Seaford’s Asinine Bullshit Breaking Nationally

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Just wait until the national media learns that Seaford's "corporations can vote" plan also includes giving African Americans  3/5ths of a vote.

A Delaware city is set to give corporations the right to vote in elections

The state of Delaware is famously business-friendly. With more than 1.8 million entities registered in the First State, companies outnumber its human residents by nearly two-to-one. One city is now moving to raise businesses' influence in the state even further, with a proposal to grant them the right to vote. Seaford, a town of about 8,000 on the Nanticoke River, amended its charter in April to allow businesses — including LLCs, corporations, trusts or partnerships — the right to vote in local elections. The law would go into effect once both houses of Delaware's state legislature approve it.

DELAWARE CALL REPORTS – United Food and Commercial Workers Local 27 get “95%” of demands

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Strikes (and threats of strikes) work.

Kentmere Workers Secure New Contract

On Friday, workers represented by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 27 at Kentmere Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Wilmington voted unanimously to ratify a new contract. Notching a victory not only for themselves, but providing an example for workers across the region that collective action can garner positive results. Two weeks of informational pickets in April organized by workers and UFCW 27 representatives, along with a rally on Kentmere Parkway, coaxed management to the negotiating table and last week workers approved the newly negotiated terms.

DL Open Thread Wednesday June 21 2023

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1) Fuck Hunter Biden. That said - for Republicans everything is always about presidential electoral politics and nothing is ever about policy. Since they are widely hated for their policies (and because they are awful), they have to make their opponent MORE awful in the eyes of low info voters. That was easy with Hillary Clinton. It was harder to do with Biden, but the project NEVER stops. It is relentless and bottomless. 2) "Sweetheart deal". That's what the DOJ kept trying to give to Trump. When Merrick Garland’s made the decision to not investigate Trump for trying to overthrow the government because Republicans might get mad - that was a pretty fucking sweet deal.
A Washington Post investigation found that more than a year would pass before prosecutors and FBI agents jointly embarked on a formal probe of actions directed from the White House to try to steal the election. Even then, the FBI stopped short of identifying the former president as a focus of that investigation.