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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., June 16, 2022
Gun bills are in the cross-hairs today. Man, when you look at the bills the House has sent over to the Senate, you can’t ignore the exceptions in them that make them thin gruel indeed. HB 450 (Longhurst), which purports to ‘prohibit the manufacture, sale, offer to sell, transfer, purchase, receipt, possession, or transport of […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 16, 2022
Ginni Thomas Acted As John Eastman’s Cheerleader: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has obtained email correspondence between Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and lawyer John Eastman, who played a key role in efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to block the […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., June 15, 2022
Kids, the term ‘gun safety’ only applies to the Kop Kabal package of bills in the sense that it’s used for PR purposes. If the bills that passed there yesterday become law, medical marijuana users too can possess weapons of mass destruction, the cops have complete control over criminal background checks, and there are so […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 14, 2022
What bills will the Kop Kabal allow to be considered this week? That, after all, is how business is conducted in the House. Don’t forget it. Act on it. Well, let’s look at today’s House Agenda. Want to know what the quintessential ‘bipartisan’ Delaware Way bill is this session? It’s HB 276 (Bennett), which leads […]
21 Reasons Why The Kop Kabal Must Go
Since they took power back in 2010, the Kop Kabal has routinely buried hundreds of progressive bills, sometimes at the behest of Governor Markell and Governor Carney, and most of the time because they either don’t like the sponsor and/or they are not progressive in the least. Keep in mind, since the Speaker names the […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 12, 2022
A Case Study In Trumpism: Six years into the grass-roots movement unleashed by Donald Trump in his first presidential campaign, Angela Rubino is a case study in what that movement is becoming. Suspicious of almost everything, trusting of almost nothing, believing in almost no one other than those who share her unease, she has in […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 11, 2022
Should Biden Run In 2024? Of course the answer is no. Most D’s will only speak anonymously. Not David Axelrod, though: “The presidency is a monstrously taxing job and the stark reality is the president would be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of a second term, and that would be a major […]
Delaware Political Weekly: June 3-9, 2022
1. Matt Meyer Publicly Supports Marijuana Legalization And Regulation. Here’s his op-ed: Delaware decriminalized small amounts of marijuana in 2015, but Delawareans, and disproportionately Black Delawareans, continue to be arrested for marijuana possession. According to an ACLU report of arrest data from 2018, Black Delawareans were more than four times more likely to be arrested […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 10, 2022
Five Takeaways From The Jan. 6 Hearings. First and foremost, Trump was at the center: They made it clear that, for all his ongoing bluster about stolen elections, Mr. Trump had knowingly spread claims about election fraud that people closest to him knew were false, tried to use the apparatus of government and the courts […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., June 9, 2022
The Senate didn’t pass the Budget Bill yesterday, and it’s not on today’s Agenda. Good. Gives us the weekend to scour the Epilog Language. The House Administration Committee released both HB 450 and HB 451 from committee yesterday. HB 450, the assault weapons ban, is on today’s House Agenda. I’ll be especially interested to see […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, June 9, 2022
Will Serial Sexual Predator Be Cleveland’s Starting QB This Year? Cleveland traded for this guy while completely aware of his alleged proclivities. His former team enabled his behavior, including requiring NDA’s from victims: The accusations have been frequent and startling: more than two dozen women have said the football star Deshaun Watson harassed or assaulted them […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., June 8, 2022
A productive day yesterday. Limits on assault weapons magazines passes in the Senate (will House weaken the bill again?); same-day voting registration passes the House. BTW, it’s official. Bill Bush is the House’s Joe Manchin. Only D to vote against same-day registration. Here is the Daily Activity Report for Tuesday. Could the Annual Budget pass […]
Kick Off Your Weekend With The Legendary Ingramettes
Soulful Gospel powerhouses: This Friday at 5:30 p.m. in the Arden Shady Grove, right below the Gild Hall. While most of the music will be sacred Gospel, secular beer and wine will be offered. Oh, and the Ingramettes will work wonders with Bill Withers’ ‘Grandma’s Hands’. We’ve also got a Gospel Choir from the local […]
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