Who Are YOUR DL MVP’s For 2025?
‘MVP’ stands for ‘Most Valuable To The Progressive Cause’ in Delaware.
Your deadline for submissions is December 15. Remember that the criteria is solely what your choices did this year to earn consideration.
So please suggest names and share why you think they deserve inclusion.
While it’s ultimately ‘my list’, in recent years, the vast majority of the suggestions have come from you. Making this list ideally inclusive and comprehensive.
Now, get crackin’!
Eric Morrison, who is a leftist stalwart in general, deserves praise for picking up Paul’s work, and ensuring that Death With Dignity became law in Delaware.
There’s been a lot of great work done by issue campaigns this year, between the rent stabilization campaign in Wilmington from HOMES, police reform in Dover from NOCAP, fines and fees reform from Coalition to End Debtors Prison, and the beginnings of other efforts around environmental justice, body discrimination, and trans refuge.
Would recommend these campaigns, but also Kirsten Walther, who has been the driving force behind many of them as the Project Coach for Network Delaware. She’s been doing all sorts of work for different parts of the movement for years, but is making a particularly big impact this year.
John Kowalko (In memoriam)
https://delawarecall.com/2025/10/26/keeper-of-the-flame/
Kids, you see what Grant did there?
The name and the reason.
Be like Grant.
Dustyn Thompson — for keeping us all engaged and aware of the concerns around data centers
Christian Willauer — Wilmington City Council woman who has made the screw-ups of reassessment and Tyler Tech clear as day for people all over social media by providing visual confirmation that this process has been a mess
Kirsten Walther. She has been a driving force behind many of the issue campaigns that have been doing great work in Delaware as a coach through Network Delaware, from HOMES Campaign doing rent stabilization work in Wilmington to NOCAP doing police reform work in Dover and CEDP doing fines and fees work and many others.
Not many know this fact about Kirsten, but it’s 100% true. I’d like to amend my vote
Kristen and Karl are superstars too much to list , some has been covered but their energy and drive are contagious!
I like that everyone has higher standards. That’s good. Madinah should be on a Cal Ripken Jr type streak with these.
And Kowalko (In Memoriam)
https://delawarecall.com/2025/10/26/keeper-of-the-flame/
David Carter for leading the charge in protecting us from unregulated hyper-scale data center proposals.
A huge amount of work is going into this process. Dave says for the first time since being in office, he is growing fond of the land use department staff as they are very much, even desperately, wanting to get these protections put into the county code via ord 25-101.
Guys–I notice that the ‘calculus’ has been trashing comments for reasons I cannot fathom.
Have patience–I will rescue them.
Marie Pinkney for her continued work on probation reform and victims bill of rights in dover
Gotta give my support to Larry Lambert. Deftly navigating the Delaware City crisis to get legislation done to hold industrial polluters accountable was an absolute master class of being ready to meet the moment.