Delaware
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 13, 2025
The Big Story: Delaware Prepares To Legalize Prostitution. Again. No, not legalized sex work, which I support. We’re talking Delaware prostituting itself because apparently we’re desperate. There is ample precedent. The Financial Center Development Act of 1981 essentially legalized usury in the form of high credit card interest rates. In exchange for so-called ‘credit card banks’ […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 12, 2025
Pull up a chair. If yesterday was (barely) an amuse-bouche, today’s a full-fledged legislative banquet. Starting with plutocrats seeking to gorge themselves courtesy of a watered-down corporate law bill. But first, here’s yesterday’s legislative activity report. Only item of note was the passage of SS1/SB 5 (Townsend), which enshrines the right to abortion in the […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Lots happening this week, the least of which is the seating of two undistinguished Corporadems to replace Sarah McBride and Kyle Evans Gay. Their names, like them, are unimportant. Talk about a downgrade. Gonna put the blinkers on and take it one day at a time. Let me first catch everyone up on recently-introduced legislation. […]
A Very Special Pre-Pre-Game Show: Delaware General Assembly, March 2025
Been posting here since 2009. Been doing the General Assembly previews since then. I can’t recall a more uncertain legislative landscape than what we face now. 1. There is no precedent for the upheaval at the federal level. Nobody knows how this will impact the federal flow of money to Delaware, including Governor Meyer. You […]
Sen. Bryan Townsend Has A Big Fat Conflict-Of-Interest
He’s not only the prime sponsor of SB 21, he is the chief advocate on behalf of it. The legislation changes corporate law governing the Court Of Chancery. If you’re not familiar, here is a balanced piece on the bill. There are legal heavyweights who both support and oppose the bill. While I oppose the […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, Feb. 27, 2024
Progressive politicians’ Sisyphean struggle to increase Delaware’s tax rate on high earners has resumed. Spotlight Delaware runs down the proposal in Sean Lynn’s bill: Income above $250,000 would be taxed at 6.95%. Income between $125,000 and $250,000 would be taxed at 6.75%. Income between $60,000 and $125,000 would remain taxed at 6.6%. Income between $20,000 […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Feb. 24, 2024
Here’s another sterling example of why you shouldn’t give the mainstream media your trust or your money: A former KGB spy said that the Russians have cultivated Donald Trump as an asset since 1987. No American media has reported it. Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov,” claims […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Feb. 23, 2024
I’ll be filling in for El Som this week, and if you’re looking for stories about Fascism on the March, you’ll have to look elsewhere for the links. I won’t support news organizations that report every foul emission from the mouths and pens of these people while failing to headline the fact that most of […]
Delaware’s Education System: The Fat Guy In Little White Coat Syndrome
Guest Post By Salty Peanut: Delaware’s education system isn’t just outdated—it’s bursting at the seams, stretched beyond capacity, and one wrong move away from complete collapse. It’s not just poorly sized—it’s dysfunctional, like a body where the fingers do what they want, the legs move in different directions, and there’s no brain to coordinate it […]
Comment Rescue: Et tu, Bryan?
“Dude,” writing about why Bryan Townsend should be primaried, posted this comment under El Som’s top 5 2026 targets. Because Townsend’s seat isn’t up until 2028, I’m reposting it here, because people should know that Bryan Townsend, like so many Delaware Democrats, is liberal as all hell when it comes to social issues, but when […]
My First Five Electoral Targets For 2026
There will be more. But I suspect most of our readers would agree with trying to get rid of this starting five for Team Toxic. 1. Chris Coons: Never a true Democrat, inherited his wealth and at least one job from his stepfather Robert Gore. Longs for an age of Senatorial comity that vanished somewhere around […]
Delaware’s Jimmy Carter? The Perils of Matt Meyer’s Big Swings
GUEST POST BY SALTY PEANUT: Delaware has always preferred its politics like its chicken: mild, no surprises, and easy to digest. Voters like governors who keep the lights on, the roads paved, and the corporate tax loopholes wide enough for a Fortune 500 company to slip through. Which is why the political establishment lined up […]
Meyer To Go After ‘Third Rail’ Of Delaware Politics?
That ‘third rail’ being the corporate golden egg that fills the state’s coffers: Delaware’s budget depends on more than $2 billion brought in by its leading corporate franchise work, which helps to keep the cost of living lower for residents. A recent spate of high-profile corporate departures has unnerved state leaders, however, and now reforms […]
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