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General Assembly Pre-Game Show: April 28-30, 2015

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General Assembly Pre-Game Show: April 28-30, 2015

OK. Let’s put a stop to the idiocy that was the rumor that Gov. Markell would cut some kind of deal with the Rethugs on ‘Right to Work For Less’.  It never made sense. Why? Because the bills won’t pass the General Assembly, and will not get a single D vote. Plus, the governor has little influence over the General Assembly any more. He would have zero if he made that move.  ‘Multiple legislators’, Nancy? I call bullshit. Any legislator who would float that rumor should recognize that doing so makes it less likely, not more likely, that HB 50 would pass.

Yes, Monsignor Lavelle’s SB 54 is scheduled for ‘consideration’ in Wednesday’s Senate Labor & Industrial Relations Committee. Now, before you conspiracy theorists get your collective knickers in a bunch, here is the membership of that committee:

Chairman: Marshall

Members: Cloutier
Hocker
McBride
Peterson
Poore

4 D’s, 2 R’s, one of the R’s generally votes with labor.  Now, do you really suppose that Jack Markell asked Marshall for a ‘solid’, and that Marshall agreed?  Markell emasculated Marshall’s last minimum wage bill, and tried to privatize the Port of Wilmington over his objections.  Use your heads, pipples. You’re better than this.

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