ARCHIVES -- MAY 2003

 

THE OUT CROWD IS IN

Posted:  May 30, 2003

State Democrats have given a seat on their executive committee to a new organization. The Delaware Stonewall Democratic Club, the local chapter of a national group formed by gay and lesbian party members, wants to have its say in politics. Congressman Barney Frank will be here this summer to help them start.

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PARKOWSKI & GUERKE . . . AND SWAYZE

Posted: May 28, 2003

Dover lawyer F. Michael Parkowski has been on a roll. Chairman of the Judicial Nominating Commission. Chairman of the Delaware River & Bay Authority. Financial co-chairman for the governor. Now he's adding legal and political muscle to his law firm with David S. Swayze, who knows his way around, too.

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COMING TOGETHER

Posted: May 22, 2003

When U.S. Education Secretary Roderick R. Paige came to town, Delaware Republicans saw it as an opportunity to join forces with the Wilmington Metropolitan Urban League and generate the sort of crowd that typically eludes the state GOP. No one had any illusions about what was happening, either.

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MINNER v. LEE: THE EARLY SHOW

Posted:  May 20, 2003

While no one is printing political brochures yet, there is already a shadow campaign going on between Gov. Ruth Ann Minner, the first-term Democrat, and William Swain Lee, the ex-judge expected to be the Republican nominee in 2004. Both spoke recently in separate appearances at the Newark Rotary Club. 

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TIME FOR STRINE

Posted: May 17, 2003

Delaware Republicans went to Dover for a convention Saturday and came out with a new chairman. Terry A. Strine, a Wilmington businessman, takes over the party with a political resume longer on enthusiasm than experience at a time when the party is trying to leave hard times behind.

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IT'S JACOBS AND KUHN

Posted: May 16, 2003

June is looking like graduation month for a couple of judges. Gov. Ruth Ann Minner has nominated Vice Chancellor Jack B. Jacobs to be a Supreme Court justice and Family Court Judge Chandlee Johnson Kuhn to be the chief judge there. Their Senate confirmations are expected to go smoothly next month.

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MINNER MAKES HER STAND

Posted:  May 15, 2003; Updated: May 16, 2003

When legislation is controversial, it takes a governor to push it through. Gov. Ruth Ann Minner advanced the cause of a gay anti-discrimination bill when she publicly called for its passage. While its prospects remain uncertain, the governor appears to have advanced her own cause, regardless.

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POLI-TICKING

Posted: May 14, 2003

It's the little things that make politics tick. This is a column about that. Beau Biden tells some of what he knows but not all of it. Dagsboro in the springtime is a place to say, "I do," before some guests who expect to hear the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

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A GOP CHAIR FROM PENNSYLVANIA?

Posted: May 8, 2003

Terry A. Strine had some straightening up to do before he committed publicly to running for the Republican state chairmanship -- like making sure he was a Delawarean. Otherwise, he might have had to commute from Pennsylvania, but who really knows?

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GRIDIRON XII

Posted: May 6, 2003

There's no business like show business, especially when it's about political business. Delaware's 12th annual political roast, officially known as the First State Gridiron Dinner & Show, came to life over the weekend with its customary fare of chicken and crow.

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SPRING BREAK SPECIAL

Posted: May 1, 2003

It was the day that House veterans love and rookies dread. In the session before the General Assembly left on Spring Break, the time had come for Rep. John C. Atkins, a newly elected Republican, to offer his first bill. It turned out to be a rite of passage that became the talk of Legislative Hall.

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