October 2022
Greetings, fellow Republicans! After an outstanding win before the Superior Court on Friday, we capped off the week with the Delaware Freedom Festival! If you missed it, you missed out. Our speakers were great! Steve Moore was excellent on Friday evening and again on Saturday morning. Lt. Col Oliver North held a captive audience at the Festival and thrilled the attendees at the cocktail party Saturday evening. Doug Collins wowed the audience at the Festival with his very upbeat message. He was encouraging about November but cautioned the audience that we can’t be complacent and we must help our candidates and GOTV (get out the vote)! I realize this is a long message but please be patient and read through the entire message. We’re down to the wire and we need each of you to put on your activist hat and sign up to take action! Here are some opportunities to assist our candidates: Checker Challenger Training (C-C): We will hold this in person training at Old Paths Church of Christ, 18295 Redden Road on October 13th and October 17th at 6 PM and again on October 22nd at 10 AM. You only need to attend one session. If you wish to take this training, you can just show up and sign in. Please bring your personal calendar with you as you will have the opportunity to sign up to work at the polls after the class. If you have taken this training already, you need not take it again. However, you must send an email with your schedule time and location preference. In addition, I need to send you an authorization form. FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION YOU ARE WORKING ON BEHALF OF THE PARTY AND YOUR AUTHORIZATION MUST HAVE MY SIGNATURE ON IT. Send an email to: http://sussexgop@protonmail.com with: C-C SCHEDULE in the subject line. Include the location and time(s) you wish to work in the body of the email. To work on General Election Day just let us know where and when. We can have only one person at a time for each Election District. Note that some locations serve more than one Election District so it is possible to have two or more people at one location each observing a different Election District. Early Voting starts on October 28th at the same five locations used for the Primary Election in September. Millville Community Center: 32517 Dukes Drive, Millville DE 19967 Lewes Fire Department Station #2: 32198 Janice Rd, Lewes DE 19958 Laurel Fire Hall: 205 W. 10th St, Laurel DE 19956 Dept of Elections-Warehouse (Georgetown): 542 South Bedford St, Georgetown DE 19947 Dept of Elections-Warehouse (Seaford): 200 Allen St, Seaford DE 19973 The dates and times are as follows: Friday, October 28th 11 AM – 7 PM Saturday, October 29th 11 AM – 7PM Sunday, October 30th 11 AM – 7 PM Monday, October 31st 11AM – 7 PM Tuesday, November 1st. 11 AM – 7 PM Wednesday, November 2nd 7 AM – 7 PM Thursday, November 3rd 7 AM – 7 PM Friday, November 4th 7 AM – 7 PM Saturday, November 5th 7 AM – 7 PM Sunday, November 6th 7 AM – 7 PM On the General Election Day, the polls are open from 7:00 AM until 8:00 PM. Please go to: https://elections.delaware.gov/information/elections/votinglocations.shtml to see the locations for General Election Day. Checker Challenger Training – Ballot Watcher: These volunteers attend the Sussex County Department of Elections meetings at 119 N. Race Street in Georgetown when the absentee ballots are processed and scanned. You will learn what constitutes a valid ballot and observe the scanning. We will do this training via ZOOM. If you are interested in taking this training, you must send an email to: http://sussexgop@protonmail.com. Please put BALLOT WATCHER in the subject line. The meetings during which the Absentee Ballots are being processed and scanned are as follows: November 4th – 10 AM & 3 PM November 5th – 11 AM & 8:30 PM November 6th – 11 AM & 2 PM & 8:30 PM November 7th – 10 AM & 3 PM November 8th – 6 PM These meetings convene and reconvene as necessary to complete the processing of ballots that have arrived at the Department of Elections. PHONE BANKING: We will be phone banking at the office beginning Monday, October 17th right through Election Day. We’ll provide you with a script and information about each of our candidates as well as their opponents. We will make our calls beginning at 6:30 PM until 9 PM each Monday through Friday and on Saturday’s from 10 AM to 5:30 PM. We will not make calls on Sunday’s. We can accommodate 15 people at a time in the office. We would prefer that calls be made from the office at 131 E Market Street in Georgetown so we can manage the lists. We don’t want to have multiple people calling the same person. If this happens, it will likely annoy them – the last thing we want to do! If you cannot make it to the office and are willing to assist, we need you to be able to report which people you contacted after each time you make calls. You will need to make a notation on a list and scan and email it to: http://sussexgop@protonmail.com. Please put RESULTS in the subject line. If you are willing to help out with this very important task, please send an email to: http://sussexgop@protonmail.comwith PHONE BANKING in the subject line. Thanks for reading this. Now, please get ready to take action and ride the RED WAVE to keep Sussex Red! Marilyn Booker, Chair Sussex County Republican Committee
A Special Message from Marilyn
Good evening, Fellow Republicans! I wanted to share with you a letter to the editor that I wrote in response to the Sussex County Democratic Committee’s ad that ran in the Cape Gazette about a week ago. I have submitted it to the Cape Gazette but of course I’m not certain they will publish it. In the event that any of your friends or family accuse Republicans of “suppressing” the vote or taking away a women’s right to choose, here is the truth about how these issues were decided and most importantly, by whom! Dear editor, I realize that it is the “silly” season and that political ads generally go to hyperbole, but I felt that it is important to clear up a few misstatements in an ad paid for by the Sussex County Democratic Committee. The ad takes issue with the fact that the Delaware Superior Court found that circumventing the State Constitution by allowing Mail-In Voting and Same Day Registration, passed by the Democrat majority during this last session, were unconstitutional. This is the same Constitution that these elected officials take an oath to uphold. The SCDC places the upholding of the State Constitution at the feet of the Republicans. To make this an emotional issue, the SCDC states that the Republicans are “suppressing the vote.” No, the Republicans are just doing what Speaker of the House, Pete Schwartzkopf advised, “If you don’t like it, get a lawyer and sue.” We didn’t, we did, and the Delaware Constitution and citizens won! The ad also states that “they” took away a women’s right to control her own body. I just want to remind them that the Supreme Court overturned a decision that many legal scholars believe was wrongly decided. Even Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the icon of women’s rights, agreed that the Roe vs Wade decision was wrongly decided. There will still be plenty of abortions performed in Delaware and in this country – not to worry. The only change is that the parameters will be determined by the states. The inaccurate and overheated statement that a women’s right to choose has been taken away is just false. Certainly, there are different ways at looking at each of these issues. However, if there is to be some type of agreement across party lines, falsehoods such as these, are just wrong and certainly dampen the possibility of a civil discourse.