Tag: Sen. Greg Lavelle
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., June 30, 2015
“HOSTAGE-TAKERS WIN. YOU LOSE.”
That will likely be the headline from the last day of session barring something unexpected.
Especially with the Rethugs seemingly determined to abdicate any responsibility to be, um, responsible. For purely id(iot)eological reasons, the R’s have tied any willingness to cooperate to screwing workers through their obsessive need to push for ‘right to work for less’. They have also abandoned any pretense of thinking for themselves, leaving all talking points to their ALEC overlords. Check out their refusal to stop the escalating infrastructure crisis from getting any funding. Check out the result. Greg Lavelle perhaps cemented (the use of ‘cemented’ is deliberate) his position as the Worst Legislator in the General Assembly by his phony demands for ‘reform’ which, for anyone paying attention, simply is a transfer of administrative costs from the Transportation Trust Fund to the operating budget w/o providing a mechanism to pay for it:
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., June 27, 2013
Now the days dwindle down to a precious few two… Today and Sunday, and it’s a wrap for the first session of the 147th Delaware General Assembly. We are not in the denouement phase just yet, but we’re getting there. The Senate will give final approval to the Budget Bill today, the House will likely […]
NRA Chooses Greg Lavelle and Ernie Lopez to Scuttle Criminal Background Checks.
Any doubts that the Delaware Republican Party is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Rifle Association should now be laid to rest. Former NRA Executive Director (and State Rethug Chair) John Sigler has anointed his serial bloviator and vice-chair Sen. Greg Lavelle as the person best-suited to kill mandatory criminal background checks on firearms transactions. With an assist from self-styled ‘moderate’ Sen. Ernie Lopez.
Lavelle’s tortured explanation as to what his newly-proposed legislation would do goes like this. According to the News-Journal quote, his bill:
“…doesn’t mandate background checks. It doesn’t create a registration. It allows people to make smart decisions for themselves.“
Great. Because people always make smart decisions for themselves. Especially when it comes to deadly weapons that they’re unloading for cash. And, if they don’t, they could be in trouble once the bodies are scraped off the bloody sidewalk.
Lavelle’s attempt to scuttle criminal background checks would make ‘it a crime to sell a firearm to someone prohibited from possessing guns’. Got that? It would be up to the seller to conduct a criminal background check on a prospective purchaser. (Or, perhaps, to look soulfully into their eyes.) Except, of course, any seller would not have access to any sort of data base. And Ernie Lopez, marching in lockstep, has proposed a bill to increase penalties for those who ‘knowingly’ sell firearms to someone prohibited.
Even by NRA standards, this is pathetic. Without background checks, the gun sales addressed by HB 35 would be ‘unaddressed’ by the Lavelle and Lopez proposals. After all, under their proposals, ignorance is a deliberate defense. ‘I didn’t know that this guy was a three-time loser.’ All righty then.
Let’s call this for what it is: An attempt to muddy the waters just enough to deep-six common-sense legislation.
It’s up to you to let your legislators know that you will not stand for this.
And for you Brandywine Hundred/Greenville denizens who supported Greg Lavelle and, for that matter, Ernesto Lopez last time? They’re both up for reelection in 2014.
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