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Delaware General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Tues., June 14, 2016.
Today’s House Agenda leads off with a bill that increases penalties for talking or texting on a hand-held device while driving. I support the bill, although I question the assertion that ‘novice drivers’ are most likely to ignore the law. Based on my observations, virtually everybody ignores the law. The bill also adds points for a second offense and thereafter. Good.
The agenda is highlighted by two anti-discrimination bills. HB 316 (Heffernan) ‘makes it clear that an employer is expressly prohibited from taking adverse employment action against an individual based on his or her reproductive health care decisions. HB 317 (Rep. K. Williams) ‘prohibits discrimination in employment based upon an individual’s caregiving responsibilities’.
HB 400 (Baumbach) incrementally, and I mean incrementally, expands the use of marijuana oils for minors. This time, by ‘by classifying pain, anxiety, or depression, if related to a terminal illness, as a qualifying condition in the Delaware Medical Marijuana Act for patients under the age 18, who will still be restricted to using CBD and oil products.’ The only thing objectionable about this bill is that it accepts the notion that any minor who could incidentally ‘get high’ via governmental imprimatur must be prevented at all costs.
Delaware 2012 Politics Weekly-Jan. 6-13
Looks like the Rethugs will have something like a statewide ticket after all. Chad Livengood’s Sunday News-Journal piece pieces it together. The R’s are calling it something like the ‘real people ticket’, which presumably is better than the ‘just some guys’ ticket. (Bleep, Daily Kos stole my line before I could even publish this.)
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., Jan. 10, 2012
In January, legislators’ thoughts turn to…bath salts. And reelection. And with the ‘honorables’ back in Dover for the not-so-spring training portion of the legislative schedule, the banning of bath salts is the one certainty awaiting them.
‘Bulo’s 2011 Top 10 MVPs (Most Valuable to the Progressive Cause)
2011 was a mixed year for progressivism in Delaware. We saw tremendous strides on social issues, especially equal rights for all Delawareans. We also saw the ongoing embrace between prominent D elected officials and the Billionaires on the Hill, to the detriment of the other 99%. We saw the emergence of the ‘We Are the 99%’ movement via OWS which, nationally was the best thing to happen for the progressive cause since 1964. We saw ongoing corruption, inbreeding and cronyism in the Delaware General Assembly. We saw the first legitimate attempts to challenge the rot at the core of the Delaware Way.
Why Beau Biden Had to File Suit Against MERS and the Crooks Behind MERS…
…Because the Feds and state attorneys-general drafting this deal have come up with terms so pitifully weak that these negotiators make Nevil Chamberlain look like Scott Boras by comparison. That’s why.
Delaware General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 28, 2011
As we move into the last week of this session, here is what absolutely must happen in the next three days: * The Budget Bill, already passed in the House, must pass in the Senate. *The Bond Bill must pass both houses *The Grant-In-Aid bill must pass both houses (a grant-in-aid bill is not legally […]
HUGE Story: Tigani Pleads Guilty to Election Charges
The Delaware Way is beginning to crumble. The indictment and guilty plea of Chris Tigani, all taking place within a matter of hours this afternoon, could well hasten its demolition. First, read the story, it’s that important. Here’s a key excerpt: Prosecutors said Tigani, who made headlines for a series of legal battles with his […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Tues., May 10, 2011
The big news is that we can no longer pretend that Gov. Jack Markell has any concern for those who have struggled due to the prolonged economic downturn. While proposing cuts for Medicaid recipients, cutting scholarship assistance to Delaware college students, squeezing state employees’ benefits by calling them ‘unsustainable’, Gov. Markell has relentlessly pushed for […]
House Redistricting Moving In Another Direction?
Possibly. And I’m not sure I like the direction it may be heading. There seems to be an emerging consensus that all four Wilmington districts may survive redistricting. The alternative, which is possible, would be for Gerald Brady’s district to disappear. As it turns out, seniority would place Brady at a disadvantage amongst the Wilmington […]
Delaware Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., April 13. 2011
Time to call the Diminutive Despot’s bluff. Tony DeLuca’s SB 50, which would putatively open the entire Senate redistricting process to the public, passed unanimously in the Senate. It was a cheap and free vote. Unless…the House Speaker, (a) recognizing the sincerity of the Napoleonic Martinet, with which he has plenty of first-hand experience; and […]
Time To Make the Districts: Part Deux
In Which We Create Two A Brand New Senate Districts. OK, some simple math. If you create two new senate districts, and if you leave the total number of senate districts at 21, then two existing districts must disappear. In our last, perhaps too much ‘inside baseball’- laced treatise, I identified Senate District 3, currently […]
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