Dick Cathcart Announces Retirement
House Minority Leader Dick Cathcart announced today that he will retire from the General Assembly (h/t anon). The News Journal has the story.
House Minority Leader Richard Cathcart, R-Middletown, will not seek re-election for the seat he has held for 13 years.
Cathcart, who led the minority caucus and frequently butted heads with Gov. Jack Markell, announced today that he will retire this year to spend more time concentrating on his job at Delaware State University.
“This is one of the most difficult decisions I have ever had to make. It was clear that I had to reduce the stress of doing two jobs,” Cathcart said in a news release. “It was then that, with my wife Linda, I began to reassess my life and consider options. After weighing many factors and looking at what made the most sense for my family and me, there was only one difficult course of action – announce my retirement.”
This immediately puts the 9th representative district race on the radar. The Democratic candidate is Richard Griffiths. No Republican has filed yet but Cathcart endorsed John Marino.
good riddance
subpoena ???????????????????????????????
Subpoena for what, Joe??????????????????????????????
This is very disheartening–Dick was a fierce advocate for Appoquinimink in navigating MANY financial/legislative hurdles only known to a growing school district. He will be missed–and whomever takes his place, better hit the track running. Quinn Johnson did down here in the 8th–a huge Appo territory too. Don’t even plan on running if you aren’t going to work as hard as we work these two reps.
Don’t let the doorknob hit you in the ass, Dick.
John Marino is yet another ex-cop. As if the Delaware copocracy doesn’t have enough of them in Dover already.
13 years ago, Cathcart won this ‘seat’ due to the Gordon-berry effort to make sure Chris Roberts (D) did NOT win the election.
OMG – the Feds, Chris, the Ex-COP’s Gordon-Freebery all tangled up in DEM politics at it’s worse.
Who got stung?
Us’ins. That’s who.
ps – did someone say ex-cop??
I think you have to read into this Cathcart’s belief that the R’s can’t reclaim the chamber. He’d have stuck around otherwise. Except…this was gonna be a competitive race WITH Cathcart. I think this is now at least a Lean D district. But, I get ahead of myself…
This is likely Dem. If the Dems don’t cannibalize themselves. There’s good organization down there.