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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., April 11, 2019
The gun bills have been introduced. Supporters and opponents have mobilized. Just remember: Pretty much every mouthbreather who opposes these bills has nothing better to do than to drag their butts to Dover. About 200 of ’em. Over and over again. In poll after poll, support for reform measures is overwhelming. Here’s Matt Bittle’s […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., April 10, 2019
Finally! Some meat on dem bones. Randall Chase reports that the D’s are gonna go all-in on some serious gun control legislation: In addition to resurrecting proposed bans on certain firearms and ammunition magazines, Democrats also are proposing a new bill requiring anyone who wants to buy a gun in Delaware to obtain permission in […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., April 9, 2019
Why did the General Assembly take last week off? According to one former staffer, the reason is b/c the last time the Honorables spent five consecutive weeks in session, they all wanted to kill each other. They took the week off b/c presumably absence makes the heart less hostile. I’m speaking, of course, about those […]
The Republican Party Is An Ongoing Criminal Conspiracy: An Open Thread
It’s so obvious, yet, predictably, it is so rarely discussed, if at all. But on matters both macro and micro, the Party could be indicted under the RICO statutes, if said statutes applied to political parties. The purpose of this criminal conspiracy?: To retain power, even if it requires the destruction of democratic norms. No, […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., March 28, 2019
A ‘Just the facts, Ma’am’ edition due to time constraints and a few glitches in the legislative information system. (Memo to Legislative Council: You might want to take LIS for a test drive. It’s been a little temperamental lately. Nothing serious, though.) Don’t worry, ‘Teh Snark’ will return as warranted. The Senate unanimously passed legislation […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 27, 2019
Four D state reps voted against one of the most innocuous gun reform measures you could possibly imagine. Keeping loaded firearms away from kids would seem to be as cut-and-dried as you could get. Not to Andria Bennett, Bill Bush, Lumpy Carson, and Quin Johnson, it isn’t. Of the four, only Lumpy could even claim […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., March 26, 2019
Will the NRA once again kill common-sense gun reform? It’s possible. The House is scheduled to consider HB 63(Lynn) today. The bill: …revises the crime of “unlawfully permitting a child access to a firearm,” an existing class A misdemeanor under Delaware law. The offense is renamed “unsafe storage of a firearm” to place emphasis on […]
The Biden Campaign Is Doomed Before It Starts–And Joe Knows It
The ‘tell’ is Biden himself. You don’t publicly muse about whether you’re too old, whether the voters will think you’re too old, whether you can raise enough money to be competitive, whether you should announce you will only serve one term, whether you should make a VP pick before you even get in, if you’re […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., March 21, 2019
Wellwellwell,guess what issue has resurfaced with no warning whatsoever. Yep, it’s the slush fund for Del-Tech, this time with no automatic property tax provision. The bill allegedly was reported out of committee yesterday even though no notice was provided that the bill would even be considered in committee. None. Which is contrary to President Pro-Tem […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 20, 2019
Two notable bills passed yesterday: The Senate passed SB 25(Townsend), which increases the legal minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21. The House passed HB38(Bentz), which established early voting in Delaware. Uh, that’s not quite accurate. The Senate passed SS1/SB25, which was introduced in lieu of the original. The vote was 14 […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., March 19, 2019
Assuming that sick bay has emptied out, the Senate will consider legislation raising the permissible age to purchase tobacco products from 18-21 today. The momentum is clearly with the bill, and it would be difficult for prospective opponents, especially D opponents, to vote against the bill. If all the members are on hand today, the […]
AG Jennings Goes BIG!
I can safely say that no Attorney General in Delaware history has ever introduced a criminal justice reform package as sweeping as the one that was announced today. Here is the press release in its entirety: Delaware General Assembly Delaware Department of Justice Delaware Office of Defense Services For Immediate Release: March 14, 2019 […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., March 14, 2019
I guess that the ‘good news’ on a day with virtually no news is that several worthy bills previously discussed here cleared committees yesterday. Other than SB 17(Hansen), which addresses genetic discrimination in health insurance coverage, virtually every major bill discussed here yesterday passed out of committee. Including: HB 63(Lynn); HB 38(Bentz); HB 39(Viola); SB […]
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