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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., Jan. 22, 2020
The General Assembly and the Governor have finally, finally, found a partial funding source for the much-touted Clean Water Initiative. $50 mill, to be exact. From projected state surplus revenue. Another $50 mill could come from a Federal match and already-allocated moneys. BTW, I used the Delaware State News article b/c I’m captivated by the […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., June 25, 2019
Let’s see…our spies report that Our PAL Val and Nicole ‘No Longer’ Poore have snuck (sneaked?) $6 mill into (presumably) the Bond Bill for a levee to protect the Underground City At Ft. DuPont. And our spies report that Pistol Pete has ordered that the ‘Do Your Fucking Job’ bill aimed at Kathy Kramedas McGuiness […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., June 20, 2019
Mountaire Poisoning Sussex County? While this piece is for subscribers only, it refers to a ‘Young Turks’ investigation. Here’s some fair use: It is hosted by Emma Vigeland, a correspondent and producer for The Young Turks. In the video, she accuses Mountaire of giving its residential neighbors tumors and asthma, as well as causing deaths. The Sussex County […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: June 19, 2019
Sometimes it’s the little details that nag at me. Can someone explain why HB 73, which is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to legalize ‘no-excuses absentee voting’, has been bypassed on the Senate Agenda for three consecutive sessions? It remains on today’s Senate Agenda, but at the very bottom of it. I know, […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., June 18, 2019
While we still have two more weeks to slog through, I see no reason not to write the post-mortem on this disaster of a legislative session. It’s basic: A Democratic governor and Democratic legislative leaders failed in their responsibilities to put forward a Democratic agenda. John Carney governed as if he was still Budget Director. […]
BREAKING: Eric Morrison To Primary Earl Jaques!
Earl Jaques, who has been something of a mixed bag as a state representative, will face a primary challenge from a serious progressive. I especially like Eric Morrison’s commitment to supporting public education, in stark contrast to Jaques’ knee-jerk support for charter schools. Jaques, more than many, has been something of a populist on economic […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., April 10, 2019
Finally! Some meat on dem bones. Randall Chase reports that the D’s are gonna go all-in on some serious gun control legislation: In addition to resurrecting proposed bans on certain firearms and ammunition magazines, Democrats also are proposing a new bill requiring anyone who wants to buy a gun in Delaware to obtain permission in […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 27, 2019
Four D state reps voted against one of the most innocuous gun reform measures you could possibly imagine. Keeping loaded firearms away from kids would seem to be as cut-and-dried as you could get. Not to Andria Bennett, Bill Bush, Lumpy Carson, and Quin Johnson, it isn’t. Of the four, only Lumpy could even claim […]
El Somnambulo Predicts ‘Em All For You: Part I
There will be some sort of a blue wave in Delaware. Only question is: How much of a Blue Wave? I don’t know. But I feel real good about my predictions, which factor in a bit of a blue wave, but not a blue tsunami. I think there will be a blue wave largely b/c […]
Who decided it was time to take Matthews out, and what specifically are they trying to deflect interest away from?
That piece of stenography filed by Cris Barrish was dictated to him by someone with some larger goal in mind. It was a hatchet job, but Barrish was just the witless trigger man in the operation. The person who put the hit on Mike is the one I’m curious about. Who decided it was time to take Matthews out, and what specifically are they trying to deflect interest away from?
Dave Burris: He is a shadowy Republican operative type, and he is certainly familiar with Mike’s early work. But I doubt it. Burris really isn’t this type of a-hole. He hates unions and has wrongheaded political ideas, but my sense is that he is a decent person. I could be wrong about that. It has been a while since we’ve had any contact.
David Andersen: If the horrible assholes…
Delaware’s Most Important Legislative Race Of 2018
I was tempted to call this the ‘only’ important race of 2018, but that’s probably an overstatement. However, the contest between incumbent Greg Lavelle and Laura Sturgeon has loads of implications beyond the boundaries of the 4th Senatorial District. It is not only a referendum on the Delaware Republican Party and one of its leading […]
Still On The Fence About Kerri Harris & Chris Johnson?
Maybe this will seal the deal. When Carper was elected to the Senate in 2000, the Washington Post profiled all the new senators, including Carper. Carper was coming off of his two terms as governor, and he was proud of this record: During his time in the House, Carper, a Navy veteran who has an […]
June 24 Open Thread: No Dinner For Sarah
Most people prefer simple narratives to complex ones, which is why Nicholas Sparks sells a lot more novels than, say, David Foster Wallace. It’s also why, amid the falling debris of Festung America, people have fastened onto the story of a small-town Virginia restaurant that refused service to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The restaurant is in […]
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