Delaware

Monday Daily Delawhere [11.18.13]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on November 18, 2013 • 5 Comments

In Which We Find Chip Flowers Changing the Credit Cards Story AGAIN

Filed in Delaware by cassandra_m on November 17, 2013 • 44 Comments

Delaware State News reports on the Chip Flowers’ travel document dump, and we find that that the State Treasurer still can’t quite wrap his mind around the escalating mismanagement of these credit card issues. For one (and the most jawdropping to me), we find that Flowers wants us to know that he lost all of those receipts because the corporate world he came from has differing standards:

Not keeping the original receipts was a mistake that Mr. Flowers acknowledged, and he attributed the discarded receipts to following the general policies of corporate business during his transition to public office in 2011.

Sunday Daily Delawhere [11.17.13]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on November 17, 2013 • 1 Comment

From Mike Mahaffie on Flickr.

Saturday Daily Delawhere [11.16.13]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on November 16, 2013 • 0 Comments

From Mike Mahaffie on Flickr.

Moderate Republicans – The Delaware Way

Filed in Delaware by Rob Tornoe on November 15, 2013 • 8 Comments

According to beltway logic, the GOP went through its “Christine O’Donnell can win an election” phase and realized that all the talk about masturbation, rape and reverse-racism towards whites wasn’t pushing the party forward.

Friday Daily Delawhere [11.15.13]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on November 15, 2013 • 0 Comments

From Mike Mahaffie on Flickr.

Newark Mayor’s Race: The Progressive Perspective.

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on November 14, 2013 • 12 Comments

Newark’s upcoming Mayoral election is a nonpartisan election. As such, the state parties, and affiliated party organizations, like the Progressive Democrats, have not gotten involved. But just because you call an election a nonpartisan election, does not mean ideologies are not in play. Conservatives understood this for years, and ran conservative candidates for nonpartisan school board and judgeship elections for years.

It looks like liberals and progressives have learned their lesson, as it would seem we are blessed with several progressive candidates among the seven in the Newark race.

Thursday Daily Delawhere [11.14.13]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on November 14, 2013 • 0 Comments

BREAKING: Koch Brothers $$’s Behind Caesar Rodney Institute Funding

Filed in Delaware, National by El Somnambulo on November 13, 2013 • 7 Comments

People much cannier than I have been trying to unravel the money trail of the many dummy organizations used by the Koch Brothers to funnel money to propaganda machines.

Thanks to a state-by-state review of the Koch Brothers labyrinthine finances, we now know that the Koch Brothers have been the largest rainmaker for the Caesar Rodney Institute.

UPDATE: The Chip Flowers’ Travel Expenses Data Dump

Filed in Delaware by cassandra_m on November 13, 2013 • 39 Comments

State Treasurer Chip Flowers had his news conference this AM that preceded the release of travel documents from his office. You can see a clip of the news conference at WDEL plus their story. The NJ also has some video and a story. Both stories highlight the apology (from WDEL):

Wednesday Daily Delawhere [11.13.13]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on November 13, 2013 • 0 Comments

The 62 Project: #’s 25 & 37

Filed in Delaware by El Somnambulo on November 12, 2013 • 5 Comments

Mike Mulrooney is a salt-of-the-earth legislator, and I mean that as a compliment. While he doesn’t make splashes as a prime sponsor on much legislation, he is a quietly-effective supporter of (mostly) progressive legislation. He meandered from the fold on one gun bill, but that’s about it.

Rep. Don Blakey is a mild disappointment to me. He is a largely-moderate African-American who could be a bit more like Mike Ramonewithout harming his electoral position, IMHO. Especially within the R House caucus. While he doesn’t vote in lockstep with leadership, he does so far too much to warrant a higher ranking. For example, why would he stand with the obstructionist elements in his caucus in not supporting ‘no-excuses absentee balloting’? There’s, um, no excuse for that. All it does is help disenfranchise many of his constituents, some of whom work at the Dover Air Force Base. Why did he vote against gay marriage? Why does he oppose criminal background checks for private weapons purchases?