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Our PAL Val Tries, Fails, To Designate Her Successor As Speaker From Beyond The Political Grave
We start, however, with a juicy bit of schadenfreude from primary night. Turns out Val didn’t see her defeat at the hands of Kamela Smith (!) coming. She and her political team are in her basement adding up the totals while, upstairs, a joyous victory celebration is taking place. Because the celebrants don’t see it […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 18, 2024
The Big Story Is That Trump Is Unhinged And Suffering From Something Very Much Like Dementia: “What’s alarming is how the rate of Trump’s bizarre speech and political decisions have been increasing. He gave an answer about childcare to the Economic Club of New York so incoherent that even his supporters were concerned. Last week […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 17, 2024
Brett Baier Tries To Mansplain Trump’s Superiority To Kamala Harris. If the Fox interview accomplished anything, it likely turned women off to Trump’s toxic masculinity as channeled through Baier: The interview with Mr. Baier gave Ms. Harris access to a large audience of Republican women whom her campaign is trying to win over. Her advisers […]
Towards A Delaware Transparency Agenda
Premature? No. It’s long past time to drive a stake through the secrecy that practitioners of the Delaware Way have used to perpetuate the casual corruption at its core. We’ll have a new governor who ran against some of the worst elements of the Delaware Way. We’ll be free of the likes of John Carney, […]
WHYY Reports On Progressive Agenda For Transparency
Matt Meyer makes clear that transparency on police actions would be part of that agenda: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Matt Meyer said he supports absolute transparency in policing and would assess if more needed to be done beyond last year’s legislation, if elected governor. “You can’t have a system where a small group of police officers […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 13, 2024
Yep, JD Vance’s Mom Owes Her Health Insurance To–Obamacare: In Vance’s telling, his family members’ experience reflects Trump’s stewardship of the nation’s health-care markets — a perspective shared by some conservatives, who say that Trump took steps to stabilize the Affordable Care Act after Republican repeal efforts collapsed in 2017. Even as the president publicly […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 12, 2024
Trump Comes Out For Full-Fledged Fascism. Not bothering to hide it: Donald Trump wants to immediately invoke a more than 200-year-old wartime law that grants the president unilateral authority to deploy federal law enforcement for rounding up and deporting immigrants as soon as he enters office. The former president, speaking from Aurora, Colorado on Friday, […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 10, 2024
Yes, It’s Horrific. Just don’t say ‘climate change’. Or (coming soon), ‘I wonder if my insurance will cover this’. Over 3 million customers w/o power as I post this. Don’t think anyone anticipated the severity of the tornadoes, which resulted in multiple deaths. Delaware Tries To ‘Big-Time’ NCC On Behalf Of Port Expansion. Aided and […]
The 30-Day Reports
We’ll keep adding to this post as I get to more reports. Remember, for those candidates who did not face primaries, this is the first report they must file this year. An 8-day report is also required, as is a year-end report. Let’s see what has surfaced so far… Any doubts that Bill ‘Lumpy’ Carson […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 6, 2024
Feckless Joe Done Got Played. ‘Some’ people are placing him in the pantheon of great presidents. Here’s why he’s not: When Israel defied America’s appeals for restraint by invading Lebanon a few days ago, a reporter asked President Biden if he was comfortable with what had unfolded. “I’m comfortable with them stopping,” Biden replied plaintively. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024
55,000 Bibles. The Oklahoma Superintendent has ordered a Bible in every classroom. The RFP limits the Bible that must be purchased to, wait for it: Bids opened Monday for a contract to supply the state Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. According to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications: Bibles must be the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 4, 2024
Bad Day For Trump Evildoers: Tina Peters: DENVER (AP) — Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, the first local election official to be charged with a security breach after the 2020 election as unfounded conspiracy theories swirled, was found guilty by a jury on most charges Monday. Peters, a one-time hero to election deniers, was accused […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 3, 2024
Unsure of your Presidential pick? Might I suggest–Vermin Supreme? He is somehow on Delaware’s ballot as a candidate for the ‘Conservative Party Of DE’, which doesn’t strike me as particularly conservative: Vermin Love Supreme (1960 or 1961) is an American performance artist and activist who has run as a novelty candidate in various local, state, […]
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