Delaware

Tuesday Daily Delawhere [10.21.14]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on October 21, 2014 • 1 Comment

The Marshall House, on NW Front Street in North Milford. Part of the house was first built in 1787, and the “newer” western portion of the house was built in 1811. The house is now a Victorian tea bar. Photo by xzmattzx.

Monday Daily Delawhere [10.20.14]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on October 20, 2014 • 0 Comments

Looking towards North Wilmington from Center City. Photo by xzmattzx.

Sunday Daily Delawhere [10.19.14]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on October 19, 2014 • 2 Comments

Fall colors near Corner Ketch. Photo by xzmattzx.

The Weekly Addresses

Filed in Delaware, National by Delaware Dem on October 18, 2014 • 0 Comments

President Obama:

Governor Markell:

Saturday Daily Delawhere [10.18.14]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on October 18, 2014 • 3 Comments

An alleyway of shopping off the main avenue in Rehoboth Beach, DE. Photo by Darren LoPrinzi.

Friday Open Thread [10.17.14]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on October 17, 2014 • 9 Comments

I can predict that next year’s General Assembly will be all about education and pot. Why pot?

A majority of Delawareans support fully legalizing marijuana according to a new poll, but the issue’s political future isn’t quite as certain.

56 percent of state residents are in favor of it, compared to 39 percent opposing the issue according to the University of Delaware poll.

Sheriff Christopher Screws Up and Cost Sussex County $7,426,461

Filed in Delaware by cassandra_m on October 17, 2014 • 17 Comments

It is all laid out for you in this Delaware Right Guest Post by Georgetown lawyer John Sandy. Sandy took a look at the recent bid documents reprocuring process serving services in the County. The Constitutional Sheriff couldn’t bring himself to follow the requirements of the RFP and lost the contract. A contract that should have added about $7M to Sussex County coffers. Seriously — go read the whole thing. Mr. Sandy provides documentation to back this up and also takes a look at how Christoper paid for his lawsuit via a non-refundable retainer with one of the law firms that represents the County. He claims that since it was a non-refundable retainer, that his lawsuit where multiple courts told him his view of the constitution wasn’t even worthy of a fiction award, that the taxpayers paid no money for his defense. Sussex doesn’t operate on a retainer basis and Sandy provides a summary of the invoices presented to the County to defend his boondoggle. Seriously folks, go read the whole thing. Not only is Christoper a bad constitutional scholar (?), he’s been an incompetent administrator of the office, losing a major revenue stream. And he is a liar. Sussex County citizens should send him to jail.

Friday Daily Delawhere [10.17.14]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on October 17, 2014 • 0 Comments

Houses on 2nd Street in New Castle.

Debate Night!

Filed in Delaware by cassandra_m on October 15, 2014 • 6 Comments

There’s a debate for Attorney General Candidates (I don’t know if this includes all of the ballot-qualified candidates) at Widener tonight, starting at 6pm, conducted by WDEL. You can listen on WDEL or go over to Widener to see it in person.

Delaware Public Media and the University of Delaware Center for Political Communication sponsor debates with the major party candidates for U.S. House and U.S. Senate tonight at Mitchell Hall. This website provides the times (House starts at 7 and the Senate starts at 8), and there are rules for the debates there as well. Not sure if you can still attend in person, but that is likely there at the website. You can also watch a live stream (I think!) of the House and Senate debate.

Wednesday Open Thread [10.15.14]

Filed in Delaware by cassandra_m on October 15, 2014 • 2 Comments

South Carolina Prosecutors Say Stand Your Ground Doesn’t Apply To Victims Of Domestic Violence. Well, of course not! Stand Your Ground is for white men who want to shoot people with impunity! So silly to think that an expansion of 2nd Amendment rights would apply to you women and colored people:

In the cases of women who claim they feared for their lives when confronted with violent intimate abusers, prosecutors say the Stand Your Ground law shouldn’t apply.
“(The Legislature’s) intent … was to provide law-abiding citizens greater protections from external threats in the form of intruders and attackers,” prosecutor Culver Kidd told the Post and Courier. “We believe that applying the statute so that its reach into our homes and personal relationships is inconsistent with (its) wording and intent.”

Wednesday Daily Delawhere [10.15.14]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on October 15, 2014 • 0 Comments

Brenda Mayrack is Wiping the Floor with Tom Wagner

Filed in Delaware by cassandra_m on October 14, 2014 • 11 Comments

I’ve been listening to this debate on WDEL and Brenda Mayrack is really crushing it here. Wagner is crouching behind a story that his is a technical and complex job, which is why he isn’t doing accountability and watchdog roles — even though he thinks he should be re-elected to do accountability and watchdog work. He sounded *very* condescending to her and she bypassed that BS to stay on her message. Wagner spent a great deal of his time explaining how the real work of accountability belongs to agency management and the legislature. Basically, Wagner wants you to know that: