DL Open Thread: Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Nancy Mace: Sub-Human. You knew someone was gonna do it, just didn’t know who:
Two weeks after the first openly transgender person was elected to Congress, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace has introduced a bill banning transgender women from using women’s bathrooms in the Capitol and in House offices.
“Biological men do not belong in private women’s spaces. Period. Full stop. End of story,” the congresswoman wrote in a social media post announcing the resolution. The bill hopes to prevent members and staff “using single-sex facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex.”
“Sarah McBride doesn’t get a say here,” Mace also posted.
In case you’d forgotten about Nancy Mace:
“The member was abusive,” one former senior staffer told The Daily Beast, specifically pointing to the frequency with which Mace would communicate with her staff, either over text, Signal, or Monday.com—an unauthorized software system Mace uses in her office.
This former staffer said Mace uses the software to “micromanage the office all day and into the night and early morning.”
“It was constant,” this person said.
Another senior staffer recalled how Mace called them close to midnight on Christmas Eve and demanded to know why she wasn’t getting on TV more during the holiday week.
“If she needed us, we had to answer within eight minutes,” this staffer said, clarifying that the eight minute timeframe was actually a “rule.”
“Nancy is delusional as a boss,” the former staffer continued. “She says nothing publicly without her consultants or senior staffers telling her to, but takes credit for everything. She’s a walking teleprompter.”
Don’t forget this stunt she pulled, apparently unaware of the irony:
Nancy Mace, a Republican member of Congress who was a key vote in ousting Kevin McCarthy as House of Representatives speaker, has donned a white T-shirt with a red letter “A” on it to symbolize her being “demonized” for her decision.
“I’m wearing the scarlet letter after the week I just had, being a woman up here, and being demonized for my vote and for my voice,” Mace told reporters on Tuesday, adding: “I will do the right thing every single time, no matter the consequences.”
If I had fake boobs like hers, I might wear a similarly-snug T-shirt as well. Or not.
The person who doesn’t belong in the women’s bathroom also doesn’t belong in Congress. That person is Nancy Mace.
DNC Doubles Down On Centrist Mediocrity. Martin O’Malley? Rahm Emanuel? Just what the Party needs–a return to the Clinton era. Oh, speaking of the Party of working people:
The union representing workers at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has accused the party’s leadership of a “callous” betrayal of party values after the sudden announcement of layoffs of permanent employees without severance.
“Despite record-breaking fundraising, the DNC failed to provide any financial support to those who have tirelessly served the Democratic Party and its mission,” said the union in a press release.
They compared the lack of severance to laid-off employees with the Harris-Walz campaign, which provided three weeks of severance to laid-off employees. “These cuts go far beyond typical campaign turnover and impact employees who were previously told their positions would be retained after the election,” the union claimed.
They compared the lack of severance to laid-off employees with the Harris-Walz campaign, which provided three weeks of severance to laid-off employees. “These cuts go far beyond typical campaign turnover and impact employees who were previously told their positions would be retained after the election,” the union claimed.
“I’m heartbroken. These are single parents. These are new parents. These are recent graduates. You can ask any laid-off employees, friend or family, and they will vouch for the toll this job takes on you. You already give up so much when you decide to work for this organization and now they’re taking our financial security as well.” said a former DNC staffer and union member who was one of the workers laid off.
Unionize While You Still Have The Chance. Good news, impending bad news:
More than 50,000 students who work at U.S. universities have unionized over the past two years, the National Labor Relations Board announced Monday. The new bargaining units include graduate student teachers and researchers as well as undergraduate housing and dining employees.
All told, there are 51 new unions formed on campuses since 2022, representing roughly 50,300 workers, according to the NLRB. For context, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the entire labor movement added 139,000 members last year, much of it likely due to hiring by employers that were already unionized.
The collegiate organizing efforts have gotten a boost from favorable policies at the NLRB, which oversees private-sector union elections. But those policies may not last following former President Donald Trump’s victory this month.
Hope For Suxco? Looks like new Council members may well at least slow the county’s willy-nilly pace of development. I admit that I missed this story, but Nick Sonesifer didn’t:
Politics are all local – at least most of the decisions made impacting day-to-day life. And for residents in Sussex County, this election in many ways was a referendum on development that’s boomed since the pandemic.
And when the results came in, both western and eastern Sussex County residents voted out incumbents and elected three new County Council members who aim to pump the brakes on the county’s exploding real estate scene.
Time will tell if those council members hold true to their campaign promises, but on its face, Sussex County Council has a new majority voting bloc on the five-member council looking to reimagine land use in southern Delaware.
Jane Gruenebaum sounds like the real deal:
Gruenebaum centered much of her campaign around addressing the county’s development practices, and preserving forested areas. Sussex County has seen an increasing amount of housing sprawl in recent years, particularly off the Route 1 corridor as homebuilders seek to meet demand of retirees looking for Delaware’s low tax climate and proximity to beaches.
Tweaking different zoning ordinances is what Gruenebaum believes will slow some of the development down and allow for “smart growth.”
She echoed the same sentiment as McCarron, where she would like to see infrastructure growth keep pace with development.
“The way to tackle that is through changes in the zoning, through changes in permitting, so that you don’t issue permits before the infrastructure is in place to handle development,” Gruenebaum said.
What do you want to talk about?
I’m curious about why Sarah McBride doesn’t get a say. I have a feeling Ms. Mace is going to get a visit from Ms. McBride, who will then shame her with niceness.
Presumably because Mace is proposing this in the lame duck session, before McBride is sworn in.
As all MAGA Republicans know, the right place to go to the bathroom in the Capitol is on the Speaker’s desk.
“If she needed us, we had to answer within eight minutes,”
Reminds me of the strictly enforced MBNA policy requiring every employee to answer their phone before the third ring, or else.
Petty tyrants be petty. In the case of Cawley, they also be strange to the point of grotesquerie. I mean, who the fuck plucks a young boy out of poverty to be his Mini-Me? He never saw Citizen Kane?
“Just what the Party needs–a return to the Clinton era”
I wouldn’t mind returning to the era of winning.
Neither Clinton nor Obama were progressive darlings but they did get to block a ton of right-wing crap, and appoint a couple of Supreme Court justices.
This presupposes that people were voting for the policies and not the personalities.
They didn’t appoint awful Supreme Court justices, sure. Seems like a very low bar.
Clinton is a neoliberal shitstain and Obama is not much better. Obama had a supermajority but squandered it because his number one priority was being coronated a second time.
“Seems like a very low bar.”
The high jumpers somehow couldn’t clear the bar of the Democratic primary.
I seem to remember a health care law he had something to do with.
Did you forget the ‘losing’ by Hillary Clinton?
The Bill Clinton era. As you astutely point out there wasn’t a Hillary Clinton era.
Both represented, and continue to represent, the corporate takeover of the Party.
Your hindsight is 20/20. Bill Clinton won a Democratic primary, at a time when “liberal” was an unmentionable word for Democrats (a time that led to the creation of this blog). The alternative was a second term of GHWB.
Seriously? His win consigned the Party to 30 years of rule by the Corporadems. Take Tom Carper. Please.
I believe that the ongoing influence of the corporadems and their corporate enablers is one key reason why Dems have lost a lot of support from working people.
“His win consigned the Party to 30 years of rule by the Corporadems. ”
And what would the Party be consigned to if it had lost the Presidency in 1992? 1996?
“And what would the Party be consigned to if it had lost the Presidency in 1992? 1996?”
Had he not won NAFTA would not have happened and we might still have working class support.
“Had he not won NAFTA would not have happened”
No – Had a Republican won we would have NAFTA AND the “Contract With America.”
“Bill Clinton won a Democratic primary, at a time when “liberal” was an unmentionable word for Democrats (a time that led to the creation of this blog). The alternative was a second term of GHWB.”
Not according to his svengali, who maintained that any Democrat would have won because of the economy.
This despicable behavior by Rep. Mace and the Speaker just sickens me.
https://spotlightdelaware.org/2024/11/19/pefc-survey/
The 30 person Public Education Funding Commission now estimates it will have recommendations by July 2026. They need more information and time. In time for the FY 2028 budget. That will be 13 years after the Wilmington Education Advisory Committee issued its 2015 report with a Foreword titled “Waiting is No Longer an Option” – an entire k-12 cycle has passed.
God bless Spotlight Delaware btw.
So they replaced “waiting” with “dawdling.” Entirely different verb.
I am proud to have Sarah McBride represent us. I’m proud of Delawareans looking past bigotry and hatred and electing her. You go woman! We got you and we get you.