We need to add Pistol/Speaker Pete to that list, who unnecessarily assigned the bill to yet another committee after it had finally cleared the Housing Committee. Here’s the story:
The House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee voted 3-2 Thursday against a bill that would have given tenants a right to free counsel in eviction proceedings.
Supporters who testified in favor of the bill said it would have leveled the playing field between tenants and landlords, pointing to the fact that landlords are vastly more likely to be represented in such cases.
Reps. Kim Williams, D-Newport, and David Bentz, D-Christiana, voted for the bill. Voting against were Reps. William Carson, D-Smyrna; Stephanie T. Bolden, D-Wilmington; and Kevin Hensley, R-Townsend. Rep. Ruth Briggs King, R-Georgetown, was absent.
Time to petition this bill out of committee. Bolden and Carson are disgraces. Failure to primary these two malevolent presences is a failure of will. They would both be defeated if only challengers would step up.