Topics For The General Assembly Easter Break:
The House Kop Kabal Must End.
Franklin Cooke Must Be Defeated.
The Three (Or Four) State Reps (And One Governor) Who Must Be Lobbied Heavily On Minimum Wage.
Here’s yesterday’s Session Activity Report.
There’s only one big story today. The Senate will try (and, I think, succeed) to pass significant gun safety legislation. The Senate could have passed such legislation last session, but Senators Dave McBride, Nicole Poore, and Cathy Cloutier voted to bury the bills in the Senate Executive Committee. Then President Pro-Tem McBride had put the bills in the Executive Committee with the express purpose of killing them, his promises to run them notwithstanding. Two of them are gone, and Poore has had her power cut out from under her. This Senate rocks. In case you haven’t been reading these reports, here are the two bills: SB 3 (Lockman) and SB 6 (Sokola). Not only does the Senate rock, but Dave Sokola is already the best President Pro-Tempore in Senate history. Period.
Today’s House Agenda is highlighted by HB 200 (Longhurst), which finally ‘establishes a framework for assessing needs and planning and implementing projects that support Delaware’s efforts to improve the quality of the State’s water supply and waterways. A Delaware Clean Water Trust account is created as a funding source for executing projects highlighted by this framework.’
Kids, this is yet another example of a bill that could have passed a couple of sessions ago. However, as she has consistently done, Valerie Longhurst insisted that she be the prime sponsor of the bill, went out and publicly proclaimed that it was gonna be the greatest thing ever, only to find out that the bill didn’t have a fucking funding mechanism, something one would hope a prime sponsor would have understood. In other words, she fucked up the management of this bill every bit as much as she has fucked up the management of every single gun safety bill she has insisted on having her name on as the prime sponsor. Most recent example: ghost guns. But, I digress. The bill now has a funding mechanism, and its long-delayed implementation is more than welcome. As House Majority Leader, Longhurst can and does grab any bill that she wants, and sponsor it. She does not do any of the hard work that generally goes into putting a bill together. See bill. Steal bill. Who’s gonna stand in her way, only to get crushed? This House does not rock.
Well, I’ve got my list of topics to address during the upcoming recess. Time to get started on them. As soon as I correct some imbalances on my fantasy baseball team (too many Phillies).