Delaware
Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton Is My New Hero
She is literally the only member of the House Of Representatives who acted in an honorable fashion in seeking to hold Rep. Gerald Brady accountable for his actions. She filed the ethics complaint that precipitated the so-called ‘investigation’ into Brady’s sexist and racist remarks. No other House member stepped forward. Her complaint cited two violations […]
The Brady Exoneration
Here’s the report of the House Ethics Committee on the complaint against Rep. Gerald Brady: Committee Vote: Complaint fails to allege facts which constitute a violation of the Rules of Legislative Conduct and no further action will be taken by the House Ethics Committee; 5-0 Committee Findings: The Ethics Committee of the House of Representatives […]
Psst–House Ethics Committee To Consider Gerald Brady’s Fate On Friday–DON’T TELL ANYBODY
Pete ‘n Val’s utter disdain for the public is on full display this week. They’ve crafted rules that prohibit any discussion by House members of anything that comes before the House Ethics Committee, and then schedule a stealth meeting of the House Ethics Committee on a Friday. This Friday. In the announcement, they provide the […]
In Praise Of State Rep. David Bentz
You may have missed it, but in typical low-key fashion, Rep. Bentz announced he would not seek reelection in 2022. During his relatively short legislative career, Bentz has passed a lot of significant bills, and he has been a consistent supporter of progressive initiatives in Dover. Bentz earned his MPA from the University Of Delaware, […]
National AFL-CIO To Gerald Brady: “Resign”.
No, not from the General Assembly. From his position as the Executive Director of the Delaware AFL-CIO: Liz Shuler, national president of the AFL-CIO, said in a statement on Friday that she was “sickened” by Brady’s “despicable remarks,” and called for his immediate resignation from the union chapter. The AFL-CIO is the largest federation of […]
Song of the Day 8/22: Crabmeat Thompson, “Small Wonder”
Readers of the News Journal might not know this, but Delaware folksinger and raconteur Jerry “Crabmeat” Thompson died in June. I first heard this from friends who saw it on social media, but the only obituary I could find ran a month later in the Middletown Transcript. Back in the days when I worked the […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, August 22, 2021
The hypocrisy of the media’s war cheerleading sure is coming a-cropper, with every pom-pom-waving “military analyst” shitting on Biden as their always-questionable usefulness comes to an end. No, you’re not imagining it — talking-head shows weren’t interested in booking anyone who agreed with Biden. If this doesn’t convince people to turn off the infotainment TV, […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, August 19, 2021
Why would a guy, a Florida governor let’s say, dissuade people from getting vaccines or wearing masks, but go all-out on a treatment for people once they come down with Covid? Why do you think? Um…could it be that his second-biggest political donor owns a big chunk of the treatment company? Didn’t have to turn […]
(At Least) Twelve Years Of Wilful Idiocy…
And Racism. Don’t forget racism. Especially racism. Scarlet Woman (Personal to SW: There’s a spot on our writing team if you’re interested) exhumed perhaps the precise moment where the Delaware GOP was taken over by the loonies. This is a must-watch: 12 years later, the same idiots are disrupting school board meetings because they can. […]
Unmasked Idiots Cause Cancellation Of Brandywine School District Meeting
Here’s the point: They showed up at this meeting for the expressed purpose of causing the meeting to be postponed. A meeting that was scheduled to provide parents and students with all the information they would need for the reopening of schools. From the News-Journal story: Skrobot told the room of about 75 people – […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, August 11, 2021
One certainty about the Trump coup is that this lumbering mound of seething resentment and ignorance — Trump, that is — isn’t smart enough to have done all this himself. Though the news-consuming public doesn’t seem to care, there are people at work determining who provided that help, and the most interesting facet is where […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, August 8, 2021
Alexander Pope was right: A little learning is a dangerous thing. He put it more poetically, but his observation was spot on. People who know a lot usually know how much they don’t know, whereas people who learn only a little tend to overestimate their knowledge. A perfect example played out yesterday at Christiana Hospital, […]
Gerald Brady…Pete ‘N Val’s Useful Idiot…
…but not for long. Wasn’t gonna write this until Monday (our readership is down on the weekends), but the REV’s right-on-time podcast (listen to it) changed my mind. Consider a patronage. I did. And, um, patronized. Never let it be said that I’m not patronizing. Someone far less cynical than me planted this idea with […]
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