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Posted in Delaware Democrats, Land Use, local government on Feb 3rd, 2012
I recently received a copy of a blog that you wrote entitled “Peterson Has Troubling Bill.” I wanted to take this opportunity to explain the bill, since it has nothing to do with “not properly providing notice in land use cases,” as stated in your blog. Section 8126 of Title 10 of the Delaware Code [...]
Posted in DE General Assembly, Delaware Democrats, Delaware GOP, corruption on Jan 26th, 2012
Would you like to know if your state legislator actually worked at his/her other state job? HB 176 by House Minority Leader Greg Lavelle would make public documents the timecards of state legislators. Yesterday, Democrats in the House Administrative committee defeated the measure on a party line vote. It was feared too many Democrats would [...]
Posted in Deficit, Delaware Democrats, Delaware GOP on Nov 8th, 2011
What is behind the half of billion dollar OOPS that turned a surplus into a deficit in 4 short months? Read the entire report here. A State budget deficit already?! The Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Committee (DEFAC) met on September 19th and the news isn’t encouraging.
Posted in Delaware Democrats, Liberty, Stuff on Nov 7th, 2011
Rep. Job Killer aka Kowalko has decided that a Delawarean sharing her concerns about local issues is spam. He asked Teresa Garcia of the 9/12 Delaware Patriots to take him off her “list”. What list was it? Was it advertisement? Was it an organizational news letter? No it was an issue letter expressing her concern [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats, Delaware GOP on Nov 5th, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: 302-668-1954 November 4, 2011 GOP Chair Calls on Administration to Explain Special Treatment for Occupy DE WILMINGTON – Delaware Republican Party Chairman John Sigler called on the Markell Administration to explain the special and preferential treatment that the administration is giving to the Occupy Delaware protestors. [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats, Delaware GOP on Jul 5th, 2011
There are many fine Democrats in Delaware, this post is not attempting to claim that anyone is opposed to civil rights. It is questioning whether the majority party is neglecting legitimate concerns. In an effort to carve out a job for then Senate Majority Whip and now President Pro Tem Tony DeLuca, the enforcement of civil rights [...]
Posted in DE General Assembly, Delaware Democrats, Reform, Stuff, civil liberties on Jun 27th, 2011
Black Elected Leaders are asking Delaware lawmakers to reconsider the current restricting plan set forth in the General Assembly by the Democratic Caucus. Delaware’s Black Caucus has accused the General Assembly’s Democratic leaders of “racial Gerrymandering,” and are asking that lawmakers, reconfigure the more heavily populated minority Senate and Representative Districts in Bear, Dover, New [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats on Jun 21st, 2011
There is a Delaware Voice column by Rep. Robert Gilligan (D-Wilmington) in the June 8 edition of the News Journal, paired with an opposing view offered by University of Delaware political science professor Chris Counihan. The topic: House Bill 55, the National Popular Vote Bill, which would give our state’s three electoral votes to the presidential [...]
Posted in Biden, DE General Assembly, Delaware Democrats, Satire, Stuff on May 22nd, 2011
Senator Anthony DeLuca must really be able to pull some strings. Attorney General Beau Biden knuckled under to pressure from the DeLuca clan and decided that when he works on his state job and when he works at the Legislature is none of the public’s business. It seems that revealing this bit of information could [...]
Posted in DE General Assembly, Delaware Democrats, Looney Left, National Dems on Apr 1st, 2011
Traditionally, I like to do an April Fools’ day post. This year, I cannot think of anything crazier than real life. It seems like the leaders of the Democrat party have gotten crazier after the election. In Delaware, the Democrats have been caught covering up widespread discrimination in their government. They got rid of the [...]
Posted in DE General Assembly, Delaware Democrats, Education on Mar 31st, 2011
Centralized planning has been the bane of modern education in my opinion. While the 21st century is becoming a century of individual sovergnity and localism through global networking, American education has been moving toward early 20th century central planning and stagnet bureaucracy. Despite the smart and honorable people in Delaware’s Department of Education (here after DoE), our [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats, corruption on Mar 29th, 2011
If the choice is between justice for people who have been discriminated against and plumb positions for the politically connected, it is an easy choice for Delaware Democrats. Get rid of civil rights enforcement and give the job to a top Democrat. If anyone has doubts that the Democrats’ care for minorities is an election [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats, Jack Markell, New Castle County Council on Feb 19th, 2011
Clear the Deck Friday saw New Castle County Executive Paul Clark’s wife, Pam Scott leave her law firm. It also saw Del DOT chief Carolann Wicks leave her post. Secretary Wicks announcement was a surprise late Friday afternoon to even Del DOT insiders and may have been more personally motivated, but the political implications are [...]
Posted in DE General Assembly, Delaware Democrats, Delaware GOP on Dec 12th, 2010
When Thurmond Adams was being threatened from the hard left, it made sense for Republicans to be a fire wall. I am not seeing the benefit of getting involved with the Katz v. DeLuca war. If I were a Republican Senator, I would take the best deal. The best deal would be the same consideration [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats on Sep 30th, 2010
Why did Coons and Carney sit silently after the rant by former Wilmington Councilman Norman Oliver on Channel 28, September 26? He stated that Republicans O’Donnell and Urquhart should be taken out. Mr. Oliver is the substitute host of Crossfire with Representative Hazel Plant. Tom from Wilmington Please complain don’t about the “Nazi quote” while [...]
Posted in DE General Assembly, Delaware Democrats, Delaware GOP, Election 2010, Guest Posts on Jul 31st, 2010
By Donald Ayotte Conservative Crossroads Staff Writer One of the hottest and most important races in Delaware is in full gear, with Republican Candidate, Chris Weeks’ ground troops campaigning door to door for Delaware’s Fourteenth Representative District Seat. Weeks is challenging incumbent Peter Schwartzkopf, the House Majority Leader for the privilege of representing the people [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats, Karen Weldin Stewart, corruption on Jul 29th, 2010
On the Department of Insurance website is a blistering statement refusing to give out information to Rep. Daniel Short and others because she says it will compromise her own investigation. I will accept that at face value. The question that I have is how do you comment on her site? There is no box for [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats, Election 2010, Guest Posts, corruption on Jul 27th, 2010
Today, Tuesday, July 27, I’ll be on WGMD radio with Bill Colley. We’ll be on from 5 to 6 PM. You can find WGMD at 92.7 on the FM dial. If you are out of range, click here to listen on the internet from anywhere in the world. The segment will focus on HB 487, [...]
Posted in Budget, Delaware Democrats, Delaware GOP, Election 2010, Jack Markell on Jun 24th, 2010
Governor Markell used his impending landslide to campaign with Democrats at the legislative level to support his agenda. Two sessions later, we have to ask would Governor Markell be better off with a Republican House? Yet another one of his government reform and cost cutting initiatives fell by the wayside. The legislature controls the purse strings [...]
Posted in DE General Assembly, Delaware Democrats, Marriage, same sex marriage on Jun 3rd, 2010
I support allowing members of a household to the right to purchase insurance for other members of their household through their job with their own money. I think it is a public good to allow people to have health and life insurance. I do not support HB 10 because it does not aim at achieving [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats, The Disgrace on May 23rd, 2010
Rent was appraised for 84K a month, a friend of Governor Minner got it for 1.5K a month. Nothing new, nothing good.
Posted in Delaware Democrats, Education, Family, Parental Rights on Apr 21st, 2010
My Representative and friend Darryl Scott D-31 has introduced house bill 231 to require employers provide up to 16 hours of unpaid leave a year to attend children’s school conferences and extra curricular events. Now it should noted that I rarely agree with Rep. Scott’s politics. My initial instincts are to oppose this bill as a mandate [...]
Posted in Delaware Blogs, Delaware Democrats on Apr 14th, 2010
You should look at the video of LiberalGeek interviewing Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart after the hearing yesterday. Her controller resigned, but I missed that in the paper. Sometimes the tough questions are from nontraditional sources. He asked tougher questions than the legislators. Great job, LG. This may be the real news out of the [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats, Taxes on Apr 7th, 2010
UPDATE: After an extensive conversation with Rep. Peter Schwartzkropf, I believe that the 3 am call never happened. I believe that the call happened at 8 pm as he contends and the press release is inaccurate. The rest is a matter of interpretation. The majority leader says that he had absolutely no intention of coming off [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats on Jan 19th, 2010
The nanny state wants you to slim down. The culprit is the lack of labeling on menus. The labeling on food bought in stores has had little effect, but labeling on menus will? Thank you Senator Sokola for look out for “your children”–uhm constituents.
Posted in Courts, Delaware Democrats on Jan 17th, 2010
We graciously allowed video taping outside of the chamber. With that the majority tossed someone documenting the hearing on the closed nature of family court.
Posted in Delaware Democrats, Delaware GOP, Election 2010 on Jan 17th, 2010
Updated The Republican Party needs a net gain of at least 4 seats in the Delaware House of Representatives. We have three Representatives retiring and two of those seats will be favorably disposed to keep a Republican in this environment. Representative Oberle’s retirement will be a gain for the Democrats unless the environment really sours for [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats, National Dems on Jan 9th, 2010
“It is a challenging time,” said Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. “When you’ve got as many people unemployed in the country as you do, it’s understandable that folks will be looking to their leaders to do everything possible to create jobs. As Democrats, there’s a burden of proof here.” I [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats, Delaware GOP, Election 2010 on Jan 7th, 2010
Bill Oberle and Pam Thornburg are retiring. Both were expected. Rep. Oberle’s retirement is good news for Democrats because the district will become a likely pick up for them. The 29th is another story. I think that it will be a Republican hold. It will be a challenge. My sources told me that Trey Paradee [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats on Jan 2nd, 2010
Guest Opinion, the year in review from the Democrat side of the Aisle 2009 Recap Despite extremely challenging times — by most accounts the greatest our state has faced in several decades — we were able to pass legislation in 2009 touching nearly every Delawarean in an ongoing effort to improve their quality of life. [...]
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