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DL Open Thread: Friday, September 3, 2021
Delaware Rethugs Have An AG Candidate. Chuck Welch, a retired Common Pleas Court judge in Kent County and, before that, for six years, a state representative. He’s focusing his campaign on the poor underappreciated police who have not been sufficiently loosed upon the citizenry: Law enforcement officers in the state are also need to feel […]
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, […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 28, 2021
Floridians Turning Against DeSantis? Signs point to yes: Covid infection rates continue to climb as the state faces shortages of health care staff, morgue space and even oxygen for patients. About 16,000 people are hospitalized. Child infection rates have shot up. School districts — even in Republican strongholds — have rebelled against DeSantis’ anti-mask mandates. […]
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 […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 27, 2021
Why So Many Politicians Are Jerks–And How To Bring Them Down. Something we always ingrained in our candidates: Thank your volunteers, treat them well, and feed them. Meaning, I particularly enjoyed this vignette: Landesman, the former political staffer, once worked on a campaign where he and other staff had to go door to door and […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 21, 2021
U-Va: No Vaccine, No School For You. Dis-enrolls 49 students who didn’t follow mandatory policy. Oh, well, there’s always Falwell U. Krugman: ‘The Quiet Rage Of The Responsible’: Also, it’s striking how quickly supposed conservative principles have been abandoned wherever honoring those principles would help rather than hurt attempts to contain the pandemic. For decades, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 20, 2021
Virginia Redistricting Panel Ends Up Exactly As I Thought It Would. Same thing would happen here: When Virginians voted nearly 2-to-1 last fall to establish a bipartisan redistricting commission, the idea was to embrace a fairer method of drafting the state’s political maps. There was certainly reason to hope for an end to the brazen […]
(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: Monday, August 16, 2021
Yo, Joe, Stop This Pipeline Now. They voted for you. The filthiest oil in the United States, headed here ‘courtesy’ of a Canadian corporation, will soon flow through Indigenous lands if you allow this. 5 billion gallons of water diverted, 760,000 barrels of crude per day to flow through across 14 counties in northern Minnesota. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 14, 2021
Is Louis DeJoy Currently The Most Corrupt Federal Official? Well, consider this: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy purchased up to $305,000 in bonds from an investment firm whose managing partner also chairs the U.S. Postal Service’s governing board, the independent body responsible for evaluating DeJoy’s performance. Between October and April, DeJoy purchased 11 bonds from Brookfield […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 13, 2021
House ‘Can’t Say’ Whether Ethics Complaint Has Been Filed Against Brady. Gee, you know they’d just love to tell you, but, unfortunately, their very own rules preclude them from doing so: But the public may not get confirmation for some time because the process of investigating an ethics complaint in the House is so shrouded […]
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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