Delaware
Biden Watch 2020: Decision Expected By Year’s End
A reporter for The Hill bumped into Joe Biden at the airport this morning and asked when he’ll make his decision whether to run for president in 2020. Biden replied, “Not until the end of the year.” That indicates to me that he wants to see what happens in the midterms before he commits either […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., April 18, 2018
Let’s start with some rare, if modest, good news. Ernie Lopez’s Sussex County ‘Damn Revenooers’ bill has been excised from today’s Senate Agenda. OK, back to reality. Here’s yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Nothing surprising. Committee time, kids! Let’s investigate. Starting with the House. Just because. Highlights from today’s committee lineup: *HB 369 (Osienski) ‘expands the […]
Kathy McGuiness Goes After That LLC Money
No, not as a State Auditor committed to being your fiscal watchdog. As a candidate. As in contributions. From her profoundly depressing kickoff announcement: Individual Contributions are limited to $1,200 per person and LLC, per election. Does this mean that each one of, say, Bryon Short’s, or Michael Cohen’s, Delaware-based LLC’s could contribute up to […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., April 17, 2018
Let’s talk gun control legislation. Specifically, let’s discuss how the House D’s, in particular, invariably fall into the same Groundhog’s Day continuum. It’s either incompetence, or deliberate malfeasance. Here’s what’s bugged me for quite some time: Why do Pete Schwartzkopf and Val Longhurst insist on sponsoring the major gun control legislation? They aren’t in any […]
Rob Arlett, Trump’s Guy, Running For US Senate
Sussex County Councilman Rob Arlett today announced that he would run for the Senate seat currently held by Tom Carper. Arlett helped lead the Trump campaign in Delaware, where Trump garnered just under 42% of the vote against Hillary Clinton and assorted other candidates. His website for his previous County Council race describes him as…’Principled. […]
Delaware Political Weekly: April 6-12, 2018
1. GOP Finds Its Sacrificial Lamb For Congress. Presbyterian first, Rethug second? A military chaplain who served in Iraq. This guy. Campaign hasn’t gotten off to a rousing start. He either did or didn’t violate Department of Defense rules when he announced his candidacy at a Kent County Republican candidates event. Seems like a nice […]
Delaware Political Weekly: March 30-April 5, 2018
1. D POLITICAL MALPRACTICE OF THE YEAR. Had a conversation with a political friend of mine, and she convinced me that the biggest D fail of the year is the seeming willingness to let Blowhard Colin Bonini get a free ride to another term. The registration generally favors the D’s: 12,431 D; 10,560 R; 8797 […]
April 3 Open Thread: Delaware Hoops Star Goes Nationwide
Delaware figured prominently in last night’s NCAA men’s basketball championship, as former Salesianum standout Donte DiVincenzo — known as the Michael Jordan of Delaware when he led the Sals to two state championships — took over the game with 31 points as Villanova won its second title in three years. In a game featuring at […]
March 30 Open Thread: Contain Your Enthusiasm
At last we know what all the bashing of the Coastal Zone Act over the past few years has been about. The long-discussed Port of Wilmington expansion project has finally been revealed, and it involves repurposing the old DuPont Co. Edgemoor property on the Delaware River to port activity. This will require an outlay of […]
Delaware Political Weekly: March 23-29, 2018
1. Outten Retires, 2 Candidates File in 30th RD. Nature and politics abhor a vacuum. Within 24 hours of Rep. Bobby Outten‘s retirement announcement, two candidates flied to run for his 30th RD seat. D Charles Groce and R Shannon Morris. Groce is a, stop me if you’ve heard this before, retired state trooper. For […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., March 29, 2018
The bill raising the minimum age for purchasing deadly weapons was voted out of Senate committee yesterday and is scheduled for today’s Senate Agenda. 3 of 5 members voted to release it, but the committee report doesn’t specify who the third vote was. The third person who voted to release the bill clearly opposes the […]
March 28 Open Thread: St. Anthony’s Finds Its Misplaced Good Sense
You couldn’t write a better ad for the effectiveness of Tom Neuberger in fighting the Catholic authorities: He got St. Anthony’s parish and the Diocese of Wilmington to back down and reinstate Padua Academy Principal Cindy Mann to her post. Neuberger, who was treating Mann’s labor dispute as pro-bono case, told the News Journal: “It […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 28, 2018
Karen Hartley Nagle’s dream of one day becoming New Castle County Executive is on its way to becoming just another of her delusions. The House passed legislation yesterday that would have the Governor fill a vacancy in that office, and that would also allow the Governor’s appointee to subsequently run for the position. The original […]
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