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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, May 12, 2021
I’m really enjoying Matt Bittle’s blow-by-blow descriptions of the gun control hearings. He lets the witnesses speak for themselves. He’s worth the subscription, which is why I have one. The latest bill in question, SS1/SB3 (Lockman): …would mandate individuals seeking to buy a handgun first complete a training course before submitting an application to the […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, May 9, 2021
Former Gov. Pierre S. du Pont IV, known to all as Pete, died yesterday, age 86. Du Pont was elected governor in 1976 after the disastrous tenure of Sherman Tribbitt, and basically established the modern state of Delaware. He not only ushered in the legal usury that made Delaware a credit card capital, he pioneered […]
Delaware Liberal Endorses Kim Stock And Kecia Nesmith In Local School Board Elections
Kim Stock For Brandywine School Board. It’s almost impossible to imagine a better, and better-qualified, candidate for the Brandywine School Board. Kim Stock is Delaware’s current Teacher Of The Year. She has been a tremendously-effective and inclusive educator during her career. Just check out these excerpts from the press release following her having been named […]
Protesters Target Home of National Embarrassment Chris Coons
Delawareans elect a lot of corporate tools who pretend to be Democrats, but of all the corporate tools, Sen. Chris Coons has become the corporate tooliest. In today’s more progressive Democratic Party, he stands out as a national embarrassment. See if you can follow this pathetic excuse for logic Coons trotted out in a speech […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, April 29, 2021
Biden’s speech is getting good reviews — I thought I heard thunder last night, but it was just exploding Republican heads — but not so much for the rebuttal from South Carolina Sen. “Uncle Tim” Scott. He claims America is not a racist country. Hey Tim, the kapos at the Nazi death camps were Jews. […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, April 29, 2021
Not much to report from yesterday other than that the bills we featured were all released from committee. Here is yesterday’s Session Inactivity Report. Fortunately, there are some interesting bills on today’s agendas. Let’s have at ’em, starting with the House. Highlights from Today’s House Agenda: *HB 8 (Heffernan) ‘ mandates that the Department of […]
Holy Bleep Part Deux!!: Bill Freeborn Indicted On Felony Charges
Now, that’s what I call bipartisanship. Indict both a D and an R for violating the public trust. From WDEL: Separately, the former executive director of the Wilmington Neighborhood Conservancy Land Bank Executive Director was also indicted Tuesday. Bill Freeborn, a former Republican City Councilman in the nineties and prior Director of the Division of […]
General Assembly Pre-Game Show/Post-Game Wrap-Up: Wednesday, April 28, 2021
I’m still processing this Rebecca Walker story. Here’s the context for our current General Assembly: There really is a Cop Cabal. They do things, and refuse to do things, once the cops make their position known to them. Then-Rep. Walker did kill the ban on the death penalty bill in the House Judiciary Committee. Pete […]
Holy Bleep!! Former State Rep. Rebecca Walker Indicted For Falsifying Employment Records
You remember Rebecca Walker. She got herself a golden parachute job created just for her in the Office Of Forensic Science, formerly the Medical Examiner’s Office. Conveniently, the newly-created office ended up under the supervision of, wait for it, the police, essentially guaranteeing that incriminating evidence against cops would never see the light of day. […]
Who Should We Endorse In School Board Elections?
Actually, not just ‘Who Should We Endorse?’ But ‘Who Should We Oppose Because They Would Be Dangerous If Elected’? Oh, fuck. The first name that I see is Richard Forsten in Appo, an attorney/Rethug political hack. Seriously, nobody else filed? Pathetic. Here’s a link to the entire list: https://elections.delaware.gov/information/elections/school.shtml Click on your local districts, then […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, April 27, 2021
OK, Democratic legislators. You have the impetus for your reelection campaigns firmly in your grasp. Take it. The $15 minimum wage bill is very popular. You have but to pass it in the House, and send it to the Governor, who wouldn’t dare veto it. Speaker Pete: You can announce as early as today a […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, April 25, 2021
How did America’s police forces react to the Derek Chauvin verdict? They shot and killed six people in various jurisdictions. Hey, when all you have is a gun, everything looks like a target. Why do police escalate to fatal force so quikcly? It’s the training, stupid. Quick, show me another profession that allows union members […]
Song of the Day 4/22: Ennio Morricone, “For a Few Dollars More”
The proposal to increase Delaware’s minimum raise to $15 an hour over the next several years got a House committee hearing longer than a Sergio Leone spaghetti western yesterday. It could have used a theme song from Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer most famous for scoring Leone’s “Dollars” trilogy. Morricone’s scores were one reason those […]
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