BLUE AND GOLD
2007
Delaware politicians show their true colors. Who is feeling blue? Who
is looking like gold? The Grapevine knows.
Nov. 14, 2007
| Charlie Copeland |
Senate Republican minority leader |
BLUE |
The post office holds up the mailer his printing company
prepares for the special election until too late. Memo to self: Start on
Christmas cards NOW |
| Dave Burris |
Republican operative |
BLUE |
He sets up obscure PAC for special
election financing. The only thing shiftier is the ramps for the Indian
River bridge |
| Ruth Ann Minner |
Democratic governor |
BLUE |
She leads a trade mission to Chile. This
is not what people mean when they say her second term is going south |
| Tom Sharp |
Labor secretary who used to be a state
senator |
GOLD |
Let's have a show of hands from everyone
who thought Sharp would be one of the Cabinet secretaries staying out of
trouble |
| Colm Connolly |
Republican U.S. attorney |
BLUE |
His nomination for a federal judgeship
still hasn't happened. This is taking as long to come out as one of his
indictments |
| Joe Biden |
Democratic U.S. senator running for
president |
BLUE |
He zaps Rudy for only mentioning in his
sentences "a noun and a verb and 9/11." Joe's own style is "noun verb noun
verb noun verb noun verb noun verb noun verb noun verb . . ." |
Sept. 6, 2007
| Beau Biden |
Democratic attorney general |
GOLD |
If his Guard unit is called, of course
he'll go. This is America. He's an attorney general, not a prince |
| Ferris Wharton |
Republican ex-candidate for attorney
general |
GOLD |
He gets a job with the public defender. He
couldn't beat Beau at the polls, so let's see what he does with Beau's
deputies in the courtroom |
| Colm Connolly |
Republican U.S. Attorney |
GOLD |
He once showed up on a list of U.S.
attorneys possibly to be fired, but now he's in line for a federal
judgeship. It looks like he was a "loyal Bushie" after all |
| Chris Bullock |
Pastor |
GOLD |
He could be the Democratic congressional
candidate. Finally, Mike Castle could get an opponent who at least does have
a prayer |
| Dennis Spivack |
Democratic ex-candidate for the U.S. House |
BLUE |
He's out of money so he can't run again,
not unless he figures out a way to get custody of Leona Helmsley's little
dog |
| Marcia Spivack |
Ex-candidate's wife |
GOLD |
As her husband waits in vain for the House
Democrats to beg him to run again, she gives the best political advice of
the year -- "Don't you think if they wanted you as a candidate, they'd be in
touch by now?" |
June 18, 2007
| John Carney |
Democratic lieutenant governor |
GOLD |
He thinks he can win the primary |
| Jack Markell |
Democratic treasurer |
GOLD |
He thinks he's the best candidate |
| Alan Levin |
Potential Republican candidate |
GOLD |
He thinks he can be governor if John &
Jack keep thinking what they're thinking |
| Ruth Ann Minner |
Democratic governor |
BLUE |
She's Carney's role model for a lieutenant
governor who becomes governor. Where's Mike Castle when you need him? |
| Tom Carper |
Democratic U.S. senator |
GOLD |
He jaunts off to the Middle East. After
trying to broker a deal between Jack & John, it looks easier to try for
peace in the Middle East |
| Colm Connolly |
Republican U.S. attorney |
BLUE |
He's not running for governor. Too light
on convictions |
April 11, 2007
| Terry Strine |
Republican state chair |
BLUE |
He wants another term as chair. He must be the only guy in
America who thinks the captain of the Titanic was a hero |
| John Atkins |
Republican ex-legislator |
BLUE |
He thinks he can have a comeback. Will
somebody please tell him, you can't have a comeback unless you go away? |
| Dave Burris |
Sussex County Republican chair |
GOLD |
He wins a vote of confidence over Atkins.
This is good, as far as it goes. FEMA could have won a vote of confidence
over Atkins |
| Colm Connolly |
Republican U.S. attorney |
BLUE |
He's a U.S. attorney prosecuting Democrats
because of an election in a case that's gone nowhere. He could have picked a
better time to apply to be a federal judge |
| Joe Biden |
Democratic U.S. senator & presidential
candidate |
GOLD |
Say what you will about Joe's mouth, at
least he's no Imus |
| Tom Carper |
Democratic U.S. senator |
BLUE |
If he milks that broken foot anymore, he's
going to have to call it Bossie the cow |
March 2, 2007
| Mike Castle |
Republican U.S. representative |
BLUE |
He's against the surge -- the Democratic one that made it a
good idea to vote against Bush's |
| Wayne Smith |
Outgoing House Republican majority leader |
GOLD |
At least he didn't get work at Delaware
State |
| John Daniello |
Democratic state chair |
GOLD |
With Wayne Smith's resignation, he finally
met a Republican he could like |
| 7th Representative District |
Site of the special election for Smith's
seat |
BLUE |
By the time this special election is over,
the voters will be so bombarded, they'll be ready to trade the Constitution
for hereditary succession |
| Delaware Democrats |
|
BLUE |
The Republicans get wooed by Rudy and
McCain, while they get Joe. It's like going to the prom with your older
brother |
| John Atkins |
Republican state representative on
probation |
BLUE |
The Anna Nicole Smith of Delaware politics
-- if they could just figure out how to bury him |
BLUE & GOLD ARCHIVES -- 2006
BLUE & GOLD ARCHIVES -- 2005
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