Will Dave Burris Denounce Mike Castle for Voting to Preserve Prevailing Wage?

Dave Burris’ attack Delaware’s prevailing wage laws has received some attention on the Delaware blogopshere and talk radio. Dave said correctly that Delaware’s prevailing wage laws are an outgrowth of the federal prevailing wage law named the Davis-Bacon Act.

Coincidently, recently Representative Steven King (R-IA) unsuccessfully attempted to overturn the federal government’s prevailing wage provisions:

Building Trades Defeat Another Attack on Davis-Bacon in US House of Representatives

In decisive defeat for anti-Davis-Bacon legislators, the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to reject an amendment by Representative Steven King (R-IA) to H.R. 3524 – the HOPE VI Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2008 – that would have denied funding for prevailing wage coverage on any federally-financed construction projects initiated under the bill.

268 members of the US House of Representatives supported the Building Trades’ position on this issue (including all Democrats present and voting; as well as 48 Republican members. 31 members did not vote). (link)

Our Republican Congressman Mike Castle voted to preserve the federal prevailing wage standards.

Will Dave Burris explicitly DENOUNCE Mike Castle for voting against the putative public interest? I doubt he will use the word “denounce” or come out forcefully against Mike Castle for his vote.

But if Castle were a Democrat—well, you know....

I’m a Democrat, Mike Castle, and I applaud your vote to preserve prevailing wage.