One Legislative Race I’d Love To See

OK, let’s see. We’ve got a D House Speaker who is a DINO and would-be statewide power broker.  We’ve got an R State Senator whose personal reputation has been damaged and who represents the only Sussex SD with a D voting edge. We have a would-be statewide elected official who has or had strong relationships (albeit presumably different types of relationships) with both of those characters. We have the DINO Speaker and his minions trying to run interference for the R state senator.

Oh, and we have a possible candidate who had the guts to challenge the DINO Speaker in 2016. Yes, he lost to the machine of the Speaker, but he developed a lot of positive name recognition in the process.

The DINO Speaker is Pete Schwartzkopf. The damaged Senator is Ernie Lopez. The would-be statewide elected official is Kathy McGuiness who, famously has her face emblazoned in a picture as one of Ernie Lopez’ top volunteers. (No, I’m not going there, thankyouverymuch, but who am I to stop you from going there?)

The possible candidate (although he may not yet know it?  Don Peterson. He lives in Rehoboth Beach and he stands for all the right things:

http://donforachange.com/about/

I’d love for him to run b/c (a) he could win; (b) he could force DINO Pete to betray his Party; (c) he could force Park City Kathy to choose between her Party du jour and her, um, close friend; and (d) he’d be a tremendous upgrade over Lopez, who occasionally votes the right way, but stands with his Party obstructionists when it comes to stuff like making the rich pay a little more.

So there you have it folks:  Don Peterson vs. Ernie Lopez.

How can we make it happen?