Tag: Rep. Melanie Smith Delaware

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., May 15, 2014

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., May 15, 2014

Today’s House Agenda features HB 308(M. Smith), ‘create(s) an Office of the Common Interest Community Ombudsman’ to address disputes between developers and residents in communities ‘created by legal documents drafted by the developer and…intended to be managed by those living in these communities. As someone who did a lot of constituent service work, I can tell you that there were a lot of issues that could have used this mechanism to resolve w/o going to court. I think this is a real good bill. Once again, excellent legislating from Melanie Smith, one of the General Assembly’s best.

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General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 5, 2012

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No doubt the big action of the day will take place in party caucuses, where members of the Joint Finance Committee will brief members on the markup of the budget.

It’s always possible (wishful thinking, I know) that, after two weeks of soul-searching away from Dover, some legislators may announce that they’ve decided to retire. Of course, careful readers have already detected the Jeff Goldblum-sized Fly in the ointment, the very notion of soul-searching by politicos.

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