State Elections 2008
November 5, 2008
Check out our first-ever video emails
See how our recommended candidates for the General Assembly did
Check out our TV ad featuring School Nurse Terri Boothe of Christina
Check out our Jack Markell and Matt Denn TV ad about children's issues
See all three TV ads on YouTube!
Listen to Terri Boothe on the radio!
These advertisements were paid for by the DSEA Advocacy Fund, Diane Donohue, president; Howard Weinberg, treasurer.
Jack Markell and Matt Denn win big for Delaware
Denn thanks DSEA during acceptance speech
DSEA is 36 wins, nine losses in election recommendations
Several of our longtime Republican Friends of Education, however - leaders for public education and workplace issues, lost in hard-fought races: Terry Spence, Vince Lofink and Nancy Wagner.
Thank you! All of you who worked for five hours or more for a DSEA candidate this year will receive one of the new DSEA-logo, hooded, zipped sweatshirts.
DSEA’s endorsement process includes invitations to statewide candidates of both major political parties for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. DSEA then sends each candidate a questionnaire that is based on the issues contained in DSEA’s legislative program. During the in-person interview, each candidate is invited to explain further their beliefs, opinions and plans for the future of public education with an intervew team comprised of DSEA members from all three counties. That team then makes a recommendation to the DSEA Executive Board which votes either to accept or reject it.
To see how our federal candidates did, you must be a DSEA member and log in first. (Sorry - It's an Federal Elections Commission rule for membership organizations with Political Action Committees.)
Here is a list of the DSEA Executive Board recommendations for statewide offices and members of the Delaware General Assembly and how they did on November 4:
GOVERNOR
WON: Jack Markell (D) vs. Bill Lee (R)
LT. GOVERNOR
WON: Matt Denn (D) vs. Charlie Copeland (R)
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
LOST: John F. Brady (R) vs. Karen Weldin Stewart (D)
STATE SENATE
District
2 WON: Margaret Rose Henry (D) Friendly Incumbent; unopposed
3 WON: Robert Marshall ( D) Friendly Incumbent, unopposed
4 WON: Michael Katz (D), in an open seat; opposed by John Clatworthy (R)
6 No recommendation, Incumbent Liane Sorenson (R) vs. John Mackenzie (D) Sorensen defeated Mackenzie.
10 WON: Bethany Hall-Long (D) vs. James Weldin (R)
11WON: Tony Deluca (D) Friendly Incumbent, unopposed
16 LOST: Harold Stafford (D) vs Colin Bonini (R), incumbent
17 WON: Brian Bushweller (D) vs. Jim Hutchison (R)
18 No action, Gary Simpson (R), incumbent vs. Gary Downes (D) Incumbent Simpson defeated Gary Downes.
21 No action, Robert Venables (D), unopposed
HOUSE
District
- WON: Dennis Williams (D) Friendly Incumbent vs. John McClain (R)
- WON: Hazel Plant (D) Friendly Incumbent vs. Robert Brown (Ind.)
- WON: Helene Keeley (D) Friendly Incumbent, unopposed
- WON: Gerald Brady (D) Friendly Incumbent vs. Tyler Patrick Nixon (R)
- WON: Melanie Marshall (D) Friendly Incumbent, unopposed
- WON: Diana McWilliams (D) Friendly Incumbent, unopposed
- WON: Bryon Short (D) Friendly Incumbent, unopposed
- WON: Quinn Johnson (D) vs. Martha Sturtevant (R)
- WON: Richard Cathcart (R) Friendly Incumbent vs. Rebecca Walker (D)
- No Action, Robert Valihura, Jr. (R) vs. Dennis E. Williams (D)
Williams defeated Incumbent Robert Valihura.
- No action, Greg Lavelle (R), incumbent, vs. Charles Old, Jr. (D) Incumbent Lavelle defeated Charles Old.
- No action, Deborah Hudson (R), incumbent, unopposed
- WON: Larry Mitchell (D), Friendly Incumbent vs. Jeffrey Brown (R)
- WON: Pete Schwartzkopf (D), Friendly Incumbent, unopposed
- WON: Valerie Longhurst (D), Friendly Incumbent, unopposed
- WON: James Johnson (D), Friendly Incumbent, unopposed
- WON: Michael Mulrooney (D), Friendly Incumbent, David Osborn (R)
- LOST: Terry Spence (R), Friendly Incumbent, Mike Barbieri (D)
- WON: Robert Gilligan (D), Friendly Incumbent, vs. James Sakely (R)
- WON: Nick Manolakos (R), Friendly Incumbent, vs. Daniel Rappoport (D)
- LOST: Patricia Creedon (D) vs. Michael Ramone (R)
- WON: Joe Miro (R), Friendly Incumbent, vs. Rebecca Young (D)
- WON: Terry Schooley (D), Friendly Incumbent, vs. Jesse Priester (R)
- WON: Bill Oberle (R), Friendly Incumbent, vs. Daniel Basale (D)
- WON: John Kowalko (D), Friendly Incumbent, vs. James David Gates (R)
- WON: John Viola (D), Friendly Incumbent, vs. Jeremy Filliben (R)
- LOST: Vince Lofink (R), Friendly Incumbent, vs. Earl Jacques (D) and James Spencer (Ind.)
Jacques won by only 48 votes!.
- WON: William Carson, Jr. (D), Friendly Incumbent, unopposed
- No action, Pam Thornburg (R), incumbent, vs. Charles Paradee (D)
Incumbent Thornburg, following counting of absentee ballots, per the Delaware State News, 11-7-08.
- No Action, William Outten (R), incumbent, unopposed
- LOST: Nancy Wagner (R), Friendly Incumbent, vs. Darryl Scott (D)
- WON: Brad Bennett (D) vs. Donna Stone (R), incumbent
- WON: Bob Walls (D), Friendly Incumbent, vs. Harold Peterman (R)
- WON: Don Blakey (R), Friendly Incumbent, vs. Bruce Hamilton (D)
- LOST: Aaron Chaffinch (D) vs. David Wilson (R) (seat previously held by Ben Ewing)
- WON: George Carey (R), Friendly Incumbent, unopposed
- No action, Joe Booth (R), incumbent, vs. Helen Truitt (D) Joe Booth won.
- No action, Gerald Hocker (R), incumbent, unopposed
- WON: Dan Short (R), incumbent, vs. Jerry Semper (D)
- LOST: DSEA Member Barbara Hudson (D) vs. Biff Lee (R), incumbent
- WON: John Atkins (D) vs. Greg Hastings (R), incumbent
If you'd like to see the Voter Vision e-mail (a new video email technology) we sent out in September to DSEA members, you can access it here.
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