Smith In–with Wagner’s support
Oct 16th, 2009 by David Anderson
Local Attorney and Former Levy Court Commissioner Ronald D. Smith told a gathering of neighbors and political friends last evening that he intends to seek the 31st District State Representative seat in the 2010 Election.
Smith served Kent County as a Commissioner from the 2nd Levy Court District from 1991-2006. Ron Smith is a long time Republican. He has been Attorney to the Delaware House of Representatives since 1982. Ron Smith also has been active in the GOP since 1980, holding several key positions within the State and County Republican Parties through the years.
Smith noted “We need strong leadership to protect jobs, to assist existing businesses to grow while creating an economic environment to attract new jobs to Delaware. The State Budget must be balanced without increasing taxes. Priorities must be determined based on program effectiveness and essential needs, not based on being nice things to do”. He added that “State spending is out of control. State tax increases are not the answer. Delaware’s government has grown too large to be sustained. Before new programs can be initiated, existing programs must all be evaluated to eliminate those with lower priority. State workers pay and benefits should not be cut across the board to allow the continued wasteful growth of government.”
Former Representative Nancy Wagner (R-31) who considered a potential run for her old seat expressed her confidence in Ron Smith. “I am looking forward to having Ron Smith as my State Representative and the citizens of the 31st will benefit from Ron Smith’s years of experience in county and state government.”
See First draft page for complete release and Ron Poliquin’s response.
Good luck Mr. Smith.
Mike Protack
If it is a one on one race. Smith smokes Poliquin.
Didn’t Smith get resoundly rejected by voters in 2006 (to the tune of 15 points)? Why would those primary voters go back to a rejected politician of the past (supported by another politician rejected by the voters?)
Didn’t Abraham Lincoln lose eight elections?
Dick — That’s a misleading statistic often-cited by career candidates who never win. Not sure how it applies in this case.
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/lincoln.asp
BOLD PREDICTION on this Primary:
Ron wins. Book it.
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“Dick — That’s a misleading statistic often-cited by career candidates who never win. Not sure how it applies in this case.”
Not sure which career candidate you could be referring to Dave, but you are correct. Lincoln only lost one election where he was rejected by a direct vote of the people. Lincoln was a shrewd and very successful politician and attorney. He was very much an establishment figure in both the Whig and Republican parties.
Is there anybody more establishment than Ron Smith? Twenty years on Levy Court, he had one competitive election since 1994 and he got killed. Do you think R. Smitty really is going to shake things up? Poliquin maybe not your typical politician but I guarantee he wont just be following the marching orders.
Anyone who gets the support of Nancy Wagner, doesnt get my vote.
Wait … is Ron Smith RSmitty???
TW: You know exactly who I’m talking about. And it’s not a candidate in this race.
This all sounds great….I’m interested in the substance…not being in the 31st I’ll wait and see what happens but it should be interesting.
I can say this about the state as a whole, the love for establishment candidates (think Mike Castle) is shrinking. I really believe it’s gonna take candidates with substance. I’m not saying some of the “old heads” don’t have real substance…just saying they better bring more than a few decades of GOP loyalty to the table.
anon#11:
No, not him. Many here can vouch for that as well as many other bloggers in the DE blogosphere.
I still stand by my bold prediction that RON wins the primary. (c’mon…think…go out of the box…”Ron” wins the primary…work with me here)
LoL Smitty, I saw it earlier, waiting until the rest of them got a clue…I see you’re willing to go out on a limb there…..
Smitty will even take bets on whether or not Ron wins. Smitty always wanted to be a bookie early in life and then disgraced his family by getting involved in politics.
Smitty always wanted to be a bookie early in life and then disgraced his family by getting involved in politics.
It’s as if you lived inside my house.
In the spirit of Delaware Sportsbooks, here’s the stone-cold-lock parlay: Ron will win the primary and then the General will be won by a male.
In the spirit of Delaware Sportsbooks, here’s the stone-cold-lock parlay: Ron will win the primary and then the General will be won by a male.
First, curse that I can no longer edit comments (that’s what happens when you leave), but second, I will make this stone-cold-lock even more interesting. Rather than saying the General winner will be a male, let’s make it more detailed. New parlay, stone-cold-lock:
Ron will win the Republican primary and then the General will be won by a male whose first letter of his first name will coincide with the one-letter initial that symbolizes his party.
Dayumm!!! Smitty, I am with you buddy. Where do a place my bet!!!!!