Candidates and DL

Inevitably, whenever contributors and commenters talk about about a candidate for one of our local offices in positive terms, or when contributors and/or commenters make negative comments about another candidate; supporters for that other candidate say that those contributors or commenters are part of the first candidate’s campaign, and that we are smearing their candidate.

It happens every election. It happened in the Flowers v. Jones-Potter primary. It happened in the Carney v. Markell primary. And it is already happening in the Crane v. Stewart v. White primary.

To be clear, nothing we write here on Delaware Liberal is on behalf or at the direction of any campaign. When we offer our opinions on a candidate or a particular campaign or race, we do so on our own behalf. If we are criticial of Karen Weldin Stewart, it doesn’t mean that we are acting on behalf of Mitch Crane or at his direction.

Indeed, as Mitch Crane himself made clear early this week in a comment here, candidates would probably prefer that we not offer our opinions or criticisms of their opponents, for precisely the reason that their opponents will act like the criticism is coming from them, rather than us.

We speak for ourselves here. No one else.