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With veto, path to legal weed in Delaware open but fraught with unpredictability
Ought to he determine to push ahead and try and override Carney, Osienski would want to carry no less than 25 of the 26 sure votes, together with Republicans Mike Ramone, Mike Smith and Jeff Spiegelman. None had supported the legalize-and-regulate invoice in March.
Sturgeon stated supporters will likely be underneath stress from their events to change their vote, particularly her fellow Democrats within the Home.
“Are any of the individuals who initially voted sure going to be influenced by the truth that the governor is so strongly in opposition to legalization, that they’d not vote sure if it’s an override to the governor?’ she requested.
“For some individuals which may make a distinction. Now that they’re going to need to put their vote on the road to override the governor’s veto, are they nonetheless going to be a daring sure?”
The underside line, she stated, is that it’s “very tough to make a prediction.”
Sen. Trey Paradee, the prime sponsor in his chamber, didn’t reply to a request for an interview with WHYY Information. However Paradee issued a press release with Senate President Professional Tem Dave Sokola that didn’t mince phrases.
“The members of the Delaware Normal Meeting have been combating for years to finish the failed struggle on marijuana,’’ their assertion stated, “and we is not going to be stopped by this newest setback.”
Tax-and-regulate invoice depending on override of legalization veto
The problem of the tax-and-regulate measure is one other matter.
The invoice had sufficient help to clear the three-fifths majority of 25 votes, however then there was a medical snag. Co-sponsor Larry Mitchell, an Elsmere Democrat, was sick and didn’t be part of the assembly just about.
Regardless of Mitchell’s absence nicely into the legislative day, Osienski determined to name for a vote and it solely acquired 24 votes. Not one of the three Republicans who voted for legalization voted sure, however Schwartzkopf did.
However with the invoice about to be defeated, Schwarzkopf prompted Osienski to alter his vote to no. That’s a procedural transfer that enables Osienski to carry it up for a vote once more earlier than the Normal Meeting adjourns on June 30. Solely a lawmaker whose vote is a “no” can carry up a invoice that fails for reconsideration.
Mitchell, who voted for the legalization measure, has not returned repeated calls from WHYY Information.
In the meantime, Osienski has three legislative days from the date of that vote — on this case June 9, due to the recess — to name for a majority vote to resurrect the invoice for reconsideration. If that will show profitable, he might instantly name for a brand new vote on the invoice, or accomplish that anytime by way of June 30, the ultimate day of the legislative session.
Such a transfer may want to attend till the Normal Meeting decides whether or not to override the veto, nonetheless, one supply informed WHYY Information.
That’s as a result of the state can’t tax and regulate a product that’s nonetheless unlawful, so there’s no sense in organising a regulatory construction if the veto isn’t overridden.
Whereas Patchell needs the regulation piece accredited, she stated legalization with out the creation of a rising and retail market would nonetheless profit marijuana customers.
“Each week that passes with out repealing the penalties for easy possession, now we have one other over 100 people which have a easy hashish possession offense,’’ she stated.
“It places in any other case law-abiding residents into pointless regulation enforcement interactions with intrusive searches and every kind of different collateral penalties that include these stops. And it’s diverting police manpower and assets away from actual crime that has precise victims to cope with a matter that has nothing to do with public security.”
Patchell and Osienski additionally stated individuals are nonetheless going to devour marijuana whether or not the regulation is modified or not.
Osienski identified that authorized gross sales in New Jersey approached $2 million on April 21, the primary day of retail gross sales. Within the first month of enterprise, authorized marijuana gross sales in NJ totalled $24 million.
“Till we set up the same market in Delaware,” Osienski stated, “individuals will proceed to acquire marijuana illegally right here by way of the illicit market or ship tax income throughout the Delaware Memorial Bridge to New Jersey.”
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*Update – Suspect in Custody* Detectives Investigating Shooting at Rehoboth Restaurant Parking Lot – Delaware State Police – State of Delaware
Delaware State Police continue to investigate a shooting that occurred at the Big Chill Surf Cantina parking lot in Rehoboth. Through investigative means, detectives identified the suspect responsible for the shooting as 28-year-old Jonathan Blackwell of Milford, Delaware and obtained a warrant for his arrest for several felony offenses.
On June 30, 2024, Blackwell was taken into custody in Pennsylvania. Upon extradition to Delaware, he will be charged with the following crimes:
- Assault 1st Degree (Felony)
- Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony (Felony)
- Carrying a Concealed Deadly Weapon – Firearm (Felony)
The Delaware State Police Troop 4 Criminal Investigations Unit continues to investigate this incident. Detectives are asking anyone who has information regarding this incident to contact Detective J. Hill at 302-752-3792. Information may also be provided by sending a Private Facebook Message to the Delaware State Police, by contacting Delaware Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIP-3333, or via the internet at www.delawarecrimestoppers.com.
If you or someone you know is a victim or witness of a crime or have lost a loved one to a sudden death and need assistance, the Delaware State Police Victim Services Unit / Delaware Victim Center is available to offer you support and resources 24 hours a day through a toll-free hotline at 1-800-VICTIM-1 (1-800-842-8461). You may also email the Victim Services Unit at DSP_VictimServicesMail@delaware.gov.
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100 Years Ago, 1924: When officers handling fireworks, seized under instructions of Mayor S.E. Turner, were storing them in a cell last night, one of the packages containing several dozen boxes of torpedoes dropped to the floor and exploded. Prisoners were greatly excited as the torpedoes let go, and the corridors of the cell room began to fill with acrid smoke. There were shouts of “let us out” heard from men locked up. For a time it was feared more fireworks would go off and the officers hurriedly moved them from the cell into the corridor. Windows were lowered and the smoke soon cleared.
75 Years Ago, 1949: Bumper-to-bumper traffic lined highways through Chester on Friday night and again this morning as the big 4th of July race to the shore, the mountains, Shangri La … anywhere but home … began for thousands of travelers. Second of the three-day holidays of 1949, this Independence Day will see more cars on the road than at any time in the postwar period, according to traffic engineers of Keystone Automobile Club. Pennsylvania Railroad officials have placed 48 additional trains into service over a five-day period starting Friday to take care of “near-peak” train travel. Louis Kapelski, manager of Chester-Bridgeport Ferry Co., says he has geared his four-ferry service to handle 1,000 cars an hour during the holiday.
50 Years Ago, 1974: Delaware County motorists will find plenty of gasoline for the July 4 holiday period, but users of one brand will be paying four cents a gallon more. “The supply of gasoline is plentiful,” said James Breslin of Media, a director of the Pennsylvania Service Station Dealers Association. While plenty of gas was reported available, Gulf Oil Co. Monday announced a four cents across-the-board price hike.
25 Years Ago, 1999: By tonight, Newtown Township will have a brand new road — and fewer traffic woes, it’s hoped. The Winding Way Bypass, linking Route 252 to West Chester Pike across a 22-acre portion of the SAP America Inc. property, is scheduled to be open to traffic tomorrow morning.
10 Years Ago, 2014: Chichester School Board passed the 2014-15 final budget totaling nearly $68.7 million in expenditures. The budget includes a 1 percent property tax increase, raising the school district’s millage rate to 39.0708 mills. Last month’s preliminary version of the budget had proposed a 2 percent tax increase. The predicted increase is due to rising health care costs, an increase in pension payments owed to the Public School Employees’ Retirement System, and an increase in charter and cybercharter school enrollments.
— COLIN AINSWORTH
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Police, firefighters, EMS crews in Brookhaven, Delaware County awarded for saving man's life in Lowe's
BROOKHAVEN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — Police, firefighters, and EMS crews in Brookhaven, Delaware County, worked together months ago to save a 22-year-old from cardiac arrest inside a Lowe’s.
On Tuesday, they received citations at the Brookhaven Borough Council meeting.
The incident happened back on April 14.
Crews were called to the scene for reports of a cardiac arrest. At the store, officers found a man unresponsive on the ground.
Through their hard work, responders were able to restore the man’s pulse in the store before rushing him to the hospital.
It took 11 people to save the man’s life, authorities say.
Action News Photographer Dave Edwards has more on the heroic story in the video above.
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