Bipartisanship

There is no bipartisanship when it comes to guns.

The reason: primaries.

My Republican colleagues fear a challenge from the right wing if they deviate from the party line.

Ditto for family planning or abortion.

A Republican member said to me, “I can’t touch family planning. That’s Planned Parenthood.”

Education is another matter.

Later today, the Kirwan Commission will announce its preliminary recommendations for funding our pre-K-12 public schools.

Yesterday, Governor Hogan announced that he was for a “lock box” constitutional amendment to ensure that slots money is used for additional spending, not to meet our existing statutory obligations.

You can read about it on the front page of today’s Sun.

Democratic members have already announced that they would be introducing such legislation.

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