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Reading The Tea Leaves – Carper

Filed in Delaware by on January 27, 2011 36 Comments

The tea leaves say that Carper is running for re-election in 2012 and that he’s expecting to face Christine O’Donnell.

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Look Who’s Back!

Filed in Delaware by on January 26, 2011 8 Comments

Mike Protack wrote an op-ed about state pensions for yesterday’s News Journal. Guess what his solution is (hint: it doesn’t involve raising taxes).

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Children Rarely Want What Their Parents Want

Filed in Delaware, National by on January 19, 2011 13 Comments

The fact that Generation Y isn’t interested in McMansions is hardly surprising.  Strikes me more as human nature, and something the real estate/construction market should have considered.  From music to technology we draw generational lines.  It’s a given.  And this generation’s offspring will probably rediscover the McMansion.  Such is life. The question is:  Can the […]

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ChristinePAC Is Now Official

Filed in Delaware by on January 19, 2011 10 Comments

Christine O’Donnell’s PAC officially filed paperwork with the FEC. ChristinePAC is now a reality.

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Kovach – The X Factors

Filed in Delaware by on January 14, 2011 56 Comments

What factors contributed to Tom Kovach’s win?

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Failure is the DE GOP’s Only Option?

Filed in Delaware, National by on January 13, 2011 34 Comments

We’ve seen it in the past on the national level and now we are seeing it on the state level: Republicans don’t want to govern.

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Special Election Musings

Filed in Delaware by on January 12, 2011 15 Comments

Thursday is the special election to fill the New Castle County Council Presidency position that opened up as a result of Chris Coons’ victory in November.  Tim Sheldon (D) and Tom Kovach (R) are the candidates.  Their campaigns have picked up steam in the past week with accusations by Sheldon that Kovach hasn’t disclosed potential […]

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The Tea Party In Delaware And Arizona Have A Lot In Common

Filed in Delaware, National by on January 12, 2011 9 Comments

In the words of Mistermix, What The Hell Is Happening In Arizona? A nasty battle between factions of Legislative District 20 Republicans and fears that it could turn violent in the wake of what happened in Tucson on Saturday prompted District Chairman Anthony Miller and several others to resign. Miller, a 43-year-old Ahwatukee Foothills resident […]

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Sussex County GOP Meeting – All That Was Missing Was Spit Balls

Filed in Delaware by on January 11, 2011 30 Comments

Anon referenced these two posts over at Delaware Politics in an earlier thread.  It truly is popcorn worthy. Let’s start with some snippets from Angel’s post: For those of you who are unaware, Don recently announced he would be running for the Delaware GOP Chair seat against Tom Ross.  Don simply sent out an email […]

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She was Dallas Green’s granddaughter.

Filed in Delaware by on January 9, 2011 6 Comments

The 9 year old girl killed yesterday, was Christina-Taylor Green, the granddaughter of legendary Phillies manager Dallas Green and daughter of Los Angeles Dodgers scout John Green. Our world is small, physically and philosophically.

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Tom Kovach Wants To Dip County Government In Tea

Filed in Delaware by on January 7, 2011 40 Comments
Tom Kovach Wants To Dip County Government In Tea

GOP nominee for NCCo Council President Tom Kovach is
courting the Tea Party vote for the special election.

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Watching the CRI Working Hard for Their Climate Change Denier Merit Badge

Filed in Delaware by on January 6, 2011 4 Comments

Required, apparently, for full participation in the Wingularity.

Again, via Tommywonk, we learn that CRI (and their Director of Center for Energy Competitiveness, David T. Stephenson) have been posting up their promised *discussions* of the so-called flawed foundations of Delaware’s Energy policy. There are three new missives today:

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In Which We Find the CRI Beginning their Astroturf Campaign In Favor of Dirty Energy

Filed in Delaware by on January 5, 2011 10 Comments
In Which We Find the CRI Beginning their Astroturf Campaign In Favor of Dirty Energy

First place to go to get up to speed on this is Tommywonk’s place, where he notes that they are retreating to that tried and true tactic of basically just making shit up.

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