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Those are the words of Ed Osborne after the Senate failed to override Governor Minner's veto of the Eminent Domain Bill last night. So true those words. Politics isn't easy. …

The Senate has voted to suspend the rules and consider an override of Governor Minner's veto of Senate Bill 245.  According to Commenter Sagacious Steve, who will be liveblogging the…

The Club for Growth is an organization with an affiliated PAC that recruits more conservative candidates to run in the Republican primaries against what they perceive as "RINO" incumbents, or who are not sufficiently supportive…

The News Journal has updated its online story with Minner's statement to lawmakers as to her reasons for vetoing the Eminent Domain Bill. [T]he governor wrote that the bill could…

To John Carney's credit, his campaign has removed my Obama pics from his website. To his detriment, he still has not issued any statement concerning his position on Governor Minner's…

I guess we should have expected this. Gov. Ruth Ann Minner announced today she is vetoing legislation that would have redefined “public use” in the eminent domain law and made…

John Carney had a good week. Perhaps the best of his campaign. He was lauded for his work in brokering a deal between Bluewater Wind and Delmarva. So Jack Markell…

Earlier this evening a strong thunderstorm plowed through Wilmington around 5:00.   During the storm, after seeing out dark red blob covering Wilmington on the radar screen, I heard this strange…

The former secretary and current chairman of the Independent Party of Delaware sounds more like a villain out of the Harry Potter series than a political official.  But hey, as…

The, dare I say, Patron Saint of Progressive Delaware Democrats is announcing his reelection campaign: You are cordially invited to attend the announcement of John Kowalko’s official bid to seek…

We need a 2 seat gain in the House to win back the majority. With the stakes so high, you hate to see us Democrats failing to contest various districts, thus giving a free pass to the election of a Republican. Why do we hate to see that? Because it allows the GOP to save all their money and volunteers and campaign staff and pour them into the competitive House races, and thus effectively defend their bare majority. If we contest them everywhere, they have less resources to fight us off.

 

As of this writing, it appears we will not challenge 11! Republicans this year. This is up from 8 Republicans that we failed to challenge in 2006. The unopposed so far are:

 

Gregory Lavelle (11^th)

Deborah Hudson (12^th)

Nick Manolakos (20^th)

Pamela Maier (21st)
Joe Miro (22nd)
William Oberle, Jr. (24^th)

William Outten (30^th)

Don Blakely (34^th)

George Carey (36^th)

Gerald W. Hocker (38^th)
Clifford G. Lee (40th)

In three weeks, I will be attending the Netroots Nation Convention in Austin, Texas on behalf of Delaware Liberal.   This convention was formerly called Yearly Kos, and was held previously…