Delaware Liberal

DL Open Thread Monday October 25th 2021

Florida Governor Ron Desantis, gearing up for a run to be the worst person in the world, has invited  all vaccine resisting cops to relocate to Florida.  Because as awful as Florida is, it can always be worse.  

Ron DeSantis Offers Bonuses To Anti-Vax Cops To Come Work In Florida

The Florida governor plans to offer $5,000 bonuses to police from other states who refuse to be vaccinated so they can interact with his constituents.


‘I beg you’: Fox News’ Neil Cavuto urges people to put politics aside and get vaccine

Fox News veteran Neil Cavuto is urging viewers to set politics aside and get vaccinated less than a week after announcing his COVID-19 diagnosis.

Very exciting, or the most boring thing ever? Possibly both.  

Biden hosts Schumer, Manchin in Delaware as Congress inches…blah blah blah

Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., in Delaware as Democrats work for a deal on legislation that would enact the administration’s social safety net …

How Paris will spend €250 million on making city ‘100 % bike friendly

Cycle lanes in Paris. Photo: AFP

The city of Paris on Thursday promised to develop its network of secure cycling lanes as part of a five-year plan to make the French capital “100-percent bikeable” with €250 million of extra spending.

Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo, who runs Paris with support from the Green  party, placed a push for more bike-friendly policies at the centre of her platform that got her re-elected by a wide margin in June of last year.“Our target is to make our city 100 percent bikeable,” David Belliard, deputy mayor in charge of urban transformation and Green party member, told AFP.Some €180 million of new spending is earmarked for infrastructure, including plans for major bike routes across the city and into surrounding suburbs, and additional measures to make crossings and key entry points into inner Paris safer for cyclists, Belliard said.Some flashpoints will get dedicated paths for cyclists and pedestrians completely separate from any car traffic, he added.The city already spent €150 million on an initial biking plan, calling this the start of a “revolution” for the capital.An added sense of urgency came with the Covid-19 pandemic that sparked a rapid extension of the city’s cycling path network, dubbed “corona-pistes”, as commuters shunned public transport for fear of infection.As part of the new plan, those lanes, often hastily built to meet sudden demand, are to be made permanent and secure.

 


A few days old, but I like the fact the tone of this Cape Gazette coverage.

The Delaware Department of Justice fired back Oct. 18 at State Auditor Kathy McGuiness’s request for taxpayers to pay her private attorney, saying McGuiness can use a public defender or use her own money to pay for her defense on felony theft and other charges.

“It is sadly consistent with the defendant’s charged conduct that she would demand the taxpayers spend extra money when the law clearly commands a less profligate alternative. The law is clear, and for that reason we respectfully request that the defendant’s petition be denied,” the motion reads.

McGuiness filed a motion Oct. 14 asking the court to approve public payment of her $550-an-hour attorney, Steven Wood, who is representing her in the state’s case against her. McGuiness’s motion states that there is a conflict of interest in using a state attorney since the Department of Justice was involved in her eventual indictment on charges of felony theft, felony witness intimidation, and other misdemeanors of misconduct through her elected office.

McGuiness has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is out on $50,000 unsecured bond as the case winds through the court process.

If McGuiness uses a public defender, the motion states, it would cost about $100 an hour, but if she wants to use her own attorney, she should pay out of her own pocket. The motion calls McGuiness “independently wealthy by any standard” based on her $112,000/year auditor’s salary, and her Henlopen Acres home that Zillow estimates is worth as much as $3.7 million.


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