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DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 26, 2021
Keep This Bill Dead And Buried. When the bill passed the House quite awhile ago, I thought it was a done deal in the Senate. Thankfully, it’s languished in the Senate, where it should remain. We’re talking about moving the primary to April: The end-of-summer primary is uniquely Delaware and uniquely effective. Titans have been […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 25, 2021
A Message To You Rudy: You can’t practice law in New York State: In its 33-page decision, the court said that Mr. Giuliani’s actions represented an “immediate threat” to the public and that he had “directly inflamed” the tensions that led to the Capitol riot in January. “The seriousness of respondent’s uncontroverted misconduct cannot be […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday 24, 2021
Dispatcher: “Adam-12, Adam-12, we have a Gold Alert on SB 147 and SB 148. Both have gone missing and have been unaccounted for for at least 48 hours. Please respond.” Trooper Pete: “Roger, Roger. I have them in protective custody. They’re not going anywhere. Over and out.” The preceding dialogue may, or may not, have […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Pretty much every bill we discussed yesterday passed yesterday. The one exception, HB 122 (Heffernan), which would require that persons with disabilities be paid a minimum wage, is at the top of today’s House Agenda with an amendment by the sponsor. Meaning, all is well with this excellent bill. Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Five more days. Lots of unfinished business. Some, like the Budget Bill, will likely get done as early as today. But where’s the urgency on marijuana legalization (HB 150), policing reforms (SB 147, SB 148), a limit on the size of assault weapon magazines (SB 6, Pete, why have you ‘disappeared’ this bill?), an end […]
The Claudettes Coming To Arden!!
WHO, you might ask… My kind of band. First concert I’ve booked since the pandemic took live music away from us. Why tell you when I can show you?: And the opener? The most-in-demand keyboard player in Chicago, who just HAPPENS to be the chief songwriter and the keyboard player for the Claudettes, Johnny Iguana. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 19, 2021
Why Are Catholic Bishops Going After Biden? Yet another lurch towards irrelevance. I’m sure this will lead to packed pews on Sundays. ‘Many Bad People In The Mask Industry’. The spectacular failure of Mike Lindell’s entry into the mask business: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s charity and business combo venture to make and sell COVID-19 masks […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 18, 2021
We (Almost) Have A Progressive General Assembly! Passage of the $15 minimum wage bill is a BFD. The Senate has become a progressive legislative body run by progressive leaders. There hasn’t been a single piece of progressive legislation that has been deep-sixed there, and a whole lot of progressive initiatives have started there. The combination […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, June 17, 2021
$15 MINIMUM WAGE DAY. If we had a Democratic governor, the outcome would not be in question. “Pass this bill, then come on up to my office, and I will sign it right now. Photo ops for EVERYBODY.” Instead, we have arguably the strangest governor we’ve had (which is saying something, considering Carper was governor), […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, June 16, 2021
A great day–a GREAT day, in the State Senate yesterday. Dave Sokola and the merry band of progressives there–RULE. So many great bills passed yesterday that it’s hard to know what to omit. (OK, I could have done w/o the break on premium cigars, but other than that…) Two excellent gun control bills (HB 125 […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Let’s start with some good news, sorta. SB 15, the minimum wage increase legislation, is on Thursday’s House Agenda. However, it’s a long Agenda, SB 15 is at the bottom of the Agenda, and it’s questionable whether it will be considered on Thursday. Several amendments, all by Rethugs, have been placed with the bill. Pay […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 12, 2021
Trump Handed Private Equity Firms License To Avoid Taxes. The day before the Capitol riots: There were two weeks left in the Trump administration when the Treasury Department handed down a set of rules governing an obscure corner of the tax code. Overseen by a senior Treasury official whose previous job involved helping the wealthy […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 11, 2021
Danny Short Has A Sad. From Matt Bittle’s Twitter. There’s so much dissembling goodness here, but I’ll go with: While the proposed amendment had some support from our Caucus during the 150th General Assembly, in the time since then many of our members reexamined it and began expressing significant reservations. First, ‘some support’ was all […]
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