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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 25, 2021
We’re seeing the forces arrayed against progressive legislation flexing their muscles. The Democratic forces. The keys remain John Carney and Speaker Pete. Carney acts like he’s not really paying attention to specific bills (‘ I’m looking forward the the debate on (fill in the blank)’. As if. Speaker Pete buries bills that Carney doesn’t want. […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Tuesday’s Activity Report. You will note that HB 88 (K. Williams) cleared the Business Lapdog Committee. There was one unfavorable vote on the move to eliminate the training and teen sub-minimum wage. You don’t suppose–that committee member Mike Ramone would engage in yet another conflict-of-interest vote so soon after being exposed as a serial conflict-of-interest […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 23, 2021
But first, a quick look back at a productive legislative session that took place on March 18. These bills passed and moved across the Hall to the opposite chambers: SB 15; HB 20; and HB 33. Excellent bills. The fates of HB 20 and HB 33 are likely not in doubt. However, John Carney is […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 20, 2021
Know Your Violent Insurrectionists: Christopher John Worrell. Jennifer Marie Heinl. Jeffrey McKellop. I’m really enjoying these profiles by PvtJarHead in Daily Kos. TN Rethugs Rally To Save Bust Of Notorious KKK Racist. Tell me this Party isn’t dying. Biden And Afghanistan. It’s–complicated. I’m with Freda Payne on this one: Department Of Education Cancels $1 […]
‘Legislative Ethics’ Doesn’t Have To Be An Oxymoron
Let’s face it: Only a few legislators habitually behave in an unethical manner. Recent examples include Trey Paradee/Darius Brown (pushing legislation for his development lawyer brother/openly soliciting contributions from Minquadale garbage dump lobbyists respectively). Longtime ethical scofflaws include Nicole ‘No Longer’ Poore, Our PAL Val Longhurst and, of course, Mike Ramone. Since the ethics of […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 19, 2021
A New Rethug Election-Stealing Trick. Find someone with a similar name to the D, prop ’em up with dark money, steal election. Rethugs Sue B/C…They Can’t Use State Stimulus Funds For, Wait For It, Tax Cuts. I’m no attorney, but it seems to me that the Federal government has every right to require that Federal […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 18, 2021
Today is $15 Minimum Wage Day in the Senate. SB 15 (Walsh) cleared the Senate Labor Committee yesterday, and is the first item on today’s Senate Agenda. I predict 14-7, maybe Lopez goes ‘not voting’. Can we talk for a minute over Our PAL Val Longhurst and her continued ineptitude in running gun control bills? […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 17, 2021
The Big News: SB 15, the $15 Minimum Wage bill, will be heard in committee today, and has been placed on tomorrow’s Senate Agenda. All 14 Senate Democratic senators are on the bill as sponsors, so, barring some unforeseen circumstance, it will pass in the Senate. Which is when the real work begins. Here’s yesterday’s […]
General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 16, 2021
We can’t let last Thursday’s session go w/o mentioning the latest musings of Delaware’s Least Woke (Awake?) legislator. SB 56 (Sturgeon), which ‘codifies the Opportunity Fund, an additional source of educational funding for Delaware public schools intended to support the increased needs of low income and English learner students, and establishes the parameters for how […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 13, 2021
Kentucky Senate Outlaws Saying Something That Might Hurt Cops’ Feelings: Kentucky’s Republican-majority Senate on Thursday moved forward a bill that would make it easier to arrest protesters for insulting a police officer, a measure that critics say would stifle free speech. The bill, passed two days before the anniversary of the fatal police shooting of […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 12, 2021
Dominion Just Might Win All Those Lawsuits. Can you say ‘proof of damages’? In case you’re wondering who Dominion is suing, wonder no more. There will be more. Sen. Rick Scott To States: Don’t Take The Relief $$’s. As Florida’s Gov. DeSantis whines that he didn’t get enough: Scott, as head of the National Republican […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 11, 2021
Difficult to turn this into anything but a ‘just the facts, ma’am’ edition. Here’s yesterday’s Session Activity Report. If you can turn these lemons into lemonade, you should be writing for Delaware Liberal. Here are today’s Senate and House Agendas. Let’s talk a little bit about HB 31, which eliminates language in the Delaware Code […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, March 10, 2021
The Minimum Wage Bill has been introduced. Glad to see that all three of our elected officials in my RD (Larry Lambert, Kyle Evans Gay, and Sarah McBride) are on the bill. If your legislators aren’t on the bill as sponsors, you know what to do. The bill has correctly been assigned to the Senate […]
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