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DL Exclusive: Rep. Bryon Short Considering Run for State Insurance Commissioner
State Rep. Bryon Short (D-Highland Woods) today told Delaware Liberal that he is considering a run for State Insurance Commissioner.
While he has not made a decision on the race, he told me that it’s important that the IC’s office does an effective job of ‘setting the marketplace’ to ensure competition and consumer choices, and to ‘effectively address the concerns and problems facing consumers’. He also said that the work of the office ‘is very important, but unfortunately people aren’t made aware as to just how important it is, and how it impacts them’.
Short has attended the last two NAIC (National Association of Insurance Commissioners) meetings in order to extend his knowledge for both his House committee work and to possibly prepare for a statewide run.
Tuesday Open Thread [12.2.14]
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E. J. Dionne, Jr.: “Now, it will be a Republican Congress vs. a Democratic president. Voters will have a much easier time seeing who stands for what…Obama and progressives should spend the next two years accomplishing as many useful things as they can, blocking regressive actions by Congress, and clarifying the choices facing the nation’s voters. And they’ll get much further by doing all three at once.”
The 62 Project: Not Better Late Than Never. But It’s Finished. Just In Time To Change It.
I was planning to finish this in time for…well, some time before now. However, sloth and other events intervened. So here we have it, 1-62, for each and every member of the 147th Delaware General Assembly, based on their careers, not just the past session. For those I previously profiled, you can click on the links. For the rest, the floor is open for questions and vitriol.
1. Sen. Karen Peterson: A fierce negotiator/advocate who successfully leverages her bargaining power to pass progressive legislation. Imagine that. Accruing power not for personal ambition, but to pass a progressive agenda. An easy choice for #1.
2. Rep. Mike Barbieri: Quietly does outstanding work on kids’ issues, and has helped turn back the neanderthal mandatory sentencing excesses of the Sharp/Smith/Vaughn/Brady years. He’s impressed me from Day 1. A thinker and a doer. We need more social workers in the General Assembly.
3. Sen. Bob Marshall: Has gotten better and more effective as he’s gotten older. He serves as perhaps the leading Democrat from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party in challenging Jack Markell’s DINO-ism. He’s got at least one more minimum wage increase in him.
4. Rep. Melanie George Smith: Her work, along with Barbieri and others, on sentencing reform, was legislating at its best. It wasn’t easy, it required a tremendous attention to detail, plus political smarts. Forget her political roots, focus on her legislative skills.
5. Sen. Dave Sokola: Anyone who thinks it was easy for a legislator from the Pike Creek/Hockessin area to support progressive reform wasn’t around when he got elected. That’s what he did and that’s what he does. And, while he gets criticism from some of our education people, he stood up to the ‘forced busing’ bashers, including his own Pro-Tem, Tom Sharp. His sponsorship of civil unions reflects the kind of person he is.
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Coming Tuesday: The Entire 62 Project Unveiled.
The Bataan Death March of projects reaches its ultimate destination tomorrow.
Both here on DL and on the Al Mascitti Show beginning at 10 am. You can listen right here.
The entire 147th General Assembly legislative roster ranked from 1-62, based on legislators’ careers, not just the past couple of months.
I think the project got bogged down b/c, although it’s really easy to write about the best legislators, the worst legislators, and the most eccentric legislators, there was a group of legislators ranked somewhere between 40 and 50 who were not particularly interesting to me. Legislators who were just there. I lost my mojo. Finally got my mojo workin’ last weekend.
Anyway, once the list is posted, I’ll tweak the list before the start of the 148th to account for injustices, new info, and, of course, to address both the departed and the newcomers.
Since the list is completed and will not change before tomorrow, feel free to predict your #1 and #62.
Monday Daily Delawhere [12.1.14]
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The facade of Hercules Plaza in Wilmington. Photo by xzmattzx on Flickr.
Sunday Daily Delawhere [11.30.14]
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The Kent County Courthouse, on The Green in Dover. The courthouse was built in 1875, and sits on the site of a colonial tavern. Photo by xzmattzx on Flickr.
Saturday Daily Delawhere [11.29.14]
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The Old Academy, at 4th & Main Streets in Odessa. The building was completed in 1844, and has been used as a public school and a library. Photo by xzmattzx on Flickr.
Black Friday Daily Delawhere [11.28.14]
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The Plank House, off of Main Street in Smyrna. The house is believed to have been built in the 1700s, and was originally located farther north on Main Street. It was moved behind the Barracks, another of Smyrna’s historic buildings, in the 1990s. Photo by xzmattzx on Flickr.
Thanksgiving Daily Delawhere [11.27.14]
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Rehoboth Beach on a cold November day. Photo from Mike Mahaffie on Flickr.
Wednesday Daily Delawhere [11.26.14]
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The Frank Stephens Memorial Theater, on Woodland Lane in Arden. The open air theater was constructed in 1905. Photo by xzmattzx on Flickr.
Tuesday Daily Delawhere [11.25.14]
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This section of Old South DuPont Highway, south of Tybouts Corner, is noteworthy for being the first section of divided highway in the world. The southbound lanes, which were the original lanes built in between 1917 and 1923, are on the left. Photo from xzmattzx on Flickr.
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