Delaware
Song of the Day 9/29: The Lemonheads, “It’s a Shame About Ray”
Somebody in the comments used this line the other day in reference to one-term state Rep. Ray Seigfried, who lost his primary earlier this month. It applies whether you’re pro- or anti-Seigfried — it’s either a shame he lost, or it’s a shame he was so graceless in defeat. The Lemonheads are one of the […]
Cathy Cloutier ‘Can’t Be Bought And Won’t Be Bossed’. Nope. Just Extorted
For a ‘nice lady’, she sure prevaricates a lot. The quote above is from her latest lit piece. Time for a shot of the truth. Fact: Cloutier voted to bury some pretty modest gun safety bills in the Senate Executive Committee. Fact: Cloutier confided that she had to do vote that way, or she would […]
DL Flashback: ” Q: Is Cathy Cloutier Pro-Choice Or Anti-Choice? A: BOTH!”
I first posted this in October of 2012. In the wake of RBG’s death, the post’s point is even more salient today: Cathy Cloutier will say anything to win the support of certain groups of voters. Even when they are on diametric opposite sides of the same issue: Some things I simply cannot make up. […]
Daily Kos Gives Delaware Progressives The Election Day Love
With a link to my Dave McBride whipping post story. Who knows, maybe that story made a difference in the outcome. Time to revel, kids, we went national!: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/17/1977969/-Morning-Digest-Progressives-once-again-oust-a-bunch-of-incumbent-lawmakers-this-time-in-Delaware
Cathy Cloutier’s First Lit Piece Is…Strange
Got her first mailer today. Oversized postcard. She’s taken some new pictures. The front of the mailer has this picture and a similar color combination as you see here: https://www.cathycloutier.com/ There’s a banner that says: Connect With Me Today/Vote November 3. At the bottom, it reads: Effective. Resilient. Balanced. Balanced? What does that mean? Nobody […]
A Majority of Democratic Votes Were Not Cast at the Polls
Despite its Democratic majority, Delaware’s voting rules are among the most restrictive in the country. Perhaps that Democratic majority ought to rethink that — in yesterday’s Democratic senatorial primary, 52% of the votes were absentee ballots vs. 48% cast in person. Chris Coons was particularly dependent on early voting, with only 43% of his votes […]
Now THAT Was A Primary Night!
I’m writing this on very little sleep. My mind churning all night. Here are the results of those mind-churns: Jess Scarane deserves a lot of credit, not just for her run, but for using her campaign as a platform to feature many of the candidates who won last night as she had them join her […]
DL Primary Night Open Thread
If past is prologue, we can look for the first results around 8:30. Of course, with the new voting machines, that may not be the case. We’ll post results here as they come in, and we encourage your feedback. Of all of my dubious predictions, I’m becoming more convinced that Scott Walker will win that […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020
It’s primary day. If you haven’t already, don’t forget to vote. If you don’t know your polling location, you can look it up here. A Trump-appointed federal judge has ruled that Pennsylvania’s shutdown of businesses and ban on large gatherings are unconstitutional. Gov. Tom Wolf plans to appeal. It’s clear Donald Trump got his notions […]
Notorious UD Climate Change Denier Hired for Top NOAA Post
NPR is reporting that David LeGates, the University of Delaware geology geography professor who has made a career of denying that human activity has affected global climate, has been appointed to a top position at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by the Trump administration. Excerpts from the From the NPR story (emphasis mine): Legates has […]
El Somnambulo Predicts ‘Em All For You: ‘The Toughies’
OK, first some ‘truth in advertising’. Not gonna predict ’em all for you. Not gonna pick all those Wilmington council races, not gonna pick any Kent County Levy Court or Sussex County Council races. There are already enough races where I’m pretty much throwing darts. In fact, my only guarantee this year is that I’ll […]
Realtors’ Dark Money PAC Dumps Last-Minute Shit-Tons Of $$’s Into Local Races
Beau Zebley no longer has any plausible deniability when it comes to claiming that his organization is simon-pure when it comes to tilting races at the last minute. According to the 8-day report of the ‘Strengthening Our Community Third Party Advertising Committee’, which is a realtors’ organization specifically created to circumvent the $600 maximum contribution […]
El Somnambulo Predicts ‘Em All For You: The ‘Sorta Competitives’
There’s at least a veneer of competitiveness to these races, but I think the outcomes are relatively clear. In other words, although unlikely in my mind, I could be wrong, but I don’t think so: US Representative (R): Lee Murphy over Matthew Morris. We know from experience that ‘Go, Murph, Go!’ is hardly a juggernaut. […]
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