I am holding my big three-county announcement tour of the state on Saturday, June 7th. Mrs. Denn is still haunted by one searing memory of the 2004 tour: driving between Georgetown and Dover, on a day that was over 90 degrees, I insisted that we roll up the windows in the car and turn off the air conditioner while I was doing a call-in interview on a radio show. She was several months pregnant with the twins, the temperature in the car rose to sauna levels….Let’s just say that I am still very happily married, but we are probably going to skip the in-transit radio interviews this time.

One of the challenges with an announcement tour is deciding where in each of the three counties to do the announcement. You want it to be symbolic of your campaign themes, dignified, not too big but not too small. After we agonized over these issues for weeks, I decided to chuck the traditional playbook. Because the Sussex County announcement is on a Saturday morning during beach weekend, I decided that we would have two new priorities: (a) no beach traffic, and (b) lots of food. So we will be having what I think will be Delaware’s first Lt. Governor announcement in a Sussex County diner. It has nothing to do with any of my campaign themes (though let me hasten to add that I endorse diners and oppose, um, not having diners), but it should be a lot of fun. More details on all three county locations will be posted next week.

In the Other Good News department, I have been endorsed by several more local Democratic party committees, including the 10th District in Brandywine Hundred, the 17th District in New Castle, and the 21st and 23rd Representative Districts in Newark. So far, 13 districts in New Castle County have made official endorsements in my race, and they have all endorsed me.