I write to express my deep concern and alarm over the campaign and rhetoric of Claire Snyder-Hall. She seems to prioritize her ideological and academic pursuits, her crusade against business and innovative job creators, and her intense dislike for our governmental system, all over the well-being, growth and concerns of our coastal Sussex community.
Claire is the wrong personality, wrong temperament and has the wrong ideology for our corner of the First State, just as when she lost her campaign in 2015. As an ardent Democratic Socialist who seems proud of her affiliations with its toxic positions, the campaign seems designed to make lots of noise and little productive change. We have seen the value of socialism’s empty promises, the strident anti-Americanism and the vile indictments of our way of life that have no business in our Sussex community coming from an important elected official representing us and our concerns in Dover.
We have a terrific candidate in contrast, who has rolled up his sleeves, strengthened his hands and character working for us, and been a productive and contributing member of this community in the service of others, namely Mike Simpler, the president of the Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company. Ironically, Mike is being backed by a variety of Democratic office holders, current and former, because they don't trust and don't believe that Claire Snyder-Hall is the right person to represent the 14th District in our state House. As an LGBT voter concerned about supporting someone who can work to better bring us all together, I couldn’t agree more with them in supporting Mike.
We must ask ourselves: when Snyder-Hall’s own party avoids her, and with many backing Mike for his commitment to this community daily, I believe the rest of us should read their example. Backing Mike Simpler is the right call here for all of us.
Our region thrives when individuals are empowered to pursue their own paths, not when a controlling government dictates how we live, work and interact with each other. This coastal community depends on the mutual collaboration of business, environmental and citizen groups to cooperate to maintain our marine ecosystem, our economic opportunities, and to support each other, our visitors and guests and, ultimately, all for the benefit of the state as a whole. Claire's antipathy toward that balanced cooperation is out of place here, with our people and our values.
We must hold our leaders to higher standards and demand solutions that respect our freedoms and promote growth. Mike Simpler is the answer to that call, as he has answered the calls of service in our community for decades. Our community deserves better than the hollow promises of socialism, and certainly better than the ideology espoused by Snyder-Hall. Check out the Democratic Socialists of America’s own website for yourself, and let's leave the book writing for academics while we send Mike Simpler to Dover, for the benefit of all of us. This is an easy call.
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