have statewide appeal.
LBR, like Carper, is a brand, not a leader. “The First Black And Female Senator”. Which she’s not yet. So far, she has defined mediocrity.
“[McBride] is a very brilliant, effective, and strategic politician”.
Who not only has statewide appeal, but national appeal. In fact, there is perhaps nobody in the entire country better equipped to stand up for the LGBTQ community. Nobody.
All this deferential shit has got to stop–unless we’re willing to settle for a continuity of undistinguished ‘moderate’ DINOs.