Archive for June, 2012

BREAKING: Gilligan Retiring

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Delaware House of Representatives Speaker Bob Gilligan has announced his retirement.

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Take Action: Sign the Delaware Marriage Equality Petition

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It is the last day of Gay Pride Month, and we should remind ourselves that our LGBT family, friends and neighbors still have a little ways to go to be able to enjoy all of the rights the rest of us do. If you haven’t signed the Delaware Marriage Equality Petition, please click on the link below and add your name to the 7700+ Delawareans who want to see gay marriage legal in this state.

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The President’s Weekly Address and Helping Colorado

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This week, the President made his weekly address from Colorado where fires are devastating communities and putting many more at risk. He thanks the firefighters risking their lives to help contain these fires and the volunteers helping those who have lost their homes or are evacuated from them. At the end of this post, I include links to some of the organizations on the ground helping Coloradans to cope with this disaster. Help out if you can.

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Republican Beatitudes

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This might as well be the GOP platform, I’m thinking.

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Saturday Open Thread [6.30.12]

Filed in Delaware, Open Thread by on June 30, 2012 12 Comments

Moving day for me. If I read my new redistricting maps correctly, my new representatives in the General Assembly are Senator Cathy Cloutier (R-5th) and Representative Debbie Hudson Capano or Debbie Capano Hudson (R-12th). Ugh. Quite a change from Margaret Rose Henry and Dennis P. Williams.

Well, perhaps in 2014 I will take out Debbie, if no Democrat files and wins this year.

Don’t know who your legistatlor is? Find them here. You have to be registered to vote for that link to work. If you are not registered to vote, then what the hell are you doing being interested in politics and reading Delaware Liberal and not being registered?? It boggles my mind. Go here now. Register. Don’t do anything else until you do.

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Sat., June 30, 2012

Filed in Delaware, National by on June 30, 2012 5 Comments

To its credit, the House, as opposed to the shrouded-in-secrecy Senate, has an Agenda. Also to its credit, more specifically, Speaker Gilligan’s, the House has already gotten the retirement festivities out of the way. Former Speaker Terry Spence used to futz around for hours on end on June 30, with endless hosannas to retiring House members, said hosannas often sung by (I’m not making this up) an Elvis impersonator. Self-indulgence at its worst. I was working in the Senate at the time, and we used to stew at this turning the ‘people’s business’ into some freak sideshow for two hours every June 30.

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Saturday Daily Delawhere [6.30.12]

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Saturday Daily Delawhere [6.30.12]

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Must See TV — Governor Markell on CNN This Morning

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So here are some good clips from the Governor’s co-hosting duties (including asking Rielle Hunter a very tough question AND showing that Michele Bachmann really has no clue) this morning:

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Friday Open Thread [6.29.12]

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Friday Open Thread [6.29.12]

Happy Friday!

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Delaware Political Weekly: June 23-29, 2012

Filed in Delaware, National by on June 29, 2012 57 Comments

We get press releases from candidates all the time, as do every other media outlet. It is exceedingly rare, however, that someone’s campaign manager sends out a press release announcing that someone’s campaign manager will be someone’s campaign manager. And for good reason. Good campaign managers know that there is only one candidate and only one campaign manager, and that all the focus should be on the candidate. That, however, did not stop Ezra Temko from announcing that he, Ezra Temko, would be managing the campaign of Claudia Bock for State Representative in the 23rd RD. Perhaps fittingly, Temko spends at least the first 50% of the press release talking about himself, Ezra Temko, and his ongoing search for enlightenment.

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Guest Post: Child Abusers Astroturfing

Filed in Delaware by on June 29, 2012 9 Comments

One of our readers, Brooke Bovard, has written this guest post. Delaware, as a ‘blue’ state, and without much to steal, is new to the game of being targeted by the Right. Sure, they tried to foist Christine O’Donnell on us, but they can’t be trying too hard, right? Sadly, wrong. A case in point […]

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Friday Daily Delawhere [6.29.12]

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Friday Daily Delawhere [6.29.12]

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Democrats Walk Out of Eric Holder Contempt Vote

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The House voted to hold AG Holder in contempt anyway, for a wingnut conspiracy-fueled version of Fast and Furious. A version that has been exposed as largely a fabrication (surprise!) by this great bit of reporting from Fortune.

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