Delaware
Buy Weed? Can’t They Just Drink Instead?
The Atlantic coast is supposedly the liberal part of Sussex County. So why are its beach towns treating cannabis sales like a pool hall coming to River City? As a News Journal article noted last week, Dewey, Rehoboth, Bethany, Ocean View and Fenwick Island all have banned the legal sale of the devil’s lettuce. You […]
Fighting Against Medicare Advantage
Guest post by Representative John Kowalko (25th District, retired) Over the past year and a half, I have dedicated much of my energy to exposing the fraudulent and dishonest Medicare Advantage Plans for what they are. This issue has now become the focal point of thousands of ads on television promoting the private insurance industry’s […]
Delaware Political Weekly: November 10-16, 2023
1. Special Election In RD 37. State Representative Ruth Briggs King has resigned her House seat effective immediately as she has just moved out of her district. By current Rethug standards, King was pretty reasonable. Definitely not a bomb-thrower. BTW, the only female member of the House GOP Caucus. She had previously given everyone a heads-up […]
George Santos And Bethany Hall Long: Separated At Birth?
Does this sound familiar?: …investigators found evidence that _____ used campaign funds for personal purposes, defrauded donors and filed false or incomplete campaign finance and financial disclosure reports… Let’s fill in the blank: George Santos. Immediately following the release of the House Ethics Committee report this morning, Santos announced he would not seek reelection in […]
Song of the Day 11/15: The Four Seasons, “Silence Is Golden”
Bethany Hall-Long is a too young to have been a fan of this tune when it came out in 1964 as the B-side to the No. 1 single “Rag Doll,” which like “Silence Is Golden” was a product of the Four Seasons’ hit songwriting team of Bob Crewe and Bod Gaudio. It didn’t get a […]
COMMENT RESCUE: Did BHL Raid Campaign Coffers To Pay Off Hubby’s Debts?
Oh, and then make sure said hubby filed inaccurate campaign finance reports to cover up what they did? This not only sounds plausible, but the commenter seems to know a lot more about this than we (or the press) do: TomTom: Definitely not at all tax deductible. Also, the accusation isn’t that she was giving […]
BHL’s Potemkin Village Campaign
If you don’t look closely at her run for Governor, it appears that it has all the trappings of a normal campaign. If you examine it, really examine it, it looks more like a Potemkin Village, with perhaps one or two people keeping the skimpy scenery standing. Presumably political hack Ann Farley and that guy […]
Is Collin O’Mara Running for Governor?
We’ve seen lots of chatter lately about former state Secretary of Natural Resources Collin O’Mara exploring a run for governor. I just can’t see it. Since stepping down from the Markell administration in 2014, O’Mara has been CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, an environmental nonprofit with 4 million members and an annual budget of […]
Arden’s Single-Tax A Cure For Urban Blight?
Detroit’s mayor thinks so: When Mayor Mike Duggan talks about his accomplishments in Detroit, the list is both impressive and sad. He had the streetlights turned back on, and reopened closed parks. In the decade since he took office, the city has demolished some 25,000 blighted homes whose rusty debris and incubation of crime drag […]
Delaware Political Weekly: November 3-9, 2023
1. Carney For Wilmington. First, even with the lowered journalistic standards that have become the new normal, I can’t believe that, as I’m writing this, not a single news organization has picked up this story. What I want to talk about, though, is a comment that Bane made in the Carney thread that got me […]
BREAKING: Carney Files Committee To Run For Mayor Of Wilmington
This is not The Onion, this is real life. He filed his campaign committee today. It’s obvious that this Delaware Way fix was in for some time. He promises to bring his same paucity of vision and unquestioning support for the Chamber of Commerce to Wilmington that he’s inflicted on the State of Delaware for […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Oct. 27-Nov. 2, 2023
1. Candidates Can Now File For The Ballot. Some Have. We now have our first two official primaries for 2024: Karen Hartley Nagle vs. Marcus Henry for NCC Council President and George Smiley (Incumbent) vs. Michael A. Brown in NCC District 7. These are both Democratic primaries. Some brief comments: Karen Hartley Nagle is unfit […]
Delaware’s Most Intriguing Legislative Races Of 2024: #1–RD 21
Frank Burns, who probably would have won in 2022 if Pete ‘n Val didn’t do everything they could to undercut him, returns for a rematch against Mike Ramone–if Ramone decides to run again. Ramone has done himself no favors since the election, not only by voting against the Bond Bill while holding the House hostage […]
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