Is Dan Cruce Dave McBride Part Deux? Meaning, is he even eligible to hold office as State Senator from SD 1, or is he, in fact, just another Suxco resident seeking a Senate seat in NCC/Wilmington? Here is the complaint that has been filed with Anthony Albence of the Department Of Elections:
Commissioner Albence,
As a resident of and voter in Senate District 1, I am concerned to learn that one of the candidates for the Special Election, Dan Cruce, seems to be a Sussex County resident. In order to be eligible to run for the 1st Senate District seat candidates must have lived within the respective district for at least one year. Mr. Cruce does own multiple properties across the state, including one in Rehoboth located at 19994 Sandy Bottom Circle #8301 which he has owned since 2014.
Markedly, in the years after purchasing the home he has been quoted as referring to Rehoboth as his hometown and saying that he is, “very lucky to live in Rehoboth.” He is currently the President of Sussex County Health Coalition, and serves in leadership roles of organizations almost exclusively in Sussex County. It is for these reasons that I am officially filing a complaint with your office and requesting that Mr. Cruce’s residency eligibility be thoroughly investigated.
Thank you for your attention to this important matter. I look forward to your prompt response.
Regards,
Rob Vanella
Here is Rob’s podcast on the residency issue:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/121614824
Golden Domer-Wannabe Bud Freel, who was behind getting Dominguez off the ballot, was of course perhaps Cruce’s biggest advocate. This whole thing sucks.
No doubt Albence will respond with the same alacrity with which he removed Branden Fletcher Dominguez from the ballot (which was the right call, BTW), or perhaps the lack of alacrity he consistently displayed with BHL’s illegal campaign finance reports.
The General Assembly passed legislation to prevent future McBride ‘dual house’ situations from recurring. Where Cruce lays his head most of the time is his official residence. Albence is now on the clock. I’ll withhold further comments until this is resolved. Except to say, this bullshit way of selecting candidates for Special Elections has to be tossed out in the trash.
Trump’s False And Misleading Claims To Justify Executive Orders. Hey, you might as well know since many of these orders will end up in court. Some are already there:
President Trump, while issuing a rapid-fire series of executive orders and directives since taking office, has rationalized his initiatives with a series of false and misleading claims.
In trying to deny automatic citizenship for some born in the United States, he falsely described other countries’ laws. In rescinding climate policies, he mischaracterized obligations made by countries in the Paris climate agreement. And in defending a chaotic rollout that froze federal funding, he cited an example of waste that lacked evidence.
Here’s but one example. Trump claimed the US is the only country in the world that provides for birthright citizenship:
False. On his first day in office, Mr. Trump signed an executive order to limit birthright citizenship and falsely claimed the United States was unique for offering it. In fact, the United States is one of 33 countries that confers citizenship at birth with no conditions, according to the Library of Congress. All but six are in the Americas, and include Canada and Mexico. More than three dozen others confer birthright citizenship based on the legal or citizenship status of the parents, the length of their residency or other conditions.
He always appends ‘As you know’ to pretty much every falsehood he utters, as he does here. It’s a ‘tell’.