Your recent article “Republican legislator announces intent to run for governor” has an obvious omission. In 2022, I sat for three days in a courtroom with Mike Ramone as a legally required recount of our election eventually found him to have a 41-vote victory.
I hadn’t declared my candidacy that year until July when it was clear no one else was willing to step up and run against the then 14-year incumbent. We organized and executed a very effective campaign on limited time and money. My campaign has kept going and growing over these past two years.
Ramone may have been holding out hope that our primary opponent (who only moved to Delaware in late 2021 and has raised the lion’s share of his campaign money from out of state) might win the primary and be an easier opponent. Our recent endorsements from the Working Families Party and multiple local legislators, including Sen. Laura Sturgeon, whose district overlaps our House district substantially, all but cemented that it would be the two of us again in November.
Ramone could read the writing on the wall. Running for governor is an easier way for him to move on than a defeat in a district he has represented for 16 years. Omitting the closeness of our last race, and the chance he would be defeated if he ran again in this district, denies your readers important insight they deserve to have provided.
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