Pandora!!!!
Tomorrow we will have more substantive posts about tonight’s festivities, mostly because we are too drunk right now.
But suffice to say that we raised $570 tonight for Tommywonk to fly out to Denver, and Ms. Pandora won the Delaware’s Hottest Blogger Competition running away….
Pandora $170.00
Liberal Geek $130.00
Donviti $65.00
Poor Donviti.   Hubris was his undoing.

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Anyone who felt strongly that John Carney would be a good governor could use the comments section to make their case.
 
 

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The PDD Endorsement Committee announces its endorsements for the Primary election.

Michael Katz - State Senate - 4th District
John Mackenzie - State Senate - 6th District
John Cartier - County Council - 8th District
Tom Scherer - County Council - 12th District
Previously announced endorsements for the Primary are:
Jack Markell - Governor
Jerry Northington - U.S. Congress
The great news [...]

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I know that it is hard to forget, but I’ll remind you again.  Tonight at 7:30 is a special Drinking Liberally at Catherine Rooney’s.  We will be making fools out of ourselves for a good cause.
$5 per vote will help elect Delaware’s Hottest Blogger and help send Tom Noyes to Denver for the DNCC.  I [...]

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Bandits steal $11,000 during Philly ‘Hippiefest’
and on a related note…
“Theme night tribute to The Big Lebowski, white russians, and bowling.” Monday Aug 5th at the Blue Rocks game

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I haven’t read doonesbury in a while, but this one caught my eye and made me giggle.
(click to enlarge if you can’t read the text)

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Pretty sweet, when you stop to think he was working to make sure that a bribery scandal didn’t see the light of day. His children must be so proud of little Ol Louie.
Bandar, a longtime close personal friend of the Bush family who is now national-security adviser to Saudi King Abdullah, was so worried about [...]

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I criticized the News Journal this morning for what I thought was a deceptive story and a deceptive presentation on the front page and on the website concerning Lee’s presence at the debate last night.   And Jason has criticized their reporting of Adgate as compared to Delaware State News’ coverage.  
If we are going to criticize when [...]

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Drew Volturo of the Delaware State News, whose reporting on Adgate has been spectactular, has a story up today indicating that the Delaware Democratic Party is about to spend $11,000 more of our money to further divide the party. 
Already facing criticism for spending thousands on a radio ad touting Lt. Gov. John C. Carney’s role [...]

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I checked my calendar and is says it is 2008, I rubbed my eyes and looked again and it still says 2008.
A Bush administration proposal aimed at protecting health-care workers who object to abortion, and to birth-control methods they consider tantamount to abortion, has escalated a bitter debate over the balance between religious freedom and [...]

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Will you be attending Drinking Liberally tonight at Catherine Rooney’s @7:30? Who will you cast your vote for Delaware’s Hottest Blogger?

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Delaware is a funny state.   We don’t get live coverage of our gubernatorial debates like Pennsylvania and New Jersey do, so we have to trust what we read in the newspaper, unless we actually attend the event ourselves.   And our only major (if you can call it major) is the Wilmington News Journal.
Last night, three [...]

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Tom Noyes won Delaware’s Best Blogger Award in 2007 by acclamation. He followed that up in 2008 by leveraging his blog TommyWonk to help get the Bluewater Wind deal done AND he has been chosen by the DNC to represent Delaware bloggers at the Democratic National Convention.

I had the chance to sit [...]

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The Washington Post headline is not as strong as I might like, but it says what needs saying: McCain Charge Against Obama Lacks Evidence.
For four days, Sen. John McCain and his allies have accused Sen. Barack Obama of snubbing wounded soldiers by canceling a visit to a military hospital because he could not take reporters [...]

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Journalist that I am, I interviewed Tom Noyes on his upcoming trip to Denver to cover the Democratic National Convention as Delaware’s blogger representative. We talked about his trip, blogging and whether or not Tom Carper sucks. Don’t miss it.
The interview will appear here at 7:30 am.

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