Racist, Sexist Idiot is an Idiot

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Sheesh.
Dewey Beach Police and employees of the Town of Dewey Beach, in the form of a letter signed by multiple police officers, have accused Town Manager Marc Applebaum of sexual harassment towards female employees, abusive conduct towards all employees, suggestive drug use, racial discrimination, interfering with law enforcement, jeopardizing public safety, interfering with the office of building inspection, and dishonest dealings. The letter, attached below, alleges Applebaum would frequently wear pajama bottoms into the office without underwear underneath to show off his erect penis to female employees, and on one occasion was caught doing so by a male employee where he shouted "get out, shut the door."

Goodbye, and Good Riddance, to Centrism

Last week, after yet another week of anti-establishment upheavals in Europe, former Bush speechwriter and current Atlantic senior editor David Frum tweeted in despair: "I think we need a word to describe people broadly satisfied with the status quo & skeptical of radical changes based on wild promises." Frum was responding to a move by Catalonia to seek independence from Spain. But he might as well have been talking about the electoral successes of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party in Britain, which Frum also denounced last week. Frum was so distressed by all this rejecting of the status quo going on that he proposed that those "broadly satisfied" folks band together to create a political coalition: "I mean, there have to be a few of us, right? Maybe we could form a movement of some kind or form a political party with that word in it?"

Del Dems Platform as reported by the News Journal

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I can see the influence of the Bernie campaign in his document:
The party's newly approved platform, formulated over a year with statewide input, endorses: a $15 minimum wage; fighting and overturning Citizens United; fighting wealth and income inequality; a commitment to ending Super PACs; equal pay for equal work; ending mass incarceration; working toward debt-free college; expanding and investing in green energy; a commitment to mental health and substance abuse treatment; and Wall Street reform. At the meeting, the party also approved resolutions reaffirming commitment to organized labor, supporting internet privacy, opposing defunding of Planned Parenthood and overturning of Roe v. Wade, supporting a ban on gay conversion therapy, increasing young adult participation in the political process, strengthening the Voting Rights Act and "resisting the Trump agenda" which it called "destructive."
Some of it, no doubt, came as surprise to Governor Carney and Acting Governor Schwartzkopf.

Rising grassroots work to head off Carney/Dem Pols idiocy

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Yesterday I wrote that Governor Carney, Acting Governor Schwartzkopf and various elected Dems are on track to blow the next elections. Republicans have a organizational culture and marketing story that resonates with voters even though it has been exposed time and again as mostly economic nonsense wrapped in racism. The trouble is...Democrats, particularly Democratic office holders have no story. Trying to knit together a coherent picture of what it means to be a Democrat by looking at the gyrations of the current Den majority in Leg Hall is the definition of a mug's game. There are people working to change that though, and whether or not they can wrest the Dem marketing message away from vision-less dolts like Carney will tell the tale of Democratic fortunes in Delaware for the next 30 years. These people are a new generation of Party leaders like Cassandra Marshall who fought a pitched battle to break into and become chair of the clubby and lethargic Wilmington Democratic Party.

Dem Pols, Gov Carney, and Acting Gov Schwartzkopf set up Republicans for big gains

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Alby posted a link dealing with the UK vote in the open thread. Interesting stuff, and a lot that may play out in our upcoming Delaware elections. The whole "something beats nothing" comes to mind. Carney and the Dems are shaping up to be the party of nothing. Carney doesn't even have the low hanging fruit of Gay Marriage, as it's all been picked by Markell. Meanwhile the Dem house caucus, and Brian Townsend's championing of the CZA gutting make it impossible for "Democrat" to mean anything coherent, so Dem challengers to R incumbents will be stymied unless they have their own charisma or some kind of locally stirring manifesto. Bottom Line: I see Republicans making big gains this mid-term and taking back the Gov's Mansion in the next cycle.