Delaware Political Weekly: Week Ending November 20, 2025
“We are kings of our bikes. So, we are again really lucky to live in Rehoboth, when we park a car, we have to get back into the car. We can hop on our bikes and our ritual is that we are always biking from our home to L(ewe)s. We do a little bit of walking around, a little bit of margarita, a little bit of good food – there’s amazing food then bike right back. So the ritual, on our bikes, every chance we can, any place we can go, and eliminate the cars.”–Dan Cruce.
1. The Rev has re-released a timely podcast from Feb. 6 of this year. It explains why I lead off every Political Weekly with the above quote. Listen and learn:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/fun-part-senate-121614824
Y’see, Dan Cruce lives in Rehoboth. He says so himself (see above). He lived in Rehoboth when a bunch of Delaware Way insiders decided to install him as a State Senator representing mostly Wilmington. Perhaps the worst current Delaware Way hack, Bud Freel, championed the carpetbagger’s candidacy. Yes, the same Bud Freel who narked out Brandon Fletcher Dominguez for the ‘crime’ of being homeless. The same Bud Freel who is now running interference to enable ex-Mayor Mike to fund a rehab at Gibraltar using taxpayers’ money. The same Bud Freel who conspired with Gerald Brady to move money around to enable the St. Anthony’s parking lot to be resurfaced using taxpayers’ dollars. (What can I say, Bud? Gerald bragged about that one. To me.)
I post that quote weekly in hope that it will eventually sink in that Cruce doesn’t give two shits about the district he allegedly represents. When the alternative is Adriana Bohm, he doesn’t even belong in the race. Perhaps the Department of Elections will review his eligibility to run with the same dogged determination it took for them to strike the name of a homeless person from the ballot. As if.
2. R Primaries–Or Incumbent Retirements? I report, you fill in the blanks:
RD 33. The incumbent is R Charles Postles, who is four years older than me. Meaning, officially old. One Morgan Hudson, also an R, has filed to run for the same office. I at first thought that this likely meant that Postles was retiring, which could still be true. However, a quick search of the intertubes revealed that Hudson had run in a 2016 primary for the same office, where she finished third in a three-way primary for the seat that Postles won, garnering less than 20% of the vote. Robert Scott finished second in that primary, with 35.4% of the vote. Postles won with 45.2%. I’m guessing that, even if Postles retires, Hudson may not have the R nomination all to herself.
RD 41. The incumbent is The Odious Rich Collins. R Douglas Conaway has filed for the seat. Conaway is the owner of Douglas Builders in Millsboro, and has already committed to at least one more selfless deed than Collins ever has:
We are excited to announce Doug Conaway will be contributing all of his labor and forfeiting any profits from the cost of construction towards a new house to a deserving Veteran family. Douglas Builders has selected Jason Genshaw as the recipient of this honor. Jason a graduate of Sussex Technical High School enlisted in the United States Marine Corps serving as an Air Frame Mechanic on Attack Helicopters. He served four years at Marine Corps Air Satiation (MCAS) New River in Jacksonville, NC. After fulfilling his commitment to our country, he returned to Seaford and married his high school sweetheart Julianna in 2023. Douglas Builders is honored and excited to share this blessing with a local veteran. Construction is set to begin in the beginning of 2026 and we will show progress of the Genshaw’s new home.
Again, I don’t know if this means that Collins is retiring, although I suspect that there are several R House staffers who would welcome that outcome. A Democrat, Ryan Stuckey, has also filed for that race. I’d link if there was something to link to.
3. Party-Jumper Greg Fuller Files For Reelection. For Suxco Register of Wills. He was a Democrat until after he lost to Bryan Shupe in the general election for RD 36. He also finished 5th in a 6-way primary for Lieutenant Governor in 2016 that was won by Bethany Hall-Long. Today’s Trivia: Who finished 6th in that race?
4. Filings: State Senator Gerald Hocker (R-SD 20).
That’s all I’ve got this week. What’d I miss, and whaddayathink?
Dan is rightly enthusiastic about living a car-free lifestyle thought. I mean his is a very elitist and effete version of car-free, but still.
John Atkins posted on facebook he is considering a run.
As A D, an R, or as a member of the newly-founded Arsonist Party?
Jab is correct:
“For the past 4 or 5 months, l have been asked by many of you if I would consider running for public office again.
I’ve heard your concerns of over development, traffic, and our Sussex County values being ignored and trampled on by upstate politicians. l’ve listened and noticed (being a boat owner myself) how our river dredging has been ignored for pet projects in New Castle County. I have seen the uptick in crime due to soft on crime policies enacted by ideologues in Dover.
The simple answer is, with Jennifer Lea’s and our boys’ support, I am strongly considering running again to restore a one on one constituent relationship where I will be visible and available, just like before. We can tackle these issues together and I am again ready to be your voice.
Common sense solutions for Sussex County🇺🇸”
‘Ideologues in Dover’. That’s what Atkins is/was. Word on the street is that Alan Levin has urged him to run. Hey, people who start tire fires deserve representation too.
“Upstate politicians” aren’t the ones who overdeveloped Sussex County, Johnny.
Alan Levin gave Delaware Walgreens and now he wants to give us Atkins. What a rotter.
His other choices were worse than Walgreen’s. I don’t blame him for that.
From his Wikipedia page
On October 29, 2006, Atkins was caught drunk driving and used his representative identification to gain leniency from the Ocean City, Maryland police officers and avoid arrest for the incident. An investigation by the House Ethics Committee found that Atkins had continued to drive across the Delaware state line after being instructed to refrain from driving and was arrested later that morning on a charge of offensive touching following a physical altercation with his then wife.
He had attempted to avoid the domestic violence arrest by making “several attempts to speak with Millsboro police chief.”[13] Fellow Republican Richard C. Cathcart sponsored House Resolution 13 to censure Atkins, and it was approved by the House Ethics Committee. The proposed sanctions included requiring him to forgo use of his legislative identification card and legislative license plate, be removed as chairman from any legislative committees, pay a fine, receive an alcohol evaluation, and comply with court-ordered counseling. Atkins resigned from his seat on March 27, 2007, before the official censure took effect.[13][14]
He subsequently switched his party registration and was reelected in the next election as a member of the Democratic Party.
In 2012, Atkins resigned from the Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee after attacking a police officer in an angry email.[15] He had received a verbal warning from the police officer after being caught speeding and sent the email to a state police captain to complain.[16]
On June 5, 2014, the Delaware Family Court issued a restraining order for Atkins to stay away from his estranged wife and children due to allegations of violence and abuse.[15][17] The next day, Atkins filed a petition against his wife claiming she was the one being abusive.[18] As of June 13, 2014, Atkins and his wife were sharing joint custody of their children, although his wife maintained allegations of harassment and abuse.[19] In June 2016, Atkins was arrested after a physical altercation with his ex-girlfriend. He was charged with offensive touching and criminal mischief, and decided against a bid to regain his seat that he had been considering.[20] The charges were later dropped on the basis of insufficient evidence.[9]
In July 2018, Atkins was arrested and charged with felony strangulation and assault after an argument with his then girlfriend where he squeezed her neck until she could not breathe.[15][21] He was arrested two more times that month for domestic violence and harassment that violated a no-contact order.[5][22] On August 17, 2018, he pled guilty to misdemeanor assault and breach of release charges, and was sentenced to time served, which was 22 days in prison, along with one year of probation. He remained incarcerated until he received an electronic GPS device and was prohibited from possessing a firearm for five years.[7]
He used to post here, claiming to be ‘John’s friend’. First guy to out me as working at Trader Joe’s, as if that was something I should be ashamed of.
You can type in his name in our search feature, and go back and read his bizarre musings.
I’m glad he’s back. We NEED foils like Atkins to keep us amused.
Here’s a classic Atkins post, with ‘Atkins’ friend’ (who in fact is Atkins) defending him in the comments section:
https://delawareliberal.net/2012/03/04/law-abiding-rep-john-atkins-reverts-to-form/
I’m coming around to the idea that calling SuxCo “north Alabama” is an insult to Alabama.