Delaware
Announcing The 2019 MVP’s (Most Valuable To The Progressive Cause)!
OK, I had 11, and all are worthy. At Kevin Ohlandt’s suggestion, I also looked at Amy Roe and Sara Bucic. Their contribution has been tremendous, but they should have been on last year’s list. Mea culpa. Here we go: 10 (tie). Delaware Democratic Party/Kerri Harris. The two are intertwined. Erik Raser-Schramm and Jesse Chadderdon […]
The Dumbest Thing I Wrote All Year
I was going back through the archives while working on my MVP Awards. Meaning, I went back to January and looked at pretty much every post that had relevance to Delaware. I have been accused, and fairly I might add, of being at least a skeptic and often a cynic. However, as you will see, […]
Coons Better Watch Out
Encouraging news for those who want to see Sen. Chris Coons face a meaningful primary: Data for Progress, a progressive think tank, conducted polling in Delaware that found signs Sen. Chris Coons is vulnerable to a challenge from his left. Data for Progress asked 528 likely Democratic primary voters who they’d prefer in a matchup […]
My Conversation With City Council Candidate Coby Owens
Coby Owens is running for Wilmington City Council in the 1st District. Many of you know him from his work on Kerri Harris’ campaign and from his community activities. He is a community organizer, a civil rights activist, and a member of the Democratic State Committee. He has committed to accepting no corporate donations to […]
Seeking Nominations For Delaware’s MVP Of The Year For 2019
I’m strongly inclined towards anointing one person the MVP (Most Valuable To The Progressive Cause) this year, although I’m open to persuasion. Who else belongs on the list? Remember the criteria. If you nominate someone, you must give a reason why they deserve consideration for this year’s list. The nominee doesn’t even have to be […]
What’s Stephanie Hansen Up To?
There’s a fine line between skepticism and cynicism, and I’m right on the line when I read something like this: Days before the Delaware General Assembly reconvenes in January, a Democratic senator plans to host a gun violence forum in Wilmington. “This forum is not slated toward gun control or gun rights,” said Sen. Stephanie Hansen, […]
Joe Van Winkle: “No Legal Weed”
Doddering loudmouth Joe Biden threw off his Blue Hens lap blanket and escaped his rocking chair to hold a town hall in Las Vegas on Saturday, and the only headline he managed to generate made him seem older and further out of touch than we already reckoned. Vice’s headline captured the right amount of snark […]
DL Open Thread for Nov. 1, 2019
All these investigations have Trump on the run — literally. In another of an endless series of petulant wee-hours tweets, Trump announced he is leaving New York to make Florida his permanent home, which lots of well-off people do to dodge taxes. That doesn’t seem to be Donnie Two Scoops’ reason, though, given that he […]
Whose Government IS It, Anyway?
The Paradee Family’s, apparently. Government by, of, and for the Paradee family. The Paradee name has been big in D circles for decades. The old man was chair of the Kent County Democratic Party. John got a job as a staff attorney when I worked for the Senate. While we had some excellent staff attorneys […]
DL Open Thread 10/25/19
In the best Donald Trump “I’m rubber, you’re glue” tradition, AG Bill Barr is now running a criminal investigation into the origins of the investigation of Donald Trump by intelligence agencies during the 2016 election. I can save them a lot of trouble: Mothafucka was acting like a Russian agent — and so are you, […]
Highlands Bunker – E37 – One for the Wonks
Highlands Bunker presents Episode 37. It’s a treat for fans of data-driven journalism, as Karl the Producer joins RE Vanella in the bunker for an in-depth discussion of his research into poverty in the suburbs using local examples from New Castle County census tract data. He also explains how suburban poverty has been affecting Delaware. […]
Sonia Sloan, A Great Democrat, Has Passed Away
Any Delaware Democrat knows that putting ‘A Great Democrat’ in the title of this piece is redundant. She and husband Gil were especially close to Joe Biden. The last time I saw her, probably about two months ago, she told me that she ‘still had one campaign’ left in her. Sincerity and integrity are terms […]
BREAKING: Poppiti To Challenge Karen Hartley-Nagle For NCC Council President
Ciro Poppiti III tonight announced that he would primary the embarrassing Karen Hartley-Nagle for the D nomination for New Castle County President. He made the announcement at the NCC Democratic Executive Committee meeting. Poppiti has served as the NCC Register Of Wills since 2010. He ran for Lt. Governor in 2016, and finished 4th in […]
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