Delaware
BREAKING: Chief Justice Strine To Step Down
Here’s Xerxes Wilson’s story: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2019/07/08/leo-strine-delaware-supreme-courts-chief-justice-steps-down/1672795001/ Here’s what sucks: Carney will nominate his replacement.
DL Political Hot-Stove League: The State Senate
‘Hot-stove’ not to be taken literally, of course. But there will be some significant change in the Senate, and I figured that it’s time to talk about it. So today we look at every State Senate district that will be up in 2020, and examine what could happen. Senate District 1: Incumbent Senator Harris B. […]
Legislative Leftovers: A Few Post-July 1 Crumbs
*While the first leg of a constitutional amendment permitting ‘no-excuses absentee voting’ was stalled by Rethugs in the Senate, another bill with much more potential to enable early voting passed both houses and was signed into law. HB 38 (Bentz) ‘establishes in-person early voting in Delaware beginning January 1, 2022. Registered voters will be allowed […]
Joe Biden Caused More Harm To Minorities Than Any Other D In Recent Memory
Busing was only a small part of it. Although that’s important. A lot of blacks didn’t like busing either, and a lot of whites hated it. Which can in no way forgive Biden’s defense of ‘state’s rights’ and ‘voluntary busing’. As if states that sent his segregationist friends to DC were going to do anything […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Sun., June 30, 2019
Based on what’s come before, it’s entirely fitting that this first session of the General Assembly draws to a close with the passage of two money bills with contents hidden far from the prying eyes of the public. On Thursday, the Senate passed the Bond Bill with no notice whatsoever. The bill was not made […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., June 27, 2019
It’s June 27. Do you know where your Bond Bill is? It has not yet been unveiled. There was speculation that it might be run today. If so, it will be run with no time for the public to look at it. For all the self-congratulations surrounding the signing of the Budget Bill, the two […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., June 26, 2019
Whoa. Talk about lack of notice. Check this out from Legislative Council: The Joint Finance Committee will meet Sunday, June 30 in the JFC Hearing room to draft the grant-in-aid bill. Sunday, June 30? The last day of session? That means that the public will not see what goodies are being tucked into this bill […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., June 25, 2019
Let’s see…our spies report that Our PAL Val and Nicole ‘No Longer’ Poore have snuck (sneaked?) $6 mill into (presumably) the Bond Bill for a levee to protect the Underground City At Ft. DuPont. And our spies report that Pistol Pete has ordered that the ‘Do Your Fucking Job’ bill aimed at Kathy Kramedas McGuiness […]
Kerri Evelyn Harris Says What No Other Delaware Democrat Dares
Kerri Evelyn Harris joined scores of black politicians in condemning Joe Biden’s inarticulate-at-best remarks about getting along with segregationist senators early in his career. She told the Huffington Post, “That comment really took me back. It shows how removed he is at this moment of rising racial tensions that are coming back not unlike during […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., June 20, 2019
Gotta work today. Less snark, less…everything. Minimum wage legislation was not released by the Senate Finance Committee. For all we know, the committee never met and never considered the bill. When the committee chair posts a notice but provides no notice as to what will be considered, we’re all in the dark. A series of […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: June 19, 2019
Sometimes it’s the little details that nag at me. Can someone explain why HB 73, which is the first leg of a constitutional amendment to legalize ‘no-excuses absentee voting’, has been bypassed on the Senate Agenda for three consecutive sessions? It remains on today’s Senate Agenda, but at the very bottom of it. I know, […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., June 18, 2019
While we still have two more weeks to slog through, I see no reason not to write the post-mortem on this disaster of a legislative session. It’s basic: A Democratic governor and Democratic legislative leaders failed in their responsibilities to put forward a Democratic agenda. John Carney governed as if he was still Budget Director. […]
AYFKM??!! McBride And Carney Kill Minimum Wage Increase
No, this is not an ‘alternative universe’ exercise in imagination. Matt Bittle has the gory details in this story: Senate President Pro Tempore David McBride’s decision to hold legislation that would raise the minimum wage to $15 has implications that go beyond the numbers… Although the proposal was released from one committee, it has been […]
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