Delaware
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 25, 2021
We’re seeing the forces arrayed against progressive legislation flexing their muscles. The Democratic forces. The keys remain John Carney and Speaker Pete. Carney acts like he’s not really paying attention to specific bills (‘ I’m looking forward the the debate on (fill in the blank)’. As if. Speaker Pete buries bills that Carney doesn’t want. […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, March 25, 2021
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but ever since The Last Guy left DC the news has lacked the crisis-a-minute pace it maintained for four years. Say what you want about the voters of Arizona, at least they’re smart enough to be turned off by Kyrsten Sinema’s Joe Manchin impersonation. Her poll numbers back home […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Tuesday’s Activity Report. You will note that HB 88 (K. Williams) cleared the Business Lapdog Committee. There was one unfavorable vote on the move to eliminate the training and teen sub-minimum wage. You don’t suppose–that committee member Mike Ramone would engage in yet another conflict-of-interest vote so soon after being exposed as a serial conflict-of-interest […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 23, 2021
But first, a quick look back at a productive legislative session that took place on March 18. These bills passed and moved across the Hall to the opposite chambers: SB 15; HB 20; and HB 33. Excellent bills. The fates of HB 20 and HB 33 are likely not in doubt. However, John Carney is […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 18, 2021
Today is $15 Minimum Wage Day in the Senate. SB 15 (Walsh) cleared the Senate Labor Committee yesterday, and is the first item on today’s Senate Agenda. I predict 14-7, maybe Lopez goes ‘not voting’. Can we talk for a minute over Our PAL Val Longhurst and her continued ineptitude in running gun control bills? […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 17, 2021
The Big News: SB 15, the $15 Minimum Wage bill, will be heard in committee today, and has been placed on tomorrow’s Senate Agenda. All 14 Senate Democratic senators are on the bill as sponsors, so, barring some unforeseen circumstance, it will pass in the Senate. Which is when the real work begins. Here’s yesterday’s […]
General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 16, 2021
We can’t let last Thursday’s session go w/o mentioning the latest musings of Delaware’s Least Woke (Awake?) legislator. SB 56 (Sturgeon), which ‘codifies the Opportunity Fund, an additional source of educational funding for Delaware public schools intended to support the increased needs of low income and English learner students, and establishes the parameters for how […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, March 14, 2021
Among the generally strong reviews of Joe Biden’s first presidential address, a few pundits are pointing out that the most important part wasn’t even spoken out loud: The overthrow of Ronald Reagan and the GOP’s insistence that “the government is the problem.” It’s even being noted that the current Joe Biden is a lot more […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 11, 2021
Difficult to turn this into anything but a ‘just the facts, ma’am’ edition. Here’s yesterday’s Session Activity Report. If you can turn these lemons into lemonade, you should be writing for Delaware Liberal. Here are today’s Senate and House Agendas. Let’s talk a little bit about HB 31, which eliminates language in the Delaware Code […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, March 11, 2021
The first shelter dog in the White House didn’t stay there too long: Major, the younger of the Bidens’ German Shepherds, was banished to Delaware after nipping a Secret Service agent, and Champ had to go with him. I think Marjor deserves a pardon — he probably smelled Trump on the guy. Face of the […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, March 10, 2021
The Minimum Wage Bill has been introduced. Glad to see that all three of our elected officials in my RD (Larry Lambert, Kyle Evans Gay, and Sarah McBride) are on the bill. If your legislators aren’t on the bill as sponsors, you know what to do. The bill has correctly been assigned to the Senate […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, March 8, 2021
The initial Joint Finance Committee hearings are over (budget mark-up will come later), so the General Assembly will be working up until an Easter break. The House will not officially reconvene until Thursday. However, House committees will meet both today and tomorrow. The Senate will convene today. Perhaps the biggest news is the imminent introduction […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, March 7, 2021
Interesting article at Daily Kos examining the congressional districts with the biggest voting shifts in the presidential race from 2016 to 2020. The Republicans made big Latino-fueled gains in south Florida and south Texas, while Democrats picked up strength in some surprising areas — north Texas, nearly all of Colorado and, most surprising to me, […]
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