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ARCHIVES --
NOVEMBER 2003
CAMPAIGNING FOR PRESIDENT,
DELAWARE STYLE
Posted: Nov. 24, 2003
The presidential campaigns for Wesley K. Clark
and Joseph I. Lieberman both showed up Monday evening for the
Democratic Women's Club of Delaware, Clark's with an RV and
Lieberman's with the candidate's wife. Only in Delaware would it be
so polite that nothing but a Clark bar came between them.
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BRANDYWINE GETS HUNDREDS
AT REPUBLICAN MEETING
Posted: Nov. 21, 2003
People in politics like elections so much they
will come out to vote even when it does not count. The Brandywine
Hundred Republicans got about 300 people to attend a fund-raiser by
holding a straw poll for governor, lieutenant governor, New Castle
County executive and County Council president.
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PRIMARY EXCURSIONS &
INCURSIONS
Posted: Nov. 20, 2003
It is beginning to look like a real live
presidential primary in Delaware. Treasurer Jack A. Markell led a small band of
Democrats to New Hampshire to help U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman.
General Wesley K. Clark announced a state operation. Keep track of
the candidates with a new feature, Primarily Presidential.
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RUSHING IN FOR COUNCIL
PRESIDENT
Posted: Nov. 17, 2003
No less than six candidates -- three Democrats
and three Republicans -- have designs on running for the open seat
for New Castle County Council president. Do not be hoodwinked by the
size of the field, however. There is something of the fool's errand
to this race.
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FOUR YEARS LATER, LEE TRIES
AGAIN
Posted: Nov. 11, 2003
William Swain Lee has been following a
circuitous route to get from the bench to his second try for the
governorship, and he did it again today, declaring his candidacy in
a loop from Kent County to New Castle County to Sussex County. "My
name is Bill Lee, and I want to be your governor," he said.
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AFTER "ABCs" COMES "D" FOR
DOLLARS
Posted: Nov. 10, 2003
First lady Laura Bush, who used to be a
teacher, was in Delaware on Monday for a political version of the
three Rs -- reading to students, raising campaign contributions and
replying to reporters at a press conference. Her trip combined White
House policy and Bush-Cheney '04 politics.
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SHARPTON ON SUNDAY
Posted: Nov. 9, 2003
When a preacher runs for president, Sunday is
his day. The Rev. Alfred C. "Al" Sharpton looked for votes among the
worshippers when he brought his campaign for the Democratic
presidential nomination to Bethel AME Church in Wilmington and
delivered the sermon.
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LAURA BUSH CAPS A WEEK OF
WIVES
Posted: Nov. 6, 2003
First lady Laura W. Bush will be in Delaware
on Monday, making the state a prime stop for the wives of
presidential candidates. Hadassah Lieberman and Teresa Heinz Kerry
visited earlier this week on the Democratic side. Bush will be
reading to students and raising some money on the Republican side.
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DINNER BELONGS TO MINNER
Posted: Nov. 5, 2003
All Gov. Ruth Ann Minner had to do for
applause Tuesday night was walk upright into the Democratic Party's
Jefferson-Jackson Dinner eight days after her knee replacement
surgery. She did -- upstaging the presence of Hadassah Lieberman and
the absence of the two senators, stuck in Washington.
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TALE OF THE TAPE
Posted: Nov. 4, 2003
When sisters Lynda R. Maloney and Maria A.
Rendina disclosed at a press conference last week they secretly had
taped their bosses at New Castle County for a federal investigation,
county staffers showed up to tape what the sisters had to say. Then
it got even odder than that.
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