Hi Jason, I’m Lieutenant Governor Bethany Hall-Long. I’m a nurse, a mother, and a public servant with over 30 years of service to our state – and today, I’m launching my campaign to be the next Governor of Delaware.
Delaware is a special place. I’m lucky to have grown up in Sussex County and to have represented Kent and New Castle County as a legislator. We are a small state – people know each other and look out for one another. In Delaware, we treat each other as neighbors, with compassion, humility, and purpose.
That’s the spirit of public service that has always driven me.
My belief in the importance of community and people’s health developed at a young age. When I was 11 years old, my dad was in an accident and was using a wheelchair when we received the life-changing news that both my mom and my brother had cancer. The doctors told my mom she had a 5% chance of survival.
But somehow my mom pulled through. Then my brother. And my dad did too.
We ALL pulled through because our community wrapped their arms around us. I never forgot that kindness, and it put me on the path I’ve been following ever since.
My calling is to care for others: I worked as a nurse, a professor, and a State Senator before I was elected as the Lieutenant Governor six years ago. In all of these roles, I have wholeheartedly dedicated myself to community well-being.
I’m very proud of working alongside Governor Carney to lay a foundation of economic vitality for our state, help people and businesses recover from COVID, invest in education, and improve access to affordable health care. I’ve also personally led the effort to create a Behavioral Health Consortium to address the opioid epidemic, substance use disorders, and mental health challenges facing the First State.
In running to be the next Governor of Delaware, I am focused on continuing that service to my community and the state that has raised me and my family for generations.
We must stand up for women’s rights to make their own health care decisions. We must address the scourge of gun violence so our kids are safe at school. And we must empower Delawareans to thrive in the face of rising costs and rising temperatures.
And as your next Governor, I will do just that. Jason, welcome to my campaign – together, we will make Delaware the best place to live, work, and raise a family.
Please consider sending in a donation today to help this campaign start off strong – together, we will create a brighter future for the First State.
Thank you,
Bethany Hall-Long
Got this today from Matt Meyer:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 12, 2023
Contact: Zack Press at 302-300-2641 or Zack@mattmeyer.org
Matt Meyer: Delawareans Deserve More
Wilmington, DE – Today, Democratic candidate for governor Matt Meyer released the following statement
“I’ve heard from Delawareans up and down our state who believe we can do better. Many are struggling with unaffordable housing and healthcare, worried about the quality of education and the cost of childcare, and asking for bold leadership to deliver environmental and economic justice. Our next governor needs to move aggressively to tackle the real problems we face, not protect the status quo.”
Meyer had been a public school teacher in Wilmington until he stepped up seven years ago to successfully challenge a three term incumbent county executive. Meyer said his students challenged him with the words in his own lesson to them – “Don’t wait for someone else to step up to make change happen. Be that person that makes it happen now.”
Considered a long shot at the time, Meyer defeated the incumbent in the Democratic primary and won by a large margin in both his first general election and his reelection in 2020. He is the first county executive in Delaware to be reelected since Senator Chris Coons was reelected as county
executive.
As county executive, Meyer balanced budgets while making bold investments to improve opportunity now and strengthen Delaware’s future.
Meyer created nationally recognized programs that taught children to code, eliminated vacant properties, provided emergency housing, monitored sewage for COVID-19 and other dangerous pathogens and supported teachers to innovate in Delaware’s classrooms, a program that has been replicated in over 50,000 classrooms in five states.
He recently finalized a budget that included the first property tax reduction in over 50 years.
Meyer grew up in New Castle County, leaving for college and law school. He served as a diplomat in Iraq – embedded with the US Army in Mosul for 12 months, created a community-based enterprise in Africa (he is fluent in Swahili), and started two small businesses. Meyer said his years serving abroad and as a teacher in his hometown of Wilmington taught him critical lessons about the need to tackle Delaware’s challenges with urgency.
You can read more about Meyer and view and share an announcement video at mattmeyer.org.
http://www.mattmeyer.org
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BHL officially announced today:
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/09/12/lt-gov-bethany-hall-long-delaware-governor-election-2024/70825716007/
I guess this is the BHL policy agenda:
We must stand up for women’s rights to make their own health care decisions. We must address the scourge of gun violence so our kids are safe at school. And we must empower Delawareans to thrive in the face of rising costs and rising temperatures.
BHL is exactly the candidate I was thinking about when I was lamenting that the outcomes are always the same no matter who holds the majority. It would be more honest if she said,
“We must stand up for women’s rights to make their own health care decisions. We must address the scourge of gun violence so our kids are safe at school. And we must empower Delawareans to thrive in the face of rising costs and rising temperatures. But sadly my hands are tied.“
Women’s rights are not under attack in this solid-blue state, so that’s just a dog whistle to female voters, who are inclined to vote for the woman anyway.
“Empower Delawareans to thrive” means “bend over, backwards or otherwise, for jobs.”
With all due respect, the “scourge of gun violence” is mostly gang-related, while school shootings are nutjob-related. Two separate issues, and the state can’t do much about either one. So that’s just hot-button happy talk.
I’ve been getting stuff from Sarah McBride (I’m a volunteer) and Kyle Evans Gay (I’ve volunteered in the past, will do so again this time).
Also from Eugene Young, which I appreciate, even though I’m backing Sarah.
But I’m on our local committee, so I guess I get sent pretty much everything.
You’ll have fun with this: the usually-reliable Political Wire id’s BHL as an R:
Bethany Hall-Long to Run for Delaware Governor
September 12, 2023 at 2:04 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments
Delaware Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long (R) announced that she’s running for governor, the Delaware News Journal reports.
Talk about a fusion candidate. When I said the winner of the Democrats primary may run unopposed, I hadn’t considered this possibility.