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Posted in Delaware Blogs, Delaware Democrats on Apr 14th, 2010
You should look at the video of LiberalGeek interviewing Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart after the hearing yesterday. Her controller resigned, but I missed that in the paper. Sometimes the tough questions are from nontraditional sources. He asked tougher questions than the legislators. Great job, LG. This may be the real news out of the [...]
Posted in Delaware Blogs, Healthcare on Aug 29th, 2009
Steve Newton of Delaware Libertarian wrote a must read expose on the reason tort reform is missing in the Democratic health bills. Here’s what progressive strategist George Lakoff has always maintained about tort reform and trial lawyers: Another multifaceted conservative strategic initiative is “tort reform,” which has been made to sound like it is just [...]
Posted in Delaware Blogs, Delaware Democrats, Entitlements, Hate Speech, Jack Markell, State Senate on Jul 27th, 2009
The Sussex Countian is reporting that Polly Adams has decided to participate in the Sussex League of Women Voter’s forum on July 30th at the County Council Chambers on the circle in Georgetown: Democratic State Senate candidate Polly Adams Mervine confirmed on Monday that she will take part in a Thursday candidate’s forum sponsored by [...]
Posted in Delaware Blogs, Delaware Democrats, Entitlements, Sarah Palin, State Senate on Jul 20th, 2009
I’ve heard from multiple sources that Polly Adams Mervine, a faux painter (that’s someone who paints stuff with sponges or stencils) who’s vying for her deceased father’s state senate seat on a platform of blatant nepotism, wanted to have Senator Bob Venables stand in for her at a debate in her hometown of Bridgeville. Yeah, [...]
Posted in Delaware Blogs, Delaware GOP, National GOP on Jun 26th, 2009
First, thank you to Dave Burris for bringing me along with him way back in the First State Politics days. I am not 100%, but I believe I may have been his first “signee” back at the launch. Also, thanks for listening to ideas and dealing with my rebellious-to-the-party behavior at times, both on and [...]
Posted in Budget, Cathcart, Deficit, Delaware Blogs, Delaware Democrats, Delaware GOP, Jack Markell, Local Media, Republican Party, Taxes, economy on Jun 19th, 2009
For the record, I am happy we have Dick Cathcart and Jack Markell, I really am. These two are absolutely hardballers and having them in opposition right now over the budget is a great thing. There should be fighting over this. Never would I want to see happy bandwagoners supporting something as drastic as this [...]
Posted in Charlie Copeland, Comment Rescue, Delaware Blogs, Delaware Democrats, Jack Markell, Open Government, Transparency on May 29th, 2009
Lt. Governor Matt Denn has caused a stir in Delaware’s Blogosphere by starting a blog that he touts as, “the first official blog written by a member of Delaware’s state government.” And as far as I can tell, it is. It’s also, as I pointed out on Down With Absolutes, a blog that doesn’t give [...]
Posted in Delaware Blogs, Delaware GOP, Sock Puppeteering on May 21st, 2009
UPDATE 2: See comment #9, Jud clarified here and his email network. Thanks Jud! UPDATE: The Smitter (as Randy Nelson tagged me) is possibly being set up over this. Some of you are recipients of Jud Bennett’s Coastal Network e-mail-blast distribution. Yesterday, I received one that said the cowardly and pathetic attacks by the sock-puppet [...]
Posted in Conservatism, Delaware Blogs, National GOP, Republican Party on Apr 29th, 2009
h/t to Salt Lake Tribune via John Cole via Pandora* * – Once again, I present my service of bringing Delaware Liberal to those too scared to visit A snippet from the Salt Lake Tribune article, linked above: Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.’s appearance at a Michigan county Republican Party event was scrapped this week after [...]
Posted in Delaware Blogs, Quotes, Republican Party on Apr 28th, 2009
If you live under a rock, you may not have known that Mike Protack organized the Wilmington Tea Party. WOO HOO! Good for you…except that you’ve managed to tell many people on your own that you organized it. Usually, that’s spread word-of-mouth from other people, but hey, it was still a monumental task and planning [...]
Posted in Comment Rescue, Delaware Blogs, Jack Markell, Markell on Apr 1st, 2009
I am rescuing my own comment from Elbert’s “Elbert With an ‘E’” blog post. Linked above, pasted below: OK, it’s time to give up this outrage. The name given to this event was developed by bloggers (possibly DD, I believe), not Governor Markell or any of his staff. It was indeed a MISNOMER by calling [...]
Posted in Delaware Blogs, Markell on Mar 31st, 2009
…and I was late. Pictures from the event (after the jump, but please look them over):
Posted in Budget, Change, Conservatism, Delaware Blogs, Election 2008 - Delaware, Jack Markell, Open Government, Reform, economy on Mar 31st, 2009
Governor Jack Markell held a “roundtable” in Newark this morning with “Delaware Bloggers.” Strangely missing from the “roundtable” were bloggers from Sussex County, the majority all of Kent County, and any blogger anywhere in Delaware that even slightly smacked of conservatism.
Posted in Delaware Blogs, Energy on Mar 12th, 2009
kavips, a Delaware (I assume…he/she is so darned secretive) blogger, who has some very well thought out posts (see his/her economic recovery post for an example), put one up the other day that is absolutely worth some deeper thought and investigation. It is about the Delaware City Valero Refinery and their apparent shut-down in response [...]
Posted in Delaware Blogs on Mar 12th, 2009
By “psycho,” read on for clarification. There are wingnuts who are like that odd relative you don’t mind keeping around, but then there are “psycho” wingnuts who have a real potential for real damage. Read on. I read with interest the response on DE Lib to the recent influx of alleged conservative-media loyalists to their [...]
Posted in Delaware Blogs on Sep 19th, 2008
Remember my post on delawaredem’s HATRED of all Republicans? After relentless badgering, he relented his hate-inspired stance. Um, he qualified it in that some of his best friends are Republicans. Where have I heard that one before? Well, his unchecked anger is at it once again. Remember that he is in a profession that requires [...]
Posted in DP.net, DTR, Delaware Blogs on Sep 15th, 2008
UPDATE: Per Dave “Radio Mouth” Burris’ decree that the open-threads are now on the DTR site (as they should be), please go there now to provide your feedback to your favorite talking heads. As a result of the DTR open threads, I will be closing down this comment-thread. The point is to centralize the feedback [...]
Posted in Delaware Blogs, Quotes on Sep 11th, 2008
What does delawaredem think of anybody that is a Republican? …I will always hate any and all Republicans… While I am parsing his overall post, that line comes from a person whose career depends on his ability to parse others’ words and carefully choose his own. Therefore, I hold him to a standard that his [...]
Posted in Delaware Blogs on Jul 23rd, 2008
I have to admit, I like to read Delaware Liberal. I absolutely enjoy interacting with those whackos (with all due affection, mind you). I’ve noticed that I am far more engaged (and colorful *ahem*) with the back-and-forth over there, than I am with creating a post elsewhere. This is not to indicate that I, too, [...]
Posted in Bluewater Wind, Delaware Blogs, Transparency, Wind Power on Jun 27th, 2008
I thank WHYY for recognizing the influence of the blogosphere. Feel free to watch the clip. It is posted by our friend Tyler Nixon. Thank you Dave Burris. for letting me sit in for you. Mike and Shirley were a pleasure even to a remote guest. Since the other blogs are talking about it (kindly–thankfully), I can’t let [...]
Posted in DP.net, Delaware Blogs on Jun 10th, 2008
It is true that Dana Garrett was banned from commenting here since late winter. We can banter back and forth about he-said, she-said…make that he-said, he-said all we want. It won’t matter, because it won’t resolve, that much is guaranteed.
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