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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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