The NJ reports that the GOP candidate for Lt. Governor is teaming up with Alex Pires to campaign at an event on Saturday in Newark. Go read that again. The local GOP candidate for Lt. Governor (R-She Didn’t Build That) is NOT campaigning with her party’s nominee for the Senate ( wingnut wannabe Kevin Wade), but with the Independent candidate, Alex Pires.
Apparently they’ll be at an event in Newark at 1PM:
“We recently announced the coalition of Delaware Democrats who have come together to back our campaign, and we are thrilled that Independents and college students are also coming forward to support us,” Valenzuela said in a statement distributed by the Pires campaign.
In his own statement, Pires says he’s supporting Valenzuela and hopes to continue campaigning with the Republican in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 6 election. “I look forward to appearing at more events over the next month with the woman we all hope is going to be our next Lieutenant Governor as well as someone who wants the same thing as I do, to change the status quo in Washington.”
Weird, right? A coalition of Delaware Dems, Independents and college students causes this “rising star” of the local GOP to team up with Alex Pires. Jonathan Starkey notes that he got this info from a press release being distributed by the Pires camp. There’s nothing about this on Velanzuela’s website (although there is this thing about a Wilmington Democrat –John Czerwinski — heading up a Democrats for Sher group) and I defy you to find anything on Pires’ mess of a webpage.
So what’s going on? Weigh in, if you know anything. Starkey notes that he is trying to contact the Valenzuela campaign.
h/t to Rose Izzo for bringing this to our attention. We know that Ms. Izzo is supporting Mr. Pires for Senator already.