…this guy.
What, you were expecting him to represent workers or the disadvantaged?
Of course, Short was representing the interests of this association and other business interests throughout his career in Dover. Burying minimum wage. Cutting ‘unnecessary’ regulation. ‘Privatizing’ state giveaways to corporations. Doing Jack Markell’s (and Pete Schwartzkopf’s) bidding by killing progressive legislation in the Business Lapdog Committee, a committee expressly created to give Short a platform to run for higher office.
He, of course, wouldn’t have been in position to take this job had John Kowalko’s revolving door bill had passed. Kowalko’s bill would have placed a one-year moratorium on legislators transitioning to lobbying positions. Needless to, say, it was as popular as a loud fart in church.
Here’s a fairly typical Short bill that was introduced back in 2016. Just so you know whose bidding he was doing back then.
BTW, Short was a ‘Democrat’. Except when he wasn’t. It’s OK. He doesn’t have to pretend any more.