Gov. Carney Owes Delawareans An Answer To This Question:
If a marijuana legalization bill reaches your desk, will you:
A. Sign it?
B. Let it become law without your signature?
Or:
C. Veto it?
I ask this question because your stock answer, “I’m looking forward to hearing the debate on the floor”, doesn’t apply. As if it ever did. You’ve by now heard countless legislative debates on this issue.
I also ask this question due to an interesting exchange on the Rev’s Podcast with DeShanna Neal. First, remember that a bill virtually identical to the one that just fell short has been introduced. That is not Standard Operating Procedure. If a bill fails on a topic like this, the issue is usually dead for the session. I can’t ever recall a virtually-identical bill being introduced right after a bill was defeated. As to the exchange, the REV suggested that the rumor is out that Speaker Pete will provide dispensation to any and all D’s who vote for the new bill.
Why?: Two reasons:
1. The bill is incredibly popular with pretty much everybody but cops, and governors who have not healed from the scars of the Culture Wars Of The ’60’s. BTW, I find the governorship of Carney to be the strangest of all the administations I’ve known. No, he’s not the strangest governor, Tom Carper holds that distinction and we can only hope that nobody, um, stranger, ascends to that office. His penchant for secrecy is, I think, unique for governors of the past 40 years. His cult-like attraction to the Concord Coalition and budget-smoothing are not bedrocks of the Democratic Party. But, I digress.
2. Pete has received assurances that, should the bill reach his desk, Gov. Carney will veto it.
Meaning, no D legislator, along with perhaps one or two R’s will have to run for reelection while explaining why they opposed the bill that their constituents want.
I don’t know if it’s true, but it certainly would offer a cynical solution to the conundrum that certain legislators are facing, and would be in keeping with the toxicity of the Delaware Way.
Governor Carney: We’re not idiots. We KNOW that you’ve decided what you will do should this bill reach your desk. We KNOW that you’d prefer that the bill NOT reach your desk, but that might not be politically viable for the Kop Kabal. We DON’T KNOW what you intend to do.
You can’t play rope-a-dope without dopes.
So tell us.
Jesus H. Christ
Pete releasing Dems to vote in favor because he KNOWS Carney will veto is literally the most “Delaware Way” thing I’ve ever head.
After Thursday the competition opens and the $$$$$ flee the state
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FWIW, after all this time, isn’t today the day that adult sales open in NJ? MD has adult use on the November ballot (as Baltimore goes so does the state), the Feds might delist and make prohibition a state issue. In addition, given DE’s current decriminalization status, the cops might end up harassing the wrong, I.e. rich with lawyers, people for possession as a basis for looking for something else on which to base seizure of assets. So even that whole boondoggle days are numbered.
Tl;dr – DE’s days as a prohibition state are numbered. Wouldn’t it be hilarious if it were the Republicans that wake up to this fact and beat the dems over the head with it in the mid-terms and 2024? Too bad they can’t stop stepping on their own d@#*s.
I wonder if they’ll have cops at the Delaware Memorial Bridge pulling people over, seizing their weed, and confiscating their cars.
Maybe THAT will finally be the one step too far.
Hmmm. Carney channeling his inner Greg Abbott?
Memorial Bridge checkpoint way too easy to evade. Just cross via the Commodore Barry. You’d have to triple the size of the DSP to block southbound traffic at the 95/495/Naamans Road interchange. Far too costly for a budget smoother to contemplate.
Walt Whitman, to 291 to Marcus Hook, up Market Street (420) yes 420:) to any one of 4 ways into DE 🙂
You all are forgetting the Cape May-Lewes Ferry!
We should all avoid the DMB anyway on our way back with NJ weed. Deny delaware every possible revenue stream.
Here’s a serious question I’d love to ask Carney b/c I honestly don’t know the answer:
Had Tom Carper not forced Ruth Ann Minner to put you on the ticket as her Lt. Gov running mate, would you ever have run for elective office?
That happened, BTW. Carper was dismissive of Minner, gave her no responsibilities, Minner viewed Carper (accurately) as sexist and condescending. Carper made it clear: No Carney on the ticket, I’m not supporting you. It’s not as if Minner was a shoo-in. She wasn’t. Why Carney? He was the Third Way son he never had.
If I had to guess as to Carney’s answer, I think he would say that running from office never even occurred to him.
RAM got a little payback when she was sworn in before Carper was in 2001. When RAM had a broken foot Carper denied her a temporary car and driver,
Carper asked RAM to extend his before he was sworn into the senate, RAM replied “Sorry none available” 🙂
Here’s the article I referenced:
https://whyy.org/articles/delaware-recreational-marijuana-legalization-new-approach/
Jersey opens dispensaries eh? That’s the real solution for the failure of Delaware’s greedy political class to legalize. Just like casinos when there’s money to be made everything changes. Just wait until the report for sales in Jersey start rolling in. As for pulling people over when returning from N.J. there will be a token effort, lawsuits will blossom as unto the first day of May and politicians will fear to pick up the phone. Anther reminder that until The Kop Kabal is ended nothing good comes from Dover will remain state wide truism.
Heh, yep. If it comes to that, do your buys on Sundays and blend in with beach traffic. Of course if you have the wrong color skin, that tactic might not even work.
To be clear, to that last point, I don’t even imbibe in weed due to random drug tests as condition of employment. But damn, for college kids and comfortable middle class weed is a joke; we ALL smoked or knew successful people who did/do. But if you’re poor or minority current laws can f you up for a lifetime here and especially in southern states. That kind of uneven application of laws is the basis for my arguments for full legalization.
Once I retire or move out of this position I’ll add my personal use to the equation B^]
True. For white people, it is already legal for all intents and purposes.
I just smoked a joint with a second cup of coffee.
Anyone speculate that Carney’s son’s university drama comes into it? I’ve heard it speculated weed was involved as well as beer/booze in that hazing incident. Hence Carney himself became even more privately priggish about it.
That’s my theory! Dunno the credence but it makes a measure of sense
Leave family issues out of it. Otherwise, comments will go in the trash.
In reference to Revanella: One hits mo’ bettah, saves weed, better hits.
I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t know what he’ll do and won’t until it passes