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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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