Terror in Tiny Tony Town??

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Turns out that Tiny Tony DeLuca’s personal employment records weren’t the only records being withheld by the Department of Labor. And, get this, turns out that the records being withheld, this time the “records and construction site visit logs of labor law officers to see which companies were investigated for allegations of workplace fraud and not paying the prevailing wage rates on the public works projects in 2010 and 2011″, are in the possession of one, wait for it, Tiny Tony DeLuca, head of the Office of Labor Law Enforcement.

Help Program Tomorrow’s Al Mascitti Show!

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El Somnambulo will appear on the Al Mascitti Show this Wednesday, November 29 at 10 a.m. 1150-Newsradio on your AM dial. For the first time ever, I'm giving you the chance to propose topics for the show. I've already got three lined up, but I usually go through five or six in two hours.

El Somnambulo Seeks Your Help…

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...in assembling the Third Annual MVP List. This list honors those Delawareans who were (M)ost (V)aluable to the (P)rogressive cause in Delaware in 2011. In the past, I have generally limited this list to public officials. However, I am open to suggestions from outside the realm of elective public service.

Penn State and UD Have Something in Common-And It’s Not Good

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Penn State is not officially a state institution per se, but a "state-related institution. As such, it now belongs to the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, and is not part of the fully public Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education." Among other things, this means that, in addition to the university collecting millions upon millions of dollars from the State of Pennsylvania, the Board of Trustees is not obligated, nor do they, make any proceedings/minutes of Board meetings public. That includes to state officials. I wonder if the Board is going to battle FOIA demands from the Feds once that investigation is under way. It wouldn't surprise me if it does.

Greg Lavelle: His (Ass) Holiness of the Year

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Monsignor (and Representative) Greg Lavelle, tireless defender of pedophile priests and the dioceses that protect them, has worked his law 'n order Jones into a Santorum-like creamy froth over the greatest danger to America today. Yep, the Occupy Delaware protestors. Let's just enjoy this Rethug Attack Dog waxing rabid over this issue. Click through.

John Carney Capitulates On His Democratic Principles, If He Ever Had Any

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John Carney, ladies and gentlemen, YOUR Democratic Congressman. You know what John Carney did yesterday? He literally signed away the principles upon which the Democratic Party has been built. Principles that have served working families, the poor, the elderly, and the middle class for over 80 years.

How did he do this? He signed a letter along with 60 Democrats and 40 Republicans to the so-called bipartisan 'Super Committee'.