From: Pamela Nichols [pamela.nichols@dsea.org]
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 1:01 PM
To: Nichols, Pamela [DE]
Subject: DSEA recommends Biden, Flowers and Korn for statewide offices
For more information contact Tim
Barchak, legislation and political organizing, at 1-302-387-9997 (cell) or Pam
Nichols, dir. of communications, 302-538-1486 (cell)
Dover, DE, October 12, 2010… The Executive Board of the Delaware
State Education Association is recommending three candidates for each of the
statewide offices in the November 2 election:
· Attorney General Beau Biden for reelection
· Chip Flowers for Treasurer, and
· Richard Korn for Auditor.
Attorney General Beau Biden has worked well with the
Association and has shown a particular sensitivity and commitment in dealing
with challenges such as cyber-bullying. His office is showing the type of
innovation necessary to keep our children safe in a rapidly changing environment.
Chip Flowers received the DSEA recommendation
for treasurer based upon his vision for the office of treasurer. He has a keen
interest in economic education for K-12 students. Flowers recognizes the need
to go beyond balancing a check book and into areas such as safe mortgages and
the danger of pay day loans. Additionally, his interest in sound state fiscal
policy and economic development is of importance to educators who have
discovered that their own economic security is tied to the state’s economic well-being.
Richard Korn received the DSEA recommendation
for State Auditor against a long-term incumbent, Tom Wagner, because of his
commitment to being an active auditor who will use the full authority granted
to the office under Title 29 of the Delaware Code. Korn believes that school
district funds, including both state and local tax funds, should be
audited to prevent mismanagement such as occurred in past years with the
Christina and Red Clay School Districts, and more recently, the actual theft of
funds from the Laurel District.
DSEA’s candidate recommendation process includes completing a questionnaire which reflects DSEA legislative priorities, followed by an interview with DSEA members. The Interview Team’s recommendation then goes to the DSEA Executive Board for final approval. DSEA- recommended candidates are eligible to receive campaign contributions from the DSEA Political Action Committee Fund (from non-dues contributions from members) and volunteer campaign help from members.
DSEA will also communicate to its members that these candidates measure up when it comes to supporting great schools for our communities, and workplace and family issues.
Candidates
whom DSEA is recommending to its member for the Delaware House and Senate races
can be found at www.dsea.org/PoliticalAction/RecommendedCandidates2010.html.
With
12,000 members, the Delaware State Education Association represents the public
school teachers and specialists in all 19 school districts plus the teachers
who work in the state’s detention centers run by the Dept. of Services for
Children, Youth and their Families; various education support personnel
(paraprofessionals, secretaries, food service workers, custodians and bus drivers)
in 18 of the state’s public school districts; and the state’s public health
nurses who work in the state’s Service Centers and for the Delaware Hospital
for the Chronically Ill in Smyrna.