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Rick Jensen Interviews Red Clay Officials On Referendum

Kilroy live-blogged the show. Go over to his place and read the whole thing!

Before I get into what was said during the interview let me say that it looks like we’ve found a tax increase that Rick Jensen supports.

According to Kilroy, when Red Clay was asked about building a school in the city, rather than the suburbs, their answer was to cite the number of Charter Schools that opened in the city. Seriously? Charter Schools are not Red Clay schools, and that statement sounded as if RCCD was saying, “We don’t need to consider our city residents since, if they aren’t happy with our RCCD schools, they can leave our traditional public schools and go to Charter schools.

pandora | February 15th, 2012 | 13 comments | Continued

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NJ Truthiness Watch — Women’s Health Care is Not Important Unless Men Say It Is

The editorial in Saturday’s NJ does a couple of dumb and dangerous things in siding with the religious leaders who have been howling about the Obama Administration’s ACA rule that religious institutions need to provide contraceptive coverage to their female employees as part of a preventative care package. This isn’t the first time that the NJ editorial has been quick to join the war on women’s health care. And as usual, the NJ editorial staff doing the writing of this thing never bothered to inform themselves of the facts of this business and pretty much just repeat what they see on cable TV.

cassandra_m | February 12th, 2012 | 27 comments | Continued

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Eye of Newt

Newt Gingrich might have called out Mitt Romney on his “pious baloney,” but poor Newt might now be classified as “desperate baloney” after being eclipsed this week by the frothy Rick Santorum in Colorado and Minnesota.

Rob Tornoe | February 10th, 2012 | 4 comments | Continued

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Delaware Political Weekly: February 4-10, 2012

Missed this one last week, but someone named Ben Mobley, who is running for Insurance Commissioner on the R side, failed to file his campaign finance report. Celia Cohen, who still covers Rethug politics, at least New Castle County-style, has what passes for the story here. BTW, Mobley is an ‘investment advisor’ at Morgan Stanley. Don’t they have to know some legal thingies? Maybe it’s other legal thingies… Doesn’t matter. He will not be our next IC. But, if you can stomach it, here is Ben Mobley with an ever-smarmier Charlie ‘Bouvier de Flandres’ Copeland channeling his inner Mitt Romney. FWIW, I like Mobley a lot better in this clip than Copeland. Just look at the studied casualness of Copeland’s attire.

El Somnambulo | February 10th, 2012 | 19 comments | Continued

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Music I Like: Part of a Continuing Series

Allow me to (self-)indulge you with my first new roundup of 2012. I missed this last year, would’ve easily been in my Top 10, especially appropriate after today’s ’settlement’: Ry Cooder: ‘No Banker Left Behind.’ Other videos: Michael Kiwanuka: ‘I’m Getting Ready,’ Chuck Prophet: ‘White Night, Big City,’ Carolina Chocolate Drops: ‘Memphis Shakedown,’ Eilen Jewell & the Sacred Shakers: ‘12 Gates to the City,’ and Reverend Gary Davis: ‘Death Don’t Have No Mercy’

El Somnambulo | February 9th, 2012 | 0 comments | Continued

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There’s A Name For Forced Penetration Of A Women Without Her Consent

The Republican war on women – and it is a war – has moved on to the next, but certainly not last, step in Virginia.
The Virginia legislature has passed a bill that will force women seeking an abortion to undergo a medically unnecessary transvaginal ultrasound. The mandated procedure requires that a woman’s [...]

16Feb2012 | pandora | 0 comments | Continued
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Delaware Liberal Tracking Poll Results: Karen Weldin Stewart

The polls are closed on the job performance of Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart, and the results are, as expected, strongly negative for KWS. The polls are now open for Congressman John Carney.

16Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 0 comments | Continued
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Thursday Daily Delawhere [2.16.12]

16Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 0 comments | Continued
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Wednesday Open Thread [2.15.12]

“If Romney were to lose Michigan, it is very difficult to see how he can accumulate a majority of delegates … And if Santorum does well in [poorer Michigan] districts, he could transfer that support to the other rust belt states that look a lot like them. The most important of these rust belt states is Ohio, which votes on 7 March. Michigan has somewhat fewer born-again Christians and evangelicals than Ohio (46%) did in the 2008 Republican primary. It had a nearly equal percentage of those making greater than $200,000 to Ohio’s (5%). If Rick Santorum can win in both Michigan and Ohio, I can begin to see how he could conceivably put together enough delegates to reach a majority. He seems to be polling well enough in the south (leading in Tennessee, for example) to win the nomination – even if he loses in states like New York, New Jersey and California (though a recent poll there put him in a close second).”

15Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 6 comments | Continued
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Posthumous Baptism

I am Catholic. A non-devout Catholic. A Cafeteria Catholic, as it were. I really do not care about what other Christian denominations or other religions believe or don’t believe. And I am not really offended by what they think about me and my beliefs. For example, I could be offended by the Evangelicals and their belief that I am going to Hell if I don’t “find” Jesus. Like I always tell them, I don’t need to find Jesus. I never lost Him.

But I digress.

Like I said, other religions can believe what they want. What they cannot do, however, is involve me in their religions against my will, or without my knowledge.

15Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 11 comments | Continued
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Rick Jensen Interviews Red Clay Officials On Referendum

Kilroy live-blogged the show. Go over to his place and read the whole thing!

Before I get into what was said during the interview let me say that it looks like we’ve found a tax increase that Rick Jensen supports.

According to Kilroy, when Red Clay was asked about building a school in the city, rather than the suburbs, their answer was to cite the number of Charter Schools that opened in the city. Seriously? Charter Schools are not Red Clay schools, and that statement sounded as if RCCD was saying, “We don’t need to consider our city residents since, if they aren’t happy with our RCCD schools, they can leave our traditional public schools and go to Charter schools.

15Feb2012 | pandora | 13 comments | Continued
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Now Romney will Attempt to Destroy Santorum

It is all he can do. Romney has no raison d’être for his candidacy. No vision. No core principles. He can’t beat a conservative opponent on ideas or on his conservative record. He can only beat him by carpet bombing the airwaves and raising Santorum’s negatives as high as his. And the more he does it, the more radioactive he becomes for the general election, and he is already at toxic levels as it is. After a prolonged battle with Santorum, Romney will be at Fukushima levels.

15Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 1 comment | Continued
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Former Congressional Candidate Mike Miller to run in the new 6th

Mike Miller was one of the unknown candidates that ran against Mike Castle in 2000 and 2002. If memory vaguely serves, he has also tried to run for some other races in Kent County and statewide. In other words, he is a perennial losing candidate. And he is back. I bet he loses handily to Andy Staton. Staton has done the leg work for this race, preparing for years. Miller is just jumping in for vanity reasons.

15Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 12 comments | Continued
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“Inconceivable!!!”

15Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 1 comment | Continued
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Delaware Liberal Tracking Poll Results

Well, this week has gotten away from me. I had planned on start the Tracking Poll project on Monday. Here it is Wednesday. But real life work pays the bills and it selfishly demands my time. So, the poll on Governor Markell’s approval has been open since last Thursday until last night at 10 pm. 152 people voted in it, so click through to see the results, and be sure to vote in our new poll on the middle column on the right on the job performance of Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart.

15Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 1 comment | Continued
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Wednesday Daily Delawhere [2.15.12]

15Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 2 comments | Continued
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The Loving Story

An HBO documentary called “The Loving Story” premieres tonight at 9 pm.

14Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 0 comments | Continued
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Happy Valentine’s Day!

Just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a Happy Valentine’s Day! Got any plans tonight?

14Feb2012 | pandora | 8 comments | Continued
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Tuesday Open Thread [2.14.12]

Polling-polooza today. Newt Gingrich has promised to stay in the race for the duration, and he is even predicting that he will experience a third surge. Hey, its possible.

14Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 13 comments | Continued
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Romney’s Santorum Problem

I understand (sorta-kinda) Republican delegate math. I get that, according to those in the know, that Romney is still the favorite for the nomination, but…

Rick Santorum is now the National frontrunner. If you’re counting, that’s three polls showing Santorum ahead of Romney. He’s also leading in Michigan.

14Feb2012 | pandora | 6 comments | Continued
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Christine O’Donnell Wants Some Attention

I missed this over the weekend, as I was busy with family events and real world work sidetracked me yesterday. But the wonderful gathering of hatred, ignorance and arrogance known as CPAC was held in Washington this past weekend, and of course, Delaware’s own original wingnut theocrat Christine O’Donnell was in attendance. You remember that she sold herself out and endorsed Romney, don’t you?

Well now she expects some payback, Mitt, for all she has given you. She took it upon herself to inform the New York magazine that she would consider serving in a Mitt Romney administration.

14Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 9 comments | Continued
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Tuesday Daily Delawhere [2.14.12]

14Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 5 comments | Continued
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Someone Like Newt

Adele sings about Newt Gingrich.

14Feb2012 | Unstable Isotope | 13 comments | Continued
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Monday Open Thread [2.13.12]

Mitt Romney under-whelmingly won the Maine Caucuses on Saturday, but that news was overshadowed by Whitney Houston’s death. Although now it seems that Ron Paul could pull a Rick Santorum and win Maine after all. Here are the polls that came out during the weekend. Santorum has stormed into the lead in one recent national poll.

13Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 7 comments | Continued
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Queen Takes Republican Bishop – Checkmate

While there were many lessens learned through the Komen fiasco the main one was: Stop messing with Women’s Health or face the consequences.

Republicans would be wise to study what happened to Komen, because their plan of going after contraception could very well destroy them in the same way it destroyed Komen. By moving contraception into the forefront of the abortion wars the GOP has not only revealed its true strategy, it has exposed its King. And everyone knows that the Queen is the most powerful piece on the board. Lose your Queen, lose the… election?

13Feb2012 | pandora | 19 comments | Continued
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Monday Daily Delawhere [2.13.12]

13Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 2 comments | Continued
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NJ Truthiness Watch — Women’s Health Care is Not Important Unless Men Say It Is

The editorial in Saturday’s NJ does a couple of dumb and dangerous things in siding with the religious leaders who have been howling about the Obama Administration’s ACA rule that religious institutions need to provide contraceptive coverage to their female employees as part of a preventative care package. This isn’t the first time that the NJ editorial has been quick to join the war on women’s health care. And as usual, the NJ editorial staff doing the writing of this thing never bothered to inform themselves of the facts of this business and pretty much just repeat what they see on cable TV.

12Feb2012 | cassandra_m | 27 comments | Continued
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Sunday Daily Delawhere [2.12.12]

12Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 1 comment | Continued
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Saturday Open Thread [2.11.12]

I’d almost forgotten it was winter, with daffodils coming up and willow trees budding already. Unfortunately for most of my friends, I am a fan of winter and look forward to a few snow days each season, so am hoping there will be a proper snostorm before it is all said and done. But here we are, cruising the internets and catching up on the stuff that happened during the week:

11Feb2012 | cassandra_m | 27 comments | Continued
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Saturday Daily Delawhere [2.11.12]

11Feb2012 | Delaware Dem | 6 comments | Continued

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