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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 24, 2022
Wow, a good day! Much of it memorialized in the press, which always makes my job easier. SS1/SB 101 (Townsend), which provides legal assistance to renters in landlord-tenant disputes, cleared the House Housing And Community Affairs Committee. Huge shout-outs not only to Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf, Rep. Bud Freel, and committee chair Kendra Johnson, but also […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, March 23, 2022
False advertising. At least for the most part. I couldn’t shut off my brain following what happened with LEOBOR Reform yesterday. I’m not sure my thoughts will make any more sense as I write them down, but I’m gonna try. In one inexplicable regard, what Tizzy Lockman did yesterday is unprecedented when it comes to […]
Song of the Day 3/23: Dead Kennedys, “Police Truck”
There’s a reason police act above the law: They are. The so-called “police bill of rights” is a list of special privileges that place them outside the laws that govern the rest of us, supposedly (we all know being white and rich makes you nearly as immune as a police badge). Anyway, here’s Jello Biafra’s […]
Meaningful LEOBOR Reform Was Dead As Soon As Sen. Lockman Took Charge
Talk about not learning from history. Tizzy Lockman chose the same failed path that Val Longhurst, for example, tried with the NRA and the Delaware Sportsmen’s Association. You know, involve ‘all the stakeholders’ in the conversation. As if you can negotiate with legislative hostage takers. Riddle me this, Batman. How many ‘stakeholders’, including community activists, […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 22, 2022
We’re in a legislative holding pattern. ‘Some’ would call it a slog. Passing nothing of any real importance while waiting (in vain) for them to consider something of importance. Anybody remember police reform? It likely won’t happen. This session may well have peaked when Medical And Family Leave passed. Ho-kay. I’ll try to make this […]
Townhouses Of Russian Oligarch Traced To Delaware Shell Corporations
One of Putin’s most notorious oligarchs–Oleg Derispaka. He owns two Manhattan townhouses, or, more accurately, they are owned by two separate Delaware shell corporations. Betcha they aren’t the only entanglements. Is everybody OK with that? Shouldn’t the General Assembly at least call the Secretary of State and its corporate enablers before a panel and ask […]
The Most Blatantly-Corrupt Bill Of The Session
Of many sessions, actually. For all involved, if you didn’t want your names besmirched in this piece, you never should have gotten involved, and stayed involved, in this grab of state land and money in order to line the pockets of some of the most unethical practitioners of the Delaware Way. At the beginning, we’re […]
Delaware Political Weekly: March 11-17, 2022
While there wasn’t much action this week, there is/was one potentially encouraging event. Here it is: 1. D Cyndie Romer Files Campaign Committee For RD 25. No, she hasn’t filed for the ballot yet. But she appears to be a very worthy possible successor to John Kowalko. First, here is her LinkedIn profile. What impresses […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., March 17, 2022
First, a shout-out to the Delaware State News for their legislative coverage. No, they’re not up to Matt Bittle levels yet, but the reporters have done a real good job of focusing on key bills. A couple of samples from yesterday: Municipal Elections. Abortion Meds. I very much like the fact that the reporters seek […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 16, 2022
Everything on both agendas passed. Nobody in the Senate cared about the Ft. DuPont rip-off or the giveaway to out-of-state veterans who would move here. A Delaware Way kind of day. We only have committee meetings today. Senate Committee highlights: SB 233 (Lockman) simply tries to formalize municipal voter registration by only requiring voter registration […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 15, 2022
I’ve been writing about the ethical sewer that is the Fort DuPont project since 2014. With no, no, impact on the General Assembly. Other advocates, armed with all sorts of empirical evidence on the irreparable harm the project could cause, have become part of the effort. With no, no, impact on the General Assembly. The […]
Delaware Political Weekly: March 4-10, 2022
1. Three-Way D Primary In SD 14–So Far. Including just the kind of character that makes Delaware politics so weirdly fascinating. That third candidate deserves, and will get, his very own intro music. Coming in just a graf or two. Or three. Kyra Hoffner, who had already announced, and who has previously been profiled here, […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 10, 2022
No burying the lede here: The House will consider the legalization and regulation of recreational marijuana today. The bill requires 25 yes votes (3/5 majority). If all D’s voted yes, the bill would pass with one vote to spare. There are 17 co-sponsors, all of them D. The following D’s are not sponsors on the […]
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