On Wednesday, September 2, at 7 pm at the Del Dem HQ in New Castle, the Progressive Democrats for Delaware are hosting a pretty great event: a Legislative Panel on the Budget for the next fiscal year. Remember the 6 Progressive Democratic State Representatives who voted against the Budget for FY2016 at the end of the last legislative session? Remember their reasons? Because the leadership did not address a looming deficit in the coming fiscal year and did not have the courage to raise taxes on the wealthiest in this state.
Well guess what, the planning for this fiscal year is here, and we have now reached the can that we have kicked down the road.
The Six House Democrats Who Voted Against The Budget will be panelists at the September 2nd meeting of the Progressive Democrats for Delaware to talk with us about FY2017.
If you have questions or suggestions about how state government will be approaching the budget next year, come out and participate in this discussion! We’re guessing everyone in the state wants to see something different out of the General Assembly than what happened last year. And this is your chance to get up close and personal with the group who stood firm on principle to vote against their majority party caucus.
The panel will begin after a brief award ceremony where State Representatives Kim Williams, Paul Baumbach, Sean Lynn, John Kowalko, Andria Bennett and Sean Matthews will receive their 2015 Bob Stachnik Progressive Courage Awards. Mike Matthews, John Young, Kevin Ohlandt and Tizzy Lockman will receive their 2015 Education Hero Awards. And Kathleen Perkins and Charles Fleming, Jr. will receive their 2015 Community Hero Awards.