Might as well again point out that all this is Project 2025 being implemented. Are we better or worse off than Hungary yet?
First J6’er Goes Down. Tried to fight with cops. Lost:
An Indiana man who was pardoned by Donald Trump for taking part in the January 6 insurrection was killed by police during a traffic stop on Sunday.
Matthew Huttle, 42, was shot by a sheriff’s deputy after allegedly resisting arrest and getting into an altercation with an officer, local news outlets in Indiana report, based on the Indiana state police’s account of the incident.
Another January 6 participant who was pardoned last week was rearrested on federal gun charges. Daniel Ball of Florida was detained for an illegal firearm possession charge, a case that predated but emerged from his involvement in the 2021 Capitol insurrection.
Only the beginning.
Look Who’s Stepping Up To Run For Rethug State Chair. Ex-cop, ex-gun-range owner, oh, and State Senator, Dave Lawson:
“Our messaging has been terrible, and it doesn’t take a lot of money to change the attitude, to change the messaging so that people are understanding what they’re doing and get our candidates on the same page – which we don’t have,” Lawson said.
Adding that the focus first should be on people and a platform, Lawson said “as we go along, people will start believing in us. They will start coming because we are worth investing in.”
Then, the money would come.
“Priority-wise, we’ve got to get people on board,” Lawson said.
If messaging is indeed the problem, that gobbledygook isn’t the answer. But more power to him/them.
The Ardens Vs. Delmarva. Hey, I live. there, so I’m with the residents. What gets me is Delmarva’s arrogant dismissal of alternatives while providing no supporting evidence to dismiss them. Written by a former Ardenite himself, Cris Barrish:
(Lisa) Wilson Riblett, who heads an Ardentown subcommittee focused on the project, and Ben Gruswitz, an urban planner who is Ardencroft village assembly chair — effectively its mayor — say Delmarva has basically blown off their pleas and requests.
In November, for example, Gruswitz asked Delmarva in writing to conduct a feasibility study for other transmission routes, such as along the railroad tracks.
“This realignment offers numerous benefits, including reduced health and environmental risks, alleviated housing impacts, and improved efficiency by continuing the consolidation of transportation and utility infrastructure along the [rail] corridor and away from schools and communities,’’ Gruswitz wrote.
“By moving the lines away from residential and forested areas, we can greatly reduce environmental and health risks while preserving the character of our communities and natural habitats.”
State Rep. Larry Lambert, who represents Arden, followed up with a separate request to Delmarva for such a study. Lambert’s letter noted that the lead levels exceeded state and federal safety limits, including “one as high as 11.5 times the standard for residential areas.”
Phillip J. Vavala, the company’s regional president, responded to Gruswitz with a letter that repeated many of the fact sheet talking points. Vavala also wrote that while rerouting the lines might seem like a “quick fix,” especially moving them to the railroad tracks, “our engineering teams determined during the planning phase of this project that alternative routes were not viable or feasible due to congestion in the region.”
With no substantiation. Who do they think they are? The Army Corps Of Engineers?
What do you want to talk about?
I’d love for someone to explain to me how all this Project 2025 chaos doesn’t end in economic catastrophe (and not just for the unworthy poor).
I now they are all in it for the cruelty, but aren’t there any MAGA that can see even a little beyond that?
I don’t think anything will get MAGA attention until their truck is repo’d. Gotta love the poorly educated.
Have any tariffs actually been collected yet? So far I think it’s just bluster. But markets react to uncertainty too and there’s plenty of that now.
MAGAs are high on all the anti-government rhetoric but they don’t take into account that government spending is part of the formula for GDP. A deep reduction in government spending will cause an immediate contraction in GDP, or to use a more familiar word, recession.
The next jobs and inflation reports are due in early February and MAGA may see some unpleasant surprises there.
Once the pain really begins, MAGA will blame whomever the orange idol says. As long as black, brown, gays and trans are beaten down and removed from the face of the earth that is all they care about. And Trump has no idea what he is signing. he’s illiterate and couldnt read one of the executive orders if required. and when it is proven he is illiterate MAGA will say “goshdern he’s just like me”
In a sign the Delaware GOP is learning from its mistakes and seeking more new, moderate, diverse, and younger candidates, it has a new front runner for Chair, an old white guy from downstate who has been in Dover forever. https://www.wdel.com/news/state-sen-david-lawson-to-run-for-del-gop-chair/article_945efb20-dce1-11ef-a598-6b8d428aefb6.html
Check’s all the boxes for a DE GOP resurgence!
Well, this is on brand. While Trump enacts patently illegal ‘Project 2025’ – Your Sr Senator, Chris Coons, congratulates himself for a Bipartisan letter seeking compromise on …well, you read it.
WASHINGTON (January 22, 2025) – Today, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) joined 12 of his Senate colleagues in a letter to Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), urging a bipartisan approach to addressing our broken immigration system and border security.
“We write regarding the pressing border security and immigration needs facing our country. As we have shown, Democrats and Republicans can work together on real bipartisan solutions,” the senators wrote. “We can solve big challenges when we work together, and there is much work to do to improve border security, protect Dreamers and farmworkers, and fix our immigration system to better reflect the needs of our country and our modern economy.”
In addition to Senator Coons, the letter is signed by Senators Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), Angus King (I-Maine), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.).
https://www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-coons-colleagues-urge-senate-gop-leader-to-pursue-bipartisan-solutions-on-border-and-immigration
Im glad Bryan Townsend has decided to spend this time when Medicaid was just cut off and nonprofits are furloughing, to work through whatever insecurities he has with the duly elected Democratic Governor. So that Jeff Bullock can continue to have some little cubby of power, continuing his failed leadership of a shitty mud puddle.
Great job Bryan.
Can the caucus remove him? Doesn’t seem like he’s emotionally mature enough to be in leadership. It is beyond me how the legislature can put itself in such a silly and avoidable position. Because a bunch of losers can’t get over their own petty squabbles. This. Is. Why. We. Lose.
They haven’t lost yet, but I’d say it’s a big reason the GOP is gaining on them.
BHL submitted the nomination, not Townsend.
Maybe we should just have a ‘Why I hate Bryan Townsend’ thread.
Perhaps we can bring back Dave McBride and have him team with Nicole Poore again. You know, instead of the team including Townsend that turned the Senate D Caucus into the only instrument of positive change in Dover.
Townsend deserves criticism for even entertaining the nominations although he couldn’t unilaterally even get them out of the Senate Executive Committee where, BTW, they haven’t been brought up for consideration.
Hey, maybe we can bring back Tony DeLuca and his, um, secretary.
Townsend is not above criticism, but look at the entire record.
Message received and I let the horrors of the day get to me.
Still can’t forgive him for voting to gut the Coastal Zone Act.
“BHL submitted the nomination, not Townsend.”
Evading responsibility isn’t becoming. He said what he’s said, and none of it sounds less than weaselly.
Adenites need to suck it up and quit the NIBYism. This is a bad faith effort to get Delmarva Power to vacate the land. This right of way existed before most/all of Arden residents were born. Show me where Delmarva Power violated their easement and I’ll reconsider.
The lead in soil issue is a joke. Does anyone think that 100+ year old Arden houses don’t have lead in soil all around them?
“Does anyone think that 100+ year old Arden houses don’t have lead in soil all around them?”
Depends on if they were painted exteriors, which many don’t. Absent that, where would the lead come from?
Not anymore. Most of those shingle/shake exteriors have been replaced a few times over the life of the home. Painting those exteriors was a common practice before staining was in vogue. On top of that, you have all of the detailed trim work and windows, which often used higher lead content coatings
Fair point. I agree it’s grasping at straws on their part, whether it’s hypocritical or not. OTOH I’ve never encountered an eminent domain situation that didn’t raise a similar stink.