Along with retiring delegate Pete Schwartzkopf and many business owners and residents in the 14th District, I support Kathy McGuiness in the Democratic primary to replace Pete in Dover.
While there are three capable candidates running, I have three reasons for supporting Kathy McGuiness.
- She gets things done. Working directly with her 1999-2009 when I was executive director of Rehoboth Beach Main Street, I saw up close her outstanding successes as Main Street founder/board president and then top vote-getting Rehoboth Beach commissioner. For several terms, she worked brilliantly with others, turning big ideas and controversial projects into decades of positive, real-life progress for the city. Her record of achievements is vast.
- We need her back working for us. The remarkable 20 years of progress achieved in Dover by Pete Schwartzkopf’s leadership must continue. Other Dover leaders feared Kathy’s capability and ambition, leading to charges against her to stop her rise. Every single charge except the simple misdemeanor of hiring her daughter during the pandemic to work for her office (not the first Dover nepotism hire) has been completely dismissed, overturned and negated. She is ready to bring her amazing energy and skill back to working directly for us in the 14th District.
- Kathy will win, keeping this legislative seat blue. I stand with Pete Schwartzkopf and many other longtime local stakeholders in believing that Kathy McGuiness can win in the general election to keep this seat in Democratic hands. Like our national politics, state legislatures are equally bitterly divided, and I believe voting for Kathy McGuiness is our best chance to keep a critical majority.
I realize this race probably will become contentious, with my friends and colleagues split three ways among these campaigns. I only ask you to consider my three points, and the reason I’m joining Pete and many other politically seasoned locals in supporting Kathy McGuiness for this seat.
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