Political Gossip and Tidbits Wandering About The Small Wonder That is Delaware-The 3/11/15 Edition

So the Seaford school district fires a guy for using freedom of speech. Much like the Sussex GOP. Got an Opaliski update and a paean to the Delaware state fair. Much more.

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The Sussex County GOP…Something’s Up and We’re Reporting It Here-The 3/10/15 Edition

It really was a most wonderful meeting and I intend to tell the tale. But there was that bit about calling the police to remove a member of the public, the letter “x” and lies told by the PR guy of the Sussex GOP. Over the radio no less! I’m telling that tale too.
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To begin we shall not discuss the incident that had a co-Blogger, of this very Blog-Frank Knotts-being told by police that he must either sign in or he will be removed.

More on that later. But let me give you three letters to illustrate the summary of my thought on this flap:

HEH.

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With a Picture Worth a Thousand Words, We’ve Got Several Thousand With Pics of Delaware Goings-On. The 3/9/2015 edition.

An old legislative pal from Merryland retires. Some final winter 2015 pics and a pic of America’s Greatest Attorney General that you’ll love. Pictures only, fooey on the words.

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Barbara Mikulski

Actually Barbara Mikulski is a pretty good legislator as these things go. I’ve had to work with her a couple of times over the years. Now she is retired and with a bittersweet fondness I bid her adieu.

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The National Scene-The Sunday Political Talk Show Report on 3/8/15

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I thought it would be all about Israel Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. But it was all Hillary, all the time. Mitch McConnell makes his first interview since being majority leader and what a wimp he is. Tune in and learn what’s important to the political elite and what should be important to you.

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FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. ; former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.; Lewis.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Tim Scott, R-S.C.; Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.; Benjamin Crump, lawyer for the family of Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year-old shot to death by a white police officer in Ferguson.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Mayor James Knowles of Ferguson, Missouri; former Secretary of State Colin Powell; Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif.; former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; former Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb.; journalist David Maraniss.
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Political Gossip and Tidbits Wandering About The Small Wonder That is Delaware-The 3/4/15 Edition

We got tidbits about Delaware public employees and fast food, Markell fights the climate, and a defense fund for Opaliski? Much more….read it all here.
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Delaware workers evidently love fast food

Just a little tidbit I came across in the infamous News Journal. Seems that state workers spent, judging by their credit card receipts, over eleven thousand bucks last year….at only one place…CAPRIOTTI’s.
Delaware is a small state so wow….lots of ordering out from this famous sandwich shop once voted best sandwiches in America.
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Gotta Be Something!

Jeff_Christopher,_official_photo_0   Like the returning hero in some Hollywood B-movie of the fifties, who was run out of town by the bad guys, “FORMER” sheriff, Jeff Christopher refuses to be, Just Jeff, and has just gotta be something. Continue reading →