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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 […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 8, 2021
The initial Joint Finance Committee hearings are over (budget mark-up will come later), so the General Assembly will be working up until an Easter break. The House will not officially reconvene until Thursday. However, House committees will meet both today and tomorrow. The Senate will convene today. Perhaps the biggest news is the imminent introduction […]
Join Today’s Press Conference On Behalf Of A $15 Delaware Minimum Wage
Here’s the information: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 8, 2021 CONTACT: Jonathan Williams, UFCW Local 27, jonathanclarkewilliams@gmail.com Coalition of Delaware WFP, Labor, and Business Groups Hosting Press Conference to Support $15 Minimum Wage DOVER, DE (March 8, 2021) – A coalition of labor and business groups will hold a virtual press […]
Senate Passes COVID Relief Package
50-49. Republican Senator Sullivan from Alaska missed the vote for a family emergency: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/stimulus-update-us-relief-bill-03-06-21/index.html The House must vote on the Senate version before President Biden can sign it. They will do so on Tuesday.
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 6, 2021
Manchin Has Mini-Snit, Holds Covid Relief Hostage For Nine Hours. He may not be President, but he sure exercises power–against Democratic constituencies. Biden Dumps Another Trump Appointee. Good: The White House fired the general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Friday, continuing a push to oust controversial Trump appointees viewed as hostile to […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 5, 2021
Cuomo Aides Rewrote Report On Nursing Home Covid Deaths To Hide The Scope Of The Tragedy. You know, so he could go on TV and pretend to be the Anti-Trump, the Competent One: Top aides to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo were alarmed: A report written by state health officials had just landed, and it included […]
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