Eric Bodenweiser is challenging Senator Joe Booth for the Republican nomination in the 19th Senate District. Booth, as you know, won the special election to replace the late Sen. Thurman Adams last year.
Eric Bodenweiser, if you didn’t know, is a particularly odious teabagger and former chair of the defunct SKKKOR, otherwise known as the Sussex County Community Organized Regiment. He is a 9-12 Delaware “Patriot” and member of the Delaware Tea Baggers. Last year, Bodenweiser lost the GOP nomination for the special election to Booth. Aside from his teabagging activities, he works full time but for free (which in the real world is called volunteering) at the Sussex County Bible Church as a general contractor where he was (as of May) overseeing plans to build a new sanctuary. I suppose he doesn’t have to work full time, since Bodenweiser claimed he has deep pockets, which I guess means he is independently wealthy from his past career as owner of Bodie Daily Markets.
As for his political platform, Bodie’s website spouts your typical teabag platitudes about cutting spending, eliminating taxes and regulations and keeping government in the hands of local people (which I guess means all elected officials at every level must be residents of Sussex County). Of course, Bodie deigns not to offer specifics on what programs he would cut, although since he wants to eliminate all taxes and regulations I guess that means he will eliminate all of them, including Medicare and Social Security and road maintenance and the police and fire departments. And on top of all that, Bodie touts that he is a moral Social Conservative, which means of course that he feels it is his business to tell everyone else how to live and how to worship and would tear the First Amendment to threads by establishing a national religion.
But enough on that. I have been away from our local Delaware politics for two months now, so I am not in a position to know if St. Bodie poses much of a threat to Joe Booth in this primary. He presents himself as just another whacky David Anderson or Christine O’Donnell. Crazy and deranged yet not really dangerous unless, of course, they get real power.
I suppose Bodie’s brother, Paul Bodenweiser, thinks his brother is dangerous, because you should see this website he put up.
My name is Paul Bodenweiser and I am Eric Bodenweiser’s older brother. Although I haven’t lived in Sussex County for over 30 years I have family, friends and a Godson that live in Sussex County of which I care and love dearly. Unfortunately my brother has decided to force a good man into a primary and it’s my intention with this page to bring to all of you the truth about my brother and why I support Joe Booth in his bid to remain your Delaware state senator. If nothing else I know Joe to be a fair and open minded person that not only has the experience, education,and ability to work for ALL of the people of his district no matter what their race, creed or political leanings. My brother is not even close to being the man that Joe is and I want to help the people of not only the the district, county and the entire state help avoid making a HUGE mistake. Unfortunately my brother doesn’t tell you the WHOLE TRUTH about the person he has become over the years and hides behind his unknown to you deeply religious beliefs.
To watch a person do all he can to buy an election, knowing that person is NOT what he’s describing himself to potential voters and do nothing would be something that would haunt me the rest of my life.
LOL, some bad blood between brothers, eh? You can read Paul Bodenweiser’s rather poorly written website to discover what one brother alleges of the other, and needless to say, it alleges that Eric Bodenweiser to be just another member of the radical religious right who does not practice what he preaches. That is not shocking, or even surprising, for whenever someone on the right claims to be morally superior, he or she almost always is morally inferior. And again, who knows if what Paul Bodenweiser says is even true. Indeed, the way the website reads, there definitely seems to be some real bad blood between Eric and the rest of his family. I only pass this on to show you a picture contained on the website, which purports to be of Eric Bodenweiser in high heels.
I can’t say it enough, if you are going to run for public office, make sure you destroy all embarrassing pictures of you that exist.