I usually wait until the floor debate to write my speech.

I try to respond to something another delegate has said. Even then I write my remarks only in my head.

Veto overrides tomorrow will be the first of many opportunities this session for the two parties to offer their different public policy approaches.

I’ve been asked to be ready to speak on the bill that would allow a person to vote who was imprisoned for a felony but is now free on parole or probation.

Voting “is something that should be a reward,” a Republican delegate asserted in today’s Baltimore Sun.

That is dead wrong.

“Especially since the right to exercise the franchise in a free and unimpaired manner is preservative of other basic civil and political rights, any alleged infringement of the right of citizens to vote must be carefully and meticulously scrutinized.”

I didn’t come up with that language. The Supreme Court did.