ARCHIVES -- JULY 2003

PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY:

DEMOCRATS -- YES, REPUBLICANS -- NO

Posted: July 28, 2003

The deadline is Friday for the Delaware Democrats and Republicans to decide whether they want to hold a presidential primary in 2004. It was not a difficult choice for either party. The Democrats have a crowd they need to sort out, and the Republicans don't.

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POLI-TICKING

Posted:  July 25, 2003; Updated: July 26, 2003

It's the little things that make politics tick. This is a column about that. State Sen. Charles L. Copeland, a first-term Republican, tries to start a new base. The friends of Thomas C. Maloney, the late ex-mayor of Wilmington, as usual try to do something that is a little off-base.

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CAMPAIGN AIDE FOR BIDEN ARRESTED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT

Posted: July 22, 2003

The leftover campaign account for U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. allegedly was emptied of $350,000 by Roger D. Blevins III, who had stayed on after the 2002 election as a one-man skeleton crew. His arrest Tuesday morning was a shock to the Delaware Democratic Party.

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ORDER IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION, PLEASE

Posted: July 21, 2003

The Delaware State Bar Association is trying to bring a more lawyerly tone to a death-penalty debate that has sounded more like an argument in a bar room than the bar and bench. The letters that have fueled this dispute really have to be read to be believed.

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THERE ARE DEMOCRATS, STANDING LIKE A STONE WALL

Posted:  July 20, 2003

There was a coming together Saturday evening with Delaware's Democratic establishment and the Stonewall Democrats, a new group of gay voters, holding their first fund-raiser in Rehoboth Beach. Congressman Barney Frank gave the keynote speech. You could tell it was serious by the people who were there.

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SUSSEX GOP GOES FOR BYRNE

Posted: July 17, 2003

The Sussex County Republican Party has elected Phyllis M. Byrne to be its chairwoman, elevating her from vice chairwoman, to serve out the unexpired term of a chairman who resigned. While the election had all the appearances of a smooth transition, there were some twists along the way.

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THEN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SAID TO THE CHIEF JUSTICE ...

Posted: July 15, 2003

Just when it seemed that a dispute about Delaware's death penalty was about to calm down, Attorney General M. Jane Brady fanned it back to life with a letter to Chief Justice E. Norman Veasey. It follows Brady's successful effort to get the legislature and the governor to see the death penalty her way, not the court's.

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"AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR IN A STEALTH MANNER"

Posted:  July 10, 2003

Civility has been shunted aside in a constitutional test of wills involving the governor, the legislature, the Supreme Court, the attorney general, a Superior Court judge and a state prosecutor. It is all about who gets the final say on Delaware's death penalty.

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STATE DEMOCRATS MOVE ALONG

Posted: July 8, 2003

The Delaware Democrats have a new look to them this summer, not that anyone expected it. They had to select a new vice chairman and a new executive director, and they also moved their headquarters from Newport to East Corporate Commons near New Castle. It all came together in late June.

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POLI-TICKING

Posted:  July 2, 2003

It's the little things that make politics tick. This is a column about that. Matthew P. Denn, a Democratic candidate for insurance commissioner, makes a trip to Dover, but Kelly L. Gates, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, doesn't. The Delaware House of Representatives goes negative in a big way.

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DEADS-VILLE IN DOVER

Posted: July 1, 2003

Where were the power plays? The hard feelings? The temper tantrums? The Delaware General Assembly's 2003 session went quietly into history shortly after midnight on July 1. The legislative agenda was so buttoned down that all the spice was on the social agenda.

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