Eric Bodenweiser, one of the founders of the now-defunct Sussex County Community Organized Regiment (SKKKOR) is on a mission to save the 14th RD, and by doing that, saving Sussex County. He has House Majority Leader Pete Schwartzkopf (D-Rehoboth Beach) in his figurative gun sight (knowing how off-balanced Bodie is, it might be literally, too). And he has picked up the help of disgraced former House Speaker Terry Spence and an anonymous website which attacks Pete.
Bodie, as his friends call him, organized SKKKOR to save Sussex County from the socialists that were barking at the gates. He echoes the screeds posted on the business sign of the Hudson Family Sports fields along Route 1 between Lewes and Milton. He is on a mission to “take back the 14th,” and thereby ridding Sussex County of it’s progressive leadership.
Budweiser hates the word “progressive.” He prefers to use “liberal,” pronouncing each syllable with disdain dripping from his lips. A few weeks ago, he authored a diatribe that was printed in the Cape Gazette. In it, he bashes Pete for supporting the Del Pointe casino-resort complex planned for Millsboro. Gambling is evil, in Budweiser’s eyes because it destroys families. Casinos will cause people to become gambling addicts, losing their homes and jobs, forcing them into bankruptcy and maybe even to other vices (smoking, drinking, cussing). But he offers no statistical data to back up his claims, while there is ample evidence, albeit from the gaming industry and Congress (both of which are the Devil) that shows no correlation between casino openings and bankruptcies in the host communities. Check out http://www.americangaming.org/industry/faq_detail.cfv?id=62 for details on the study.
But Budweiser went further than getting stupid over gambling. He found his inner Joan of Arc and decided to go off on what I call his “Christians first, Christians-only” rant. Just as St. Joan was bent on saving France from the G-Dless English, St. Bodie Girl is mad-crazy about saving Sussex County from the G-Dless lefties. He claims that we progressives “identify us (conservatives) as haters in an attempt to isolate us. Our struggle is not against them, but against the spiritual forces of evil,” and then he references some Bible passage and equates Liberals with the forces of evil (much like Beckpalinbaugh). Progressives do not hate conservatives. I can think of a few that I actually admire (Barry Goldwater in his later years, Former Colorado Governor Ralph Carr, who was a champion of the Japanese internees in Colorado, former Senator Alan Simpson). What we dislike is the self-serving attitude that conservatives and teabaggers actually claim to know what the Founding Fathers meant when they wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These self-anointed Constitutional scholars (sorry, completing a connect-the-dots coloring book on civics doesn’t mean you know anything about the Constitution) have no idea what Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Rodney, Hancock, et al, meant when they authored the documents our country and government were founded upon. It goes hand-in-hand with their interpretations of the Bible – they use whatever parts suit their needs to vilify those they disagree with or despise. Many down here in Sussex suspect St. Bodie Girl is behind the anonymous website that is going after Pete. The sight was set up through an Arizona web-hosting company using godaddy.com. St. Bodie Girl, without being asked, denied he was behind the site. Sounds a little like a guilty conscience. The website in question (I won’t post the name of it as I don’t want it to get anymore traffic than it deserves) has been promoted by Dan Gaffney on WGMD, the self-proclaimed “Voice of Delmarva.” Dan, be careful, some of your secrets might get out.
And then you have Spence, who during the last two years of his reign in Dover, was responsible for approving hundreds of thousands of dollars in questionable spending for his fellow Republicans in the House. He wants to “take Pete down a peg or two” as he was quoted in the Snooze Journal’s Dialogue Delaware column on Sunday. Spence – you lost, get over it. You’re pissed because Pete exposed you for the crook you are. He would do well to just take his pension and disappear into some dark place as many roaches like him do when light is shined on them.
St. Bodie Girl and his followers are not on a mission from G-D; they are on a mission to rid society of what they believe is wrong and evil. Take a look in the mirror, Eric, take a look in the mirror. You might not like what you see.