Special Election Tomorrow! UPDATE with CapeGazette Endorsement
The Special Election for the House seat in the 37th is tomorrow, 12 September. Rob Robinson is the Democratic candidate, running against local lobbyist Ruth Briggs-King. If you are in the 37th — make sure you go vote on Saturday. If you are not in the 37th and want to help out, volunteers are needed to work the polls and get out the vote all day! So please call 858-0336 to volunteer, or email Katie (kellis@deldems.org) with your availability!
UPDATE: Tommywonk shows how Robinson is head and shoulders better on environmental, energy and land use issues.
Redwaterlily discusses Briggs-King’s oddly tortured relationship with the word “lobbyist”. That whole exchange sounds like Alice-In-Wonderland to me.
UPDATE 2: The Cape Gazette has endorsed Robinson for the seat!
An anonymous tipster forwards on this Letter to the Editor written by a Robinson supporter. It is getting to the end of the cycle and it looks like the letter won’t be published, so here you are:
Dear Editor,
Perhaps she is too humble to mention it on her campaign website or in her speeches, but I am writing to applaud Ruth Briggs-King for her tireless work for those neglected, needy developers.
As a registered lobbyist for the Sussex County Association of Realtors, Briggs-King fights to make sure developers are allowed to subdivide land, re-zone neighborhoods, and make sure environmental regulations are not too strict. But most of all, she is a tireless fighter who believes that developers should be allowed to build, build, and continue building no matter the conditions of our roads, schools or infrastructure.
Certainly, all of us, at one time or another, have thought to ourselves that we should help our local, those destitute masses of developers, but Briggs-King found the time. She found the time to fight against foes like residents who want to keep their neighborhoods quiet and safe, city councils who want to protect their town’s way of life, and of course, those heartless souls who say that our roads are not big enough for thousands of new homes.
While the rest of us simply feel sorry for developers, Briggs-King is a fighter against those wacky people who think our inland bays should be protected from run off.
So, if you want someone who will go to Dover and fight every day for developers, Ruth Briggs-King is your candidate.
If you want a candidate who will ignore the wishes of most residents, so that those wonderful developers can keep building, Ruth Briggs-King is your candidate.
If you think that Route 9 needs more traffic, then Ruth Briggs-King is your candidate.
Please me join me Sept. 12th and vote for Ruth Briggs-King who will protect Delaware’s jewel-the developers.Sincerely,
XXX XXXXXXX
LOL! Person fancies her/himself a comic! It might indeed have been the timing that prevented it from being published. From what I understand, only pro-(insert candidate name) letters get published once within a certain date of the election. Negative letters usually get trashed at that point.
I never knew that! I thought the letter was amusingly done…
Apparently Robinson has shot his advertising wad on (conservative) WGMD Radio, while Briggs-King favored TV ads. Funniest campaign moment (so far… is when Robinson tried to explain, during an interview, why he donated $1,000 to Obama’s campaign. He claims it wasn’t for Obama, but was to help derail Hillary. WGMD is claiming that Robinson’s campaign HQ is staffed with ACORN workers from out of state (Kentucky license plates). Briggs-King tried to explain away her ownership of a lobbyist ID to Leg. Hall by saying she really wasn’t doing any lobbying, but only had the pass in order to get easier access to legislators. A caller to this afternoon’s show claimed he received some very “hateful” e-mails about the candidates from both parties, but both were from New Castle County.
Local politics is always amusing down here.
Actually, radio ads are not that expensive… certainly not the $32,000 Ruth Briggs King has spent on TV. She spent more than twice as much on TV alone that Robinson has entirely (according to the 8-day reports).
WGMD’s claims about ACORN is flat-out ridiculous. I volunteer on Rob’s campaign, and it’s an INSULT to the dozens of us who have given up our free time to help Rob to see an accusation like that. Trust me, Rob doesn’t NEED to hire anyone to help.
It’s just the usual — conservatives are scared, so that means they have to try to scare everyone else into not voting for the opposition.
16 Radio ads on WGMD cost about $450.
“She spent more than twice as much on TV alone that Robinson has entirely (according to the 8-day reports).”
Care to validate that with a link? Otherwise, it’s just spam.
Robinson’s report:
http://denver.state.de.us/COE/cfishome.nsf/vwElectionData/ROBINSONR!-09-CAN-SPC-8DAY.pdf/$File/ROBINSONR!-09-CAN-SPC-8DAY.pdf?openelement
Page 9 says he’s spent $14,350 total so far.
King’s report:
http://denver.state.de.us/COE/cfishome.nsf/vwElectionData/KINGRB-09-CAN-SPE-8DAY.pdf/$File/KINGRB-09-CAN-SPE-8DAY.pdf?openelement
Page 6 says she’s spent $32,654 on WBOC alone.
By the way, Delaware’s campaign finance site is awful. Not as bad as some states’, but still pretty cumbersome and archaic.
Thanks!