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Delaware Political Weekly: May 31 To June 6, 2024

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 7, 2024 34 Comments

I am El Somnambulo, and I am a political junkie. This is my kind of week. 1. State Rep. Rae Moore Draws Primary Challenger.  Well, it’s a candidate from the past.  One Matthew Powell.  He ran in a three-way primary to succeed DINO Quin Johnson in 2020.  Despite having Johnson’s endorsement, Powell finished behind both […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, June 7, 2024

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When A Former US Solicitor General in the Obama Administration Litigates In Delaware–you can bet that the case is of some import. It is.  He’s arguing on behalf of the State against Rethug attempts to make it more difficult to vote.  The case is The Honorable Anthony J. Albence and State of Delaware Department of […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 6, 2024

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Some Guy Clear-Cut Around Silver Lake Because…: A legally questionable land deed and government agencies’ failure to act quickly on complaints may have led to the illegal filling of wetlands on Silver Lake in Rehoboth Beach. Silver Lake and the adjacent Lake Comegys are glacial remnants, the Delaware Public Archives website says, as well as […]

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Implicated In Philly Ethics Probe, Now Starting PAC For Bethany Hall-Long

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 4, 2024 44 Comments

Is this even legal?  I don’t know, but let’s just lay it out there. There’s this Philly guy, see?  His name is Jimmy Cauley.  Dis Cauley guy was involved in the campaign of one Jeff Brown, a Shop-Rite owner who spent a bleepload of money on advertising in his run for Mayor of Philadelphia: Brown’s […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 2, 2024

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Shout-Out To The Portland Fruit Tree Project!  My daughter has volunteered here.  Come to think of it, even I spent a day there pulling up weeds.  Seems to me that something similar could work right here in our heat deserts and food deserts: A group aiming to battle food waste planted 162 fruit trees in […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 1, 2024

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Yo, Joe:  It’s Time To Throw Netanyahu Under The Bus.  He’s playing you for a fool, and you’re playing the part of the fool perfectly: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Saturday that Israel would not agree to a permanent cease-fire before the destruction of Hamas’s “military and governing capabilities,” a day after President […]

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Delaware Political Weekly: May 24-30, 2024

Filed in National by on May 31, 2024 8 Comments

1.  D State Rep. Sophie Phillips Gets Primary Challenger in RD 18.  I have no idea why as she’s great.  The challenger is one Lisa Cooke, or Lisa Cooke-Rossi, she writes it both ways on her campaign finance committee filing.  Regardless of name, it’s this person.  An education paraprofessional at unnamed schools and past-President of […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, May 31, 2024

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He’s Once, Twice, 34 Times A Felon.  Brings a tear to my eye.  Jennifer Rubin states the sadly obvious: The flock of pundits who insisted trying Trump was constitutionally untoward and strategically unwise nowlook foolish and, worse, clueless about the importance of holding Trump accountable for his crimes. One cannot defend the rule of law […]

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Trump: Guilty Times 34!!

Filed in Featured by on May 30, 2024 9 Comments

Found guilty on all counts!!: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/30/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates-jury-deliberations/    

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‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: May, 2024

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, Featured by on May 30, 2024 6 Comments

My kind of month.  Tons o’ diversity.  So many cool songs that I’m calling an audible and releasing this list two days early–already have a couple for June in the can: I know, I know.  Had one of her songs on here last month.  I like this one more: My kind of newgrass!  Do we […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 30, 2024

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RIP, Lonnie George:  I’ll leave it to others to examine the Del-Tech aspect of the story.  For me, Lonnie was the Speaker of the House during my first two years working for the Delaware General Assembly.  Much to everyone’s surprise, likely including Lonnie and Bob Gilligan, the Democrats won control of the House in 1982.  […]

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My Random Thoughts On Delaware’s Primaries

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on May 29, 2024 32 Comments

Subject to change from the moment I hit ‘Publish’. 1. The race between Marcus Henry and Karen Hartley-Nagle is, in my opinion, over.  Marcus has been everywhere, Karen is barely running a campaign.  In addition, KHN has reportedly split–or been split from–her political consigliere without whom she has no idea as to how to run […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 26, 2024

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Hillary Blames Everybody Else–Again.  Only in the NYTimes would this be clickbait.  Yo, Hillary, your arrogance and tone-deafness is largely why we got Trump in the first place: And in a blunt reflection about the role sexism played in her 2016 presidential campaign, she said women were the voters who abandoned her in the final […]

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