Archive for March, 2018

Oklahoma Teachers Demand Economic Justice

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Oklahoma Teachers Demand Economic Justice

This Oklahoma teacher’s strike story continues to warm my heart. It turns out, the teachers union was gutted by state’s anti-union GOP – so the strike is the ad hoc work of independent teacher’s who are pushing for reforms that are more radical and far reaching that a union might have dared to demand. Oklahoma […]

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March 31 Open Thread: What Put the Ape in Apricot?

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March 31 Open Thread: What Put the Ape in Apricot?

Delaware lawmakers with cold feet about gun control should look to the north, where Vermont — a far more rural state with gun attitudes typical of such places — passed a landmark gun bill that the state’s Republican governor said he will sign. C’mon, Delaware lawmakers — what makes the Hottentots so hot? What have […]

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Song Of The Day: March 31, 2018

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Hadn’t planned on turning this into a Procol Harum-themed week, but so be it. Shine on brightly, quite insane:

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Lopez gets a letter

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Lopez gets a letter

I predicted that Lopez would reveal himself to be a chicken. Ernie — I am so disappointed to learn that you are opposing both HB 330 and SB 163! That fact that you showed up at the March for Our Lives on Saturday (to get that precious photo op) and then turned around and opposed […]

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March 30 Open Thread: Contain Your Enthusiasm

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At last we know what all the bashing of the Coastal Zone Act over the past few years has been about. The long-discussed Port of Wilmington expansion project has finally been revealed, and it involves repurposing the old DuPont Co. Edgemoor property on the Delaware River to port activity. This will require an outlay of […]

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Delaware Political Weekly: March 23-29, 2018

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1. Outten Retires, 2 Candidates File in 30th RD.  Nature and politics abhor a vacuum. Within 24 hours of Rep. Bobby Outten‘s retirement announcement, two candidates flied to run for his 30th RD seat. D Charles Groce and R Shannon Morris. Groce is a, stop me if you’ve heard this before, retired state trooper.  For […]

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Song Of The Day: March 30, 2018

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Introducing the ‘multilingual business friend’. I love the song and the lyric…even though I have no idea what it means. I think that Keith Reid loved him some Lewis Carroll, some Poe, perhaps some Salvador Dali, and  most assuredly some hallucinogens:  

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Time to vote (with your $50.00) for Kerri Evelyn Harris, against Tom Carper

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Time to vote (with your $50.00) for Kerri Evelyn Harris, against Tom Carper

ONCE MORE: Even if you’ve already contributed to help Kerri, take a second now to put in $25.00 more. This is our front line of resistance. This is our barricade to man. In the coming months and weeks you’ll have to man it bodily – but for now help man it by putting some money in. THANKS!

UPDATE: Carper silent on Trump’s VA pick. If you haven’t heard anything from Carper on Trump’s ongoing attempts to gut the VA, it is because Tom Carper thinks that Trump is just another President with whom he can cut deals. Time to send a message to this guy. This is not normal. Contribute $5.00 – $10.00 – $50.00 any amount in the next 24 hours.

Let this be your first vote of the primary season. Vote with your $10, $20 or $2,000 contribution today. We are trying to get Kerri an extra $500.00 to close out the month.

We know the 1%’s hero, Tom Carper, will not be defeated with money, but money is required to get the word out. To that end, I will be matching the first $100.00 with my own $100.00, so log your contribution below. I will also be pushing this post to the top throughout the day.

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Oklahoma Teachers Ready to Strike En Masse – for ALL State Employees

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Oklahoma Teachers Ready to Strike En Masse – for ALL State Employees

Teachers are leading the way in the fight against the low tax paradise shithole Oklahoma has become in the hands of a GOP majority.

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Carper beset on all sides by the LGBTQs

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With all his overheated calls to “decrease the regulatory burden” on banks and other small businesses,I had no idea that Gene Truono was openly gay. A gay Republican and a lesbian Democrat are running to unseat Democratic Delaware Sen. Tom Carper. Eugene Truono, 59, a former chief compliance officer for PayPal, is the sole GOP […]

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March 29 Open Thread: How Real Bipartisanship Works

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Chris Coons could take a lesson in bipartisanship from his 22 female colleagues. All 22 of them — 17 Democrats, 5 Republicans — signed a letter to Mitch McConnell demanding the Senate move forward with reforms to the sexual harassment protocols for Congress. Specifically, they didn’t find one Republican so they could call it bipartisan […]

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., March 29, 2018

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The bill raising the minimum age for purchasing deadly weapons was voted out of Senate committee yesterday and is scheduled for today’s Senate Agenda. 3 of 5 members voted to release it, but the committee report doesn’t specify who the third vote was.  The third person who voted to release the bill clearly opposes the […]

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Song Of The Day: March 29, 2018

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The departure of disgruntled keyboard player Matthew Fisher enabled Robin Trower to assume a more prominent role in Procol Harum.  This is the group’s first performance as a quartet, some kickin’ blues-rock:

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