Delaware
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, May 16, 2024
The Big Story: Senate Considers Hospital Cost Review Board Today. Among other changes, the compromise amendment ‘(r)emoves the penalty provision for hospitals who fail to adhere to a budget that was approved or modified by the Board.’ Oh. Well, that’s a compromise, all right. First, yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Nothing unexpected happened. The Hospital Review […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., May 15, 2024
The Big Story: Open The Floodgates–Great Bills Coming Through. Today’s Senate committees are full of ’em. You’ll have to wait just a little longer to revel in all that goodness, though. Looks like the Rethugs objected to preventing unfettered towing of cars by unscrupulous operators. HB 351(Osienski) as amended passed the House by a 24-14 […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 14, 2024
The Big News: Compromise, Compromise. Apparently, compromises have been reached on both the Hospital Cost Review Board and the Wilmington towing scam bill. Of the two, I’m most skeptical of the towing bill, which had been held up by city officials who had expressed concerns about the bill. Well, it was, after all, their scam. […]
Delaware Political Weekly: May 3-9, 2024
1. Have The Governor’s Races Changed Over The Last Week? On the R side, which doesn’t particularly matter, the answer is a clear yes. On the D side, I think the answer is yes, but it’s less certain. It will become decidedly ‘yes’ if Collin O’Mara can run a campaign that builds on his momentum. […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., May 9, 2024
Here’s yesterday’s Session Activity Report. You will note that the two bills addressing high school athletics policy cleared committee and were passed in the Senate unanimously. Carney wasted no time in signing the bill naming the ‘Newark Regional Transportation Center after United States Senator Thomas R. Carper’. Today’s House Agenda features HB 200 (Longhurst), which […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., May 8, 2024
I guess the biggest news is the number of absentees in the House yesterday. Six in all, with several roll calls having at least eight absences. Allergies? Also, the two House bills mandating insurance coverages for certain costs received a large number of R no’s and not votings. I can understand why on HB 274 […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, May 7, 2024
The Big Story: Senate Executive Committee To Consider Hospital Cost Bill Today. Hearing starts at 4 pm. Here’s how you can listen and/or participate. I wonder if the Senate will run this bill on an agenda this week. I wonder whether Carney will sign it. He almost has to, if, for no other reason, to […]
The Working Families Party Endorsements
I was there on Saturday to hear from an inspiring array of candidates. And inspiring they were, individually and collectively. But let’s not bury the lede: Collin O’Mara delivered the single most inspiring and visionary speech I’ve ever heard from a Delaware office-seeker. Visionary in that he talked about there has been no fundamental change […]
BREAKING: Rethug Mike Ramone To Run For Governor
Man, I go out for an hour, and this happens. As Jason mentioned, it is weird in that Julianne Murray claims that she is running because nobody else would step forward. Was that true? If so, will she drop out, or will this be a battle for the ‘heart and soul’ of the Delaware Rethuglican […]
Delaware Political Weekly: April 26-May 2, 2024
1. Don’t Sleep On RD 9. I haven’t focused on this NCC district that is all south of the canal. But the Working Families Party’s endorsement of Terrell Williams has opened my eyes. Why, you ask, should the result this year be any different than it was in 2022, when Rethug Kevin Hensley won by […]
BREAKING!!: Delaware Working Families Party Announces Endorsements
Here is the press release in its entirety: Delaware Working Families Party Announces First Round of Endorsements in 2024 Elections Endorsements Include Collin O’Mara For Governor, Slate of State House Candidates Newark, DE—On Saturday, May 4th, the Delaware Working Families Party will hold a kickoff event to celebrate their first round of endorsements for the […]
Delaware Political Weekly: April 19-25, 2024
1. The Ultimate Delaware Way Team. Pairing the Intellectual Bankruptcy and the Ethical Bankruptcy Of The Delaware Way: 2. When You’re The Rethuglican Chair, And Nobody Wants To Run For Governor…: …you do this: Greetings All! In Delaware, we are just under 200 days from the most consequential election of our lifetimes, with a tremendous […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., April 25, 2024
The Big Story: Hospital Lobbyists Likely To Swarm Leg Hall Today. There’s only one bill of note on either Agenda today. But, since it’s a stick in the eye of hospital practices, it’s likely to swell the temporary population in Dover today. HS2/HB 350 (Longhurst): …creates the Diamond State Hospital Cost Review Board, which will […]
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