Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s top election official, faced an onslaught of threats after the 2020 presidential election for refusing to overturn results that showed Joe Biden had won the state. In those hectic weeks, she says she also received an especially disturbing piece of information: President Donald Trump suggested in a White House meeting that she should be arrested for treason and executed.
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Flag Day
Here is a flag.
It is the 9/11 commemorative flag that the dynamic duo of Hansen and Hensley propose government buildings fly each September 11th in memory of the terrorist attack which resulted in our terrorist attack in Iraq.
I’ve got nothing against the flag, but it should maybe be flown with the cluster fuck of a flag associated with the war that even George Bush recently acknowledged was “wholly unjustified and brutal”.
Park City Kathy Catches a Break
Her personal laptop probably had the juiciest love letters to you know who…also the most explicit confessions of misconduct and lawbreaking. Will it matter? Who knows? I’m seriously asking… who knows?
DOVER, Del. – A Delaware judge has chastised prosecutors for failing to turn over information to the defense in a criminal corruption case against State Auditor Kathy McGuiness, issuing a ruling that also exposed weaknesses in the state’s cyber forensic capabilities.
In a ruling on Wednesday, Superior Court Judge William Carpenter Jr. prohibited prosecutors from using material from three laptops that were seized during a search of McGuiness’ officer in September 2021. Carpenter said that prohibition was an appropriate sanction for prosecutors’ failure to provide information contained on laptops to the defense until April 6th, more than six months after the search.
However, Carpenter refused to grant a defense motion to dismiss the indictment against McGuiness.
Song of the Day 5/20: Kevin Morby, “This Is a Photograph”
With apologies to El Somnambulo, who handles the new music feature round these parts, I’ve been in the car a lot the past few days and have heard this one on WXPN a couple of times. The song, the title track to Morby’s seventh solo LP since 2013, certainly arrests your attention while you’re driving […]
Meanwhile, Your Senator Chris Coons wants us to let bygones be bygones
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DL Open Thread: Friday, May 20, 2022
COVID Ain’t Over, Y’All. I think everybody should be a little more cautious. Two of my friends have caught it in the last week or so–one here, one on the west coast. They feel like shit. I’m gonna mask up a little more. And, of course, being naturally anti-social, stay away from people. Which is […]
THE PARTY OF LIFE: STARVING BABIES ARE GOOD IF IT’S POLITICALLY DAMAGING FOR JOE BIDEN
I suppose the one good thing you can say about Republicans is that they are utterly transparent. There is no pretense or shiftiness. At this point, you’d have to be a Chris Coons to not see the “1+1=2” political calculus at the heart of the “Let’s allow babies to starve to hurt Joe Biden” strategy.
It’s a populist working class party now:
House GOP leaders were among the 192 Republicans who voted against providing $28 million in aid to the Food and Drug Administration to address the shortage of baby formula — within days of criticizing President Biden for not doing enough on the issue.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Whip Steve Scalise (La.) and Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) voted late Wednesday against the measure to provide new FDA funding, which the House approved on a largely party-line vote of 231 to 192. Twelve Republicans broke ranks and joined with Democrats in backing the money.
Barney Frank’s dictum that for Republicans life begins at conception and ends at birth is one of the most enduring truths ever spoken.
Delaware Political Weekly: May 13-19, 2022
1. Catch-22 Question: If You File For Office As An R And You’re Sane, Does That Make You By Definition INsane? No, not a mere speculative question. One Greg Coverdale has filed as an R for State Treasurer. He appears to be sane and, dare I say it, credible. Were he the R candidate for […]
Activist Judges
Remember that time Chris Coons busted his ass to help get a record number of federal judges appointed by Trump? Remember how he got really pissy when some bad liberals said that was not a smart or good thing to do? Good times.
We need red flag laws enforced to Separate Spiegelman from his many guns
The guy is unhinged, and probably less that one Tucker Carlson monologue away from mowing down the committee.
Stephanie Bolden And Lumpy Carson Kill Renters’ Right To Counsel Bill
We need to add Pistol/Speaker Pete to that list, who unnecessarily assigned the bill to yet another committee after it had finally cleared the Housing Committee. Here’s the story: The House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee voted 3-2 Thursday against a bill that would have given tenants a right to free counsel in eviction proceedings. Supporters […]
One Of Our Readers Makes A Great Case For Vetoing HB 355
To me, his logic, and grasp of Delaware Constitutional Law, is unassailable: I write to you about House Bill No, 355 that will soon be on yourdesk for approval. HB 355 – in its central part – changes thecomposition of the members sitting on the Board of Directors of theFort DuPont Redevelopment and Preservation Corporation […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., May 19, 2022
One look at the House and Senate Agendas today, and you know what’s happening. With a two-week break coming up, both chambers are trying to get bills over to the other chamber for consideration. The Senate Agenda features 12 Senate bills, and the House Agenda features 16 House bills. Only SB 100 (Townsend), which is […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 19, 2022
Georgia County Booms, Dispelling ‘Great Replacement’ Theory. A century after whites drove prospering Black farmers out of the county, and kept them out: CUMMING, Ga. — In October 1912, after the raped and brutalized body of Mae Crow, a white 18-year-old, was laid to rest beside the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, the white men of […]
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