As one of the many interlopers who has invaded Deidre Taylor's Sussex County, it was gratifying to read the recent letter by Alan Roth of Lewes. Roth generously gives us the long and short of the hard facts from the Board of Elections regarding the numbers of Delaware Democratic and Republican registered voters, along with a stinging reminder of which party (the Republicans!) is actually at the helm of the Sussex County Council and its appointees to the planning & zoning commission. The information is inconvenient to Taylor’s false premise: that the horrors of bad government never existed in her fair part of the world until the recent invasion of mostly New Jersey Democrats. According to Taylor, the cornfield incursion has only recently begun; the irony is, the numbers shared by Roth tell a different story.
Although many of us think development is out of hand, having lived in 10 states during my adult life, from California to Missouri to Connecticut, and having come to Delaware in 2017 from Taylor’s accursed New Jersey, my opinion is that Delaware is in a class all its own. I’ve never seen a place that gives less thought to its development and its roads, but let’s be clear about who is in charge and what they’re bringing to Sussex: even roundabouts with a single off-ramp. Kudos to Roth for bringing some light along to Taylor’s mean-spirited fire.
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