Eugene Young, don’t primary the wrong person
I know I don’t have a say, but C’mon. The prospect of Hall-Long being anointed to fill Carney’s third and fourth lackluster terms is heartbreaking.
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I’ll throw Matt Meyer, Colleen Davis and Kathy Jennings into the mix and say Delaware Democrats are in an embarrassment of riches situation. When you consider the corporate shills we’ve had to choose from in the past, this is the good kind of problem to have.
But, who is serious? Who is winning the race for talent? I think that will reveal a lot.
I selfishly look at it this way: Not sure how many more cycles of knocking on doors on behalf of progressive candidates I have left in me.
I would LOVE to be able to knock doors on behalf of BOTH Sarah and Eugene instead of for one or the other.
Matt Meyer erasure! Lol.
Oopsie. The dreary predicability of Hall-Long made me foggy.
Don’t you mean Tom Carper’s 9th and 10th terms?
Aieee! The political reality of Delaware! It corporately burns! How do we defeat the evil of “The chamber of commerce”?
It’s an open seat. Why is it automatically that he’s primarying Sarah rather than her primarying him? You’re talking like she’s entitled to the position. Why?
Fair question. I just hope they can work it out.
We can elect two progressives in statewide elections–but not if they run against each other.
Bane your line:
“You’re talking like she’s entitled to the position. Why?”
Good point as far as it goes. Why does it not apply to LBR? The concession with not even cursory discussion is pathetic and when I hear “Delaware way” referenced here ya’ll need to grab a mirror.!
Well, it SHOULD apply. But, as an incumbent US Rep with the backing of pretty much the entire establishment, it’d be a much higher mountain to climb to run against her than for a vacant congressional seat.
Nobody has been mentioned as running against LBR for the Senate seat, so not sure that the comparison makes much sense. Just sounds like an unrelated’ “What-aboutism”.
El Som is right. They need to work it out. Whether anyone is entitled is semantics. Who actually cares? What matters is winning races.
Eugene’s a great guy. He should be in office. But Sarah isn’t Mike Purzycki. And if he loses his second primary, who’s taking his third seriously?
The left has a chance to prove we can finally win a statewide rice. So do we win two — not just Congress but the instant frontrunner for governor — or do we own-goal one of our best people into Sean Barney?
Best comment so far this year.
Agreed, Sarah should run for Governor or against Coons in 2026
I’m a bit disappointed in the discourse here. No one is entitled to a political office, and no one should be told to step aside for anyone else, especially when they provide a unique and valuable perspective.
If Eugene wants to run for it, he has every right. I’ll be supporting him. I see what he has built before running for Mayor. I see what he built after running for Mayor and losing by 246 or whatever in his first try. He didn’t just go away once he lost, he kept a movement going. We owe a lot of the progressive surge to Network Delaware and the Working Families Party. He helped build that.
I would never insult Sarah McBride. I think she’s great too. I’m actually happy to have a primary with two great candidates that have different life experience.
Preach Jordyn…
When he ran for Mayor, they told him he was too young and hadn’t done anything. Now he’s run a major non-profit, a state agency, and gotten numerous progressives elected in the state and all of a sudden he should step asside for someone who is younger than he was when he ran for Mayor. And from what I’ve heard, nobody is asking him to step aside because they don’t think he can win the general or they think he’d be a bad Congressman, but solely because Sarah has a lot of national support from millionairs, billionairs, and national PACs who probably couldn’t find Delaware on a map. That’s no shade to Sarah, I really like Sarah. However, I refuse to be force fed anything, regardless of how much I like the taste.
Let’s stop with the innuendo, OK? I wish they’d both run for separate offices, and we could have such a synergistic grassroots outpouring that we’d win both.
I love Gene, but I support Sarah in large part she came to the Delaware General Assembly long before she ran for office and successfully got a much more conservative body to support LGBTQ rights. Since then, she’s gotten paid Family and Medical Leave passed, which was yet another heavy lift. In other words, she’s proven she’s adept at legislating. Which, ideally, a congressperson would be good at, but few even bother to try.
Gene has indeed played a huge role in the building of the grassroots movement that could elect both of them.
But frankly your ‘millionaires, billionaires’ attack is bullshit, and you likely know it.
Build up, don’t tear down.
innuendo? It’s true!! Lol. I guess it’s inconvenient.
Here’s a wager. I’ll bet you $1,000 that Sarah takes money from Corporate PACs and the same slate of national Democratic donors who give to LBR and Carper.
You pick the threshold. 50%, 60%, 75%?
I knew it was a waste of time suggesting ‘build up, don’t tear down’ with you.
So that’s a no on the wager then?
(FYI. No one is tearing anything down. You made that up.)
I’ve got an idea. Perhaps between bongs and Bolshevism, YOU can do the research. After all, I hear you’re an ‘editor’ now.
The person you referenced above is LBR. It indeed is an attempt at tearing down. If you’d like to be put in ‘time-out’ again, keep it up.
Delaware would rightfully be annexed by Maryland & Pennsylvania if it weren’t the US Cayman Island.
If it were part of Pennsylvania it would turn that state blue. Fold Delaware into Pennsylvania while combining the Dakotas into one, then give statehood to Puerto Rico and other Caribbean possessions, and Guam and Pacific possessions so we still have 50. I mean, as long as we’re just making stuff up.
My number one opinion about this Eugene Young-Sarah McBride primary? That no personal nor organizational relationship should be ruined over disagreements between each candidate’s supporters.
They are both qualified candidates, who while they might not be as left-wing as myself, but they would both be a significant upgrade to the Delaware status quo, both generationally and in policy.
Wise words. I hope they’re heeded.