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DL Open Thread: Sat., June 8, 2024
Trump’s ‘Post-Constitutional’ Agenda. As framed by one Russell Vought: A battle-tested D.C. bureaucrat and self-described Christian nationalist is drawing up detailed plans for a sweeping expansion of presidential power in a second Trump administration. Russ Vought, who served as the former president’sbudget chief, calls his political strategy for razing long-standing guardrails “radical constitutionalism.” Hehas helped […]
Delaware Political Weekly: May 31 To June 6, 2024
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 […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 7, 2024
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 […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 6, 2024
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 […]
Implicated In Philly Ethics Probe, Now Starting PAC For Bethany Hall-Long
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 […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 2, 2024
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 […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 1, 2024
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 […]
Delaware Political Weekly: May 24-30, 2024
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 […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 31, 2024
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 […]
Trump: Guilty Times 34!!
Found guilty on all counts!!: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/30/trump-hush-money-trial-live-updates-jury-deliberations/
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: May, 2024
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 […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 30, 2024
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. […]
My Random Thoughts On Delaware’s Primaries
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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