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DL Open Thread: Friday, November 17, 2023

By El Somnambulo November 17, 20238 Comments

Cris Barrish Is On The Case!: Finally, a great reporter lays bare the utterly pathetic state of BHL's gubernatorial campaign. There is so much astounding detail in this story that…

Delaware Political Weekly: November 10-16, 2023

By El Somnambulo November 17, 202314 Comments

1. Special Election In RD 37. State Representative Ruth Briggs King has resigned her House seat effective immediately as she has just moved out of her district. By current Rethug standards,…

Song of the Day 11/16: The All-American Rejects, “Dirty Little Secret”

By Alby November 16, 2023

I'll let you figure out who this song is dedicated to. I saw these guys when they made a radio station appearance at WSTW a decade or so ago. My…

George Santos And Bethany Hall Long: Separated At Birth?

By El Somnambulo November 16, 202310 Comments

Does this sound familiar?: ...investigators found evidence that _____ used campaign funds for personal purposes, defrauded donors and filed false or incomplete campaign finance and financial disclosure reports... Let's fill…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 16, 2023

By El Somnambulo November 16, 202313 Comments

Do We Really Need The Governor's Wife In The Senate? New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy thinks so. Me? Uh, no: Politically, Tammy Murphy has been one of the New Jersey…

Song of the Day 11/15: The Four Seasons, “Silence Is Golden”

By Alby November 15, 2023

Bethany Hall-Long is a too young to have been a fan of this tune when it came out in 1964 as the B-side to the No. 1 single "Rag Doll,"…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023

By Alby November 15, 20238 Comments

They held a session of Congress yesterday and the Jerry Springer Show broke out. In a Senate hearing, Oklahoma Sen. Sen. Markwayne Mullin threatened to fight Teamsters union President Sean…

COMMENT RESCUE: Did BHL Raid Campaign Coffers To Pay Off Hubby’s Debts?

By El Somnambulo November 15, 20239 Comments

Oh, and then make sure said hubby filed inaccurate campaign finance reports to cover up what they did? This not only sounds plausible, but the commenter seems to know a…

BHL’s Potemkin Village Campaign

By El Somnambulo November 14, 202328 Comments

If you don't look closely at her run for Governor, it appears that it has all the trappings of a normal campaign. If you examine it, really examine it, it…

Song of the Day 11/14: Martha and the Vandellas, “Nowhere to Run”

By Alby November 14, 2023

So Bethany Hall-Long thinks she can brush her money troubles under the rug? Martha and the Vandellas have a message for her. Martha and the Vandellas took this Holland-Dozier-Holland banger…

Comment Rescue: Coons Wants Humanitarian Pauses – And Quiet

By Alby November 14, 202311 Comments

H/t to Joe Connor, who reads the New York Post so you don't have to. Seems our junior senator, Chris Coons, took an Amtrak train recently, where he had a…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023

By Alby November 14, 20233 Comments

Republicans in Ohio are showing how little regard their party has for democracy, and by extension the public: As soon as the state's electorate rejected their forced-birth agenda by a…

Song of the Day 11/13: Buffy Sainte Marie, “Universal Soldier”

By Alby November 13, 2023

Buffy Sainte-Marie has been in the news recently because a documentary has cast strong doubt on her claim to indigenous ancestry. She has long claimed she was born on a…