Apparently, [Republican Mayoral candidate] Kevin Melloy's check for the filing fee bounced, and Rethugs would rather have nobody carrying the R banner in the City than, you know, pay the fee themselves:
It is easy to see why Shar has been asked to HEADLINE "We Built This" night in Tampa. She is a woman, latino, and a successful small business person who built her business all alone without any government support whatsoever. A THREE-fer!!! (If only she was wheelchair bound, and/or jewish!!)
Sorry this is late. I am in the three day period which is commonly known as Post Vacation Syndrome, in which every minor routine task that you do everyday can only be described as painfully horrible.
There are two more debates and then I think that we're done with debates before the primary. I think that the candidates are tired of this process, but so farr, all of the debates have been really well attended -- a good indicator of the level of interest in this election. So the next two:
WHYY hosted their debate featuring the Democratic primary contenders for Wilmington Mayor Tuesday night (8/14) at U of D. This debate was the culmination of a process where WHYY hosted multiple forums around the city to get input from people in the city as to what questions they would specifically want candidates to address. The actual debate was about an hour long, maybe a little more because of some technical glitch at the beginning. The venue was maybe 60% full, with little pockets of each candidate's partisans.