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,
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