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Delaware’s Cowards
These are the cowards so beholden to the NRA that they want terrorists and criminals and the mentally ill to have unfettered access to any weapon they can get their hands on. They deserve to be defeated at their next election on this vote alone.
Hocker announces run for Governor in 2016
So there I was driving this afternoon listening for reasons passing understanding to Rick Jensen’s show on WDEL 1150. He was hosting his show from a reception for a Delaware Small Business organization (I didn’t catch the full name) and was interviewing both the organization’s President and Senator Hocker. The organization’s President was going on and on about all the horrible fees and taxes small businesses have to pay and Rick jokes that his 3 hour show is not enough time to list all the taxes and fees (which is of course a lie). Then Hocker jumps in, and I presume that Jensen was interviewing both the Organization President and Hocker at the same time and Hocker says (paraphrasing): “Well when I am governor I will get rid of all these fees and taxes because I will surround myself with all the right people.” And he said it in such a Southern accent that I thought I was momentarily transported to Mississippi. But that is besides the point. To my mind, I think this is the first time I have heard Hocker publicly announce his long rumored desire to run for Governor.
HB 35 Background Check Debate [UPDATE]: Bill Passes 13-8!!!
For the last hour, the background check bill debate has been underway in the Delaware Senate. Thanks to Twitter user Amy Cherry, here is her tweet reports about the debate, which I will update below in the comments as she posts them:
Thursday Open Thread [4.18.13]
45 Pathetic Cowards. Let’s see if any Delaware Democrats or Republicans in the Delaware Senate join them.
1. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
2. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH)
3. Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)
4. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT)
5. Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK)
6. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO)
7. Sen. John Boozman (R-AR)
8. Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)
9. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
10. Sen. Dan Coats (R-IN)
11. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK)
12. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
13. Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN)
14. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
15. Sen. Michael Crapo (R-ID)
16. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
17. Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY)
18. Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE)
19. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
20. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
21. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA)
22. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
23. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND)
24. Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV)
25. Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND)
26. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK)
27. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
28. Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE)
29. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)
30. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)
31. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
32. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)
33. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
34. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
35. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH)
36. Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR)
37. Sen. James Risch (R-ID)
38. Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS)
39. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
40. Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)
41. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
42. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)
43. Sen. John Thune (R-SD)
44. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)
45. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
We Lost in Washington Yesterday. We Can Win in Delaware Today.
We had a defeat in Washington yesterday, but we can still win in Delaware. The background checks bill (HB 35) is scheduled for a vote today in the Senate, and I’m told by well placed sources that some wavering Senators could really benefit from a final call or email this morning. And if you are in Dover or can make it to Dover today, get to the Senator chamber for the vote to show support.
So join me and call or email the following this morning:
Senator Bethaney Hall Long, bethany.hall-long@state.de.us, (302) 744-4286
Senator Bruce Ennis, bruce.ennis@state.de.us, (302) 744-4310
Senator Nicole Poore, Nicole.Poore@state.de.us, (302) 744-4164
Senator Cathy Cloutier, catherine.cloutier@state.de.us, (302) 744-4197
Senator Brian Bushweller, brian.bushweller@state.de.us, (302) 744-4162
Senator David McBride, David.McBride@state.de.us, (302) 744-4167
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This man has given more to this country than most of us.
From the Huffington Post:
One of the most-photographed heroes of the Boston Marathon has been Carlos Arredondo, 52, who most famously pictured helping a man in a wheelchair who has lost part of his leg in the explosion. In other videos and images, he’s seen running toward the blast and pulling away debris to help those who were hurt.
But as Christina Costantini points out for Univision, Arredondo — the father of a Marine who lost his life in Iraq in 2004 — originally came to the United States as an undocumented immigrant.
According to a 2005 story in the Washington Post, Arredondo was born in Costa Rica and came to the United States without authorization when he was 19. In 2004, his son, Alex, died while serving in the Iraq War.
He gave America his son. Literally. He helped save many American lives yesterday. He is an American, by virtue and sacrifice if not legally. Perhaps our Congress, and one political party in particular, can see way to end their bigotry, obstruction, and demonization and see fit to make this man a documented citizen.
Look at this video, and how violently he is shaking and trembling…
God bless you Carlos.
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Monday Open Thread [4.15.13]
Tomorrow, the bipartisan “Gang of Eight,” which includes Senators Dick Durbin (D), Chuck Schumer (D), John McCain (R), Lindsay Graham (R), Jeff Flake (R), Marco Rubio (R), Robert Menendez (D) and Michael Bennet (D) is set to unveil a proposal that would represent the most far-reaching overhaul of immigration laws since 1986.
Come inside for the details of the bill from the Washington Examiner….
IPOD gets new star: Don Ayotte
Apparently on Dan Gaffney’s show on 105.9 FM downstate, insane teabagger Don Ayotte, who had tried to unseat Sussex County Councilwoman Joan Deaver in the 2012 election, and who has recently been involved in the Great Delaware Republican Civil War, has just announced that he is leaving the GOP and has joined the Independent Party of Delaware (IPOD). The reason for his leaving: that mean mean Frank Knotts.
I wonder how Ayotte is going to enjoy IPOD’s prior platform that called for universal single payer healthare?
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