General Assembly Post-Game Wrap=Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., March 22, 2012

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As predicted by Yours Truly, legislation adding public employees to the State Employee Benefit Committee has been assigned to buried in the House Administration Committee, where Pete Schwartzkopf will help Jack Markell kill the bill, just like Pete Schwartzkopf is helping Jack Markell to kill HB 126. While the House Administration Committee has generally been seen as the counterpart of the Senate Executive Committee, the leadership of the committee has rarely exercised the same kind of heavy-handed tactics employed by Thurman Adams and Tony DeLuca on the Senate side. That is, however, what they are doing with these two bills.

Calls For Sanford Police Chief To Resign Over Trayvon Martin Case

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Police chief Bill Lee, of Sanford police, has insisted he carried out a "fair and thorough" investigation of the killing and that he cannot arrest George Zimmerman because he has told police he shot the teenager in self-defence and there was no evidence to contradict his account.
A thorough investigation? Not a chance. No evidence to contradict Zimmerman's account? Well, if you don't look for or gather evidence then there won't be evidence, now will there? Gross incompetence of the Sanford Police would be a generous description at this point. Let's look at what the Sanford Police didn't do.

It Appears I’m Not Alone In Not Forgiving Komen

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A Komen insider told HuffPost that "employee morale is in the toilet" since Komen leadership made the controversial decision to defund Planned Parenthood, one of the nation's most prominent women's health and family planning organizations. The move was led by anti-abortion executive Karen Handel, then Komen's senior vice president for public policy, who has since resigned. "Brinker in complete meltdown," the source wrote to HuffPost. "People want her to resign but she won't."