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DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 15, 2023

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Louisiana Goes Full-On Right-Wing Crazy.  Guess I won’t be visiting N’Awlins soon: Jeff Landry, the Louisiana attorney general and a hard-line conservative, trounced a crowded field of candidates on Saturday to become the state’s next governor, cementing Republican control of Louisiana after eight years of divided government. Mr. Landry, a brash conservative who repeatedly fought […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 14, 2023

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Weisselberg Lied, Under Oath, About Trump’s Penthouse.  Too bad there’s incontrovertible proof–from Weisselberg: Allen Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, lied in sworn testimony on Tuesday when questioned about Donald Trump’s penthouse atop Trump Tower. Weisselberg was on the stand as part of a $250 million lawsuit that the New York […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, October 13, 2023

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Scalise Boomlet Crashes.  Looks like Jordan is up next.  We can only hope that his candidacy suffers the same fate: The fractious Republican conference has rejected a second speaker hopeful in eight days — this time, Kevin McCarthy’s longtime heir apparent, Steve Scalise. While Republicans appear to be turning next to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 12, 2023

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Best Thing Dubya Ever Said: Word. Just remember this before you demand to know ‘Whose side are you on?’   That kind of intimidation says a lot more about the intimidator than about the intimidated. End of lecture. If there is one redeeming feature about the Israel/Hamas War, it’s that Donald Trump has not been on […]

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Karl Baker Breaks The BHL Story Wide Open

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on October 11, 2023 60 Comments

Tips of the sombrero to eagle-eyed readers Duarte and BLT who spotted it: https://thenewsarcade.substack.com/p/leading-candidate-for-delaware-governor?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Here’s an excerpt from Karl’s story: In 2018, Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long’s husband went into business with her office’s chief deputy, forming an LLC that purchased nine row homes in a small Wilmington suburb that had been targeted as an ideal […]

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Delaware’s Most Intriguing Legislative Races Of 2024: #2-RD 29

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on October 11, 2023 2 Comments

The year was 2018.  Incumbent State Rep. Trey Paradee ran for the 17th State Senate seat and won.  The D primary to succeed Trey in his Kent Counry 29th RD was won by–wait–there was no D primary for the 29th RD. Making the successor-designee one Bill Bush,  who was pushed by the worst of the […]

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This Is A Moderated Blog

Filed in DL Opinion by on October 11, 2023 0 Comments

Seems like we have some newbies who want to fight Israel vs. Hamas on these pages, while figuratively targeting those who don’t leave their brains at the door. Please understand, if your comments cross the line, they will either go into moderation unto perpetuity, or you will be blacklisted.  Yes, we’re the sole arbiters, but […]

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Yo, Bethany: It’s Time

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on October 9, 2023 25 Comments

I’m pretty sure your supporters and/or those who would like to find an alternative if your ‘issues’ are fatal to your campaign are impatient for answers. I don’t know what happened, but it looks like your problems may both be related to campaign finances, and/or questionable business dealings that you and your husband have had […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 8, 2023

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Rep. Cole:  Deals That McCarthy Cut With RWNJ’s ‘No Longer Operative’.  Revenge of the (all things are relative) moderates?: With Kevin McCarthy out as speaker, House Rules Chair Tom Cole says Republicans are free to step back from the deep appropriations cuts dictated by McCarthy’s backroom deal with the far right last June. “This agreement […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 7, 2023

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Wag The Dog: Netanyahu Proclaims ‘We Are At War’.  Only question is, how many Palestinians will be killed by American weapons?: Israel and Gaza were at war on Saturday after Palestinian militants launched an early morning assault on southern Israel that had few precedents in its complexity and scale, invading several Israeli towns and firing […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, October 6, 2023

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Almost Penniless Rethugs, Part 1.  Mike Lindell: Almost Penniless Rethugs, Part 2. Rudy Giuliani: Sadness. Trump & Jim Jordan: Perfect Together: There was only one way the chaos in the Republican-led House – likened Thursday by one of its members to a “stupid clown car” – could get more extreme. Enter Donald Trump. The ex-president […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 5, 2023

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Quick tip of the ‘Bulo Sombrero to the anonymous tipster who clued me into the Purzycki/Carney hand-off.  We can all see how orchestrated this two-step was.  By Buccini/Pollin and the Chamber, the entities that run the city.  Keep those tips coming! Guess Who’s Been Pulling The Strings From A Capitol Hill Basement.  And tell me […]

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Delaware (Occasional) Political Weekly: Early October, 2023

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on October 4, 2023 27 Comments

Don’t know if there’s anything more to be said about L’Affaire Bethany Hall-/Dana Long at this time, other than that Al’s speculation that the remaining insiders are trying to find a way to cover it up rings true to me.  Oh, and that the troubles may date at least all the way back to her […]

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