DLOpen Thread Monday March 7th 2022
Let me ask you, the smartest political observers in Delaware, other than Paul Baumbach’s “Death with Dignity” legislation, Sarah McBride’s “Paid Family Leave” and Senator Pinkney’s SB149 to amend LEOBOR – are any elected Dems trying to actually get anything done?
I only ask because it doesn’t seem like anybody has a burning desire to do anything productive. Rather it seems like you get elected in Delaware to fuck around, carry water for the chamber of commerce and play grab-ass all day. I mean, am I missing something? Whatever happened to signature accomplishments ? Whatever happened to even trying to have a signature accomplishment?
Speaking of Do Nothing Delaware Dems…
Meet the Delaware Dems seeking the sober middle ground between police free to commit murder whenever being around a black person makes them nervous, and police not being free to commit murder whenever being around a black person makes them nervous.
As for me, I’ll take the “radical” position that police should not be allowed to get away with murder.
Fuck this guy
Senate Democrats are feeling exasperated with Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) latest proposal on a scaled-down version of President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda that would leave out big social spending initiatives like expanded child care, universal pre-kindergarten, national paid family leave and long-term home health care.
Manchin is proposing that his colleagues choose one 10-year program to focus on and devote the other half of revenues raised from tax reform and prescription drug reform to deficit reduction and fighting inflation.
He is suggesting limiting new spending to climate programs instead of an array of social spending initiatives that he says would likely get baked into the federal budget baseline for years to come.
Manchin says the country has to “get its fiscal house in order” before embarking on new grand spending plans.
I’m really trying to come up with non-usury related signature accomplishments and I’m not coming up with much.
In my mind Jack Markell is really associated with expanding biking and hiking trails. For all his other Delaware Way shit, at least there is that. Russel Peterson saved the wetlands for a time. Mike Castle (while in congress) gave us the state quarters. Bill Roth, of course, has his famous IRA. Matt Meyer got an empty hotel turned into a shelter. That was a good thing that happened.
John Carney… pfft
BHL…only interested in the next rung of the ladder
Lisa Blunt Rochester … nada
Peter C. Schwartzkopf… more about stopping things from happening than making things happen
for the record, I have;t come up with any other examples in the past 24 hours. Also, I know Peterson, Castle and Roth were’t Democrats but when in office, they are all to the left off Coons, so I count them posthumously
Sorry, I think you’re painting with too broad a brush here. If you want to see what some (though by no means all) of these legislators have done, you have but to read my daily legislative pre-game/post-game shows.
In fact, Lockman deserves criticism for pushing a watered-down LEOBOR, so she, more than anybody, needs to be lobbied.
I don’t know. It actually made the news in Suxco that McBride made a visit to find support for Family Leave. I see tinkering around, but I don’t see legislators really working hard on some signature issue.
Maybe I left off JK and the less flat tax rates.
Bear in mind that Sarah is an outlier. She is one of the most effective grassroots advocates in the entire country. She’s proven it, and she’s doing so again.
Which is why I think she could well be part of our congressional delegation as early as 2024.
Still… just to pick one at random – what’s Nicole Poore’s signature issue? Who the fuck knows?
That Sen McBride has a vision for some practical action intended to …you know… improve things for actual Delawareans… shouldn’t make her an outlier.
Well, you certainly have a point with Nicole Poore. Her signature issue is feathering her own nest.
Speaking of the not so stealthy Republican we call Manchin if he wants a “fiscal house in order” how about some hefty cuts to the absurd pork barrel we call the military budget? Much of said budget has nothing to do with defending the country and everything to do with pumping money into states and cities, Dover Air Force base comes to mind. Sorry, pet peeve of mine.