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Song of the Day 7/29: The Police, “Every Breath You Take”
Though 1983 was the year Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” put five singles on Billboard’s Year-End Top 100 chart, even “Billy Jean” missed the top spot. It finished second to what became The Police and Sting’s signature song, “Every Breath You Take,” the highlight of the band’s best-selling LP, “Synchronicity,” which was just rereleased with lots of […]
BREAKING: Matt Meyer Calls For Federal Investigation Into BHL’s Campaign Finances
He made the call today at a downtown press conference. I attended. To be honest, there was a relative paucity of detail. Meyer didn’t specify what alleged criminal activity he wanted the Feds to investigate. No, the campaign had not yet sent a letter to the Feds. However, campaign manager Nick Merlino said that the […]
DL Open Thread Monday, July 29, 2024
I was assured several days ago that Republicans would welcome a race against Kamala Harris because they had lots of ways to attack her. So far the attacks have been off-the-bottom-shelf specials noting that, hmm, let’s see…Apparently she’s a woman and she’s Black, so she slept her way to the top when she wasn’t being […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, July 28, 2024
Been watching the political attack ads, interrupted, albeit briefly, by the Olympics. Can we simply recognize the fact that the Delaware Way denizens are just pushing their chips all in on Bethany Hall Long’s candidacy? They’ve become the Democratic equivalents of MAGAts in that they are now overlooking what is clearly criminal behavior in order […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 27, 2024
Y’know, Trump makes ‘Low Energy Jeb’ look downright peppy. As someone pointed out on one of those news shows, optimism almost always wins in an election. Trump looks flat-out miserable. And Vance is already a disaster of Palinesque proportions. I hear that the Harris campaign is gonna have a ‘white dude’ event next week. I […]
BREAKING: Former Democratic State Chair Calls On Party To Rescind Endorsement
Not just any former chair. The best Party Chair we ever had: “In light of the recent independent investigative report that found Lt. Governor Hall-Long broke the law and repeatedly lied to voters, I am calling on the Delaware Democratic Party to immediately rescind their endorsement of her gubernatorial campaign. Our party has an obligation […]
Song of the Day 7/26: The Who, “Did You Steal My Money”
A musical question Bethany Hall Long’s campaign donors should be asking her husband. From “Face Dances,” the 1981 album that was the band’s first with Kenney Jones in place of the late Keith Moon.
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 26, 2024
BREAKING: Bethany Hall-Long Broke The Law: Delaware Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long’s political campaigns repeatedly violated Delaware law by not disclosing $298,000 in payments to her husband, and by failing to record advances the couple made to her campaigns as loans, a report from the state Department of Elections concluded. Hall-Long’s campaign reports for 2016 through […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 25, 2024
Do Rethugs Really Want To Go Down This Road?: Republican leaders said that Mr Biden’s decision to step aside confirmed their view that he was not in cognitive shape to serve as president – an issue that has dogged the Democrat since his disastrous debate last month. “If Joe Biden is not fit to run […]
Delaware’s Most Intriguing Primaries Of 2024: # 9–RD 27
Don’t sleep on this race. Meaning, to all progressive Democrats, DON’T SLEEP ON THIS RACE. We all took Eric Morrison’s primary and general election races back in 2022 for granted. Thankfully, Morrison didn’t. The worst of the Delaware Way had it out for Eric last time, and they came pretty close to defeating him. Not […]
Song of the Day 7/24: Harry Belafonte, “Cocoanut Woman”
The siloed existence of American political reporters is a wonder to behold. They talk confidently of how Kamala Harris is perceived by the public without ever acknowledging that, as countless person-on-the-street interviews demonstrate, most people cannot name the current vice president without prompting. So when I read a story about how she’s a joke, I […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Karl Baker at Spotlight Delaware dove into the 2024 Delaware Bond Bill so you don’t have to, and he found lots of specific projects under vague descriptions, obscuring the total of $50 million the state, Gov. John Carney, will spend on buildings in Wilmington, future Mayor (he hopes) John Carney. Lots of other nuggets in […]
Song of the Day 7/23: McFadden & Whitehead, “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now”
The Harris for President people have their hands full, so I doubt anyone has thought about what the campaign’s theme song should be. I humbly propose this 1979 disco hit, which captures the sudden burst of enthusiasm Democrats are feeling with passing of the torch. Philadelphia sports fans of a certain age might remember the […]
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