Delaware
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 14, 2026
One notable bill passed the Senate yesterday. SB 22 (Townsend), which aims to increase affordable access to mental health care services in Delaware, unanimously passed and now heads to the House. Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Happy to see that SS1/SB 23 (Huxtable) cleared committee despite some opposition from local governments. Today’s Senate Agenda […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Marie Pinkney and Matt Meyer With A Legit Healthcare Proposal. I’ve come to the conclusion that all the posturing against ChristianaCare will amount to nothing because legislators have no intention to allow it to amount to anything.. But this I like: Delaware lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday that would greatly increase the number of patients […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 12, 2026
It was bound to happen. I forgot all about writing this post–until now. So, whatever I spew out will probably be a bit truncated. Looks like Michael Dell is skipping town before the multi-billionaire has to spend less than a pittance for licensing renewal fees. HB 400, which has already passed the House, is on […]
BREAKING: Kevin Hensley Will Not Seek Reelection
According to one of my best spies, he dropped the news at a constituent coffee this morning.
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending May 7, 2026
Conventional wisdom holds that the later one’s campaign starts, the less likely it is to be a winning campaign. I mean, it only makes sense, right? A finite number of days to prevail over a presumably better-known incumbent with financial resources already at-hand. This week, however, marked the start of two campaigns which, for reasons […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 7, 2026
Very happy to see that HS2/HB 151 (Gorman) unanimously passed the Senate yesterday, and now heads to the Governor. No private prisons for Delaware! If you look at the bills that Rep. Gorman has introduced this session, you will see a true commitment to civil liberties. Too bad that Speaker Mimi Minor-Brown refuses to place […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Looks like a ‘Just the facts, Ma’am’ edition today. But I’ll try to toss in a little snark to make it, if not interesting, at least readable. Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Other than a stray ‘Not Voting’ by Sen. Lockman, with which I agree, not much else caught my eye–unless you count Rethugs […]
Did Deb Heffernan, Ed Mulvihill, and Peco Liquors Violate Delaware Campaign Finance Laws?
Signs point to ‘yes’. Let’s take a trip in the Not-So-Wayback Machine to December of 2021. December 30, to be specific. Progressive candidate Becca Cotto is running an insurgent campaign against longtime Rep. Heffernan (Heffernan ultimately had both Sarah McBride and Matt Meyer come to her rescue just in time for the primary, but, I […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Let’s start with two bills whose fates remain uncertain: SB 1(Townsend) was released to great fanfare, and promised to limit increased costs of primary health care. The bill cleared its final Senate committee hurdle on April 14, and is ready for Senate consideration. I remain skeptical of the bill’s final chances based on the success […]
BREAKING: Working Families Party Of Delaware Endorses Six Candidates For The General Assembly
The announcements were made at a Working Families Party event this morning at the Wilmington PAL. The following were endorsed: Adrianna Leela Bohm, SD 1. Running against incumbent Dan Cruce. Shay Frisby, SD 5. Running against incumbent Ray Seigfried. Shané Darby, RD 1. Running against incumbent Nnamdi Chukwuocha, maybe. He hasn’t yet filed. Rae Krantz, […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending April 30, 2026
1. BREAKING: Nicole Poore Has A Challenger! Keonna Watson. Got this in my e-mail yesterday evening: Friend, I am Delaware. I was raised in New Castle County—shaped by these streets, these neighborhoods, and the people who showed up for one another when systems too often failed us. My roots run deep here. My parents were […]
Delaware Way Insiders Try To Foist Ed Mulvihill On RD 6 Democrats
By insiders, I mean at least two of Delaware’s top corporate lobbyists, and blood relatives of Tiny Tony DeLuca. As you know, Deb Heffernan announced her retirement last week. She will not run for reelection. A great candidate, Rachel ‘Rae’ Krantz, has been running for that seat for several months now. She would be an […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending April 23, 2026
1. Deb Heffernan Announces Retirement. This is big. Big big. I had learned while campaigning for Becca Cotto back in 2022 that Heffernan had a lot of residual goodwill in that district. Cotto ran a great race, far exceeded her projected ‘win’ number (the number of votes the ‘calculus’ suggested she needed to reach to win), […]
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