ARCHIVES -- JUNE 2003

SHOWDOWN ON HOUSE BILL 99

Posted: June 29, 2003

State Rep. William A. Oberle Jr. knew he had enough votes to pass House Bill 99, a gay anti-discrimination bill. What he did not know was whether two representatives would be too sick to stay for the roll call. It all set up a final showdown on the bill for Monday, the last day of the 2003 legislative session.

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LOBSTER AT WOODBURN

Posted:  June 26, 2003

If it's the end of the legislative session, then a select group of lawmakers is gathering at Woodburn, the governor's house in Dover, for a lobster dinner that has been held ever since lobbyist Ned Davis first thought it up almost 20 years ago. Except with this governor, it's different.

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GOVERNOR'S RACE, INSIDE & OUTSIDE

Posted: June 24, 2003

William Swain Lee, the Republican candidate for governor, intends to run against more than first-term Democrat Ruth Ann Minner. He will be taking on Dover itself as he wages a classic outsider's campaign. He was in Legislative Hall last week to get it started.

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JOHN VIOLA'S PHANTOM VOTE

Posted: June 23, 2003

There was consternation last week in the state House of Representatives as Democratic Rep. John J. Viola voted on a tax package. Without his support, a key part of it would be defeated. Viola was recorded as voting "no," but did he? Yes, no, maybe so.

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POLI-TICKING

Posted:  June 19, 2003

It's the little things that make politics tick. This is a column about that. U.S. Sen. Thomas R. Carper blazes the way on triangulation. U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. has a lifetime achievement. U.S. Rep. Michael N. Castle works on his record, and so does his former opponent.

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AT ODDS OVER ABORTION CASE

Posted: June 17, 2003

Never mind what a Cabinet secretary wants. Attorney General M. Jane Brady says her office will decide whether to appeal a ruling last week from U.S. District Chief Judge Sue L. Robinson, who concluded that a Delaware law on a 24-hour waiting period for abortions was unconstitutional.

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INDIANA INCURSION

Posted: June 13, 2003

Three of Delaware's leading Democrats -- Joseph R. Biden Jr., Thomas R. Carper and Jack A. Markell -- were all at the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington on Friday evening to help with some fund raising for a U.S. senator with a son named Beau. It sounded familiar, except it wasn't.

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RENDELL BANS RUTH'S "ANN"

Posted:  June 12, 2003

Kent County has turned into governor central. First the Republicans brought in Bob Ehrlich Jr. from Maryland, and now the Democrats snagged Ed Rendell from Pennsylvania. In an appearance Thursday evening, Rendell's praise of Delaware's governor left his listeners asking that famous question, "What's in a name?"

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JUDGING REPUBLICANS

Posted: June 9, 2003

What do E. Norman Veasey, William B. Chandler III, Henry duPont Ridgely and Chandlee Johnson Kuhn have in common? They're all Republicans, and they all run a state court. This was not exactly predictable after 10 years of Democratic governors and a Democratic Senate.

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CAR CRASH KILLS PAT HEALY, DEMOCRATIC AND UNION LEADER

Posted:  June 6, 2003

John P. "Pat" Healy, the easygoing Democratic state vice chairman and union officer, was killed early Friday morning in a one-car crash near Rehoboth Beach at the end of a long day of political and union activities that had taken him the length of the state.

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JACOBS AND KUHN MOVE UP

Posted: June 4, 2003

There were no judges delayed or denied Wednesday in Legislative Hall in Dover. In a matter of hours, Jack B. Jacobs moved from the Court of Chancery to the Supreme Court, and Chandlee Johnson Kuhn was promoted from judge to chief judge on the Family Court.

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INSURANCE AT A PREMIUM

Posted: June 3, 2003

Insurance Commissioner Donna Lee Williams is drawing a crowd, and not the kind she wants. Two Democrats and perhaps a Republican have designs on her job when Williams, a three-term Republican, is up for election in 2004. This is one race that already is heating up.

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