All Posts Tagged With: "Delaware Republicans"

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In Which We Find That John Sigler Doesn’t Know What He Is Talking About

In yesterday’s Delaware Voice (New Journal), Representative J.J. Johnson reminds GOP chair John Sigler that he should stick to refereeing the food fights in Sussex County and leave the business of governing to those who will care about its details.

21Nov2011 | cassandra_m | 31 comments | Continued
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Evan Queitsch Announces Candidacy

Evan Queitsch will run against Senator Anthony DeLuca. He’s set up a website. His motto: We can make Delaware the 1st State once again! He also seems to be against literacy.

14Nov2011 | pandora | 41 comments | Continued
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Delaware GOP Presidential Straw Poll

The Delaware GOP is having a straw poll for GOP presidential primary during the state fair. It’s open!

20Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 5 comments | Continued
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Sussex County GOP Chair Resigns

Sussex County GOP Chair Ron Sams has resigned.
Sussex County Republican Chairman Ron Sams announced during a meeting of the party’s executive committee tonight he was resigning in May.
Elbert Collins, of Laurel, whose wife works on the election committee, was at the meeting where the announcement was made.
“Ron simply gave a speech, indicated that he has [...]

14Mar2011 | MJ | 8 comments | Continued
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Ron Williams Channels GOP Whining

Ron Williams passes on gossip from the Delaware GOP. My favorite rumor – Protack for chariman of the Delaware GOP?

28Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 58 comments | Continued
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The Tea Party In Delaware And Arizona Have A Lot In Common

In the words of Mistermix, What The Hell Is Happening In Arizona?
A nasty battle between factions of Legislative District 20 Republicans and fears that it could turn violent in the wake of what happened in Tucson on Saturday prompted District Chairman Anthony Miller and several others to resign.
Miller, a 43-year-old Ahwatukee Foothills resident and former [...]

12Jan2011 | pandora | 9 comments | Continued
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Delaware GOP Establishment Blames O’Donnell

The Delaware GOP establishment found a sympathetic ear to vent about Christine O’Donnell at David Frum’s blog. The DE GOP is both right and wrong in their analysis.

4Jan2011 | Unstable Isotope | 50 comments | Continued
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Ron Williams Wants Our Attention

Ron Williams passes along the latest gossip about the sorry state of the Delaware GOP. He thinks Delaware Republicans should “man up” and dump Christine O’Donnell.

2Dec2010 | Unstable Isotope | 15 comments | Continued
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Delaware GOP Civil War – Do They Get It Yet?

The Delaware GOP civil war is on full display in today’s News Journal. Do they understand their problem yet?

15Nov2010 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued
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“Republican Cannibalism”

So much for personal responsibility.  Honestly, is anything ever her fault – even partly her part?  The video below is an embarrassment.

Here’s the truth:  The Tea Party gave the senate to the Dems.  Not that they’d ever admit it.  In fact, after blaming everyone else they’ll start crying that they need to be more conservative.  [...]

3Nov2010 | pandora | 19 comments | Continued
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Christine O’Donnell Performed Better In 2008

When you look at total vote totals, Christine O’Donnell actually got more votes in 2008. Urquhart’s claim to have done the best of Republicans “in a while” doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

3Nov2010 | Unstable Isotope | 10 comments | Continued
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Christine O’Donnell Holds The GOP Hostage

Christine O’Donnell has told Delaware Republicans that she will raise money by attacking them because she has Sean Hannity in her back pocket.

14Oct2010 | Unstable Isotope | 14 comments | Continued
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Karma Is A Bitch – Delaware GOP Edition

The FEC told the Delaware GOP that they can’t withdraw their complaint against Christine O’Donnell. Christine O’Donnell has an excuse for the CREW complaint.

22Sep2010 | Unstable Isotope | 60 comments | Continued
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Holy Sh…

Some news about our local Republican blogosphere.

17Sep2010 | Unstable Isotope | 48 comments | Continued
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The Logic of the Delaware GOP Purge

The Delaware Republican blogosphere has shattered again through the GOP civil war.

16Aug2010 | Unstable Isotope | 31 comments | Continued
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PPP Delaware Poll: Republicans

I dig into PPP’s numbers for Delaware to find Castle cruising and Rollins/Urquhart neck-and-neck.

11Aug2010 | Unstable Isotope | 14 comments | Continued
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Who’s Running – Republican Primary Edition

A summary of the Republican primaries in Delaware.

14Jul2010 | Unstable Isotope | 49 comments | Continued
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Dick Cathcart Announces Retirement

House Minority Leader Dick Cathcart announced his retirement from the General Assembly today.

6Jul2010 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued
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Bumps In The Road For The Rollins Coronation?

An internal poll from Urquhart’s campaign shows Urquhart leading among GOP primary voters 53%-47% with 60% still undecided.

6May2010 | Unstable Isotope | 20 comments | Continued
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Sussex County Council President on the Take?

What would you say if I told you that the President of The Sussex County Council was paid $5,000 in salary by the largest developer in Sussex County?  Sounds pretty fishy, eh?  Well that is exactly what developer and Republican candidate for US Congress Glenn Urquhart is doing with his campaign funds.
Let’s review.  Glenn Urquhart [...]

15Apr2010 | liberalgeek | 59 comments | Continued
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Teapartiers = Delaware GOP

So apparently the Delaware GOP is on the same path as the rest of their party and publicly get in bed with these teabaggers. The teabaggers are having their annual collective tax pout at the state-funded (the state that collects taxes for just such efforts) Wilmington Riverfront (and other publically funded places throughout the [...]

14Apr2010 | cassandra_m | 56 comments | Continued
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More 1Q Numbers

Republican Glenn Urquhart, running for the GOP nomination for the open Congressional seat has announced fundraising numbers for 1Q of $512,000. $500,000 of that money comes from Mr. Urquhart himself. This number is certainly more impressive than Rose Izzo’s $700 fundraising number. Will Urquhart make a race of it with Michelle Rollins?

12Apr2010 | Unstable Isotope | 13 comments | Continued
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State Republicans Defend The Employee Pay Scandal

Last week, the News Journal published an article on the abuse of legislative perks by the GOP in the General Assembly. Among the revelations were that the GOP majority paid political consultants out of taxpayer funds, including one consultant who never showed up for work.
Today in a letter to the editor, House Minority Leader [...]

7Mar2010 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued
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DE GOP Abuse of Legislative Perks

That is the topic of a good piece of reporting by Ginger Gibson in this morning’s News Journal, providing some detail how how the GOP spent their budgets to support themselves when they were in control of the House. This report has the feel of a tip of the iceberg — as in there is likely more there to look at.

27Feb2010 | cassandra_m | 59 comments | Continued
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Rep. Oberle Announces Retirement

Celia Cohen gets the scoop:
Bill Oberle has decided not to run for re-election this year, bringing to an end a 34-year legislative career that has made him the longest-serving Republican in the Delaware General Assembly.
He made his plans official Tuesday evening by telling the other Republicans in the House of Representatives during a caucus meeting [...]

6Jan2010 | Unstable Isotope | 7 comments | Continued

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