Posts Tagged ‘Deleware’

From courierpostonline.com:

In December 2008, an investigation into alleged sex crimes by Lewes pediatrician Earl B. Bradley was blocked when a Sussex County Superior Court judge rejected the state’s attempt to raid the doctor’s office.

Dealt a setback, Delaware authorities never took further steps that could have stopped the suspected pedophile.

While the doctor continued to treat hundreds of children a week, police and prosecutors didn’t present the search warrant to another judge, or bolster it with new evidence. They didn’t seek an arrest warrant. They didn’t ask federal authorities for help. They didn’t report Bradley to the state medical board, which could have suspended or revoked his license.

Over the next 12 months, a stretch during which a state police spokesman said detectives “didn’t have anything to work with,” Bradley raped or sexually assaulted 47 young girls in the Disney-themed office and filmed the attacks, last month’s indictment said.

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From DelawareOnline:

“If I had run, I would be spending all my time raising money and organizing my campaign,” Kaufman, a Democrat, said during an interview Tuesday.

The recent decision by Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, not to run for the seat this year hasn’t changed Kaufman’s mind. Any Democrat who enters the Senate race will face a tough contest against popular Republican Rep. Mike Castle, he said. Kaufman acknowledged he’s concerned Democrats will lose the seat.

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From DelawareOnline:

Now that Attorney General Beau Biden has publicly announced he will seek a second term, expect the race for the state’s top prosecutor to start taking shape.

Biden danced around questions of his political future, feeding more than a year of speculation that he would run for his father’s U.S. Senate seat instead of attorney general. This kept others from announcing their political intentions.

But Monday’s announcement set the tone.

“With so much being in flux, some people wanted to see how things shook out,” State Republican Party Chairman Tom Ross said. “It’s certainly going to clarify things on both sides.”

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From DelawareOnline:

Republican Scott Brown staged a dramatic political upset Tuesday, capturing the late Ted Kennedy’s longtime Massachusetts seat in the U.S. Senate and possibly signaling a rebuke by voters to President Barack Obama’s policies.

Democrat Martha Coakley, who conceded the race shortly after 9 p.m., was once considered a shoo-in for the seat in the heavily Democratic state. The outcome suggests that even in strong Democratic states — including Delaware — candidates of Obama’s party could face difficulties in the November midterm elections. In recent months, Republicans already have taken the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia from Democrats.

More immediately, Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate, which could enable the GOP to block the president’s health care legislation and the rest of Obama’s agenda. Democrats needed Coakley to win for a 60th vote to thwart Republican filibusters.

One Delaware Democrat, Attorney General Beau Biden, has surely been watching the race in Massachusetts as he ponders whether to seek his father’s old Senate seat in Delaware, political analysts and observers said Tuesday. That election is nine months away.

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