First: it is an executive’s prerogative to hire or fire anyone he wants…
Second: Usually such firings are done to intimidate others not to challenge authority… Like putting thieves on crosses, it says, here is what happens to those who don’t lick my ass.
Third: It means some real shit is coming down the pipe and anything clogging the upcoming flow will create a huge stinky mess.
My first reaction was that my, this was a blow to parents to have one of the few people who is not a slave to the corporate entities,” removed from looking over these bills in detail.
My second reaction a moment later, was that my, now we can really get things done…
Let me explain. Committees are the black hole of government. Bills go in there and very few people report on what happens while there but we cheer if they come out and boo if they don’t. John was on the committee that sent SB 51 to the House floor; he was on the committee that sent HB 165 to the House floor. He was on that committee that sent HB 334 to the House Floor. He voted against every single one. Point is: what good did it do? They are all laws now.
But while out of legislature this year John has been instrumental in helping parents of Christina bring their concerns before the general public… Even the News Journal has turned against Jack Markell. John has been everywhere he needs to be, even on WDEL. Last spring, John was the prime legislator mover getting Newark citizens involved in TDC’s annulment. One can, just by making the simple comparison between his advocacy for Newark’s citizens compared to that of Baumbach’s, who seemed to pull back as the threats began to mount, is enough to convey the idea of how fearless john is, when he takes the concerns of his constituents to heart.
We need John’s voice now more than ever. Having it bottled up in a committee where he is the lone dissenting vote, thereby silencing him for months from the public’s eye, would bode ill for all Delaware’s children… He is now free, (with no strings to hold him back) to plaster the Markell administration with tons of truth sticky-notes Truths which will tie Markell up as he is forced to defend; something that has not happened yet in his six years.
This removal is probably the best thing that could have happened. What will happen in the committee will still get relayed to John, he will continue to be on top of it, who can then relay it to Allan at noon and night… A much smarter move for Schwartzkoph would have been to have kept him on that committee, Tied down, bedazzled, and worn thin….
As far as its intimidative effect, that depends on what John accomplishes now as Delaware’s children’s advocate. If he (and we), can make it so unacceptable to be viewed Schwartzkoph’s butt- clone, very few legislators will fall in line for fear of being voted out of office next election, This can easily happen (No legislator votes for something he knows will get him fired in the next election) now that children in Delaware finally have a advocate.
I’m looking forward to this legislative session. it won’t be the first where the Delaware Way (not Nancy) gets its way on stacking committees in its favor. It could, however, be the last….
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January 6, 2015 at 9:39 am
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January 6, 2015 at 10:17 am
delawareway
Is committee membership tantamount to being under gag order?
January 6, 2015 at 12:45 pm
anonymous
PS
Noteworthy, that house speaker Pete Schwartzkopf has removed Kowalko, a Democrat who opposes Markell’s plan for 6 Wilmington schools and that Kowalko has also been stripped of his Chairmanship of the House Energy Committee. A double hit.
January 6, 2015 at 2:50 pm
anonymous
Toxic Overlords // Toxic Overloads // Toxic Futures
One sees bits of truth occasionally swirling out of the flaming piles of nonsensical rubble that is at the common core of troubled childhood; but the sparks of truth soon fizzle out like dying spent fuel. Or truth be hosed down and raked out, as happened yesterday, by those that have a vested interest in seeing that truth is denied the proper, clean energy of survival.
The truth isn’t encased at a location. The truth isn’t enveloped in the shining costly new buildings, the high rent commercial district, turned ‘education’ tower. The truth doesn’t have a color. The truth isn’t reflected by political/corporate dictators.
Do the wheeler/dealers want to deliver the truth, or keep the fires burning.
What? And cut off the profitable pipelines to transportation concerns, builders, developers, unions, suppliers, tax revenues, federal and state funding, investor interests, corporate/political war chests, elections, coveted political positions. corporate balance sheets, the pipelines of the 1%er industrialized ‘educations’ that must be kept flowing and delivering, much like the dirtiest coal tar trains and fracked gas pipelines that feed endless, runaway climate change.
Then there’s the fact that Ace-ing the 3Rs doesn’t guarantee success. It’s not about their financial success, when daily, the accountant, the clergy, the doctor, the headmaster, the builder, the politician, the dealer, etc – go up in smoke.
Has anyone examined the bond of the parent/child, to see if it exists and is functioning, surviving. Has anyone considered that there are parent(s) who are in need of knowing, facing the truth, working, dealing with it, in order for the children to thrive, survive?
Perhaps it is the parent that needs an education called – “The Responsible Parent.” (Larger scale – ‘ Responsible Adult.’
And informed voters are needed to deliver ‘Responsible Leaders,’ not those responsible for where we are today.
Perhaps it is that every parent, (exceptions of course) need to walk, be bused to their local school rooms, for lessons to be taught and to be tested, graded. Perhaps followed by intensive programs if needed – (or be graded as “Failed” if that applies or if the parent is absentee.) And those parents should be directed to the PROPER social service that should address more intensive “Responsible” efforts. Help needs to be provided, dealing with slumlords, housing violations, various physical/mental abuses, employment, transportation, family court, etc. These are out of the realm of learning the 3Rs.. These are the responsibility of OTHER ‘social’ services, not high rent, high rise school rooms for kids.
One need only walk the so called ‘angry streets’ to see the truth the kids live with, 24/7. Markell knows it’s not the ‘streets’ and the PEOPLE KNOW it’s not the streets, the buildings, the school buildings that are angry and ‘mean.’ Yesterday revealed the anger of the public servants,,,who are more interested in furthering their own political interests by catering to the various corporate profits.
Leave no man or child stand in the way of profits.