So Eric Bodenweiser has informed State Republican Party Chairman John Sigler via email!!!! yesterday that he was suspending his campaign for personal reasons.
“Because of personal consideration and distractions and for the well being of my family, I have decided to suspend my campaign for the Delaware State Senate in the 19th District,” Bodenweiser wrote, according to a source close to the party. “I deeply regret the position in which this puts my supporters and the Delaware State Republican Party.”
Those personal considerations and distractions are most likely the rumors that are now the subject of a police investigation. And for the first time, a news organization finally hints at those rumors:
Duke Brooks, a spokesman for the Sussex County Republican Committee, said committee members learned about two weeks ago of rumors involving allegations of serious criminal conduct by Bodenweiser about 20 years ago.
The News Journal still insists that the focus of the police investigation is unclear. I suppose they are not disingenious since the police did not tell them personally. But the News Journal definitely knows the details of the rumors. If I know, they know.
It does not appear that Bodenweiser has officially moved to remove his name from the Nov. 6 ballot. Nevertheless, it is unlikely the Republican party will be able to replace him on the ballot, state Elections Commissioner Elaine Manlove said this week, citing campaign laws that require the candidate to be physically or mentally incapacitated to be replaced.
Brian Pettyjohn, the former mayor of Georgetown, is declared as a Republican write-in candidate in the Georgetown-area district. Democrat Jane Hovington is also making a run at the seat.
Hopefully this odious man named Eric Bodenweiser is gone from our politics forever. And hopefully Christine O’Donnell and the insane group of Teabaggers that currently run the Republican Party in this state are gone too. But if they insist, despite this humiliation, to continue inflecting our body politic with their cancer, then next time hopefully they will more fully vet their candidates.