Legislative Perks That I Have Known

I am struck with the genuine surprise that many WDEL listeners felt when reading the News-Journal's articles on Tigani and his (wait for it) ilk, and were especially surprised at the, let's say, easy relationships between lobbyists and legislators (and, yes, legislative staff) and governors (and, yes gubernatorial staff). So, in the interest of full disclosure, I'm going to lay out as many of the legislative perks that I can recall. This will not be an all-inclusive list, so I intend to add to it as my memories come back. I would invite any and all anonymous current or former legislative staffers to add to the list.

Drinking with Liberals

Just a reminder that we will be drinking liberally at the Biergarten at the Purple Parrot, 134 Rehoboth Avenue, tonight starting at 7:00 PM. Bring your national debt so we…

Harry Shearer and The Big Uneasy Tonight

A reminder that this movie is being screened complete with a Q&A by Harry Shearer tonite at Theater N in Wilmington. There are less than 50 tickets left for this (as of Tuesday afternoon), so if you are planning to go, get your tickets on line and in advance here.

OK, You Can Panic

As you may know, on Friday about 11 hours of comments (and posts) were disappeared from the blog.  This appears to have been a glitch on the redundant database servers…