ARCHIVES -- MARCH 2003

 

A TASTE OF CROW AT THE "MINNER DINNER"

Posted: March 30, 2003

All eyes were on Ruth Ann Minner at the Sussex County Democratic "Minner Dinner" as the governor gave a remedial course in Politics 101. She told her party to get over the losses of the 2002 election and get ready for the 2004 campaign.

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MORE POLI-TICKING

Posted: March 28, 2003

It's the little things that make politics tick. This is a column about that. The General Assembly gets ready to do what it does best, which is pat itself on the back. U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. and former U.S. Sen. William V. Roth Jr. remember an old friend.

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CAN'T GET NO DISTRACTION

Posted: March 26, 2003

Before there were cell phones, there were plenty of other ways for drivers to become distracted. Members of the Delaware House of Representatives were surprised to learn the sorts of distractions that drivers involved in accidents were willing to confess to the state police.

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IT'S BAD BEING SECOND

Posted: March 25, 2003

Delaware has found out the hard way that not all experiments in democracy work. After eight years, the state is ready to back away from its grand designs of holding the nation's second presidential primary, which was undone by the displeasure of the Granite State of New Hampshire.

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POLI-TICKING

Posted: March 20, 2003

It's the little things that make politics tick. This is a column about that. State Senate President Pro Tem Thurman G. Adams Jr. and House Minority Leader Robert F. Gilligan go into the record book. Governors take issue with lawmakers for as long as there are minutes of the legislature.

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SMOKE-FILLED ROOM

Posted: March 19, 2003

If the public cares about the smoking ban, it was hard to tell Tuesday evening when the state House of Representatives debated and passed a bill loosening the restrictions. It was far easier to tell that some lobbyists care, and so does the governor.

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NO MOORE

Posted: March 15, 2003

Republican State Chairman J. Everett Moore Jr. dropped a bombshell on his own party when he unexpectedly announced Friday that he was quitting after a single two-year term. Moore leaves the state GOP just as it is preparing for an assault on the governorship in 2004. The scramble to succeed him already has begun.

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IT'S CO-CHAIRMEN FOR NEW CASTLE COUNTY REPUBLICANS

Posted: March 13, 2003

Jeffrey E. Cragg and Thomas S. Ross decided to sidestep a contest for the the chairmanship of the New Castle County Republican Party, once they figured out they could get along as co-chairmen. The arrangement avoided what could have been a close vote Thursday night.

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NAME THAT JUDGE

Posted: March 12, 2003

Delaware Supreme Court Justice Joseph T. Walsh says he will retire on May 1. Family Court Chief Judge Vincent J. Poppiti already has said he is leaving at the end of this month. The lines are forming for their jobs, and the choice belongs to Gov. Ruth Ann Minner -- with an assist from the state Senate, of course.

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YOU'RE NOT FROM HERE, ARE YOU?

Posted: March 11, 2003

Delaware's major political parties have installed new executive directors at their headquarters, Troy A. Brocco for the Republicans and Jonathan J. Pugsley for the Democrats. In a state that is known as a place where everybody knows everybody else, they don't. Political operatives live in a world of their own.

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BIDEN RECOVERING FROM SURGERY

Posted: March 10, 2003

U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. had emergency surgery Sunday morning to remove his gall bladder during what was supposed to be a weekend getaway in Florida. He was already out of the hospital by Monday.

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DOVER LOBBYIST REPRIMANDED

Posted: March 7, 2003

A Wilmington lawyer, well-known in Legislative Hall as a mustachioed lobbyist for gun rights, ran afoul of the legal disciplinary system because of poor financial record-keeping in his law practice and received a public reprimand from the Delaware Supreme Court.

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COLD COMFORT COURTHOUSE

Posted: March 5, 2003

The New Castle County Courthouse has been open for six months now, but it is not yet a place to warm up to. Not when the security personnel and information-desk staff have to wear their winter coats, hats and gloves because of the cold. Talk about a cool reception.

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