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DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024
Cause. Effect.: It is approaching four weeks since a federal appeals court considered Donald Trump’s audacious claim that he should enjoy absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for his actions as president. Under ordinary circumstances, it can take months for appellate judges to produce a ruling. In the current case, this delay borders on unconscionable. It […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 2, 2024
Sad: Oregon Senators Refuse To Work, Find Themselves Ineligible To Run For Reelection: The Oregon Supreme Court said Thursday that 10 Republican state senators who staged a record-long walkout last year to stall bills on abortion, transgender health care and gun rights cannot run for reelection. The decision upholds the secretary of state’s decision to […]
Delaware Political Weekly: January 26-February 1, 2024
1. The Congressional Hauls. Sarah McBride, of course, leads the way. The figures: Sarah McBride Q4 Raise – $457k Total Raise – $1.23m On Hand – $850k Eugene Young Q4 Raise – $104k Total Raise – $287k On Hand – $199k Colleen Davis Q4 Raise – $41k Total Raise – $145k On Hand – $76k […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, February 1, 2024
NFL Broke Promise To Concussed Retired Players. Which is what happens when you have billionaires running the show: Finalized in 2015, the NFL concussion settlement resolved the most serious threat America’s most popular and lucrative sports league hasfaced. While the NFL admitted no wrongdoing, it promised to pay every former player who developed dementia or […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: January 2024
The songs are more mainstream this month, the artists less diverse. Don’t know why, just worked out that way. The good news?: Some great songs in the mix, not a clunker in the bunch: My daughters first saw Madi Diaz at a Young Friends event. She then opened a really neat Coffee House show at […]
Our PAL Val Screws Up ‘Permit To Purchase’: Incompetence Or Malice?
Longhurst promised to run the bill in January. Longhurst didn’t run the bill in January. From the News-Journal article: Despite Delaware House leadership’s pledge to pass gun safety legislation upon lawmakers’ return to Dover in January, a bill to require training and a permit prior to purchase of a handgun hasn’t made it to a […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024
Arizona Rethugs Go Full MAGAt. Because it worked so well for them in 2020: Arizona Republicans chose a new party chair on Saturday, a move that tightened the grip on the state party hierarchy by far-right supporters of former President Donald J. Trump and that came days after a scandal that forced the last chairman […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., January 27, 2024
$83 Mill. With what could well be a $250 mill judgement against Trump by the end of next week. Sure he can appeal. However, he has to either pony up $83 mill in cash or, say, the deed to one of his properties, while the appeals take place. Interest accrues: Mr. Trump can pay the […]
Delaware Political Weekly: January 19-25, 2024
Not gonna do a deep dive back into the campaign finance reports just now. Why? Because I need a brief respite from all that small print. 1. Carney For Mayor: A Campaign About Nothing. Just like what passed for his two, no, three, campaigns for Governor. Which is why he lost the first time: Outside […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 26, 2024
Vince McMahon And Donald Trump–Separated At Birth? Two self-entitled males who play the role of WWE villains because, well, that’s what they are. And serial abusers, OK, rapists, of women. While Trump is about to lose bigly a second time for having made E. Jean Carroll’s life a living hell, McMahon has been accused of […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., Jan. 25, 2024
I see nothing controversial on today’s House and Senate Agendas. Little of importance as well. Although these three bills move the ball forward a bit: SB 197 (Hansen): ‘(R)equire(s) that beginning January 1, 2026, state agencies under Chapter 69 of Title 29 must purchase only native plants, including cultivars and hybrids of native plants, in […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., Jan. 25, 2024
AMERICAN OLIGARCHY: This could be the most important long-form piece of journalism you’ll read all year. Long-form as in book length, but broken down into easily-digestible chapters. I’ve only scratched the surface, but Delaware makes its first appearance here: Not only did Delaware’s legislature up the ante on enticements—exempting corporations from taxes and reimbursing their […]
The Little PAC That Could…
…Run Bethany Hall-Long’s Campaign Without Anyone Knowing It. Until now. Once upon a time, there was a Little PAC. It had a nice name. People For A Healthy Delaware. The PAC was the dream of former President Pro-Tempore Patti Blevins, presumably because she wanted Delawareans to be healthy. Or, perhaps it was a vanity project […]
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