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DL Open Thread: Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023

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First, a little personal note:  Our 7th RD Democratic Committee cooked the meal for the Arden Dinner Gild last night.  About 120 dinner reservations.  It was a bleepload of fun. Great committee involvement. Jeff Politis was our lead cook, and was perfect for the role–organized, assigned tasks really well, fed and thanked us, and had […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, February 18, 2023

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A Few Intrepid Delaware Citizens Challenge The Ft. DuPont Land-Grab: Attached is a lawsuit filed pro se in Chancery Court by plaintiffs Erica Lindsey and Jack Guerin to return Grassdale to the State of Delaware. The Summons was served on defendant Shawn Garvin, Secretary of DNREC, on February 2, 2023. Mr. Garvin has 20 calendar […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, Feb. 17, 2023

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I’m determined, DETERMINED, to improve on my miserly output from yesterday.  Let’s see where the news and my muse take us… Anyone Else Worried About John Fetterman?: Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.) checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Wednesday night to receive treatment for clinical depression, his office said Thursday, adding […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, Feb. 5, 2022

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Last Remaining Koch Bro Back In The Game.  Will used his ill-gained billions to stop Trump: The network of donors and activist groups led by conservative billionaire Charles Koch will oppose Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination, mounting a direct challenge to the former president’s campaign to win back the White House. “The best […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023

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Improve Wages And Benefits–Or Die.  There’s nothing the Delaware Restaurant Association can do about it: Nearly three years since the coronavirus pandemic upended the labor market, restaurants, bars, hotels and casinos remain short-staffed, with nearly 2 million unfilled openings. The leisure and hospitality industry, which before the pandemic accounted for much of the country’s job […]

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DL Open Thread Monday January 23 2023

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DL Open Thread Monday January 23 2023

I listened to Delaware House & Senate Republicans “reaction” to the State Address by Governor Carney so you don’t have to

Hocker opened up slurring through some nonsense that I couldn’t really make out.  Is he drunk or having a stroke?  If it’s a stoke, I don’t want to make too much fun of him. I’m decent that way.

Pettyjohn agrees with Carney on everything, but wants Delaware to shove money into the bank accounts of multi-national companies even faster and with even less oversight.  Turning Delaware into the anti-regulation paradise “just like Texas” appears to be  Pettyjohn’s obsession.  (His campaign for Gov tag line?  Spoiler Alert: It is going to be tough to run to the right of Bethany Hall Long on the issue of making the state an even bigger corporate patsy.)

Ramone wants to know…

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 19, 2022

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Garland Appoints Special Prosecutor For Trump.  Good Idea, Or Bad Idea?  I’m with Charles Pierce on this one: Garland seems more concerned about the perception of a political prosecution than he is the perception of a DOJ paralyzed by politesse and standards and norms that the suspects don’t respect in the least. Does Garland think […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, November 18, 2022

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House Dem Leadership To Get A Lot Younger.  Gotta say, I think Pelosi was a terrific Speaker, an all-timer, and got more stuff through the House than you would ever expect.  An historical and successful figure on the American stage. Also gotta say, this new younger leadership team will almost invariably make mistakes.  Having said […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 17, 2022

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Musk Demands Pledge Of Love From Twitter Workers.  By end of day today: SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to Twitter employees Wednesday morning: Commit to a new “hardcore” Twitter or leave the company with severance pay. Twitter is shifting to an engineer-driven operation — one that “will need to be extremely hardcore” […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 10, 2022

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 10, 2022

The so-called mainstream media will never learn.  Once again, they focused on the coming (and illusory) Red Wave to the exclusion, or at least diminution, of covering the ongoing attacks on democracy, which was clearly the story of the election lead-up.  No doubt they will do some post-election ‘soul-searching’, then return to doing exactly the […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 23, 2022

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The Whack-Job PAC Behind Those Disgusting Ads.  You know, the ones that are playing during the baseball playoffs: Baseball fans in California and Pennsylvania watching the playoffs last Saturday had to sit through commercial breaks that included racist, xenophobic ads filled with misleading and false claims. “You worked hard for what you have,” one of […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 8, 2022

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Virtually Every Insurer Has Committed Fraud Through Their Medicare Advantage Plans.  Yes, including Highmark, which has been accused of overbilling by the Inspector General.  But Carney and DeMatteis knew that. They just didn’t/don’t give a shit: Each of the strategies — which were described by the Justice Department in lawsuits against the companies — led […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, September 25, 2022

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Russians Stage Sham Votes The GOP Might Soon Emulate: Ukrainians who are in contact with friends and relatives in the occupied territories describe groups of men armed with Kalashnikov rifles, accompanied by a person with a portable ballot box, going door-to-door in apartment buildings and houses. “The referendum is taking place in the occupied city […]

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