* means no Delaware Democratic legislative incumbent facing a primary wants to talk about.
That bill, of course, is SS1/SB 21, which was written on the expressed behalf of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to enable them to get richer than they already were, courtesy of the State Of Delaware. Three of those facing primaries were sponsors on the bill, Sen. Ray Seigfried, and Reps. Kerri Harris and Krista Griffith. Close to a dozen more facing primaries voted for the bill.
Supporters of those looking to help the two plutocrats have been rewarded with close to $1 mill (actually, much more than that when you add in contributions from individual corporate attorneys) in propaganda in the form of social media and other campaign advertising. Plus polling and focus groups. The incumbents don’t want to talk about the bill, or the corporate cash they’ve received thanks to their support of the bill.
I’ve written about that right here.
What we haven’t discussed as much is the bill itself. Here are the first three episodes about the bill from an interview between Rob Bahnsen and Charles Elson, and why it’s bad for pretty much everybody but Musk and Zuckerberg (and perhaps Delaware Way incumbents):
As you likely know, Dr. Rob Bahnsen is running against Krista Griffith, who not only ran the bill in the House, but killed at least two key amendments that would have made the bill much better.
Know this: Every single legislator who voted for this did so knowing full well on whose behalf the legislation was being rushed through, and signed by an equally-culpable Governor.
I will post the remaining installments as they’re released. Please watch, learn, and vote.
Great Report. The MUSK-RATS should all be defeated. Corporate sell-outs. Name them all.
Didn’t Delaware Liberal endorse many of the incumbents who sponsored and voted FOR the bill?
Did we? How about YOU do the work for a change? Or does what passes for your intellect consider this a ‘gotcha’?
There were legislators who voted for the bill who also voted for the amendments that could/should have been placed on the bill.
I think we endorsed Nnamdi when he ran against Charles Potter. The difference between Potter and Shane Darby is, to put it mildly, vast.
Not to mention, if you can’t tell the difference between Delaware Way drones who pushed this legislation, and those who may have reluctantly voted for SB 21, then you haven’t been reading the blog. Which explains your diminished intellect.
At least, partially.
Wow! My comment was meant to be positive. Instead of understanding that you attacked a trans person for being trans.
El Som did not and never would attack a trans person for being trans. And nothing in his comment to you did that.
I hope Rob doesn’t spend the rest of his campaign trying to make it about SB21. Voters don’t care, and the ones that do were never going to support Krista. The issue is way too dense to communicate to the electorate. The whole Musk bill label is a nice talking point but want to hear about how you’re going to lower costs and help create a better future. This is the equivalent of the unions going after people who stalled out the PLA bill. Very few voters know or care about it, not an issue to run on or against.
I still have yet to find someone who can articulate a solid argument for or against SB21 that doesn’t coincide with it taking away or giving them more money in their professional lives. Its essentially asking which type of corporate lawyers do you side with?
Normal people don’t care about the details, but normal people hate them some Musk, so as long as the message is “she sold out to Musk,” it helps him.
I think Elson explained the issue in terms that ordinary voters could understand.
I beg to differ. The Zuck Musk and billionaire issue has legs. I get almost as much engagement with my Pithy if I may brag homemade memes against the blood money caucus as I do with my social justice posts. Anecdotal but in my view dispositive.
Musk certainly isn’t popular among likely Democratic voters, but we are talking about state legislative races so I think it would behoove the challengers to also epmasize kitchen table/pocketbok/more local issues as well.